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Brad, disagree with all of the formulaic approaches to "what you need to win at..." You don't need any particular sequence of hitters in the 2-6 slots to win at Hilltop at 140. The fact that there are so many winning strategies is what makes the game fun and I believe that absolutizing formulaic approaches simply limits the exploration of many of these possibilities. For example, with Freeman's post about the team in question only getting outs on 77% of defensive X rolls and somehow needing to get at least 80% is utterly ludicrous. Everything is a trade off. You sacrifice a little defense and if the offense generated as a result scores more runs than you lose with the lesser defense, well that is what wins games, scoring more than the other guy.
Gilkey is still fine at 140. Our boys problem is that he lacks any 10M players to offset the 8-9M players. For example, a Gilkey, McCutcheon, Mays OF should be more than adequate.
I'll give some recent examples, my last two 140M Hilltop teams to finish are:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1545701
These team only has two hitters over 10M and Trout barely made that cutoff.
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1576746
Here is a current atg 9 team that has six games remaining in Royals 90 at 140. 7/9 starters are sub 10M.
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1582296
Gilkey is still fine at 140. Our boys problem is that he lacks any 10M players to offset the 8-9M players. For example, a Gilkey, McCutcheon, Mays OF should be more than adequate.
I'll give some recent examples, my last two 140M Hilltop teams to finish are:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1545701
These team only has two hitters over 10M and Trout barely made that cutoff.
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1576746
Here is a current atg 9 team that has six games remaining in Royals 90 at 140. 7/9 starters are sub 10M.
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1582296