I set 2 goals coming into my 2nd WIS championship:

1) Finish above .500 collectively.
2) Be in the top half of the overall pool.

As we're just about to reach the last set of 162 games, I am 10 games over .500 and exactly 36th place. We'll see if I can finish it off.

I feel that my biggest shortcoming is I still haven't figured out what to do about pitching in the higher salary cap leagues. I cloned 3 of Maddux' best seasons in the $140m league and they're all just getting pounded. Do you just try to beat everybody 13-12, stacking up as many pitcher innings as possible? That's been my primary frustration, which is just a carry-over from my previous experience with all caps above $100m.

Not sure how to take the next step to have a shot at the cage. I had only played a couple of regular leagues since last year's WISC and the formula that has always worked for me didn't seem to work anymore, so it's been a pleasant experience to be competitive against the best at this game.

I certainly spent more time building this year's rosters than in my first go, and made sure to draft both more innings and more PAs. I've been pleased to avoid the fatigue death spiral across the board.

Are we really going to do a consolation Round 2 for owners 25-48? I'm torn. I have loved doing this just as much as ever, but it does take a lot of time if you're going to follow it closely. As I saw someone else mention, I guess I need to get started building rosters if this is a reality.

I am fortunate to be among the Top 10 in round 1 based on total wins. I probably won't be in the top 10 after the playoffs. The other 9 folks in the Top 10 average 4.7 playoff teams. Heck, even the owners ranked 16th thru 24th average 3.7 playoff teams.

I have 2 playoff teams for sure. Here are my other four teams....

71-64 .526, one game out (.582 Exp Win%)
78-57 .578, tied for a wildcard (.593 Exp Win%)
69-66 .511, one game out (.555 Exp Win%)
66-69 .489, five games outs (.511 Exp Win%)

Notice anything similar among these four teams? Maybe my total regular season wins may be enough to make it to round 2, but if not, this is the answer.

If my $110M team misses the playoffs, I’m going to need some serious explanation from Admin as to why my ‘08 Walsh is giving up 1.06 runs/more at home in Southside Park (3.94 ERA/1.32 WHIP) than on the road (2.88 ERA/1.17 WHIP).

we have four teams who have already clinched so we rested key hitters in the pm game. all four still managed to win. for our one eliminated team, we started 2014 Drew Smyly, a classic one bullet in the playoffs starter, since it doesn't matter if we blow his arm off. he got shelled for 9 runs in 5 innings and took his first loss of the season.

Thx to all the organizers, it was lots of fun and I can't wait for the next edition. Although it was my first time, it was the best competition I've faced since I started playing baseball. A very humbling experience I must say, my strategy of going with what I know didn't work out as well as I thought. The players I used weren't fit for the cap. I will do more research next time around.

Good luck to all moving on to round 2

Posted by Qhadow123 on 7/16/2024 12:22:00 PM (view original):
I set 2 goals coming into my 2nd WIS championship:

1) Finish above .500 collectively.
2) Be in the top half of the overall pool.

As we're just about to reach the last set of 162 games, I am 10 games over .500 and exactly 36th place. We'll see if I can finish it off.

I feel that my biggest shortcoming is I still haven't figured out what to do about pitching in the higher salary cap leagues. I cloned 3 of Maddux' best seasons in the $140m league and they're all just getting pounded. Do you just try to beat everybody 13-12, stacking up as many pitcher innings as possible? That's been my primary frustration, which is just a carry-over from my previous experience with all caps above $100m.

Not sure how to take the next step to have a shot at the cage. I had only played a couple of regular leagues since last year's WISC and the formula that has always worked for me didn't seem to work anymore, so it's been a pleasant experience to be competitive against the best at this game.

I certainly spent more time building this year's rosters than in my first go, and made sure to draft both more innings and more PAs. I've been pleased to avoid the fatigue death spiral across the board.

Are we really going to do a consolation Round 2 for owners 25-48? I'm torn. I have loved doing this just as much as ever, but it does take a lot of time if you're going to follow it closely. As I saw someone else mention, I guess I need to get started building rosters if this is a reality.

Looking at your pitching staff for the $140M, your problem there is you didn't draft enough innings. 1,462 is on the lower end of innings I'd want for a $140M DH league, but you're compounding it by having 115 of those innings used on two Maddux's who are only good for mop-up duty at this cap. So you have only about 1350 effectively, and four of the eight good pitchers you have are Kimbrels who can only throw 15 pitches before fatiguing. This will inevitably lead to you blowing the arms off the other four starting pitchers, which is what happened, you had to use those guys in the mid 90s all season. It's generally not a good idea to use pitchers at below 100% at high caps, and it's a doubly bad idea in a league where you will be facing lots of home run hitters, as fatigued pitchers start seeing a rapid increase in their HR allowed rate.

1994 Maddux will be excellent at this cap (he'd better be since he costs a fortune) if you use him at 100% all season.

Your 1994 Maddux allowed a .297/.349/.427 slash line with 31 HR allowed in 296 innings. One owner in my league used 1994 Maddux, he was at 100% for pretty much the entire season, with a few starts at 99% or 98% towards the end. He allowed a .238/.288/.313 slash line and only allowed 13 HRs in 305 innings.

