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Subject: I wish my pre-season prediction had been wrong....
Posted by: KoGs
- [52715301] Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 01:40
I am dying for these cheap options (Gomez, Ovechkin, Nash, Elias, Garon, Niittymaki, etc.) to slow down. Then maybe I can actually use some of my money to my advantage. Rather than having 6-7 mil sitting in the bank collecting dust.
Which is funny because before the season started I said this would happen. The manager(s) with more money will be forced to buy cheap players just to keep up with the cheap players who are hot that the managers with less money have at the time. Of course everybody laughed at me then. Well I am not sure about you other 'richer' managers, but I am not laughing very loud right now.
I know it's still early in the season (kinnda), but I am not liking how my team is positioned right now. And looking at some of the top managers who also have quite a bit of money, I'm pretty sure a lot of them are feeling the same way right now. Every manager near the top who has 75mil + has 6-10 mil sitting around. Well except for Dr. Hook, who managed to field a team worth 77 mil. Well done.
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| 1 | KoGs
ID: 52715301
Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 01:44
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And what all the odds that every single cheap player I mentioned cools off at exactly the same time?? Now what are the odds that every single cheap player I mentioned cools off at exactly the same time AND no other cheap options emerge that are a hot commodity??
I hear patience is a virtue. But is the grass really greener on the other side?
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| 2 | The Dienasty
ID: 132591
Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 02:53
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They won't all cool off at the same time, but managing the schedules of those cheaps players should eventually present problems of those with low RV's, leaving them few to no options to lateral out of.
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| 3 | smallwhirled
ID: 47036915
Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 09:48
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KoGs,
People will not agree with me, but RV ALWAYS has the advantage. Less RV always has a restriction. This year may be a little different than the past couple of years because it seems to be a little easier to obtain a top team but you have to remember that we are at the halfway point. When everything is considered....you have to look at you, me, and Cobwebs as the favorites for number 2. Anne Helene is probably too far out in front to be caught. Even during my best streaks, as I gained ground on everyone else, I gained nothing on her.
Well, I guess it was 3 years ago now, but I played a 6 day late team. Giving up ~1800 points to the field or something. I played for huge RV, and moved that team up to 9th. I had a big RV advantage along with a guy who I don't think plays anymore, LA KINGS. Anyways, I made up so much ground on people it wasn't even funny. It was literally thousands of points. I compared teams with a few friends from probably the all star break, and it was seriously like 5000 points. If the season was only a little longer that ranking would've been even better than that.
Players were more expensive back then and I was fielding a huge team, but don't think that you are in a bad position. Every low RV team wishes that he had your team because you have no restrictions.
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| 4 | Die_Habs
ID: 26211512
Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 10:12
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KoGs,
I think your obeseration is going to be even more prominant this week. I am only hoovering around 71 on my 3 teams and have 8-10+ million in the bank now.
Players such as elias, nash, federov, stillman, etc are priced very favorable for low RV managers.
However, moving forward and with my early observations indicate we can make more ground this year with the higher priced D-men.
Once the OTT players get back into shape this should jump the RV scale up a few million.
I don't think it has help this year that ignila is not playing up to TSNP potential. Have a look at other high prices players, how often have you had broduer, Naslund, St. Louis, Lemieux, Belfour on your team? These were players that I would have thought might be regulars on a roster.
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| 5 | Twarpy
ID: 25255819
Fri, Jan 13, 2006, 19:49
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The time when money will become an issue is after the olympic break in which almost every team plays continous 5 in 8's it seems like. Schedule advantages which still plays a role with selecting cheapies right now will all but be negated at that time.
This will also mean the ability to differentiate will be much easier, and picking the cheapies that have decent schedules will be more hit and miss than the continous studs who produce on a consitent level. Currently there is only about 20 players you can choose from each week that appear to be the most efficient based upon their schedules, the studs simply do not align most weeks but if you look at the post olympic schedule those that have money will be able to field a constant array of studs.
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| 6 | smallwhirled
ID: 47036915
Sat, Jan 14, 2006, 10:37
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Yup, that very end of the season is always the time when having a huge money advantage is a big factor. We are not even close to that point yet....and more people are going to be in that part of the ballgame than usual as every team that is over maybe 72 or 73 by that time should have enough to field huge teams.
But again, when every team has a huge sked and you get the best players 700, 800, and 900 point nights become way more common when you have a full slate going. That is a huge time to make up just a ridiculous amounth of ground if you have RV.
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