Post-Strike Baseball Tournament: WORLD CHAMPION SKITCHP!

[Lament]

No, we actually discussed it multiple times in the thread. You can still play him in the field if you like. He'll just probably be a pretty bad fielder.

[BigRedLedbetter]

No, we actually discussed it multiple times in the thread. You can still play him in the field if you like. He'll just probably be a pretty bad fielder.

My mistake trying to multitask. Dumb work and stuff. Oh well I will still stick him at first sometimes.

[numbers]

No, we actually discussed it multiple times in the thread. You can still play him in the field if you like. He'll just probably be a pretty bad fielder.

My mistake trying to multitask. Dumb work and stuff. Oh well I will still stick him at first sometimes.

I thought he played third?

[Norah]

We've said all along no dh

[BigRedLedbetter]

We've said all along no dh

I don't know about all along. Moving forward it's a moot point.

[@SkitchP]

153,228,711

[Norah]

$129,884,324

[philpritchard]

$168,028,106

That's what I get for not taking many sentimental picks.

[Lament]

Look at small-market chud!

[@SkitchP]

Here's the thing though.. Im fearful payroll will determine the winner. Those arent the actual salaries the players earned, those are salaries assigned to the "cost" of the player in a salary cap fantasy style league. In other words, will it actually sim, or will it just say "winner" based on the salaries?

[Lament]

In the grand scheme of things, all of our payrolls are close enough that it will probably be negligible. It's possible to assemble payrolls of over $500 millions dollars on here, so if we had a $300 million team against a $100 million, then it'd be a pretty safe bet the higher payroll would win. I just ran a few simulations of the two highest payrolls on here, (both over $500 million, with around $20 million difference between them), and had each of them win twice in four games. I can't imagine we will have that huge of a difference in payrolls, and beyond that, I bet a lot of the difference comes from people who put sentimental picks on their bench or deep in their bullpen. I would bet that if we took just our eight main position players, four top starters, and 3-4 top bullpen guys and looked at the salaries, the differences would go down even more.

[Lament]

Anyways, here's my roster with the years I'm using.

C - Buster Posey (2012)
1B - Frank Thomas (1997)
2B - Jeff Kent (2000)
3B - Adrian Beltre (2004)
SS - Miguel Tejada (2004)
CF - Mike Trout (2012)
LF - Josh Hamilton (2010)
RF - Jose Bautista (2011)
UT - Rafael Palmeiro (1999)
UT - Brady Anderson (1996)
UT - Travis Hafner (2006)
UT - Jermaine Dye (2006)
UT - Paul Konerko (2010)

SP - David Price (2012)
SP - Johnny Cueto (2012)
SP - Barry Zito (2002)
SP - Esteban Loaiza (2003)
SP - Mark Buehrle (2005)
RP - Trevor Hoffman (1998)
RP - Billy Wagner (1999)
RP - Joakim Soria (2008)
RP - Randy Myers (1997)
RP - Rafael Soriano (2003)
RP - Cliff Politte (2005)
RP - Neal Cotts (2013)

I may change Neal Cotts to 2005 before the deadline, but that's the only thing that's even mildly up in the air.

[@SkitchP]

Well I just made my team, and simmed the years I assumed a whole other team would likely select. Looking like a quick exit for old skitchy.


Also... High scoring as hell.

[Lament]

I'm worried that my starting pitchers aren't gonna be strong enough to win a series. But that was the risk I took when I decided I'd go all hitting and not pick a pitcher till round nine.

[Lament]

Argo might have the best starting rotation.

[Lament]

Also, you can pick in like ten minutes, Skitch. Argo's time will be up, and 4/5 said to keep skipping him.

Those are the only three picks left.

(I obviously messed up somewhere in the OP with the overall pick numbers, since they're only gonnn reach 223 instead of 225. Oops...)

[@SkitchP]

C 2011 Alex Avila
1B 2000 Carlos Delgado
2B 2008 Chase Utley
3B 2012 Miguel Cabrera
SS 2000 Alex Rodriguez
OF 2012 Andrew McCutchen
OF 2011 Jacoby Ellsbury
OF 2001 Luis Gonzalez

I draft Posada as my starter, but Avila is actually more valuable in this by a decent amount. And the $ value rankings show a MAJOR reach for Zobrist. Although getting Luis Gonzalez so late appears to be a steal. This is unlikely to change at all.


Bench:
OF 2004 J.D.Drew
OF 2011 Alex Gordon
OF 2013 Carlos Gomez
SS 2006 Carlos Guillen
C 2003 Jorge Posada
2B 2009 Ben Zobrist




1997 Roger Clemens
2005 Dontrelle Willis
2010 Ubaldo Jimenez
2011 Cole Hamels
2003 Eric Gagne
2004 Brad Lidge
2012 Fernando Rodney
2007 J.J. Putz
2011 Tyler Clippard
2006 Joel Zumaya

[BigRedLedbetter]

Anyways, here's my roster with the years I'm using.

C - Buster Posey (2012)
1B - Frank Thomas (1997)
2B - Jeff Kent (2000)
3B - Adrian Beltre (2004)
SS - Miguel Tejada (2004)
CF - Mike Trout (2012)
LF - Josh Hamilton (2010)
RF - Jose Bautista (2011)
UT - Rafael Palmeiro (1999)
UT - Brady Anderson (1996)
UT - Travis Hafner (2006)
UT - Jermaine Dye (2006)
UT - Paul Konerko (2010)

SP - David Price (2012)
SP - Johnny Cueto (2012)
SP - Barry Zito (2002)
SP - Esteban Loaiza (2003)
SP - Mark Buehrle (2005)
RP - Trevor Hoffman (1998)
RP - Billy Wagner (1999)
RP - Joakim Soria (2008)
RP - Randy Myers (1997)
RP - Rafael Soriano (2003)
RP - Cliff Politte (2005)
RP - Neal Cotts (2013)

I may change Neal Cotts to 2005 before the deadline, but that's the only thing that's even mildly up in the air.

Nice. Hamilton was so locked in back in 2010. He hit like .400 against RHP. Anyway, here is mine....

C - Pudge Rodriguez (1999)
1B - Joey Votto (2010)
2B - Brett Boone (2001)
SS - Barry Larkin (1996)
3B - Chipper Jones (1999)
LF - Barry Bonds (2001)
CF - Darin Erstad (2000)
RF - Bobby Abreu (2004)
UT - Edgar Martinez (1995)
UT - Placido Polanco (2007)
UT - Reggie Sanders (1995)
UT - Mike Napoli (2011)
UT - Craig Gentry (2013)

SP - Zack Greinke (2009)
SP - Cliff Lee (2011)
SP - Kevin Brown (1996)
SP - Mike Hampton (1999)
RP - Aroldis Chapman (2012)
RP - Koji Uehara (2013)
RP - Tom Gordon (2004)
RP - Troy Percivial (1996)
RP - Armando Benitez (1999)
RP - Octavio Dotel (2002)
RP - Hung-Chih Kuo (2010)
RP - Brian Duensing (2010)

[Lament]

1997 Roger Clemens
2005 Dontrelle Willis
2010 Ubaldo Jimenez
2011 Cole Hamels

Actually, that is a crazy stacked rotation too.

[Lament]

#BRL, do you need me to assemble your team under my account, or did you make one?