Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:27 pm
Salty, sorry, I did not make myself clear, I am totally in favor of Cuckoo Christenson being in the playerset, even if I never put him on a roster, I promise I will open his card and look at it at least from time-to-time... quite a few times a year.
Not sure how that (attempted anyway) expression of mine (i.e., hard to believe anyone playing here does NOT want Cuckoo in the playerset) makes your point, but whatever.
As far as unused players go, I notice that Willie Mays, arguably the most talented player who ever played, is often still on the waiver wire on opening night, surely that is not all just pricing...
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not to go off an a tangent, but I think the ballparks versus the draft resolution has something to do with it, there seem to be some parks that are used over and over, frequently the same park more than once in the same division and others used rarely if at all; It seems to me that situation MAY be because the draft makes it a gamble to build a draft list for a park and then miss out on the guy you had planned to be the big contributor in that park. so people stick w/ parks that the player set (seems to have) lots of players for. or balanced parks, lots of balanced parks w/ virtually similar effect factors
to go a little further off... I would like to be able to 'build' my own park, set its BP effect factors myself - I guess that doesn't eliminate any of the situations people have complained about/criticized, but I will propose that it could make it easier to use some players who do not get used now because they don't fit into a park an owner is comfortable drafting for (and by drafting, I mean the draft list (including waivers, if they are used) and the inevitable post-draft/waivers clean-up and repair/finishing.
That is, a quirky park - and since there are plenty of balanced parks, a 'handmade', park would likely be an unbalanced park or a 'quirky' one that favors one side for singles, but the other for homers.
As to pricing (another hot topic in the thread, I think) - all I can say there is, I used to love using Forster (less than 2m) as a lefty reliever since his balance percentages showed that he must have gotten a lot of righties out too, but adding a non* SP to his card added over $2m to his cost and NO value to him as a reliever