Strategy Advice

mmcc1029  3/21/2014 11:44 AM

Hey guys I'm about to draft tonight for a 12 team H2h. Settings are 6x6...runs/hr/rbi/stl's/BA/OBP and Innings pitch/era/whip/saves/strike outs and quality starts. I'm thinking about punting saves and just loading up on quality starters. This way I would have an advantage in the 3 cummulative pitcher stats (Innings pitched/Strike outs/Quality starts) and still have a chance in Era/whip cause i'll have more solid starters than most teams. Has anyone else tried this strategy? Any suggestions...I'm picking 5th out of 12.

liam4  3/21/2014 1:44 PM

I've never punted saves, but I have nearly always left saves til the last few rounds.  Get whatever's left, and plan to hit the waiver wire hard for the closers that emerge during the season.  

This said (and I just reread your post), given that innings pitched is a category, which is definitely unusual, a save punt would make sense.  Pick them up during the season if you have a roster spot as trade fodder or to possibly reverse the punt.

mmcc1029  3/21/2014 2:41 PM

So we just actually changed the innings pitched to wins. So wins and QS's make up 33% of the pitching cats.

mbuser   3/21/2014 4:04 PM

W instead of IP tips the scale back a bit from SP, but I still think that loading up on offense and SP and letting everyone else worry about drafting CL is preferred. As liam4 said, get cheap SV and/or make sure you are a hawk on the wire.

Hailfire4   3/21/2014 8:11 PM

Punting saves actually helps 4 cats. K's and wins are obvious but it helps ERA and WHIp also (as long as u don't stream awful pitchers). The reason is the huge IP advantage averages out bad performances. If u have 3 closers and 5 starters u may get 55 IP a week. Any bad performance will drop u. While 11 SP with Cingrani and Cashner types as ur RP will pull 95 IP a week. Here is my punt SV BBM HTH1 team. Chapman as my only RP is hurt but I can stream any SP as soon as he ever gets a DL tag.

12 Teams | 13 Hitters Per Team [5 Active = HR RBI SB R BA] | 9 Pitchers Per Team [5 Active = W SV ERA WHIP SO]

Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	BA	HR	SB	HRV	RBIV	SBV	RV	BAV
1	12	0.88	Ellsbury, Jacoby		NYY	OF	149		625	87	181	65	49	96	0.289	15	47	-0.42	-0.23	2.95	0.99	1.12
2	17	0.71	Puig, Yasiel		LAD	OF	139		582	94	166	67	54	140	0.285	26	16	0.95	-0.07	0.35	1.54	0.78
5	50	0.20	Desmond, Ian		WAS	SS	154		538	67	149	76	38	123	0.276	19	20	0.10	0.48	0.68	-0.43	0.17
5	52	0.16	Heyward, Jason		ATL	OF	143		547	87	146	62	68	117	0.267	23	11	0.62	-0.38	-0.06	1.00	-0.39
6	66	0.04	Rosario, Wilin		COL	C	130		466	61	129	77	23	113	0.276	26	4	1.02	0.56	-0.68	-0.85	0.14
6	68	0.01	Belt, Brandon		SF	1B	143		544	75	150	72	62	135	0.276	17	7	-0.15	0.25	-0.40	0.18	0.17
9	100	-0.32	Prado, Martin		ARI	2B/3B/OF	149		516	62	148	64	42	52	0.287	12	6	-0.86	-0.25	-0.51	-0.78	0.81
9	103	-0.33	Machado, Manny		BAL	3B	134		549	75	149	60	31	97	0.271	14	6	-0.58	-0.52	-0.51	0.12	-0.14
10	113	-0.42	Lowrie, Jed		OAK	2B/SS	138		533	69	141	68	51	88	0.265	15	2	-0.47	-0.01	-0.81	-0.27	-0.51
10	117	-0.42	Bogaerts, Xander		BOS	SS/3B	141		482	65	128	64	50	123	0.266	15	8	-0.50	-0.28	-0.34	-0.59	-0.40
13	145	-0.64	Garcia, Avisail		CHW	OF	130		476	50	131	56	25	109	0.276	12	10	-0.78	-0.77	-0.14	-1.64	0.15
14	157	-0.76	Martin, Leonys		TEX	OF	130		395	45	105	48	27	81	0.265	9	26	-1.29	-1.31	1.18	-2.02	-0.37
14	164	-0.85	Frazier, Todd		CIN	3B	138		470	55	115	55	42	111	0.244	18	6	-0.02	-0.85	-0.50	-1.30	-1.58
28	334	-1.98	Baez, Javier		CHC	SS	37		136	16	33	19	6	42	0.244	8	2	-1.35	-3.14	-0.81	-4.14	-0.45
Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	BA	HR	SB	HRV	RBIV	SBV	RV	BAV
		-3.72	Avg Stats/Total Values				1855		6,858	909	1,870	853	567	1,427	0.273	229	172	-3.74	-6.52	0.39	-8.21	-0.51
		-1.10	Avg Stats/Total Values (active)				1688		6,246	843	1,705	778	537	1,276	0.273	209	159	-1.62	-2.61	1.34	-2.43	-0.20

Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	W	SV	WHIP	WV	SVV	ERAV	WHIPV	SOV
1	1	1.88	Kershaw, Clayton		LAD	SP	33		232.2	186	79	73	57	237	17	2.81	17	0	1.04	1.58	-0.59	3.21	3.30	1.92
2	23	0.27	Cain, Matt		SF	SP	32		207.7	182	93	85	58	177	22	3.70	14	0	1.16	0.79	-0.59	-0.47	0.92	0.72
4	42	0.00	Salazar, Danny		CLE	SP	26		149.9	130	64	59	51	158	17	3.56	11	0	1.21	0.14	-0.59	0.04	0.05	0.35
4	43	-0.01	Cashner, Andrew		SD	SP/RP	32		195.0	178	86	79	63	162	17	3.64	14	0	1.23	0.75	-0.59	-0.24	-0.40	0.43
6	68	-0.21	Chapman, Aroldis		CIN	RP	49		48.1	32	17	15	24	68	4	2.89	3	28	1.16	-1.85	1.44	0.60	0.22	-1.43
7	73	-0.26	Santana, Ervin		ATL	SP	31		204.2	186	100	92	59	155	24	4.05	13	0	1.20	0.59	-0.59	-1.75	0.16	0.29
8	88	-0.42	Gallardo, Yovani		MIL	SP	31		185.6	177	87	80	66	167	20	3.87	13	0	1.31	0.56	-0.59	-0.99	-1.63	0.53
10	111	-0.52	Wheeler, Zack		NYM	SP	31		188.7	171	88	81	80	172	18	3.86	12	0	1.33	0.29	-0.59	-0.97	-1.96	0.62
11	124	-0.56	Nova, Ivan		NYY	SP	29		179.2	177	84	77	58	147	19	3.87	11	0	1.31	0.19	-0.59	-0.98	-1.57	0.13
13	147	-0.66	Quintana, Jose		CHW	SP	31		185.6	184	92	84	56	142	22	4.09	12	0	1.29	0.27	-0.59	-1.75	-1.27	0.03
18	211	-0.84	Pineda, Michael		NYY	SP	20		114.4	108	58	53	41	105	15	4.16	7	0	1.30	-0.78	-0.59	-1.23	-0.89	-0.70
28	329	-1.07	Peralta, Wily		MIL	SP	30		175.0	171	90	83	73	136	18	4.25	12	0	1.39	0.26	-0.59	-2.16	-2.79	-0.09
Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	W	SV	WHIP	WV	SVV	ERAV	WHIPV	SOV
		-2.39	Avg Stats/Total Values				374		2,065.7	1,882	936	861	684	1,829	212	3.75	138	28	1.24	2.79	-5.02	-6.69	-5.86	2.82
		0.74	Avg Stats/Total Values (active)				265		1,411.4	1,242	613	564	457	1,297	139	3.60	96	28	1.20	2.85	-2.67	-0.59	0.67	3.43