Base Stealing

Finished a team with 1899 John McGraw where I had stealing to conservative and steal more unchecked and he still got thrown out 22 times in 53 attempts. I finally had to set stealing to extra conservative to get HAL to stop sending him.

I use very aggressive stealing when I have a bunch of Vince Coleman/Willie Wilson types that don't get on base a ton. Not for high OBP types like Cobb.

is *3-8, -(17,16) a good Base Stealing Rating? I know 20-16, 19-15 are excellent but I have not clue about the 17,16? thanks

Oh and yes this is an excellent rating. I dug up one of my old teams where I picked a lot of guys with good secondary steal ratings, but with some pop in the bat. Stealing set to normal.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1412569

Red Murray 43 steals
Lonnie Smith 41 steals
Charleston 32 steals

Here's a thorough explanation of the steal from cummings2. 6th post down the page.

http://forum.onlinegames.strat-o-matic. ... hp?t=91997