Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Since the last post, I have been clicking on "draft" my first pick on DD without response.

Only took 9 minutes for DD to "accept" my inputted first pick.

#2 is now up.

After the last post I went back to DD. So it took my pick but then ...

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I also had trouble logging in at 6am EST this morning, but I can get in now no problem, and can see Petro's first pick of... Pedro Martinez. Pedro is a great pick in an 80m league, but only above average in a 100m league like this one.

However, if you want your staff to look like this: Pedro, Sale, Henry, Donald, Sutton, Heredia, Super Reliever (like Petro does), then Pedro is a must at pick #1. Question is, how high does Petrosian go on Henry and Heredia and his super reliever, which are all also must haves.

Good thing about Pedro is he can anchor a 4 or 5 man rotation and he keeps all my options open.

Also Chrissie, it ain't hard to get 200 quality innings out of an R2. You just won't get 300.

Do i need to keep refreshing DD or will the picks just appear?

Look under "Your Draft Summary" once you are logged into your draft.

You need to keep refreshing...

Lucky you don't care about pitchers, right Chrissie? Well there goes your 4 stud, .50 reliever pitching schema. Thing about Maddux, he rarely meets expectations given his price tag.

You would have been better off taking Pineiro.

Also isn't it 3 a.m. in Bangkok? You must be getting punchy.

For whatever reason, I am getting the highest win percentage in my simulations from using one big star and 4 small non stars and a couple 2m RP. Second best 2 big stars and 3 small non stars, and a couple 2m RP. Super relievers are so overrated. I can't see myself EVER drafting one... On that note, what is the probability of you drafting a super reliever with one of picks 24/25? You must be drooling over Sutter77. If he goes, you'll take Murray. But those two are your favourite 2 by far. You'll internally cry for hours if both of those two boys don't make it back to pick 24. Am I right or am I right?