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Originally Posted by chazzycat
absolutely ballpark factors are a key to building a successful team on the cheap.
Probably the most important thing is that you always have to remember to keep the stats you see in the proper context. Using the example above, if you have your AVG factor set to MAX, yes, your pitchers are going to have bad ERAs. That's inevitable. So if you just look at your staff ERA and think they are all garbage, it's just not true. Giving up ten percent more hits is just absolutely disastrous for a pitcher's ERA, there's no way around it. The important thing is that your offense is outscoring theirs and winning games. Judge your team by it's run differential, not by stats like ERA or batting average.
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Run differential was middling...another key factor in my conclusion. I mentioned earlier in the thread before it became a Foghorn Leghorn discussion that while I had noticed a definite uptick in runs, we were still not scoring enough to win on a consistent basis due to the increased amount of runs being given up. The combination of the two is what made my mind up.
On the patience front, I do not believe it's a matter of patience. It's a matter of the results not being anywhere near what I thought they would be and a desire to tinker with things until they're an ideal setting for the 25 players on the team. What that setting is, I still have no idea.
