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My silver team won the division handily (although granted it was the easiest division - another division in my conference had four teams that should have made playoffs). My matchup is against the top one from that conference (Chicago Skunked). Not sure how we'll match up... they have a diamond rotation that's probably better than mine overall, but I like my bullpen better, so might come down to hitting where we'll be fairly close matched. I won 100 games, they won 106, so not a lot between us, but I think they got the better of me through the season head to head.
My two bronze teams were in the same conference. Took a different approach with both - one with more emphasis on pitching and the other on defense and speed and strategy. Strangely the one without the studs in the rotation all outperformed their numbers (having C Johnson catching I swear helped), and had the better stats despite only one gold and 4 silvers. That team won the division although it got really nail-biting down the stretch. The other team with 3 golds in the rotation and some decent silvers on the field scraped into the wildcard spot on the second last day. The team we beat out was really adding stars down the stretch to close the gap.
Funny - if my wildcard team can win (huge underdog because the team we play is starting Syndergaard and has some great power in the lineup) - my two teams will play each other. And that is a close matchup. The wildcard team (Gryphons) didn't live up to their numbers in the rotation so I added Benito Santiago late in the season and they went on a bit of a run. Maybe catchers make a bigger difference than we think if their catching and positional ratings are high.
Anyway, fun seasons, and glad all three of my teams made it in. May be three quick exits but we'll see...
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