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Originally Posted by Findest2001
It's not poor advice. It simply didn't work for me. I'm quite glad it worked for you, actually. The silver team is quite an accomplishment.
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When you invest into Catchers, skip the whole idea of high batting average. It is just too expensive to find great offensive catchers that
don't hurt you with their defense.
Several of us here in the forums use catchers that help your pitchers with
great solid defense instead of trying to rely on them to get you great offensive stats.
As mentioned, a base stealing team can often run on high batting average catchers and players like Eddie Collins (85) or Ozzie Smith (78) can get you a lot of steals without getting caught too often.
There are other players if you want to go down that route: Tim Raines Sr. (82) or Tony Gwynn Sr (87).
Unless you have the Diamond Ichiro, I would avoid Ichiro as a starter in the higher leagues.
The silver card is a good cheap replacement late in the game with this great defensive stats: 107 LF, 71 CF, 104 RF
You can also use someone like Kevin McReynolds in a similar role.
His defense is even better (123 LF, 96 CF, 107 RF).
Again, don't look for these players to generate your offense but instead use them to win the game with great defense once you are ahead (Global strategy setting).
Example: You find your day-to-day LHB and use a RHB with great defensive stats to come in late in the game and then start when you face Left-handed pitchers.
This allowed me to use a batter like Enos Slaughter (59 LF defense) on the silver team. They are in the playoffs in Perfect league with essentially the same roster that I showed you.
If you focus too much on .AVG, you may miss players that give you a good OBP but only in platoon situations. This of course is not as easy as it sounds.
If you have great pitching, you can go with 6 pitchers in your bullpen.
However, with lesser pitchers, you usually end up with all yellow/red stamina for your bullpen pitchers. So you may need to invest into a 7th player to avoid sending out tired pitchers taking away from a platoon opportunity.
So essentially, the "already good" teams get better while lesser teams can't fully take advantage. Not ideal for your situation.
If you use Excel, have you considered exporting the stats of all players in your league and keep adding them every week?
I started out with little knowledge about the players and teams but by exporting 100,000+ players, I gave myself a way to search for players that fit my criteria while also looking at real PT results.
At the same time, I also started tracking pitchers to see how they perform vs. the suggested FIP data that is discussed in some of the other available spreadsheets/lists.
>As for the positional thing, I've given them plenty of time (3-5 seasons of >positional training. I know Rose and Simmons can play many positions,
Wrong Rose. Get the 71 card which is more of a 1B/DH option.
Stay patient with your teams. Know what you want to do and stick with it for a few seasons and improve on your goals.
Kushiel makes a good comment......stick with your plan and let it play out for a while making improvements.
As mentioned above, I prefer a 1.022 LHB / slightly less than 1.000 RHB park with reduced home runs (anywhere between .900 to .940 across my teams) while having higher numbers for 2B and 3B.
I always knew from the beginning that I would not be able to buy all the various Perfect cards with amazing hitter stats.
Instead, I focused on contact, speed/stealing, pitching, and great defense. I wanted to win with just diamond and below teams.
My two boys (9/10) fell in love with the game and a while back created an extra account with low investment and took that team to Perfect last week (won Diamond championship).
Same approach (high contact, speed/stealing, great defense) with less than perfect pitching (besides 100 DeGrom which they pulled half way through last season).
No Ozzie Smith or other super rare player.
Of course, this team is not going to win Perfect league. But it stayed 10+ wins away from teams getting relegated and there is plenty of areas that can be improved.
I don't know what the kids have in mind next but I am sure they will continue without investing money and try to fight off relegation while trying to move up spot by spot.
If you plan on spending money, I would go with PT20 as it has more features and the OOTP team is planning to add more interesting features (mobile support, card collection, other competitions).