gkhd11a wrote:There are over 3,000 hitters available. If you can't get a competitive team for the road in an 80 million league after figuring out your must have players from your park, I think you aren't very good. It is a non-issue, by far the most important item is your park and who the most likely foes in the playoffs are. The rest of the players don't matter.
MtheB, I have to agree with Charlie. With the huge player pool, and in an 80M cap with a DH, it is a well bounded problem. The beauty (curse?) of ATG vs a single season is there is nothing preventing you from implementing your strategy. Of course, that strategy may be flawed, but you own it and can't blame a draft or bad luck.
My answer is none of the above because such tailoring is the act of competing. I mean, that is the whole idea. It is indeed a math problem. And your home stadium is the dominant consideration. But you can determine how dominant numerically.
That is,
You can
precisely determine the weights of lefty/righty/single/HR stadium bias for the season
You can do a good
approximation of the weights of L/R pitchers, singles, HRs, and their hard/reverse likelihoods for determining a best fit lineup
You can do a good
approximation of the weights of L/R hitters and their hard/reverse likelihoods for determining a best fit pitching staff
You can do a good
approximation of your own weaknesses and that of your opponents, ie throwing arms, CA/P arms and holds, high amounts of platoons, whether you are better with a solid 1-9 or studs/scrubs, whether pitching staff is likely to need bullpen help, how to orient starting pitching for reg season vs playoff flexibility, etc.
I say
approximations because you don't know the final rosters until they are final, which is part of the fun cat and mouse game.
So in that scenario, you simply do the math and determine the environments you will compete in and weight your approach accordingly. But everyone gets their fun in their own way and that is perfectly fine. Some may not want to do all that--but it is possible to do that and after a while, it becomes instinctive.
That is why in that thread on the stadium change, whoever that was doesn't understand that the act of competing is doing this part of the dance. Changing a park like that is no better than tanking, colluding, or any other abridgement of competitive purity.
Otherwise, if we all get to compete under our ideal conditions, then it is just a coin flip and that is not worth $20.