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Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:43 pm
These are things that have mostly been stated already, but I have a different hierarchy of importance:
1) Always build your team to your park. You'll be there for half the season. I get the need to also take your division opponents into consideration but my take on that is to just make sure I'm not a liability with them, but don't forget that if you make it to the playoffs, you probably won't be playing any of them. I started doing better in the playoffs when I eased back on that a little.
2) Maximize the talent you have on the field. It's a salary cap league, so you're looking for marginal advantages wherever you can find them, and if you have anyone over about $.60 (that's my cutoff but your mileage may vary) on your bench, you're already at a disadvantage. My bench guys are there to be defensive subs because then even if they're called on to fill in for 15 games, they won't be a defensive liability. A good team can survive a 15 game absence from a big hitter if you've at least got the fielding covered.
I take #2 to heart even moreso with smaller caps. I typically prefer S* pitchers but then you have to bench a .50 starter to hit the minimum of 5 SP. If I'm playing an $80m game, that dead money represents 1/16 of my budget, so I'll often lean towards 5 game starters.
I try and balance my team with 60-65% of my salary on hitters. The higher the cap, the higher the percentage spent on hitting.
I also find that I have better success with a balanced lineup, rather than bloating the top of the lineup with big salary hitters.
Like everyone else here, if I decided to, I could write pages of stuff, some helpful and some probably not. (I'm about a .523 player so take everything I say with a grain of salt.)
Thanks for posting your question in here. I really feel like this is the purest use of this discussion board.
1) Always build your team to your park. You'll be there for half the season. I get the need to also take your division opponents into consideration but my take on that is to just make sure I'm not a liability with them, but don't forget that if you make it to the playoffs, you probably won't be playing any of them. I started doing better in the playoffs when I eased back on that a little.
2) Maximize the talent you have on the field. It's a salary cap league, so you're looking for marginal advantages wherever you can find them, and if you have anyone over about $.60 (that's my cutoff but your mileage may vary) on your bench, you're already at a disadvantage. My bench guys are there to be defensive subs because then even if they're called on to fill in for 15 games, they won't be a defensive liability. A good team can survive a 15 game absence from a big hitter if you've at least got the fielding covered.
I take #2 to heart even moreso with smaller caps. I typically prefer S* pitchers but then you have to bench a .50 starter to hit the minimum of 5 SP. If I'm playing an $80m game, that dead money represents 1/16 of my budget, so I'll often lean towards 5 game starters.
I try and balance my team with 60-65% of my salary on hitters. The higher the cap, the higher the percentage spent on hitting.
I also find that I have better success with a balanced lineup, rather than bloating the top of the lineup with big salary hitters.
Like everyone else here, if I decided to, I could write pages of stuff, some helpful and some probably not. (I'm about a .523 player so take everything I say with a grain of salt.)
Thanks for posting your question in here. I really feel like this is the purest use of this discussion board.
