re: FSBDL 2018 - MWG is your Champion

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Makes me wonder why fourth place in playoffs gets paid out

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A typical league, from 12 teams to 16 or whatever, pays out regular season champ and the top 3 playoff finishes. Those leagues typically only take 6 playoff teams, so the top two seeds get rewarded with a bye week.

Since we have 20 teams putting up money instead of 16, and 8 make the playoffs, we added a little more to the regular season champ's pot, paid out a small amount to the second seed since they won't be rewarded with a bye week, and added a 4th place payout.


ETA: Maybe we can vote on going to rotisserie scoring next season.

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ETA: Maybe we can vote on going to rotisserie scoring next season.

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You trying to kill this league?



I ain't got no time for pitching.

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8. CWill
Hitting: 4th
Pitching: 11th
Farm: 5th

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I think your rating machine doesn't properly value pitching or pitching strategy in this league.

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I think your rating machine doesn't properly value pitching or pitching strategy in this league.

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I like your pitching strategy but it's going to be hard to be ranked higher than middle of the pack when you're punting two categories (IMO of course)

That strategy has been put to the test w better relievers. Ain’t gon work, especially w only 1 guaranteed closer

AND good luck making the innings requirement some weeks.

What do you want to bet that I finish better than 12th?

You can do it and have top 10 overall pitching success but you need 3-4 beast closers at minimum, a handful of solid ratio RPs, and then 3-4 SPs that you can play matchups with each week to help get you 15 IP or so. They can even be #4 or 5 type pitchers, but you need to be able to avoid the blow up games as much as possible (obviously).

I finished 9th overall in pitching in the first season doing this. And I dropped to 9th after trading most of my RPs before the deadline - I was hovering near top 5 most of the season.

Finished 17th in IP and 19th in QS. Even finished middle of the pack in k/9 but that dropped to middle of the pack after trades.

The four SPs I used (Odorizzi, Niese, Dan Haren, Karns) all finished sub 4 ERA for me that year. Niese & Haren had sub 6 K/9s . But they didnt blow up my era which was all that I needed.

My RPs were:
chapman - 1.63 ERA 33 Saves, 15.7 K/9
melancon - 2.23 era, 52 S+H
grilli - 2.9 ERA 24 saves, 12 k/9 (got hurt mid season)
Holland - 32 saves 10 k/9
Will Harris - 1.9 era
Benoit - 2.34 era - 30 saves
Sam Dyson - 2.63 era - 23 Saves

Looking at Cwills team, I agree with most of yall that he doesnt have the legit closers to pull off a top 10 pitching staff. But if his offense can carry him, we wont need to win but 2-3 pitching categories most weeks which i think he can do if his RPs hit fantrax projections. But he has to hit the IP limit which is another issue

edit: those RP stats are season long stats. I traded melancon & holland before the deadline and lost grilli for the season sometime in the middle of the year. So my team didnt necessarily get all of those stats. Just showing how on my RP staff was that entire year

Good luck getting any prospects worth a shite.

Don’t sell of a good team to rebuild like Redfig did