I would be happy to have the same pitching staff in any other 80m league. Good value for money all around, and I think I got maximum value in the end from Chapman.
The trouble I had was I drafted a Progressive team, and waited too long to select the park. Big mistake.
I'm pretty sure my team would have won between 85 - 95 games at Progressive.
Good luck playoff teams, and a special congrats to Joe, who was long overdue!
Thanks Big M! It sure felt like it was overdue to me!
As for your team, yeah, your park wasn’t ideal, but it was your road record that killed you. 23 games under! Why didn’t you take Yankee or at least a park like Busch?
Joe, I think you may have covered this in one of your analyses recently, but I did a quick review of the Sim Fielding pages for each team. I thought that there was an amazingly strong correlation between the overall W-L record with the % of outs achieved on X chart readings. The only team that didn't seem to fit the correlation - to my quick visual review - was BigMahon. …It still intrigues me about the game of baseball, that we are all naturally drawn to the statistical performances of hitting and pitching, but the fielding can have such a surprisingly strong influence on the W-L columns!
I’m not so sure GB. We finished next to last in X% and you were next-to-last. At least the last time I took the stats. I don’t think there’s a “magic bullet” I think you can win with any type of team, but neglect some facet of the game too much at your own peril. The hard thing is what is “too much”?
And then there is the luck! After I posted that, I went back to my own fielding stats page, and noticed that Rajai Davis successfully got outs 15 out of 18 times!!!
Aybar might also have over-performed for me defensively, at SS.
Cano is lights out, of course, having allowed only 9 runners to reach base - 5 errors and presumably 4 X Chart ## readings or shifts from holding runners that resulted in singles.
It was definitely fun having both Cano and Posey in the same lineup. Their doubles were amazing, especially Posey. Posey was great at keeping runners right where they were, allowing only 29 SB vs 19 CS. In another bizarre twist of luck, Gimenez, the back-up, allowed only 1 SB but had 5 CS! How did that happen?
Yeah, that’s some luck, but it’s also a SSS. As for Aybar, yeah, probably should have had 3 more errors, but had exactly the right number of hits. Although, I suppose being “in” should have made for maybe one or two more hits.
As for Gimenez, well, he was helped by your staff which is almost all minus holds, but I’d have to say you got pretty lucky in a SSS.
Playoffs start tonight. Hoping to do well at home!
Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:47 am
