*** VD 14 Commentary Thread ***

[revo]

And Revo can finally reveal to us what his mystery strategy was! So, what the fuck were you doing, man?

I didn’t mention that I had my 13- year old make all my picks based on OOTP ratings?

I just went with a hitter-heavy ratio dump, but I left myself with a combo of bad letters/decades that didn't match up well; I used a poor projection-replacement theory that didn't work at all; and I royally screwed the pooch by not concentrating on BY hitting as much as I did Career hitting. I mean, jeez, how do you draft hitters in 8 of the first 9 rounds and end up DEAD LAST in BY Runs??? This was one to forget.

[Bene Futuis]

Revo started out great. He just never made a decision about his pitching (to ratio tank or not) until Uhle in Round 23; that's just too late.

I really thought he was going to go with the "shitty career, awesome BY" strategy for his pitching. There are enough guys to make that work but they're not a ton of them at scarce letters. Silver King is a nice pick for that strategy, although his career numbers aren't quite there. Of course, Dwight Gooden, Vida Blue, Charlie Buffington, guys like that are perfect but at premium letters. Luis Tiant works. So does Russ Ford and Dutch Leonard but their career numbers aren't there either. It's a tough strategy to pull off with letter restrictions.

[cavebird]

I really liked Revo's early game. Williams, Yount, Anson, Ortiz was a great opening.

Revo started out great. He just never made a decision about his pitching (to ratio tank or not) until Uhle in Round 23; that's just too late.

[cavebird]

Congrats to Cavebird and DMT. That was a helluva tussle at the end. Cavebird's team looked like it was going to be a contender from very early on. DMT's planning was spot-on ... he got so much great value from middling / poor letters at the end.

Getting to 3rd feels like a win to be honest. Utley drafted in 5th, and Dan Uggla goes undrafted; Evans in the 4th, Ennis goes in the 11th; Kilebrew 6th, Kaline goes in the 24th; not to mention Garp and Frae snipping my picks. So many of my early picks proved worthless, at one point I felt I was looking down the barrel of bottom 3. So I decided to use all my strong letters in the middle, load up on stats and hope I could configure something in the end game. It was fun.

These end games are getting tighter and tighter as competition gets stronger ... at one point I projected 0.3 points between 4 teams from 3rd to 6th.

Your finish was amazing. A bit aided by others to get there, but your picks were the best possible. I think Garp gets third if he goes with Quinn at 1890's MI instead of Childs.

[johnnya24]

1. cavebird 175.1
2. DMT 174.5
3. johnnya24 166.2
4. Feral Slasher 166.0
5. Bene Futuis 165.6
6. frae 163.5
7. Controller Jacobs 162.1
8. TS Garp 161.6
9. revo 160.6
10. hacko 156.0
11. ken 154.5
12. heyelander 153.2

Very close from top to bottom.

Controller J	30.3	39.3	14	42.8	49.7	11	162.1	7
JohnnyA24	40.0	45.3	14	42.6	38.3	11	166.2	3
Frae_____	28.3	46.5	14	42.9	45.9	11	163.5	6
TS Garp__	33.8	42.1	14	45.8	40.0	11	161.6	8
Heyelander	43.8	28.6	14	36.6	44.2	11	153.2	12
Cavebird__	43.1	45.9	14	43.9	42.3	11	175.1	1
Bene Futu	44.1	46.0	14	38.7	36.8	11	165.6	5
Hacko____	45.7	46.2	14	33.3	30.8	11	156.0	10
Revo_____	52.6	31.6	14	39.5	36.9	11	160.6	9
DMT______	43.8	41.3	14	45.9	43.5	11	174.5	2
Ken______	43.5	36.1	14	31.3	43.6	11	154.5	11
Feral Slash	40.8	41.0	14	46.3	38.0	11	166.0	4

Confirmed

[johnnya24]

And Revo can finally reveal to us what his mystery strategy was! So, what the fuck were you doing, man?

I really liked Revo's early game. Williams, Yount, Anson, Ortiz was a great opening.

[johnnya24]

Congrats to Cavebird and DMT. That was a helluva tussle at the end. Cavebird's team looked like it was going to be a contender from very early on. DMT's planning was spot-on ... he got so much great value from middling / poor letters at the end.

Getting to 3rd feels like a win to be honest. Utley drafted in 5th, and Dan Uggla goes undrafted; Evans in the 4th, Ennis goes in the 11th; Kilebrew 6th, Kaline goes in the 24th; not to mention Garp and Frae snipping my picks. So many of my early picks proved worthless, at one point I felt I was looking down the barrel of bottom 3. So I decided to use all my strong letters in the middle, load up on stats and hope I could configure something in the end game. It was fun.

These end games are getting tighter and tighter as competition gets stronger ... at one point I projected 0.3 points between 4 teams from 3rd to 6th.

