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Subject: RIBC 2016: Retrospective

  Posted by: Guru - [330592710] Sun, Oct 02, 2016, 22:29
Congrats to Holt, winner of the 2016 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 send me a link to their final standings. I'll post them in a separate thread. (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.
 
1beastiemiked
      ID: 481162721
      Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 22:41 		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?

Pretty obvious from my stats that my hitting worked great. My middle infielders especially had great years, Kinsler, Desmond, Ramirez, and Segura all exceeded expectations. It was an extremely balanced attack as I had no guys finish with over 100 RBI's et still finished only 16 RBI's away from first in that category.

Pitching went horribly wrong. Funny considering I had the 2nd and 6th best pitchers(Kershaw and Jansen) according to the Player Rater. The rest of my staff was just horrible. Garrett Richards went down early with a injury. Ventura was terrible. Walker was decent for part of the year. The main issue though was I rotated very poorly. I couldn't pick a quality start.

I don't know if I would've done anything differently. I still think quality pitching can be had in the middle of the draft. Look forward to next year.

I learned that this league gets tougher every year. Props to everyone.
 
2filthy
      ID: 212371616
      Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 23:49 		Belated congratulations to Holt for another RIBC victory. And many thanks yet again to Guru for running this and everyone else for competing. Quieter every year, but keeps getting tougher. Too focused on the competition to chat!

Hated my draft enough that I couldn't even rationalize a recap. Kidding myself through my pick rationales was tough enough. Scrambled from the start and never recovered. So many reaches from the 2nd pick and beyond. Found a few gems that gave me hope for the first half but couldn't dig out of the holes fast enough. Couple gambles to try to qualify again backfired, and it turned into a battle to stay out of last.

If I'm going to trust my gut so often, I can't be using the queues for every pick. Recipe for disaster. Half my core draft picks backfired on me. Most of my core draft picks were reaches. Not a coincidence. Lost my discipline.

Had some gems and let them go, held onto some duds for way too long, got aggressive with some trades that didn't pay off, panicked in some categories that created bigger holes elsewhere.

All the resources spent trying to stay afloat in closer race felt wasteful after fizzling at the end. Created something out of not much, but it wasn't enough. Found gems at MI and pitching throughout the year but every fix at CI/OF seemed to be met with another injury. Choo/Peralta/Kang just killed me. At least Olivera and Colabello let me down early. Zimmerman and Giles were bad draft picks that were mismanaged into terrible territory. Without Altuve, Quintana, Aaron Sanchez and a whole bunch of moves- this might have been a sub 30 point season.

And the season ending rant is about as focused as the draft strategy. Some seasons it works! Back to the minors to remember how to draft better!

Thanks again Guru and the gurupies.
 
3holt
      ID: 20813513
      Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 03:35 		I've been trying to find time to write something for a month now. Been very busy.

Shout out to Twilson who held 1st place throughout most of the season. If I'm not mistaken is wasn't until August 22 that my team moved into first place for good. His team had a 16 in obp, slg, era, & whip. The 13 point advantage I had in saves eventually made the difference. I wonder if the huge lead that he had during most of the season caused a lot of managers to essentially wave the white flag, thereby making it easier to pick up key free agents.

When Pollock went down before the season even started I figured I was in major trouble so I was in scramble mode from day one. Thankfully my pitching staff was steady enough that I didn't need to make many moves or devote many slots on that front. I was able to focus on getting my hitting in shape as the season went on. I picked up Eduardo Nunez and his 37 steals helped me get 12 points in that category even though he was the only guy on my team to contribute double digits in SB. This helped keep the loss of Pollock from being lethal.

I was also very fortunate with my closers. Familia was incredible, and Kimbrel/Cishek added enough saves that I was able to lead in that category even though I was only able to successfully add one closer during the season (Thornburg). Saves are a minefield and I got lucky.



1.16 Pollock, A.J. OF
Bad. Didn't get a single AB from him.

2.01 Votto, Joey 1B
Good. Started poorly but was red hot throughout the second half of the season. .988 ops, 101/97 and even had 8 sb.

3.16 Price, David SP
Good. 228 K in 230 IP. 17 W, 3.99, 1.20

4.01 Cruz, Nelson OF
Good. .915 ops, 96/105

5.16 Kimbrel, Craig RP
Good. 53 ip 83K 31 sv, 3.57 1.11

6.01 Familia, Jeurys RP
Good. 78 ip 84K 51 sv 2.55 1.21

7.16 Hamels, Cole SP
Good. 200ip 200K 15W 3.32 1.31

8.01 Zobrist, Ben 2B
Good. .819, 89/73

9.16 Story, Trevor SS
Good. .933 67/70. It's a shame he got hurt. He carried my team the first month of the season and managed to avoid any terrible slumps.

10.01 Ho Park, Byung 1B
Bad. I cut him after it was clear that his slump wasn't going away.

11.16 Cishek, Steve RP
Good. 48ip 62K 25sv 3.40 1.07 before being stripped of his job.

12.01 Duffy, Matt 3B
Bad. The 2015 magic is gone. I gave him 169 AB before letting him go.

13.16 Mesoraco, Devin C
Bad. 34 AB for me before he was DL'd for the year.

14.01 Iwakuma, Hisashi SP
On the fence. He had his ups and downs but was overall disappointing. 159ip 116K 12W 3.96 1.30

15.16 Paulsen, Ben OF
Bad. He had a .794 OPS for in 54 AB and then COL exiled him to the minors. I guess they wanted to give the "youngster" Matt Reynolds a look.

16.01 Fiers, Mike SP
Bad. I cut him after 11 IP.

17.16 Crawford, Carl OF
Bad. He is not a good player anymore.

18.01 Spangenberg, Cory 2B
Bad. He went down for the season very early on.

19.16 304 Naquin, Tyler OF
Bad. I had to cut him early on as he wasn't getting playing time and wasn't playing well. He ended up having a good season but not for me.

20.01 Lamb, Jake 3B
Good. .831 73/81 for me. Didn't finish the season strong but still had a great year.

21.16 Travis, Devon 2B
Good. .803 49/43. Had to carry him on my bench a couple months but it was worth it.

22.01 Crawford, J.P. SS
Bad. Wasted pick.

23.16 Ramos, Wilson C
Good. .852 55/76. Great hitter throughout the season til he got hurt. He should probably become a DH or 1B and focus on hitting and staying healthy.

24.01 Iglesias, Jose SS
Bad. I cut him very early on.

25.16 Hinojosa, Dalier RP PHI
Bad. He had a chance to open the season as a closer but immediately imploded.


My most valuable free agents additions:

Eduardo Nunez SS/3B, His ops slipped to .730 for me as the season ground on but he did contribute 37 SB which really made the loss of Pollock less painful.

Adam Duvall OF, 74/92 .792

Cameron Maybin OF, 38/27, 9sb, .795

Gary Sanchez C, 30/36, 1.021. Is this guy for real?

Willson Contreras C, 25/25 .774

Alex Bregman SS/3b, 29/31 .931

Josh Tomlin 10W 4.23 1.18

Rich Hill 91 ip 100K 10W 1.87 0.89

Tyler Thornburg 24 ip 31K 11 sv 1.85 0.86



Thanks Guru and congrats to everyone who qualified for RIBC 2017! Looking forward to it!