Mon May 16, 2022 9:50 am
Thanks for these helpful suggestions. I do set my stealing usually on "Conservative". My teams usually aren't oriented toward base-stealing, and they often steal not very often, but for high percentages. I generally mark all my weak base stealers as Don't Steal, and I don't use "Steal More" very often. I just leave the Steal boxes unchecked. So, egvrich, if I want to get more stealing without hurting my percentages, I'm wondering what sort of stealing ability would justify setting a player on "Steal More"?
As for baserunning, I generally set my baserunning at Aggressive. My teams often have a mixed bag of slow, medium, and fast runners. These teams usually achieve a high percentage of success of advances, but don't try for extra bases all that often. For example, one recent team--mostly a power team (333 HR)--had a 288 Opp / 101 Adv / 26 Out Baserunning record. My best runners were a 17 and four different 14s. Those four guys went a combined 56-16 on advancement attempts with 115 opportunities. A 13 runner (Jack Clark, who was on base a lot) also did very well, going 18-2 in 44 opportunities. So, evgerich and Frankie, would I be well advised, do you think, to set such a team on Very Aggressive baserunning, or just leave the setting as Aggressive? It seems like a close call to me.
Thanks for your thoughts.