All-Time Franchise Baseball Tournament: RED SOX WIN IT ALL!

[Norah]

Always those 6. I'm replacing 2000 Pedro with 1999 Pedro. Maybe with the better winning percentage WhatIf will deem him good enough to start.

[Kaius]

I noticed that when I went SP heavy last tournament. I don't know what criteria it uses, but it decided who I could select as a starter and who would come out of the pen. Did you draft Pedro in a later round?

[Norah]

And the answer to that is no.

[Lament]

I noticed it when I tried making a staff of all starters, but it seemed to give me different options when I reloaded. That's fucked up.

[Lament]

So the order you add then to your roster in isn't making a difference, is it?

[Norah]

I had drafted Pedro as my second pitcher but I switched him to the first spot which is labeled strictly as a started and it still keeps him in the pen. I tried dropping Tiant and picking up Okajima instead and instead of adding Pedro to the starters it added Lowe.

[Kaius]

Weird. Drop a couple of relief guys and see what happens.

[Lament]

I don't know why it wouldn't put the six starters with the highest value as your options. Pedro has to be at worst second in terms of value there.

[Norah]

Yup. I'm toying with replacing some of the starters in my pen with true relievers to see if it makes better decisions that way.

[Norah]

Yeah I had to drop Lowe for Okajima and Tiant for Timlin and now I got a 6 man rotation of Young, Ruth, Grove, Lee, Clemens, Martinez.

[Lament]

That just seems odd that in those circumstances it wouldn't just opt for the six guys with the highest monetary value.

[Norah]

Or why doesn't it just let me pick?

[Lament]

Good point.

So guys, if you are planning on stocking your bullpen with starting pitchers, make sure to check and see which six it's gonna allow you to use as starters.

[Lament]

As a heads up, if this keeps growing (which I hope it does), I may have to appoint a vice-commissioner to fill in for me and run simulations if there are ever days when I can't.

[Norah]

I could probably do that.

[Norah]

So after that tinkering numbers and I have settled on the following roster:

C Fisk (R) 1977
1B Yaz (L) 1967
2B Pedroia (R) 2008
3B Boggs (L) 1987
SS Garciaparra (R) 2000
LF Williams (L) 1941
CF Speaker (L) 1912
RF Ramirez (R) 2002

SP Young (R) 1901
SP Martinez (R) 2000
SP Clemens (R) 1990
SP Grove (L) 1935
SP Ruth (L) 1916
SP Lee (L) 1973

Bench Ortiz (L) 2006
Bench Rice (R) 1978
Bench Varitek (S) 2004
Bench Doerr (R) 1944
Bench Ellsbury (L) 2011
Bench Foxx (R) 1938

RP Uehara (R) 2013
RP Papelbon (R) 2006
RP Timlin (R) 2005
RP Lyle (L) 1969
RP Okajima (L) 2007

We'll probably start Foxx over Yaz at first against lefties. Maybe see if we can get Rice in the lineup as well.

[numbers]

Game over, people.

[numbers]

I'll put together the Astros team tomorrow.

[Norah]

Look at those HOFers just sitting on the bench.

[numbers]

Seriously, and we left off guys like Lynn, Evans, Petrocelli, etc.