where to improve my team? 4man :(

[kickureface]

before you go nuts on me for 4man, 3 of us done know baseball and the commish knows a little. its h2h standard yahoo
****edits: i dropped geovany soto for victor martinez for the time being, should i readd soto when he gains health?
****people i have heard of: votto, bonifacio. are they ppl i should grab and are better than a nub on my team?
perhaps i should post a FA list too.

1. (2) José Reyes SS
2. (7) Ryan Braun OF
3. (10) Ian Kinsler 2B
4. (15) Evan Longoria 3B
5. (18) Lance Berkman 1B
6. (23) Matt Holliday OF
7. (26) Dustin Pedroia 2B
8. (31) Carlos Lee OF
9. (34) Aramis Ramírez 3B
10. (39) Jake Peavy SP
11. (42) Jonathan Papelbon RP
12. (47) Francisco Rodríguez RP
13. (50) Adrián González 1B
14. (55) Álex Ríos OF
15. (58) Josh Beckett SP
16. (63) Geovany Soto C
17. (66) Shane Victorino OF
18. (71) Roy Oswalt SP
19. (74) Joakim Soria RP
20. (79) James Shields SP
21. (82) José Valverde RP

here's the others, how do i compare? do i have any glaring weaknesses or strengths, or an unbalance of positions on my bench?
are other teams below goin to dominate me in certain categories?

1. (1) Hanley Ramírez
2. (8) Ryan Howard
3. (9) Josh Hamilton
4. (16) B.J. Upton
5. (17) Alfonso Soriano
6. (24) Prince Fielder
7. (25) Carlos Quentin
8. (32) Carl Crawford
9. (33) Jason Bay
10. (40) David Ortiz
11. (41) Nick Markakis
12. (48) Álex Rodríguez
13. (49) Joe Mauer
14. (56) Dan Haren
15. (57) Francisco Liriano
16. (64) Dan Uggla
17. (65) John Lackey
18. (72) Félix Hernández
19. (73) Ervin Santana
20. (80) Bobby Jenks
21. (81) Jonathan Broxton

1. (3) Albert Pujols
2. (6) Miguel Cabrera
3. (11) Johan Santana
4. (14) Tim Lincecum
5. (19) Chase Utley
6. (22) Manny Ramírez
7. (27) Brandon Phillips
8. (30) Vladimir Guerrero
9. (35) Russell Martin
10. (38) Brandon Webb
11. (43) Joe Nathan
12. (46) Alexei Ramírez
13. (51) Brad Lidge
14. (54) Matt Kemp
15. (59) Chad Billingsley
16. (62) Cliff Lee
17. (67) Magglio Ordóñez
18. (70) Rafael Furcal
19. (75) Corey Hart
20. (78) Bobby Abreu
21. (83) Daisuke Matsuzaka

1. (4) David Wright
2. (5) Grady Sizemore
3. (12) Mark Teixeira
4. (13) Jimmy Rollins
5. (20) CC Sabathia
6. (21) Carlos Beltrán
7. (28) Justin Morneau
8. (29) Ichiro Suzuki
9. (36) Cole Hamels
10. (37) Brian Roberts
11. (44) Kevin Youkilis
12. (45) Brian McCann
13. (52) Roy Halladay
14. (53) Mariano Rivera
15. (60) Curtis Granderson
16. (61) Jacoby Ellsbury
17. (68) Nate McLouth
18. (69) Rich Harden
19. (76) A.J. Burnett
20. (77) Joba Chamberlain
21. (84) Troy Tulowitzki

[Tis]

I realize you're new here, so I wont say anything especially mean about the damn near impossibility of evaluating a 4 man league.

But, Evaluating teams based on a paste of the draft results is really difficult. You need to lay it out different. See other threads on this forum...

C- name
1B - name
2B - name
etc...

(Also, you should probably post this on the 'evaluate my team' forum.)

Welcome to the cafe and Fantasy ball

[kickureface]

thanks! ive been on cafe for fb and bb, but now baseB
yea 4man is pretty dumb. its just among friends. any other friends we invited just tend to forget about it after a few wks/months...