[heyelander]

Congrats to CB and the other top guys. I, not surprisingly slipped to the finish line. I am guessing in the end Pudge would have been a better pick, oh well. 6th place and just inside the top half and way ahead of Heye and Hacko so I won the PONY league VD crown.

And you even beat Scott

[revo]

Congrats to all!

[frae]

Congrats to CB and the other top guys. I, not surprisingly slipped to the finish line. I am guessing in the end Pudge would have been a better pick, oh well. 6th place and just inside the top half and way ahead of Heye and Hacko so I won the PONY league VD crown.

[Bene Futuis]

And DMT edges me out by half a point in additive scoring for first place.

[Bene Futuis]

I've got feral in third, but I'm sure I messed something up. probably a bad year somewhere

	Team	C-Hit	BY-Hit	#H	C-Pit	BY-Pit	#P	Multi	Rank
1	Controller J	30.3	39.3	14	42.8	49.7	11	162.1	7
2	JohnnyA24	40.0	45.3	14	42.6	38.0	11	165.9	4
3	Frae_____	28.3	46.5	14	42.9	45.9	11	163.5	6
4	TS Garp__	33.8	42.1	14	45.8	40.0	11	161.6	8
5	Heyelander	43.8	28.6	14	36.6	44.2	11	153.2	12
6	Cavebird__	43.1	45.9	14	43.9	42.3	11	175.1	1
7	Bene Futu	44.1	46.0	14	38.7	36.8	11	165.6	5
8	Hacko____	45.7	46.2	14	33.3	32.8	11	158.1	10
9	Revo_____	52.6	31.6	14	39.5	35.1	11	158.8	9
10	DMT______	43.8	41.3	14	45.9	43.5	11	174.5	2
11	Ken______	43.5	36.1	14	31.3	43.6	11	154.5	11
12	Feral Slash	40.8	41.0	14	46.3	38.0	11	166.0	3

Here are mine:

x	Team      	CH	CP	BYH	BYP	Multi	Place
.01	Controller J	30.3	42.8	39.3	49.7	162.104	7
.02	JohnnyA24	40.0	42.6	44.4	38.5	165.494	5
.03	Frae_____	28.3	42.9	46.5	45.4	163.075	6
.04	TS Garp__	33.8	45.8	42.1	39.2	160.914	8
.05	Heyelander	43.8	36.6	28.6	43.8	152.773	12
.06	Cavebird__	43.1	43.9	45.9	42.3	175.080	1
.07	Bene Futu	44.1	38.7	46.5	37.2	166.568	3
.08	Hacko____	45.7	33.3	46.5	32.8	158.457	10
.09	Revo_____	52.6	39.5	31.6	35.1	158.801	9
.10	DMT______	43.8	45.9	41.3	43.5	174.512	2
.11	Ken______	43.5	31.3	36.1	44.2	155.085	11
.12	Feral Slash	40.8	46.3	41.0	38.0	166.005	4

[Bene Futuis]

And Revo can finally reveal to us what his mystery strategy was! So, what the fuck were you doing, man?

[heyelander]

Hmm, I have myself in third but I probably just screwed something up. Congrats to everyone for all the stuff you won! Don't spend it all in one place.

I've got feral in third, but I'm sure I messed something up. probably a bad year somewhere

	Team	C-Hit	BY-Hit	#H	C-Pit	BY-Pit	#P	Multi	Rank
1	Controller J	30.3	39.3	14	42.8	49.7	11	162.1	7
2	JohnnyA24	40.0	45.3	14	42.6	38.0	11	165.9	4
3	Frae_____	28.3	46.5	14	42.9	45.9	11	163.5	6
4	TS Garp__	33.8	42.1	14	45.8	40.0	11	161.6	8
5	Heyelander	43.8	28.6	14	36.6	44.2	11	153.2	12
6	Cavebird__	43.1	45.9	14	43.9	42.3	11	175.1	1
7	Bene Futu	44.1	46.0	14	38.7	36.8	11	165.6	5
8	Hacko____	45.7	46.2	14	33.3	32.8	11	158.1	10
9	Revo_____	52.6	31.6	14	39.5	35.1	11	158.8	9
10	DMT______	43.8	41.3	14	45.9	43.5	11	174.5	2
11	Ken______	43.5	36.1	14	31.3	43.6	11	154.5	11
12	Feral Slash	40.8	41.0	14	46.3	38.0	11	166.0	3

[DMT]

That was the main one. But I had you winning from the point that heyelander didn't take Baker until the time CJ made his picks. I tried all kinds of things to get myself ahead of you, but nothing I could do with my picks worked. I am curious---what was your plan for 1910's hitter if heye takes Baker and I follow by taking Sisler?

I had a few other guys but all inferior to Baker so glad I didn't win just because of someone else's mistake.