Broken Bat - Discussion Forum: Draft Day 10/24/14

Forum >> Discussions >> Draft Day 10/24/14

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#11087	10/24/2014 11:54:08 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Rock, defense is important and speed does help. If you get a team full of great hitters who are shoddy defenders you will only go so far. As long as he doesn't have a negative comment about hitting he should max between 9-12, not good, but not bad either. Updated Friday, October 24 2014 @ 11:55:39 pm PDT

#11088	10/25/2014 12:01:42 am
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	msigg, I would keep him solely because he's a lefty pitcher and you don't have an abundance of those. The way I operate with lefty pitchers is keep them til I find a better one (potential and stage of development in that order of importance).

#11089	10/25/2014 12:22:37 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9591 Haverhill Halflings III.1	We'll see Newtman... I'm new to the game. All I can say is my predecessor had a lot of speedy guys with 13 or 14 POT, and a team batting average around .200. The guy we're discussing already has 9s for Hitting and BC, so he should be a fine there. He has a decent review for POW and a really good review for fielding; both of those are really low right now, which means a lot of the POT is going to go there. Means PD is a big question mark. The guy is going to be a good player no doubt, but he could end up being one of those 100+ K batters. It just seems dangerous to just look at SI to me. I picked Sergio Muniz up off waivers despite having crappy POT, because his strengths aligned well with his Repertoire. Like I said, brand new to the game, so I'm a noob, but I would expect the game engine to take that sort of stuff into account. I'd rather have a guy who can get on base and not steal, then a guy who could steal if he could ever get on base. My team was full of the latter when I took over at the end of the season.

#11092	10/25/2014 6:59:16 am
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	Rock, while speed does help, the problem with your assessment is on defense. Speed affects range to some extent, but with all poor defenders you can't win. When I inherited this team it was full of great hitters and absolutely horrid defenders. And than I made moves to "money ball" it and picked up big hitting old guys that can't field. We hit well, but when you give up 4 errors a game that all lead to runs you can't win here. Heck, last season my team should have dominated in tier 6, but my defense at ss and CF was bad. I picked up light hitting players in both spots that had great gloves and saw my team turn around. This game is much easier to win 1-0 than 7-6. Defense is a premium. Don't neglect it.

#11093	10/25/2014 7:28:25 am
Pig_Cola Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 1445 Glendale Marshals III.2	Drafted this guy: http://brokenbat.org/player/9702097020

#11094	10/25/2014 8:10:44 am
TheBaconator Joined: 08/03/2014 Posts: 70 Inactive	Drafted this dude. Because I don't have enough middle-of-the-pack Hispanic catchers already.

#11180	10/28/2014 5:20:17 am
sjmay Joined: 06/24/2013 Posts: 23 Inactive	New here, but looking to learn, Drafted this guy, http://brokenbat.org/player/95872 Any thoughts, what should I be looking at vs what I think I should be looking at, especially when drafting etc?

#11189	10/28/2014 11:31:22 am
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 883 Kodiak Mules III.3	http://brokenbat.org/player/95872 Roy Banks Not much there His lack of control is worrisome His defensive skills are too high to be of use for a P I figure an average SP in the lower leagues Maybe a couple good seasons, if he's lucky to keep in check his W rate I project him as Vel, Mov, Sta around 14-15 Cnt below 10 SI 95-100 Useful, but there's better players out there

#11191	10/28/2014 12:37:12 pm
sjmay Joined: 06/24/2013 Posts: 23 Inactive	Thanks, now how do you go about getting your projections etc?

#11200	10/28/2014 4:04:41 pm
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 883 Kodiak Mules III.3	You can figure the player's skills by reckoning his Potential, which is the "overall" ability, and the description in words, which only tells us about some of the skills. For those skills not stated, you gotta infer the number from the data you possess You can look to other posts for the correspondence between descriptions and actual values. For instance, unhittable means Velocity >18 Great hitter, hitting >18 And so on