2 Mauchs in 5 cycles is probably not how you cling to life in this tournament

Having fun with this year's tournament. In past years, I have been in far-away places with time zones either 10 or 11 hours different from home but this time I'm, if not home, at least in my home's time zone. You don't want your PM and PM2 games to happen at 1AM and 6AM, this I can tell you.

We are a combined 11-34 in one-run games, led by a stellar 1-10 from our high cap team. Woof.

Posted by odalisgagne on 6/23/2023 7:41:00 PM (view original):
We are a combined 11-34 in one-run games, led by a stellar 1-10 from our high cap team. Woof.

Oh, they messed up and gave you the schwarze settings by mistake!

A $100M team with both ‘15 Kershaw and Greinke is 8-22. Lost so many games already giving up 3 runs (even 2 runs) or less. This game is a joke.

30 games in. NOT where I wanted to be. But also not a disaster. Maybe a chance for something to happen for me????

Posted by redcped on 6/22/2023 11:19:00 AM (view original):

Posted by schwarze on 6/22/2023 2:23:00 AM (view original):
Just wondering.... Anybody else 20+ games over .500 overall while also being below .500 in 1-run games?

You betcha! I'm 17-26 in 1-run games. Only one of my teams is .500, and all the rest are below.

Only one of my teams is playing above EXP%, though two others are really close to right on. Three are significantly below it (.741 vs. .680, .610 vs. .520, .714 vs. .680).

I’m 23-25 in 1 run games, and 4-13 in extra inning games while being 97-77 overall. These damn extra inning games are gonna give me an ulcer

Posted by redcped on 6/23/2023 8:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by odalisgagne on 6/23/2023 7:41:00 PM (view original):
We are a combined 11-34 in one-run games, led by a stellar 1-10 from our high cap team. Woof.

Oh, they messed up and gave you the schwarze settings by mistake!

... nodding head ...

Posted by odalisgagne on 6/23/2023 7:41:00 PM (view original):
We are a combined 11-34 in one-run games, led by a stellar 1-10 from our high cap team. Woof.

Oh wow. That's really bad. My 16-22 record pales in comparison.

You know how you have a bad stretch and think . . ."I'll be going against some crappy owners soon?" Then you realize that YOU'RE the crappy owner. Ugh.

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

Posted by dorkster on 6/25/2023 1:30:00 AM (view original):
You know how you have a bad stretch and think . . ."I'll be going against some crappy owners soon?" Then you realize that YOU'RE the crappy owner. Ugh.

LMAO! Boy does this hit home. I came to the same realization a long time ago...

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

Sometimes I’ll adjust batting order, but generally I leave everything alone. I know it’s all small sample size so I try not to make rash decisions.

First Mauch against zero schwarzes. Now now 9-21 across the last 5 cycles dropping from 10th to 23rd. It was good while it lasted.

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.