JAMES BEST DUKES MEMORIAL LGE draft thread.

numbers to be fed into randomizer for draft order, based on combined season record.

1. kev
2. Al
3. terry
4. tom
5. zim
6. curt
7. MEAT
8. CATom
9. Cal
10. uptownmastermind
11. SGTED
12. kramed

Are we sure that everybody is in again?

Thought I should lay this out on this thread:

NL players only
$80 million
No DH
Draft 23 players and one unique NL stadium; autodraft the last two players.

In descending order of combined BP HRs:

Great Amer. Bpk '14, (1, 6, 19, 19)
Miller Park '14, (7, 7, 18, 18)
Coors Field '14, (19, 19, 16, 16)
Citizen's Bank Pk '14, (2, 2, 13, 16)
Chase Field '14, (13, 9, 12, 12)
Dodger Stadium '14, (8, 1, 12, 12)
Citi Field '14, (1, 1, 10, 10)
Wrigley Field '14, (14, 6, 5, 11)
Turner Field '14, (8, 8, 8, 8)
Busch Stadium '14, (11, 7, 6, 6)
Petco Park '14, (1, 1, 10, 2)
Nationals Park '14, (17, 17, 4, 4)
Marlins Park '14, (8, 13, 1, 1)
PNC Park '14, (9, 9, 1, 1)
AT&T Park '14, (10, 4, 1, 1)

Set #1:
8, 12, 10, 6, 7, 4, 3, 5, 2, 1, 11, 9

1. kev CATom
2. Al kramed
3. terry uptownmastermind
4. tom curt
5. zim MEAT
6. curt tom
7. MEAT terry
8. CATom zim
9. Cal Al
10. uptownmastermind kev
11. SGTD SGTD (sorry sarge)
12. kramed cal

1. CATom
2. kramed
3. uptownmastermind
4. curt
5. MEAT
6. tom
7. terry
8. zim
9. Al
10. kev
11. SGTD
12. cal

CATom is up...

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1. CATom - Giancarlo Stanton RF MIA
2. kramed
3. uptownmastermind
4. curt
5. MEAT
6. tom
7. terry
8. zim
9. Al
10. kev
11. SGTD
12. cal

mark up, I texted him

Curt posted on the Leonard Nimoy League message board regarding innings limits for relievers. I thought we had finally buried this issue several years ago; I am hopeful we don't need to go through a prolonged discussion again.

I vote "no" on any limits.

As I've said repeatedly when we've discussed this in the past: A Strat-o-Matic team has far fewer pitchers than any major league squad. Thirty-one games into this season, for example, the Dodgers have already used 19 pitchers. Pitchers have to get a lot more innings than they get in real-life (this includes starters as well as relievers).

Also, the top relievers are not cheap. (When this issue first arose back in 2003 regarding Octavio Dotel, he was priced in the $3 million range, if I recall correctly.) To get your $5.29 million out of Dellin Betances, you really need to pitch him a lot of innings.

In addition, it's too hard to enforce. If someone goes away for vacation or just stops paying attention for a while and one of their pitchers goes over the limit, there's nothing that we can do. And for the best relievers, you really need to put on artificial restrictions to stop HAL from bringing him into the game.

This isn't real baseball. It's a computerized dice game. If you think you can get an advantage over other teams by having a reliever pitch a lot of innings, go for it. Let's all just stop stressing out about it.