How Bad Can You Be?

I agree..its about parts and pieces.

I could take 1-2 names off each of these teams and make a winner out of the composite!

C - Russell Martin $4.87
1B - Darin Ruf $5.23
2B - Brian Dozier $4.17
3B - Juan Uribe $5.16
SS - Yunel Escobar $6.07
LF - Scott Van Slye $4.48
CF - Austin Jackson $4.20
RF - Jay Bruce $6.71M
DH - Chris Carter $3.91

TOTAL: $44.8M

100 Losses

Looking back on my own first teams in 2002, my first ten teams were all terrible (although one 76-86 went to the Finals! Thx HAL! )

Then you arrive at the sea change...lots of long patches of 90 win seasons that have continued through the years. Ten teams with mostly losing records for $200, makes me wonder why I ever continued on. I would imagine most don't.

C- Ryan Lavarnway $2.81
1B- Billy Butler $3.78
2B- Brandon Phillips $4.80
SS- Didi Gregorius $3.80
3B- Donnie Murphy $6.23
LF- Shin-Soo Choo $8.74
CF- Peter Bourjos $3.06
RF- Giancarlo Stanton $6.85
DH- Christian Yelich $5.42

$45.49

This group isn't too bad to me.

Injury risk is a big factor with this lineup - Bourjos (5), Stanton (3), Gregorius (2)

Apologies as I wander through my own thread...

Great lineups guys! They make me want to give Russell Martin, Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce a big hug!

Looked through my old leagues, saw one manager finish with 107 losses in a $90M league (despite a $54M starting offense)

So would you say that there is a discrepancy between the quoted price and the actual value of the card, and the successful manager is better at exploiting the difference?

The quoted price cannot be the actual value of the card. The actual value of the card is going to change depending on the ballpark and what ballparks are in the league. And absolutely the more experienced managers are able to identify and exploit this better.

A pitcher for example with multiple #s is going to be worth less in a bomber park than a large park because one park is going to trigger those #s while another will cancel them out. The pricing is set for something in between.

One note concerning all the submitted potential losing lineups. I did not notice any that mentioned ballpark.
So is it possible you could take some relatively successful 90 win teams that were built for an extreme park, dump them in an opposite park and change it to a 90 win team? I think the answer may be yes.

An interesting topic for sure. Only created yesterday afternoon and already on the 4th page.
Maybe there is hope for these boards after all.

I based mine selection on a 9-9-9-9 ballpark.

Maybe there is hope for these boards after all.

Just like the boards back in the woolly winter of '02, when all the men were smart, all the women were beautiful and all the kids were above average!