I KNOW THIS IS THE WRONG FORUM BUT IM NOT GETTIN ANY RESPONSES ON THE OTHER FORUM AND I REALLY WANT SOME OPINIONS CAUSE I PUT LOTSA THOUGHT AND TIME INTO THIS... THANKS ALOT, HERE IT IS:
Quick backround... I'm the 3 year defending champ in this competetive league with all my friends but im currently in 8th, 71-81, about 32 games back, top 6 go to playoffs for first... the actual league is a 12 team h2h league with traditional yahoo categories, runs, hrs, rbis, sbs, avg, wins, svs, ks, era, whip, in addition, hits, total bases, losses, and complete games. i didnt focus so much on cg's since its a random stat, i dumped saves in order to bolster my lineup since all of those offensive categories are very enticing. here is my full strategy, followed by old roster, and then new roster and each trade/move i made to get my team to look this way... please lend me your detailed opinions, and ideas on ways to improve, with consideration to my strategy.
OFFENSIVE STRATEGY-
my strategy was to get a solid lineup, get nomar to fill my shortstop needs thatve plagued me all season, rely on overbay to keep contributing hits, runs, rbis, tbs and avg, and just hope the power comes soon, hoping boone will rebound with a nice 2nd half, the same with andruw, and ichiro is key cause id really like him to get lots of hits, runs, sbs, and high avg every week... i hope he can provide those for me. javy should get a little better but hes a solid catchers regardless, giles should heat up hopefully, i hope mora can continue to produce in his potent lineup (though ive proposed a trade trying to send him and giles for sosa and huff) but his bad 2nd half numbers dont give me faith. garret should provide solid power numbers, and beltran is beltran... and as for patterson id love to give him a starting roster spot, hes solid and i think hell only get better, but in this lineup i dont think i can. i wanted to get more table setters like ichiro, ie damon, figgins, biggio... basically to contribute in the stats i said for ichiro (minus steals for damon/biggio, but plus power on them).
PITCHING STRATEGY-
i dumped closers to gain offense and filled their spots with middle relievers. i also traded vazquez to get nomar, that was the only person he wanted for nomar. my pitching strategy is to have solid middle relievers (6...shields stays at starting pitcher so i have 6 active middle relievers) to get me a low era and low whip all the time, saves here and there... i woulda liked to get gordon and lidge for their high k's, but i got what i got. this middle relief strategy should get me a good amount of vulture wins, little losses, decent k's, some saves, low era, and low whip... as for my starters i like johan, oliver/odalis perez, eaton and peavy because they should provide me with good k's and decent numbers in every other stat, i look for johan to be great, peavy to be as good if not better as he was b4 he got hurt, oliver and odalis i think will be stud in their own respect, getting me k's and low era's, maybe not so many wins, and eaton was a waiver pickup so i might use him as my spot starter spot on my roster, depends on how he pitches. i think this pitching staff should get me era and whip every week, k's alot, wins alot, little losses(which is good)... but little cg's and little sv's. i still would like to get beckett for his high k's and right now hes dispensible bc injuries, but thats why im nervous, and i wanted lidge mota and gordon, but lidge is prolly hard to get now and i cant think of a trade with the kid who has gordon... motas a FA though, should he get a roster spot?
OLD TEAM-
This is basically what my old team looked like, its not exact but the key players are there. i seperated the rps and sps so you could view them better, and i had hafner platooning with sweeney and overbay from time to time
C J. López (Bal - C)
1B M. Sweeney (KC - 1B,DH)
2B B. Boone (Sea - 2B)
3B M. Mora (Bal - 3B, LF)
SS R. Furcal (Atl - SS)
OF C. Beltrán (Hou - CF)
OF H. Matsui (NYY - LF)
OF B. Giles (SD - LF,CF,RF)
Util L. Overbay (Mil - 1B)
Util C. Patterson (ChC - CF)
BN T. Hafner (Cle - 1B)
BN M. Ensberg (Hou - 3B)
DL A. KearnsDL (Cin - RF)
SP --------Empty--------
SP --------Empty--------
RP O. Dotel (Oak - RP)
RP F. Rodríguez (Ana - RP)
P D. Kolb (Mil - RP)
P D. Graves (Cin - SP,RP)
P --------Empty--------
BN J. Vázquez (NYY - SP)
BN O. Pérez (LA - SP)
BN J. Santana (Min - SP,RP)
BN T. Lilly (Tor - SP)
BN R. Harden (Oak - SP)
BN Z. Greinke (KC - SP)
DL J. PeavyDL (SD - SP)
OK... thats my old team, and here are the trades and add/drops i made:
Kolb & Matsui 4 Garret & Rincon (strategy: this was about 3 weeks ago, but matsuis hot, garrets better and kolbs great, but rincon fits into my pitching strategy)
Sweeney & Graves 4 Andruw Jones & Otsuka (strategy: this was a risk, im hoping sweeney stays mediocre, graves comes back down to earth, and jones finds his fantasy stroke weve loved for years, and otsuka better continue to put up solid relief numbers)
J. Vazquez, Dotel, & Furcal 4 Nomar & Ichiro (strategy: i could only get nomar for vazquez and ichiro fits into my strategy, and dumping sv's was part of plan... hopefully furcal doesnt heat up and hopefully nomar and ichiro do)
Added: Oliver Perez, Eaton, A. Boone, Shields, Frasor, Takatsu
Dropped: Kearns, Ensberg, Harden, Greinke, Lilly (i gave up on kearns and ensberg a while ago, and im done with catchin high era, whip and losses from harden, and greinke/lilly just dont fit)
NEW TEAM-
C J. López (Bal - C)
1B L. Overbay (Mil - 1B)
2B B. Boone (Sea - 2B)
3B M. Mora (Bal - 3B,LF)
SS N. Garciaparra (Bos - SS)
OF C. Beltrán (Hou - CF)
OF G. Anderson (Ana - LF,CF,DH)
OF B. Giles (SD - LF,CF,RF)
Util A. Jones (Atl - CF)
Util I. Suzuki (Sea - RF)
BN C. Patterson (ChC - CF)
DL A. BooneDL (Cle - 2B,3B)
SP S. Shields (Ana - SP,RP)
SP --empty-- - - - - - - - -
RP Otsuka (SD - RP)
RP F. Rodríguez (Ana - RP)
P J. Rincón (Min - RP)
P S. Takatsu (CWS - RP)
P J. Frasor (Tor - RP)
BN O. Pérez (LA - SP)
BN J. Santana (Min - SP,RP)
BN O. Pérez (Pit - SP)
BN A. Eaton (SD - SP)
BN J. Peavy (SD - SP)
well that was long and detailed! now you know the strategy and ideas ive been using for the past 3 weeks to put together this team for a strong second half. keep in mind alot of these moves were made up to about a month ago... and by this upcoming monday i will have my entire team ready to go since trades r still pending. thanks for your time and detailed response, and please respond so i know all of my time writing this didnt go to