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I've been running through ideas on how to best form a team in a neutral stadium such as Vets 75' (10,10,10,10). Has anyone had any consistent success using these parks? It would seen relatively hard to gain any significant home field edge, but an interesting challenge none the less.

Anyone with any ideas, preferably in the $80-100 mil cap range?

I stopped using neutral parks back when the pool was expanded too far. I would think your best chance for success would be a division that was slanted in all directions.

I agree that would help, but as far as assembling it I'm thinking you need a little of everything. Couple of bombers, couple of high average guys, and some high on base guys. Not too many #HR's but not to little either.

Seems a switch hitting slugger would help, along with a righty and lefty slugger. Don't need Mantle, but Chipper Jones or Bernie Williams would do.

Bullpen might have cheaper options for lefty and righty closers.

A four man rotation plus a cheaper hard lefty starter like Bennett and a hard righty starter like Hensley to protect against the typical parks. Use those guys as relievers while they wait their turn.

Defense is the great equalizer, don't skimp there!

PJ Axelsson wrote:Defense is the great equalizer, don't skimp there!

Yeah...pretty much watch that no matter what the park.

In a park like this I usually build pitching staff same as if in a bomber park. This is easier to do with the larger pool as there are plenty of #less pitchers at most every price level.
In the field just try to maximize general talent with money I have left after selecting my pitchers on the autodraft card. Then with waivers and preseason tweak depending on what other teams in my division look like.

The challenge of a neutral park is winning on the road.

I won a ring in ATG5 in Vets '75 using an all switch hitter team:

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/265082

It was a fun team with good balance: some speed, some power, some OBP. You know, kind of like what we used to do in ATG1... Anyway, the switch hitters really messed with HAL's bullpen logic. You can burn through RP specialists pretty quickly with an all swich hitting roster.

On the pitching side, I went only with pitchers with good hold ratings (-3 or better) to counter Simmons' arm. Interestingly I still gave up 143 SB.

Whoopycat,

Interesting team. You did have a little of everything which I suspect you need in Park like that. Very interesting with the all switch hitting team as well.

I thought that we should have a league where all the teams have the same homefield, with some neutral settings, like the Vet. Then no one would get a field advantage, it would all be about the players. What do you think?