Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

This game will always remain a mystery to me. I usually stink at 20XX, but decided to enter a team nonetheless. It lost in the finals (game 7 take a gander..http://365.strat-o-matic.com/game/432826/993.). But my question to you guys is .... what did I do RIGHTthis time? I don't think I did anything much different than I usually do. I don't think the others in the league were particularly bad (the opposite in fact). It was one of the first leagues, so people didn't necessarily have a good reading of how the cards were working. I didn't have a closer and I started Tex at first the whole season. Okay the pitchers had 51% of the rolls, but that can't explain everything. Was this just a blind squirrel moment? All I know is that it was fun...

http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1451428

Bill

Congrats on making the finals.

what you did right
1) you got in an Auto League with inexperienced managers.
2) you had solid defense in the critical middle positions.
3) you had good double hitters in a neutral/pitchers park.

what you did wrong
1) No real closer. Against experience managers this will sink you.
2) Mixing SP* with SP. wasted salary on SP that start every 6th game.

Mumford wrote:2) Mixing SP* with SP. wasted salary on SP that start every 6th game.

Thanks for the congrats and the tips. Bumgarner started every fifth game, thus his 331 innings (had him at the top of the rotation).

Why does this look familiar...? Hmmmm.

Salary construction on offense: $9-8-7-6-5-4-3-1-1
Middle defense: 2B - 2, SS - 1, CF - 1
Ballpark: team built for neutral ballpark and playing in a neutral ballpark

Maybe a little light on run scoring, but offset by stronger than average pitching.

+146 run differential.

#BrokenRecord, #TSF, #VeteranBestPractices, #NoAccident

Thanks J-Pav....I think

I can't tell you the number of times I've tried the so-called winning formula only to be picking up the rear in most cases; I think it mostly had to do with the allocation of the 9-8-7-6 etc. I like good defensive teams and usually pay for that in lack of offensive production. I think I got lucky in getting my outfield choices (autodrafted) and getting a reasonably decent year out of Tex for 78 cents (but then again I didn't have really high hopes). I read your analyses as well as others' comments to try to understand what is going on. Maybe one day I'll be scratching at your ankles.

In any event, if others have comments on this team (in the context of this year's set) or want to share their successes or frustrations, I'd really be interested. Others among us would be, too.

Bill

"1) you got in an Auto League with inexperienced managers."

I'm kinda offended! LOL

That was a crazy game 7 though...

Michael.

mbertolli wrote:"1) you got in an Auto League with inexperienced managers."

I'm kinda offended! LOL

That was a crazy game 7 though...

Michael.

I didn't congratulate you! Great job, especially after losing some good players during the finals. That game seven would have become a classic in real mlb.

Hard to criticize a Finals team, but as a suggestion the bullpen could of been better constructed. You worked your SP and limited BP usage which helped out a lot. The high end RP should typically be a R2 to be the workhorse. Jennings got too much work.Looks like you put Lorenzen as LH specialist so he only got 29 innings. same with Ellington against RH. The specialists should be the cheap ones.

george barnard wrote:This game will always remain a mystery to me. I usually stink at 20XX, but decided to enter a team nonetheless. It lost in the finals (game 7 take a gander..http://365.strat-o-matic.com/game/432826/993.). But my question to you guys is .... what did I do RIGHTthis time? I don't think I did anything much different than I usually do. I don't think the others in the league were particularly bad (the opposite in fact). It was one of the first leagues, so people didn't necessarily have a good reading of how the cards were working. I didn't have a closer and I started Tex at first the whole season. Okay the pitchers had 51% of the rolls, but that can't explain everything. Was this just a blind squirrel moment? All I know is that it was fun...

http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1451428

Bill

even a blind squirrel touches his nuts from time to time.

Excellent Defense + Solid Starting Rotation = 3.07 Team ERA. Your team ETA doesn't surprise me.

The unused $3M Lorenzen and overuse of Jennings is puzzling. I think your team could have gotten under a 3.00 ERA with Lorenzen pitching 100+ innings and Jennings around 50 innings.

It was your offense that made a difference. Your runs allowed isn't surprising, but your team's run scored was very good considering most of the hitters payroll dollars was attributed to their defense.

Great job. Sorry you just couldn't squeeze out 1 more victory in the playoffs to walk away with a World Series ring.

Good luck!