Posted by toysboys on 6/26/2023 10:35:00 AM (view original):
Posted by brickster44 on 6/25/2023 3:25:00 AM (view original):
I have been playing this game for a while and thought I had a clue what I was doing. If you look at where I am from the standings clearly I don’t lol. I just had a couple of questions for everyone.
If your team is going through a losing streak do you change your manager settings like hit and run or base running aggressiveness? Do you ever change you batting order? I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. I think it’s clear I didn’t draft any of my teams well at all.
Any advice is welcome. If anyone is willing to help and have a look at my teams and give me some advice on where I went wrong I would appreciate it.
Sincerely,
A Frustrated Manager lol
Just looking over your teams, you have drafted way too many innings. For example, your Tigers squad has over 2000 innings. For a $120M league, you really should aim for about 1450 innings. Tigers aren't known for their pitching and i never even tried to draft a Tigers squad, but if you couldn't get to 1450 innings at a cap appropriate level, then you should have chosen another squad.
Same thing for your 1994 squad. You have 1593 innings. That is way too much for a $100M league. About 1400 is all you need.
I don't generally make too many lineup changes or settings in most leagues. I think the exception would be the $255M league. You have Browning hitting worse than Tim Raines. Sometimes guys just underperform. Also Browning is on pace for 40 errors for you so maybe you should switch them up. Browning should outhit Raines in the long run, but he's not so far.
The innings point is critical here, and I know I learned a lot by looking at the rosters of the other teams in my leagues to see the innings range the best teams used. Of course it's not an exact science, but I think the main takeaway is that if you spend $50M on 1600 innings instead of 1450 innings, you've lowered the quality of your innings as well as wasted them. So it's not just that you have innings you don't need, it's that the pitchers you are using aren't as good as your opponents'.
My first WISC I probably averaged about 150-200 innings too many across all my leagues because I was afraid of fatigue. And I still probably err a bit more on the cautionary side than a lot of owners. But I've also played a number of leagues that force you to manage fatigue, and I think that's a valuable way to gain confidence that you can do it. For instance in the Cooperstown Historical Replay league (spots are open - see Classifieds!), you get a real life roster and whatever innings it has available. I've had to manage a couple seasons with insane juggling to keep the pitching staff functional, but now it's a lot less scary a concept.
As for Manager Settings, the only ones I usually consider changing have to do with base stealing if I'm noticing that my guys are getting caught too much (or not at all). Sometimes I tweak those because the quality of catching might vary a lot in leagues.