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Subject: RIBC 2015: Retrospective
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Mon, Oct 05, 2015, 09:56
Congrats to Pablo's Peapods, winner of the 2015 RIBC.
A few post-season duties remain:
1. RIBC managers may post a recap of their season, if they wish. What worked well, what went wrong, what would you do differently the next time, and what did you learn?
2. I'd appreciate it if someone from each of the qualifying leagues would post the final standings of their league. ( A separate thread has been set up for this purpose.) This will make it easier for me to locate when I go about deciding on qualifications for next season. (If your team names do not easily identify the related team manager, please provide those linkages as well.)
3. If there were any managers in any league who failed to live up to standards in behavior or activity level, I'd like to know about it. Bad behavior is never tolerated. Failing to follow through for the season can also be grounds for declining an invite to the RIBC or a AAA league, depending on circumstances. Rather than publicly "ratting out" any other manager in this thread, I suggest that you send me a confidential email.
Thanks to everyone for a great season. |
| 1 | mailedfoot
ID: 531322718
Sun, Oct 11, 2015, 11:30
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Thanks to Guru for putting together another enjoyable and interesting season.
A horrible start doomed my chances for a title. Through games of May 15th, I stood in 12th place, some 65 points behind the Peapods who had already captured the top spot by that date. At that point I felt I would be lucky to stay in the top league for next year. For the rest of the season, though, I managed to outpoint the Peapods by 4 points but it was nowhere near enough to overtake them.
Seven of my first nine draft picks performed extremely well over the course of the season but slow starts by Encarnacion and Betts contributed to my team's bad start. The rest of my draft picks ranged from marginal to horrible. I was able to come up with some good free agents (Grilli, Osuna, Hundley, Burns) but not enough to best the Peapods.
To win this league, you need to hit a few home runs with late round draft picks and/or be first to the impact free agent pickups. Evan did a great job of this with guys like Liriano, Kazmir, Teixeira, Lindor, DeShields, and Ramos just to name a few. Congratulations again to him for a great season.
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| 2 | Uptown Bombers
ID: 38261518
Sun, Oct 11, 2015, 23:06
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I missed on a lot of players and also had players hurt for large portions of the season. Serves me right for drafting too many old guys and players with track records of missing time. 5 of my drafted offensive players performed up to expectations. I don't have much to say except that I am very disappointed in my results and will be thinking a lot about strategy going into next year at whatever level I am relegated to.
This is the worst I've done in pitching categories that I've done in quite some time. I'm not talking about saves, but the ratios mostly and I'll have to be better prepared next year for how to fix that since I am always unwilling to pay for closers early.
As always, thanks to Guru for setting this up and the Rotoguru community for making it my favorite fantasy competition of the year. I look forward to working my way back to the bigs sooner than later.
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| 3 | kdl212
ID: 449511415
Wed, Oct 14x, 2015, 16:53
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I survived another year, but again wasn't close to the top.
This team felt like it was carried more by it's hitting than it's pitching, especially in the second half. After the break, I had 4 regulars who had a 1.000+ OPS for me: Votto (535/617), Choo (455/560), Chris Davis (409/669) and Starlin Castro in September (395/671). Votto was out of his mind the entire time, and Shin-Soo Choo was the #1 hitter over the season's last 30 days. Add those insane second half performances to steady production from JD Martinez and Miguel Sano, and you get the second-most hitting points of any team.
Each of those guys gave me significant returns on their draft-slot. Billy Hamilton's 56 steals kept me in the middle of the standings in that category, and considering I ended up 2nd in OBP and 3rd in SLUG, didn't come at much of a cost. I don't think I will seek out his .560 OPS next year, though, because I can't count on getting so lucky with sluggers.
And despite my lament at drafting Josh Reddick, he gave me great value for a 19th round draft pick, and Brad Miller did great in a platoon role for me.
Pitching was bleak. I only had 3 pitchers throw over 100 innings, and only a single pitcher earned 10 wins for me (making me the highest finishing manager who ranked dead last in a category; the next highest was 11th). As usual, high K/9 guys kept me near the top of strikeouts, and I found enough saves on the wire to rack up points in that category.
None of this will change my drafting or waiver-wire strategy, because while I'm not winning the league, I'm sticking around. One of these years, I'll get both hitting and pitching and finally come away with a crown, or I'll get neither and finally walk away from imaginary baseball.
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