Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:25 pm
Scott D
It's still the same game as always... just at 200M the talent is immense.
Typical MLB 2nd div teams have 4-7 pitchers with horrendous whip and era. 4-6 fielders etc. that are 3's and 4's with no throwing arms. Half the team is running 1-14 if they are lucky.
There is none of that in 200M. My teams usually have 5-6 sometimes 7 1's on D, my pen is all great vs rhp or rhp or both. Not just good, but great. I try and get Pete or Maddux on every staff.
Take a closer look at the winning managers teams. They are better than yours and mine. Plus they know how to draft. They don't have bad drafts... very seldom if ever. Someone put a unlimited $$ live draft in this same message board. I observed that The Last Druid picked N Lajoie, A Simmons, L Walker, E Walsh, H Wilson, W McCovey...I've never done that well... and he still has 19 more picks and a ballpark to kill you even more... 5 Monsters already for his lineup, now he can go 7R or 7L to capture some more mayhem...
You need to study the other players methods and incorporate what you feel is good strategy into their ways, not your ways.
The statistics this game generates can be misleading, and runs scored is one of them. try this stat... WINS...
Then look at your stat package for guidance.
A 200M tip... take for example Bullet Joe Rogan... I see a player who dominates LHP, can play several positions, a great platoon at 2B, can back up OF left or right and 2B, can be a DH, PH off the bench.. Cost is reasonable, will be there 9th or 10th in the draft. Do you have 3-4 of these type guys on your team that can do so much, are available and plentiful?? Prob not
TL Druid will have them, and more. Sorry for the preaching but there is a lot of strategy to this game.
Not all blind luck... and being out scored etc.