Posted by 06gsp on 7/26/2024 9:43:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Qhadow123 on 7/16/2024 12:22:00 PM (view original):
I set 2 goals coming into my 2nd WIS championship:

1) Finish above .500 collectively.
2) Be in the top half of the overall pool.

As we're just about to reach the last set of 162 games, I am 10 games over .500 and exactly 36th place. We'll see if I can finish it off.

I feel that my biggest shortcoming is I still haven't figured out what to do about pitching in the higher salary cap leagues. I cloned 3 of Maddux' best seasons in the $140m league and they're all just getting pounded. Do you just try to beat everybody 13-12, stacking up as many pitcher innings as possible? That's been my primary frustration, which is just a carry-over from my previous experience with all caps above $100m.

Not sure how to take the next step to have a shot at the cage. I had only played a couple of regular leagues since last year's WISC and the formula that has always worked for me didn't seem to work anymore, so it's been a pleasant experience to be competitive against the best at this game.

I certainly spent more time building this year's rosters than in my first go, and made sure to draft both more innings and more PAs. I've been pleased to avoid the fatigue death spiral across the board.

Are we really going to do a consolation Round 2 for owners 25-48? I'm torn. I have loved doing this just as much as ever, but it does take a lot of time if you're going to follow it closely. As I saw someone else mention, I guess I need to get started building rosters if this is a reality.

Looking at your pitching staff for the $140M, your problem there is you didn't draft enough innings. 1,462 is on the lower end of innings I'd want for a $140M DH league, but you're compounding it by having 115 of those innings used on two Maddux's who are only good for mop-up duty at this cap. So you have only about 1350 effectively, and four of the eight good pitchers you have are Kimbrels who can only throw 15 pitches before fatiguing. This will inevitably lead to you blowing the arms off the other four starting pitchers, which is what happened, you had to use those guys in the mid 90s all season. It's generally not a good idea to use pitchers at below 100% at high caps, and it's a doubly bad idea in a league where you will be facing lots of home run hitters, as fatigued pitchers start seeing a rapid increase in their HR allowed rate.

1994 Maddux will be excellent at this cap (he'd better be since he costs a fortune) if you use him at 100% all season.

Your 1994 Maddux allowed a .297/.349/.427 slash line with 31 HR allowed in 296 innings. One owner in my league used 1994 Maddux, he was at 100% for pretty much the entire season, with a few starts at 99% or 98% towards the end. He allowed a .238/.288/.313 slash line and only allowed 13 HRs in 305 innings.

Granted I did mess up in the 140M cap this time, but my 150M w/DH Red Sox team has 1441 innings at Fenway, and I’m starting Tanner Houck just so he doesn’t rot unused in the bullpen. It does depend on the quality of pitchers drafted, but I never go over 1450, and hardly past 1410 innings most of the time. But I understand that if you draft a lot of low BB low K pitchers like Babe Adams, you will need to draft more innings than high K pitchers

NOT sounding off, but rather signing off. Embarrassing showing for my 6 teams. ALL finished below .500 although a couple were close. Finished 3rd in 3 leagues and 4th in others....then I saw guys winning divisions with WORSE records...Oh well. Thanks to organizers and good luck to those advancing. I dont think I know the database and the nuances well enough to compete in these very unique themes. I generally prefer deeper dives and daily tinkering vs. the in depth team building done here. Congrats, wish I was advancing but I am simple in WIS...Ill stick to my progressives and occasional theme.

Posted by The_Creeper on 7/26/2024 10:20:00 AM (view original):
NOT sounding off, but rather signing off. Embarrassing showing for my 6 teams. ALL finished below .500 although a couple were close. Finished 3rd in 3 leagues and 4th in others....then I saw guys winning divisions with WORSE records...Oh well. Thanks to organizers and good luck to those advancing. I dont think I know the database and the nuances well enough to compete in these very unique themes. I generally prefer deeper dives and daily tinkering vs. the in depth team building done here. Congrats, wish I was advancing but I am simple in WIS...Ill stick to my progressives and occasional theme.

I’m curious to see how you’d do if you drafted 200 less innings, and got higher quality pitchers in its place. I saw 1650 innings in the 110M league, that’s a lot of wasted innings not being used. Remember 9 innings x 162 games is 1458, and you get like an extra 10% out of each pitcher in the SIM if I recall correctly.

I won my division (league 3-C). Why am I playing the top seed in the first round?

The #1 seeds plays the wildcard *unless* the wildcard is in the same division, in which case the #1 seeds plays the division winner with the worse record (of the two other division winners).

Starting the playoffs 1-5 isn't going to help much ... At least 2 series haven't started yet, so all is not lost.

Well, I'm glad this WISC is over for me (except for my 1 playoff team). It was fun, even if a few of my teams were train wrecks.

Thanks to everyone who organized and invested time managing the WISC.

Had one team lose G163, and 3 other playoff teams lose in the first round, including a couple reverse sweeps. Just one more to lose, hopefully I can drop down to 24 and have that huge advantage picking first in the draft league

One of my five playoff teams advanced to the second round. One was eliminated by a grand slam by Sandy Koufax. Good times.