Quote: Originally Posted By antonsirius on 6/04/2006Quote: Originally Posted By carlnault on 6/04/2006 a mistake i made was overstating the importance of velocity...i avoided what turned out to be a couple of good pitchers with a 48 or so...looking at weena's staff for example...it is good without huge velocity numbers..try not to overemphisize a particular stat....it really is everything combined
The thing I've really concentrated on are the 'modifier' ratings: vLH and vRH, making sure my starters have at least three major league quality (60+) pitches, that sort of thing.
Right now, we're all just fishing to find the most important "ratings" to consider. Hitting is waaay ahead of pitching because it's easy to isolate Contact/Power as major considerations, while we're still testing the pitching ratings. We have some ridiculous hitting statistics and are trying to figure out why the top few pitchers have been successful.