Unorthodox Strategies

[PreservedFish]

I remember reading long ago that the big Tout Wars tourney was won by a guy that drafted only $1 pitchers.

Punting saves, or punting stolen bases, or even HR/RBI.

Monkeying around with low IP or AB requirements.

Anyone had success with any of these strategies?

[MrT]

in a 4x 4 ---Pick one strter such as Randy Johnson in his prime then pick 8 pitchers in the minorsform $1.00 each. Johnson or whomever should lock up era and h/r. Then with your remaining money pick all great hitters with the object to finish 1st or 2nd in each offensive category.

We created a penalty pont for finishing laset to combat this startegy.

[wrveres]

I remember reading long ago that the big Tout Wars tourney was won by a guy that drafted only $1 pitchers.

Punting saves, or punting stolen bases, or even HR/RBI.

Monkeying around with low IP or AB requirements.

Anyone had success with any of these strategies?

sure it is ..

it depends alot upon the league settings of course, but I have won with it in the past. You really need to focus on matchups ... Allot.

I am trying it again this year in this league here. Hoffy is a keeper that is why he is 15.00 but everybody else will be 1.00

[PreservedFish]

the one league I'm thinking about doing something funny like that is a standard 5x5 ... but it is a draft, which changes things a bit. The equivalent to the $1 pitching staff I guess would be not drafting a pitcher until round 10 or so

I'm also open to other ideas. I want to try something fun

[foulballstrike3]

the one league I'm thinking about doing something funny like that is a standard 5x5 ... but it is a draft, which changes things a bit. The equivalent to the $1 pitching staff I guess would be not drafting a pitcher until round 10 or so

I'm also open to other ideas. I want to try something fun

This isn't unorthodox though in a standard draft, it's actually close to what you should do. I like to grab a solid ace (round 3 or 4) and grab my 2nd pitcher around round 10.

[wrveres]

the one league I'm thinking about doing something funny like that is a standard 5x5 ... but it is a draft, which changes things a bit. The equivalent to the $1 pitching staff I guess would be not drafting a pitcher until round 10 or so

I'm also open to other ideas. I want to try something fun

Well after sitting in on my first 5x5 draft of the year yesterday and looking at quite a few ADP's, I can tell you that pitchers in general are falling this year big time. This is my main $200.00 league too. Same group of guys for a couple of years.

here are the Arms that went after round 20.
there is a great picthing staff in there somewhere...

Jeff Weaver
Jon Garland
Aaron Harang
Joe Borowski
Fernando Cabrera
Erik Bedard
Jason M. Vargas
David Weathers
Aaron Heilman
Jorge Sosa
Joey N. Devine
Brad Radke
Adam Eaton
Carl Pavano
Greg Maddux
Ryan Madson
Esteban Loaiza
Paul Byrd
Bruce Chen
Jeff Suppan
Jarrod Washburn
Jake Westbrook
Rafael Soriano
Brandon Claussen
Ian Snell
Tim Wakefield
Shawn Chacon
Scott Baker
Jason Marquis
Travis Bowyer
Justin Duchscherer
Dave Bush
Anthony Reyes

[justinA]

A guy in my league last year only used relief pitchers and came in 6th only 2 point ahead of me!

With my amazing staff though, I beat him in WHIP. Figure that one out.