Sim Team Lineup Help

by JSlakov on Mar 23, 2011 11:10 AM EDT

I'm trying to figure out my ideal lineup. This league uses players stats from LAST YEAR, so you can just look at their 2010 stats to get a good idea of how they'll perform in my sim season. Here's my guys:

Pitcher

To start, I used this line up generator, which helped, but it doesn't take into account base stealing ability, which will be a big part of my team with Bourn and Crawford.

I think I will definitely bat Pujols second to increase his plate appearances throughout the season.

I will definitely bat the pitcher 8th and use Bourn 9th to act as a second lead off man.

Who do you think should lead off? Soto has the best OBP, but is clearly not a base stealing threat. It's a somewhat steep drop to Crawford in OBP, but would his base running skills make up for the difference? Weeks is another possibility.

Swisher seems like a good candidate for the clean up spot with his good OBP and power.

What do you guys think? Thanks!

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Furcal

was hurt last year…how does SIM address that?

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Mar 23, 2011 1:03 PM EDT reply actions

hurt players

you’re able to start players as many games as they started in real life. So I’m able to start Furcal 91 games. I managed to get Jamey Carroll who had a good OBP year to fill out the games he missed.

In the playoffs, players with a certain threshold of games can play the entire series, and with less games can only play in a limited amount of games. Furcal will be able to play in all 7 potential games. I think my team will definitely be making the playoffs in a 24 team league (I sold off all my prospects and youth for this year), so the lineup I’m asking for here would be my playoff lineup.

I wasn’t sure if this website covered Sim leagues or just fantasy, but even general baseball knowledge (particularly sabermetrics) will help with these questions.

by JSlakov on Mar 23, 2011 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions