Fenway 67 team slow start

19-32

What's wrong?

I know I know the pitching staff isn't great, although my pen is very solid IMO.

But I'm not hitting or scoring runs like I think they should. Team is middle of the road in all offensive categories, and surprisingly only 4th from bottom in pitching categories.

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1108623

It looks like you are being out homered, out walked, and out hit. Not such a good combo. Pitching may be the culprit not the offense.

I don't think it's the offense, either.

200M leagues are weird but basically you are getting out slugged at Home - your home ERA is over 7.00. You are in Fenway '67 so an ERA over 5.00 is a given. The ERA should stabilize as the season progresses but your offense is underperfoming as well. Fenway '67 plays like a hitters park (not just HR's) and you have too many the wrong players for that park. Yaz, Jackson, Helton, Banks hit homeruns and have walk chances, but to maximize Fenway, you want guys with lots of hit chances and some BPHRS - Al Simmons, Medwick, for ex. Your team is built for Polo Grounds, not Fenway 67.

200M leagues are weird but basically you are getting out slugged at Home - your home ERA is over 7.00. You are in Fenway '67 so an ERA over 5.00 is a given. The ERA should stabilize as the season progresses but your offense is underperfoming as well. Fenway '67 plays like a hitters park (not just HR's) and you have too many the wrong players for that park. Yaz, Jackson, Helton, Banks hit homeruns and have walk chances, but to maximize Fenway, you want guys with lots of hit chances and some BPHRS - Al Simmons, Medwick, for ex. Your team is built for Polo Grounds, not Fenway 67.

Appreciate the feedback fellas, JB the only thing I question or disagree with from you is my park is a singles and HR park, and I have Speaker, Hornsby and Mauer to help with the hits, no?

I expected pitching to be an issue off and on, but not that lineup.

Mauer, Speaker & Hornsby are great for your park but im not too sure about the others - you want to keep to conga line going 1-9 at Fenway if you can. Granted, it;s a small sample size, but your runs created are off by -33. You should be at 361 RS, not 333. Your record should be 26-28 with Jones and others in your lineup poised to breakout. At 200M, every edge is needed as all the teams are stacked. Just my 2Cents!

Mauer, Speaker & Hornsby are great for your park but im not too sure about the others - you want to keep to conga line going 1-9 at Fenway if you can. Granted, it;s a small sample size, but your runs created are off by -33. You should be at 361 RS, not 333. Your record should be 26-28 with Jones and others in your lineup poised to breakout. At 200M, every edge is needed as all the teams are stacked. Just my 2Cents!

Very true, however I am of the opinion 200 mil can be very much about match ups. The other thing about Fenway 67 is it doesn't really give me a unique advantage, b/c ANY team with a half way decent line up (no matter how constructed) can hit there, unlike the Sportsmans and Minute Maids of the world.

I just wanted to have a greater pool of talent to draw from in my draft, this park offers that to a good extent.

I loovvvvvvvveeeeee Fenway 67. It may not be the best winning percentage park but it has one major advantage, you can run the opposing pitchers ragged in your division so they underperform in the series after playing you. The biggest problem I see is that the defense is not up to par. Ernie Banks and Hornsby at Fenway '67 with a 2 at 1b and 3b with weak starters is a losing combo, too many free hits in combo with all those BP singles and HR's. I would rather have Jeter than Banks in Fenway '67. Would also much rather have Morgan than Hornsby, though complaining about having Hornsby in a 200 million league is probably being a little picky.


Strategy I would employ would be to go with destruction of righties and turn Hornsby into a 5R and delete some of the useless starting pitchers and get some lefty killing hitters if any are available