Broken Bat - Discussion Forum: Weaknesses

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#20896	07/09/2015 2:03:53 pm
Pig_Cola Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 1445 Glendale Marshals III.2	It would be appreciated if I was told by other owners what are the weaknesses of my team. I've found some, but I can't quite figure out how to solve them.

#20897	07/09/2015 3:08:47 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9607 Haverhill Halflings III.1	My first thought is that Jeon and King need to switch positions, but it looks like you are already working on training Jeon in the OF and King has been training at C up until this year. I think King is hurting you in the OF with such a small range value. How big is your park? Campos will never hit very well. And he is old. I would drop him. Osorio doesn't look very good, but somehow he is still doing decent. I would keep him over Campos. Although the weaker arm hurts. Seems like you should be able to find a better 3B somewhere... Marquez seems to be one of those guys... Looks decent on paper, but he might never perform well... Certainly don't want to replace him with Montoya (purely backup), but might be worth looking for your next 2B. Roy is performing really bad this year. I might put him on a watch list. If he is still performing poorly by the all-star break it might be time to move on from him. McKinney and Simmons don't look real promising to me over the course of the year. You also have a lot of underdeveloped young pitchers. You need to play them if you want them to get decent, but they will hurt your performance. Even with decent ERAs, notice the FIP on some of those guys. Munoz might be too old to really pan out. But you never know. McMahon should really still be down in the minors.

#20899	07/09/2015 4:48:26 pm
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	I'll check in a moment, but i'd like to mention first that range is a team wide skill. The range of a certain player is irrelevant. Range is taken over an entire team and averaged out, so to speak. If Steve has said anything else about range that contradicts this than I have never seen it, but I have seen him say that.

#20900	07/09/2015 5:04:24 pm
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	Campos, montoya, osorio, and Owen are all pretty much useless. In my opinion you would be better off playing younger players You have, or searching for them. Your pitching just seems unlucky. There is a few players in their twilight, but replacement of pitchers isn't exactly easy.

#20902	07/09/2015 5:16:22 pm
Pig_Cola Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 1445 Glendale Marshals III.2	Rock, this is my ballpark: http://brokenbat.org/ballpark/650[/img] Updated Thursday, July 9 2015 @ 5:16:57 pm PDT

#20905	07/09/2015 8:19:05 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9607 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Your park doesn't look too big for your range. Dwindacatcher is partially correct about range in the fact that the RF range isn't looked at directly for range. However, the team range is weighted by position. RF is not going to be weighted as highly as CF or SS, but all of the OF ranges are going to have much more weight than 1B, 3B, C, and P. So generally you are going to want to play those guys with bad range at 1B, 3B, or C. Otherwise they will drag down the team range calculation. In some ways its worse, because his lower range will decrease the range for your plays at SS and CF, not just RF. He is probably no killing you given you have decent range elsewhere, but he will directly impact the range for every play on the field.

#20907	07/09/2015 10:26:23 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Rock is correct, although it is a team wide skill it is weighted by position. While Steve has not directly said so in the forums, the facts that (1) the guide (made by Steve) recommends high range at certain positions, and (2) several successful players have put together high ranges especially at the key positions, lead to a very high probability that Rock's assessment is correct.