I'm by no means expecting some suddenly new formula to be conjured. I understand everyone is doing the most they can and I am very appreciative
. I was more reacting to when people start saying I'm not listening. I'm listening, but I don't control the market and sometimes a good piece of advice is either out of my price range or just not an option due to supply. I have literally trashed my whole team and I'm starting over. Verlander and Gibson are on sale and hopefully they'll net me 45k to work with. Verlander already has a bid of 14.5k, so that's a start.
I'm even going to reset my park to 1.0 until I see what my new team structure is. In the meantime I am using the trash time while I wait to be relegated to train up the Simmons I just got in as many positions as possible. I had been using Luis Aparicio as a poor man's Simmons, realizing Simmons is a much better hitter. Aparicio worked great defensively but never had better than a 83 OPS+. So I have now trashed Aparicio on all 3 of my teams.
Here's how different they look. I hope no one sees my team and thinks I'm intentionally tanking. I'm already eliminated and might as well get my players training in defensive positions so they can help me more in silver when I'm relegated...again.
Thank you for your observations, kind sir. I continue to look forward to your council. Maybe one day I'll be able to return the favor somehow.
Let me ask this question about resource allotment...what's the consensus on investing a large lump sum in the early stages? Is it better to invest all of the money into one player who I know I won't get rid of up until diamond or higher? Or get several lower-tier players to make my overall team better, knowing that I'll still have to reinvest the money later on in the larger name players anyways?