Víctor Martínez
(Cle - C,1B)
Adrián González
(SD - 1B)
Ian Kinsler
(Tex - 2B)
Evan Longoria
(TB - 3B)
José Reyes
(NYM - SS)
Matt Holliday
(Oak - OF)
Ryan Braun
(Mil - OF)
Álex Ríos
(Tor - OF)
Dustin Pedroia
(Bos - 2B)
Jake Peavy
(SD - SP)
Josh Beckett
(Bos - SP)
Jonathan Papelbon
(Bos - RP)
Joakim Soria
(KC - RP)
Roy Oswalt
(Hou - SP)
James Shields
(TB - SP)
Francisco Rodríguez
(NYM - RP)
Lance Berkman
(Hou - 1B)
Carlos Lee
(Hou - OF)
Aramis Ramírez
(ChC - 3B)
Shane Victorino
(Phi - OF
José Valverde
(Hou - RP)

Other Teams@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@****************************************
Russell Martin
(LAD - C,3B)
Albert Pujols
(StL - 1B)
Chase Utley
(Phi - 2B)
Miguel Cabrera
(Det - 1B,3B)
Alexei Ramírez
(CWS - 2B,SS,OF)
Manny Ramírez
(LAD - OF)
Vladimir Guerrero
(LAA - OF)
Matt Kemp
(LAD - OF)
Magglio Ordóñez
(Det - OF)
Johan Santana
(NYM - SP)
Tim Lincecum
(SF - SP)
Joe Nathan
(Min - RP)
Brad Lidge
(Phi - RP)
Brandon Webb
(Ari - SP)
Chad Billingsley
(LAD - SP)
Cliff Lee
(Cle - SP)
Brandon Phillips
(Cin - 2B)
Rafael Furcal
(LAD - SS)
Corey Hart
(Mil - OF)
Bobby Abreu
(LAA - OF)
Daisuke Matsuzaka
(Bos - SP)


Joe Mauer
(Min - C) DL
Prince Fielder
(Mil - 1B)
Dan Uggla
(Fla - 2B)
Álex Rodríguez
(NYY - 3B) DL
Hanley Ramírez
(Fla - SS)
Josh Hamilton
(Tex - OF)
B.J. Upton
(TB - OF) DL
Carlos Quentin
(CWS - OF)
Carl Crawford
(TB - OF)
Dan Haren
(Ari - SP)
Francisco Liriano
(Min - SP)
Bobby Jenks
(CWS - RP)
Jonathan Broxton
(LAD - RP)
John Lackey
(LAA - SP) DL
Félix Hernández
(Sea - SP)
Ervin Santana
(LAA - SP) DL
Ryan Howard
(Phi - 1B)
Alfonso Soriano
(ChC - OF)
Jason Bay
(Bos - OF)
David Ortiz
(Bos - Util)
Nick Markakis
(Bal - OF)


Brian McCann
(Atl - C)
Mark Teixeira
(NYY - 1B)
Brian Roberts
(Bal - 2B)
David Wright
(NYM - 3B)
Jimmy Rollins
(Phi - SS)
Grady Sizemore
(Cle - OF)
Carlos Beltrán
(NYM - OF)
Ichiro Suzuki
(Sea - OF) DL
Justin Morneau
(Min - 1B)
CC Sabathia
(NYY - SP)
Cole Hamels
(Phi - SP)
Mariano Rivera
(NYY - RP)
Joba Chamberlain
(NYY - SP,RP)
Roy Halladay
(Tor - SP)
Rich Harden
(ChC - SP)
A.J. Burnett
(NYY - SP)
Kevin Youkilis
(Bos - 1B,3B)
Curtis Granderson
(Det - OF)
Jacoby Ellsbury
(Bos - OF)
Nate McLouth
(Pit - OF)
Troy Tulowitzki
(Col - SS)

[kickureface]

bumps

[kickureface]

bumps

[fierro33]

i would prob say that 3 of the teams including urs are about equal but the team that drafted pujols,miggy,santana,lincecum,utley will most likely win the league barring injuries......he did it right....when there will be an abundance of hitting talent out there to get he knew he should be the first one to snag the top 2 sps in the league....is he the league manager?


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[silverZ]

I can't wrap my brain around that wall of text.

[scorched03]

agreed. not really gonna spend time to read this if u cant format it nicely for everyone to easily read.

[kickureface]

i would prob say that 3 of the teams including urs are about equal but the team that drafted pujols,miggy,santana,lincecum,utley will most likely win the league barring injuries......he did it right....when there will be an abundance of hitting talent out there to get he knew he should be the first one to snag the top 2 sps in the league....is he the league manager?


viewtopic.php?f=26&t=378128

yes he is the league manager. anyone else agree? i was goin for the take savs era and whip with some more RPs.

and i tried editing it a little to make it look better.

[fierro33]

where u went wrong was taking reyes over pujols....huge mistake as pujols should be the top player hands down.......also ur 6th and 7th rd picks were not too great especially ur 7th...what are u gonna do with pedroia since u already have kinsler?? u cant really trade one in this league. maybe with those picks u lock up the next best sps(hamels and halladay)......rollins in the 3rd and pujols in the first would have been nice........getting longoria and kinsler is a good thing tho...matt holiday went way too early...


i think the league manager had the upper hand since u said he is the only one w experience........well, good luck making trades in that league......its pretty much do or die with that team....

also, someone like votto has more value than victorino IMO so keep that in mind even tho u have great 1st basemen already.