aggressive vs very aggressive

Here's a team with twice as many SB's as any other team in the league and a success rate of .831 ...

https://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1583451

Used the exact settings I suggested above (my catchers aren't set to steal of course). I have no clue how Lavalierre has 3 SB's in 3 attempts, must be failed H & R's.

went 2-1 last night
stole 12 caught twice

now 3-3 23 steals 6 caught

3-6 34 steals 11 caught....don't think the 3-6 record has as much to do with the steals as pitching

Been waiting a long time for a team setting for steals separated by 2nd,3rd, and home.
Example:
You can set aggressive for 2nd so all the fast guys try
Normal for 3rd so the middling guys don't get thrown out at an 80% clip, but the fast guys might try.

Never for home.

4-8 stole 18 tonight caught once totals 52 steals 12 caught

Unless you're trying to set some kind of steals record, never set it for aggressive or very aggressive. It will result in far too many outs trying to steal 3rd & Home.

I build A LOT of base stealing/speed teams and I almost always set the team to conservative and the individual players to Steal More. I routinely will lead the league in stolen bases AND be in the top 1-3 in stolen base % and always well over 70% success rate, often times near 80% success rate.

Respectfully disagree.

Always build terms that steal a lot, and always set to aggressive.

Works well - routinely have over 200 SBs with around 75% success.

Interested to hear the final analysis on this (setting team to aggressive versus individual to steal more). About to start a season tonight with a base stealing heavy team. I also loaded up on starting pitching in Astrodome '78. This could be a colossal failure with numerous 2-1 losses.

I tend to want to be aggressive in every way in small ball parks because so what those runners are being left anyway. And I dont have a good feel as to how Hal handles holding on runners (whick knocks one off of the defensive rating). If I go conservative base stealing does that affect whether HAL holds on to runners? I had a recent Barnstormers team that I had set to really conservative runnning--it was a power team in a 11 11 power park-- and i tweaked it to be more aggressived and that team got going. Anecdotal, sure, and of course you never know why a team starts winning but got me wondering a bit.

Unless you're trying to set some kind of steals record, never set it for aggressive or very aggressive. It will result in far too many outs trying to steal 3rd & Home.

I build A LOT of base stealing/speed teams and I almost always set the team to conservative and the individual players to Steal More. I routinely will lead the league in stolen bases AND be in the top 1-3 in stolen base % and always well over 70% success rate, often times near 80% success rate.

Respectfully disagree.

Always build terms that steal a lot, and always set to aggressive.

Works well - routinely have over 200 SBs with around 75% success.

I often lead the league in both steals and success rate with the settings suggested.