Posted by joerat1 on 7/26/2024 9:13:00 PM (view original):
Bill Mueller
Tony Kubek

A nice pairing would be Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek. I spent my Saturday afternoons with those two guys for years.

The 3 SP for each team are: Max Scherzer, Fergie Jenkins, John Smoltz/Derek Lowe/Dave Righetti.
The RP are: Mariano Rivera, Eric Gagne, Hoyt Wilhelm, Mark Eichhorn, Rich Hill, Francisco Rodriguez, Troy Percival, Keith Foulke.
Each team has more than 1600 IP and I'm playing in a pitcher's park, so we will see if that is enough.

Position players:
C -- Thurman Munson/Gene Tenace
1B -- Paul Goldschmidt/Carlos Correa
2B -- Robinson Cano/Carlos Correa
3B -- Nolan Arenado/Carlos Correa
SS -- Cal Ripken Jr/Carlos Correa
OF -- Mickey Mantle/Larry Doby/Eric Davis/Grady Sizemore
DH -- Jim Thome

Starting pitchers: Nolan Ryan (5), Jim Palmer (4), Whitey Ford (3), Dean Chance (3), Chris Carpenter (2), Jerry Reuss (2), Johnny Cueto (2).
Short relievers: Mike Adams (5), Dave Smith (5), Stu Miller (5), Don McMahon (5), Steve Ontiveros (2)
Long relievers: Cueto (3), Carpenter (1), Palmer (1), Ford (1)

Batters
C: Ted Simmons (5), Ron Hassey
1B: Eddie Murray (5)
2B: Chase Utley (5)
3B: Chipper Jones (3) / Alex Rodriguez (2)
SS: Alex Rdorguez (3) / Carlos Guillen (2)
LF: Carl Yastrzemski (5)
CF: Andre Dawson (3), Bobby Murcer (2)
RF: Billy Williams (3), Ken Singleton (2)
DH: Chipper Jones (2), Billy Williams (2)

Also, Paul Molitor will get some playing time, backing up 1B, 2B, 3B

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Starting Pitchers; Pierce (5);Degrom (4);Burnes(4);Bumgarner(4);Bieber(3);Schmidt(3)
Relievers: Nen,Soriano,Balfour,Saito;Hendriks,Pressly

C: Torre (3};Perez(2)
1b: Helton (5)
2b: LeMahieu (4);Loretta (1)
SS: Trammel (4); N.Perez (1)
3b: Rendon(4); Torre (1)
OF: Gwynn(5);Otis (4);Clemente(3);Rose(3);
Dh: Clemente (2);Rose(2);Coleman(1)

Starting Pitchers;Kevin Brown, Spahn,Gary Peters, Schilling, Dennis Martinez
Relievers: Melancon, Doug Jones,Steve Howe, Putz, Mcgraw

C: Campenella, Freehan
1b: Delgado, Kluszewski, Mize
2b: Doerr, Knoblauch
SS: Boudreau, Valentin
3b: Mathews, Ken Boyer
OF: Mays, Frank Robinson, Giles, Dom Dimaggio

The St. Pauli Girls are in.

• Catcher: Joe Mauer (5)
• First: Lance Berkman (2); Mo Vaughn (2); Norm Cash (1)
• Second: Roberto Alomar (5)
• Third: Ron Santo (5)
• Short: Ozzie Smith (4); Jose Reyes (1)
• Left: Vladimir Guerrero (2); Ellis Burks (2); Lance Berkman (1)
• Center: Fred Lynn (3); Bernie Williams (2)
• Right: Bernie Williams (3); Fred Lynn (2)
• DH: Lance Berkman (2); Vladimir Guerrero (2); Mo Vaughn (1)

Pitchers:

• SP1: Clayton Kershaw (5)
• SP2: Bob Gibson (5)
• SP3: Andy Messersmith (4); Trevor Bauer (1)
• SP4: Sam McDowell (4); Kenta Maeda (1)
• Swingman: Tony Gonsolin (3); Brandon Woodruff (2)
• Relievers: Pat Neshek (5); Joakim Soria (4); Grant Jackson (4); Daniel Bard (3)

Not super confident about these teams, but should be fun to see how it goes.

DIVISIONS:

I ran this in a google spreadsheet using a random sequence generator and then ranked them 1 to 16. Each person got a number from 1- 16. I then grouped 1-4 as A , 5-8 as B, 9-12 as C, 13-16 as D for the divisions.

User	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5
joerat1	D	A	C	A	D
PrimetimeTW	A	B	D	C	C
Midge	B	B	C	C	C
chewy3344	C	A	B	D	D
_jwillis	D	D	A	B	D
ncmusician_7	B	C	D	B	D
rerr	D	A	A	C	A
ronthegenius	C	C	A	D	A
jtpsops	A	D	C	A	A
24kpyrite	A	A	B	D	C
Galveston	B	B	B	D	A
calhoop	C	B	D	B	B
schwarze	B	C	D	A	B
mllama54	A	C	B	C	B
seapilots	D	D	C	B	C
pmars2001	C	D	A	A	B
AL EAST	A
AL WEST	B
NL EAST	C
NL WEST	D

Now that all the teams are entered, I am curious. Who went for five balanced teams and who stacked all their best players onto 1-2 teams?

Do to the scoring change, I did try to balance my teams way more than the last version. Even so, my top 4 teams are better than team #5. Here are the weighted average pitching stats for my 5 teams (using best 1500 innings)...

Team 1 --> 2.12 erc#, .209 oav#, 1.07 whip#, 176 erc+
Team 2 --> 2.36 erc#, .215 oav#, 1.06 whip#, 169 erc+
Team 3 --> 2.20 erc#, .212 oav#, 1.05 whip#, 175 erc+
Team 4 --> 2.28 erc#, .210 oav#, 1.05 whip#, 168 erc+
Team 5 --> 2.50 erc#, .220 oav#, 1.12 whip#, 154 erc+

Total IP/Total ERC#/Team Name
1685/2.27/My watch has ended
1694/2.44/The night is dark and full of terrors
1689/2.43/Bend the knee
1696/2.03/I drink and I know things
1683/2.09/Chaos is a ladder

I tried to stack mine more than I did last time, but depending on who you get in your division just about anything can happen.

I did everything I could to equalize all five teams. It’s the same strategy I used last year to middling effect.