RP's Vs SP's The Generals Lose at Waterloo!
In the war of strategies in this league of experts, our good friend the General has already lost several battles and is being pushed back into his own lands.
The age old fight between keeping a pitching staff of relievers as opposed to having some quality start pitching was put to the greatest of tests in week 2 when Fantasy Baseball Generals faced off against Mock Draft Central. This colossal match up featured the best bullpen against the best starting pitching. The end result? A 7-3 trouncing by Mock Draft Central. Score one for the Federalists. OK, I'm watching too much of the HBO series John Adams, but this match was bigger than it seemed. First off, it proved my theories correct that when you hand off two categories your are setting yourself at a major disadvantage going into the fight. Unless the rest of your team plays near perfect, you won't win 6 categories. That is what happened to Patrick. He was suppose to win 4 offensive and 3 pitching categories and win 7-3. By surprise to all of us he lost SAVES. His team was slow that week. He also lost every offensive category but home runs. So giving up wins and strikeouts looks bad cause he only lost by 18 strikeouts and 4 wins. If Patrick had started 3-5 pitchers he could have won at least strikeouts.
The other setbacks his mighty army has faced is losing to my team two weeks in a row. Week 1 5-4-1 in my favor, week 2 6-4. So, not only was he unable to win the ultimate RP Vs. SP match up, but he has yet to defeat my team H2H and stands at 8-11-1 against me so far.
Its a long war at least till October, and we will see how the Generals react to their stunning Waterloo defeat, and how they adjust to being average at this time.
The age old fight between keeping a pitching staff of relievers as opposed to having some quality start pitching was put to the greatest of tests in week 2 when Fantasy Baseball Generals faced off against Mock Draft Central. This colossal match up featured the best bullpen against the best starting pitching. The end result? A 7-3 trouncing by Mock Draft Central. Score one for the Federalists. OK, I'm watching too much of the HBO series John Adams, but this match was bigger than it seemed. First off, it proved my theories correct that when you hand off two categories your are setting yourself at a major disadvantage going into the fight. Unless the rest of your team plays near perfect, you won't win 6 categories. That is what happened to Patrick. He was suppose to win 4 offensive and 3 pitching categories and win 7-3. By surprise to all of us he lost SAVES. His team was slow that week. He also lost every offensive category but home runs. So giving up wins and strikeouts looks bad cause he only lost by 18 strikeouts and 4 wins. If Patrick had started 3-5 pitchers he could have won at least strikeouts.
The other setbacks his mighty army has faced is losing to my team two weeks in a row. Week 1 5-4-1 in my favor, week 2 6-4. So, not only was he unable to win the ultimate RP Vs. SP match up, but he has yet to defeat my team H2H and stands at 8-11-1 against me so far.
Its a long war at least till October, and we will see how the Generals react to their stunning Waterloo defeat, and how they adjust to being average at this time.
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