Favorite Players (Silver or lower)

[Maddox]

Otis Nixon has been my leadoff hitter since day 1
Tom Herr has given me very little reason to remove him from the lineup. He is actually on both my teams.

[freedavebrown]

Benched Lindor for Omar Vizquel. He´s been beating his Average by about 70 points so far.

[<Pion>]

Originally Posted by chazzycat

probably a stupid question, but where are you finding that data? How do you know the stats for the players outside your individual league?

I don't know stats for players outside the leagues I'm in. But there are a lot of seasons worth of stats I'm drawing on, so the sample size is large... over 1.2 Million innings pitched... over 4.6 million at bats.

[CrazyWR]

Terrance Gore

[DonkeyKongSr]

A few more names to throw out there: Paul Molitor, George Kell, and of course super defender Andrelton Simmons.

[stl jason]

-Matty Alou (64) - career .313 avg / 15.3 war in 5 seasons with one of my teams

- Johnny Pesky (78) - consistent at the plate and picks up other IF positions super fast to make a great utility guy. Originally only had SS ability on his card. In less than two seasons he picked up 46 skill at 1B and 93 skill at 2B. (edit 1/15/19: in case anyone comes back through reading the thread; Pesky has now won 2 consecutive great glove awards at 2B for me)

- Luis M Castillo (57) - can't say if he'd perform at higher levels, but if you're just starting out, this guy is a rock and he's an iron level card. Originally tagged as a starter, convert him to a relief pitcher and use him as your long/middle relief in the pen. He picks up some killer stuff going from SP to RP.

[DonkeyKongSr]

Originally Posted by <Pion>

Been two of him all day long in the AH. Only one now

Okay, who is the wise guy who clearly just bought him and then put him up on a 24 hour auction with an outrageous 1000 over average BIN? I'd buy him right now at no more than 200 over.

[chazzycat]

Originally Posted by <Pion>

I don't know stats for players outside the leagues I'm in. But there are a lot of seasons worth of stats I'm drawing on, so the sample size is large... over 1.2 Million innings pitched... over 4.6 million at bats.

Ahh I see. So you are exporting all the data at the end of each week and combining them? Or am I missing some easier way....that sounds like a lot of work

[<Pion>]

Originally Posted by chazzycat

Ahh I see. So you are exporting all the data at the end of each week and combining them? Or am I missing some easier way....that sounds like a lot of work

Yes, I'm exporting them bi-weekly. Takes about 30 minutes to update the source worksheets. I don't have to re-create the sheets that do all the combining and calculating. I'm then able to sort or select in any way I want to slice and dice it up... By position, by league level, by overall rating, etc.

[<Pion>]

Originally Posted by DonkeyKongSr

Okay, who is the wise guy who clearly just bought him and then put him up on a 24 hour auction with an outrageous 1000 over average BIN? I'd buy him right now at no more than 200 over.

Maybe someone who read this thread. Mine is still starting, though my team went from 7-0 before he joined to 0-4 since...

[Weaseltail]

Too many to choose just one









The RH split on Medina is nuts.

[jd200600]

Still my 69 overall Record Breaker Ichiro!

[pappyzan]

75 CF Lance Johnson
71 1B Steve Garvey for the vLHP split
72 Mark Langston as MR (made diamond league all-star team as MR this yr)
72 Vic Raschi as MR

[old timer]

Note: The numbers below are from my team only.

73-Jose Oquendo
WAR:
BrL: 4.5
SiL: 3.1
GoL: 4.0
DiL: 2.4
GoL: 3.0 (projected)

78-Len Barker: 94 Stu, 64 Mov, 60 Con
Barker's stats have been great from SiL to DiL

72-Dennis Martinez
A great bronze and silver league level starter. Above that, he's been both great and awful for me.
rWAR:
BrL: 7.2
SiL: 4.4
GoL: -0.3
DiL: -0.4
GoL: 6.2 (projected)

64-Luis Aparicio:
4 straight glove awards and probably a 5th this season.
BrL: 3.9
SiL: 4.7
GoL: 2.5
DiL: 4.2
GoL: 2.3 (projected)

And 79-Robert Osuna has always been very solid as well.

[joehart]

Great topic.

Most of the players were on my Silver-only team that is trying to compete in P330.
Unfortunately, it gets harder and harder to keep up with Silver and below pitchers to compete against the Diamond/Perfect superstars.

Here are a few more names that brought me to P330:

1B Cecil Cooper/Bill Terry in a platoon with some DH duties (5-6 WAR combined).
2B Jim Gilliam
SS Ozzie Smith (both the 75 and expensive 78 card).
CF Richie Ashburn

Good luck to all the Silver-and below teams out there !!!

[whobob]

Jim Abbott (70) is an underrated card. I picked him up for my bronze team, he did nearly as well as Dierker. I had Paxton on my diamond level team, 5.00 ERA+. I thought Abbott could do that just as well, and a lot cheaper, too. He did as well as Paxton had, for the rest of that year-- but this year he has the lowest ERA at 3.06-- beating my Pedro Martinez, even.

[jd200600]

I have one team, but you guys are forcing me to go get some of these cards! Might have to start a second team with the guys mentioned in this thread only.

[Joshrapley]

Originally Posted by gemini615

78 Eddie Collins has consistently been a top 3 base stealer for me.
63 Ildemaro Vargas is a good hitter and defender. Plus he trains up well at all infield positions. He's a good utility option.

Eddie Collins Sr (Historical All Star - 78) has been unreal for me batting at lead off.

BrL: 5.5 (.301/.372 - 40SB)
SiL: 6.1 (.302/.386 - 60SB)
SiL: 3.2 (.294/.363 - 43SB)

Only downside he has 54 Defense rating at 2B which has resulted in a career -4.5ZR over 3 seasons.

[bobbycockstrong]

Originally Posted by lboston1

60 rated 1B George Burns - excellent contact and extra base hits, led league in Batting Average and double for me


75 rated SP Sixto Sanchez, his ratings aren't mind blowing but very consistent and always in the top 10 in league in WHIP and QS for me.

Yeah ive had Sixto and he has been pretty reliable in every season, even in diamond 2 times now.

[bobbycockstrong]

Originally Posted by stl jason

-Matty Alou (64) - career .313 avg / 15.3 war in 5 seasons with one of my teams

- Johnny Pesky (78) - consistent at the plate and picks up other IF positions super fast to make a great utility guy. Originally only had SS ability on his card. In less than two seasons he picked up 46 skill at 1B and 93 skill at 2B.

- Luis M Castillo (57) - can't say if he'd perform at higher levels, but if you're just starting out, this guy is a rock and he's an iron level card. Originally tagged as a starter, convert him to a relief pitcher and use him as your long/middle relief in the pen. He picks up some killer stuff going from SP to RP.

I had Matty Alou in beta, he was awesome.