Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:48 pm
Welcome to the ATG community. Good luck with your team. There are a lot of lessons to learn at this game and many of them come with some pain. No matter how good you get at ATG, you still will have some clunker teams. Study your team and others and you will figure out a style that fits you and strategies that work more often than not.
You have until 10 p.m. Eastern to make changes to your roster without penalty.
I haven't read all the advice on your team, so please forgive any duplications. In addition, keep in mind that all our responses come from different perspectives and experience. A lot of it will not work in your case. A lot of it will. It's yours to figure out which is which.
A few more things you can consider:
1, your starting pitchers give up too many cheap (ballpark HRs are designated by #) home runs -- long flyouts in Petco but third-row homers in Ebbets. Guys like Vaughn 5.33, Malone 4.83, Vander Meer 4.53, Harder 4.46, Mullin 4.28, Hamilton 4.36, Barker 3.42, Higby 3.34, Vuckovich 2.03 keep the ball in the park better. There are many, many others.
2, effectively you have a 7-man pitching staff, four starters and three relievers. Some people like to funnel as many innings as possible to relievers they like. That also limits the choices for the computer manager. With a bomber park and no DH, your team will run out of relievers quickly and often guys will be pitching fatigued (by SOM rules that means more rolls get shifted to the hitters' cards). Like all our strategies, this one works at times and doesn't work at others. I think this season probably will fall into the "other" category.
3, the top of your batting order (assuming that is Reynolds and Thon) are more or less automatic outs around here. Find someone like Stanky or Boggs (there are many others) who gets on base more.
Have fun.
