From: 11dmcvay@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Subject: Re: Any comments on my team roster?
Organization: Gallaudet University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:10:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.031353.1731@meteor.wisc.edu>, stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu (Stephen Jascourt) writes:
> Dan writes:
>   I'm in a fantasy league run by PTP.
> 
>   I currently have a roster as follows :
> 
>   Jesse Barfield, Jeff Blauser, Steve Buechele, Glenn Davis, Mike Heath,
>   Gregg Jefferies, Barry Larkin, Candy Maldonado, Kevin Mitchell, Otis Nixon,
>   KIrby Puckett, Jody Reed, Bip Roberts, Franklin Stubbs, B.J. Surhoff, and
>   Matt D. Williams.
> 
>   As well as the pitching staff consisting of Oil Can Boyd, David Cone, Chuck
>   Finley, Todd Frohwirth, Joe Hesketh, Bruce Hurst, Randy Myers, Jimmy Key,
>   and Duane Ward.
> 
>   All run on '91 statistics.
> 
>   Could anyone make any suggestions as to how I can maximize my team's potential
>   production in the offensive categories? And I'm concerned I don't have any
>   reliable RBI men on my team. Any hints, advice, or suggestions, in any form
>   will be appreciated.
> 
> '91 stats? Is this a typo? The disk for '92 stats is available now.

No. It's not a typo. And yes, the '92 stats are available but right now do
not have the opportunity to go and get the latest.

> 
> In the PTP leagues I'm in, the team-to-team variation in quality of pitching
> is much larger than the variation in offensive strength, so the winning teams
> always have a decent pitching staff, usually a solid starting staff with just
> an adequate pen does the job, though I prefer an adequate rotation and a

That's true and we have 11 teams, split up into 2 divisions, with one having
6 teams and the other having 5.

> great pen. Factors to consider are the park you play in, whether you include
> injuries, whether you are using the board or computer game (the player ratings
> are *not* consistent from one to the other for the past few seasons), and
> player use limitation rules for your league. Since you are actually playing
> out all the games (i.e. not like a roto league), you don't care about how
> many of some particular category (like rbi or HR) you have, instead you want
> to construct an offense that will put guys on base and get hits to drive them
> in, like a real team. So you want guys with high OPS, RC27, whatever you like.
> One advantage of having a very high team on-base average is that you will 
> tire the other team's starting pitcher earlier, so you will see your opponents
> middle relief more often than other teams, and in most leagues, middle relief
> is the weakest part of many teams including the good ones. We need more data
> on how your league works (see above questions) to be more specific. How
> many teams are in your league? Do you have a rookie draft, or how do new
> players get onto teams?

Players get on whenever a team owner drafts or gets them through free agency. 

They're limited to 7 free agent picks at any time during the season unless
they have an injury in which it will not cost them a free agent pick.

We use the DH at all times, and we must have 5 starting pitchers and the rest
must be relievers in any form. 

And it's obvious I need to get some OBP, not SPC.


> 
> Stephen Jascourt   stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu