Suicane Bombers, A SimLeague MLB Dynasty

[Suicane75]

Since my desire for Fantasy Baseball waned a bit this year and I decided not to play, I figured that i'd try out What If Sports MLB Sim game.

The rules are pretty forward, you draft a team of 25 players based on an $80 Million dollar salary cap. You can draft any player from any year, ie: you can draft Babe Ruth from 1927 and 1928, of course you'd have blown half your cap on 2 players but you get the drift.

Once you have your roster filled out you get put into a league.
There are options for private leagues and specialty leagues where the commish makes his own rules and then recruits players on the forums. The speciality leagues seem pretty cool and the rules you can go by are endless but for now i'm just getting my feet wet so i'll stick with a public league.

The cost is $12.95, not sure how long it takes to sim a season but it looks like it goes about 3-4 games a day so 6 weeks seems about right.

You can play games live against a human opponent, not sure how that works exactly, if you can only play your next opponent or what, but the live game is kind of fun. I've played a scrimmage, which is free as long as your a member (no fee) and had a good time playing the 80 Phillies against the 2001 Angels.

So anyhoo, thats my overview, now on to the game.

[Suicane75]

SUICANE BOMBERS



LINEUP 			Pos	Order	%	AB/162	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	Salary

Kenny Lofton '93 (L)	CF*	1	100	569	1	42	70	.325	.408	.408	$6.32M 

Craig Biggio '98 (R)	2B*	2	100	646	20	88	50	.325	.403	.503	$5.41M 

Willie Keeler '98 (L)	RF*	3	100	609	1	44	28	.385	.420	.410	$4.86M 

Vinny Castilla '97 (R)	3B*	4	100	612	40	113	2	.304	.356	.547	$4.64M 

Frank Thomas '96 (R)	1B*	5	100	527	40	134	1	.349	.459	.626	$8.49M 

Sammy Sosa '03 (R)	LF*	6	100	517	40	103	0	.279	.358	.553	$3.83M 

Elio Chacon '62 (R)	SS*	7	100	372	2	27	12	.236	.368	.296	$2.93M 

Hal Wagner '44 (L)	C *	8	100	234	1	38	1	.332	.418	.439	$2.92M 





BENCH			Pos	Order	%	AB/162	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	Salary

Dick Cotter '12 (R)	C *	-	100	58	0	10	1	.278	.361	.352	$468K 

Chone Figgins '04 (S)	3B*	-	100	577	5	60	34	.296	.350	.419	$3.72M 

Mark McGwire '97 (R)	1B*	-	100	174	24	42	2	.253	.411	.684	$3.56M 

Warren Newson '95 (L)	LF*	-	100	80	2	6	1	.292	.420	.403	$1.35M 

Neifi Perez '04 (S)	SS*	-	100	62	2	6	1	.371	.400	.548	$1.33M 

Floyd Rayford '84 (R)	C *	-	100	250	4	27	0	.256	.296	.360	$989K 





Pitching Staff

STARTERS			%	W-L	SV	IP/162	ERA	OAV	WHIP	K/9	BB/9	Salary

J.R. Richard '75 (R)		100	12-10	0	204.1	4.39	0.238	1.56	7.80	6.12	$4.98M

Elmer Riddle '48 (R)		100	12-10	1	201.0	3.49	0.250	1.39	2.97	3.82	$4.98M

Roy Henshaw '35 (L)		100	13-5	1	150.1	3.28	0.249	1.42	3.34	4.29	$3.74M

Mike Sullivan '92 (L)		100	12-4	0	179.2	3.09	0.261	1.52	3.03	4.00	$3.92M

Bill Rhodes '93 (R)		100	5-12	0	196.2	7.62	0.347	2.04	1.31	3.92	$1.14M

 

BULLPEN				%	W-L	SV	IP/162	ERA	OAV	WHIP	K/9	BB/9	Salary

Mike Williams '02 (R)		100	2-6	46	61.2	2.95	0.233	1.23	6.33	3.09	$2.81M

Bob Patterson '94 (L)		100	2-3	1	59.1	4.07	0.229	1.19	6.43	3.21	$1.93M

Danny McDevitt '61 (L)		100	1-0	0	27.0	2.36	0.213	1.46	5.06	6.41	$687K

Guillermo Mota '04 (R)		100	8-4	1	63.0	2.14	0.228	1.24	7.43	3.86	$2.11M

Mike Marshall '70 (R)		100	3-7	3	64.2	3.48	0.225	1.31	5.29	4.04	$1.90M

Frank Bates '99 (R)		100	1-18	0	173.2	6.90	0.348	2.20	0.72	6.12	$992K

This is my team, i know the formating is all screwed up but as soon as I figure out what im doing wrong i'll fix it.

I feel like my lineup and bullpen are really solid, my rotation however is very iffy. The main thing about the game that I think will take some time to get used to is managing fatigue levels. A player who only got 100 at bats in the given season you chose him from will in turn only really be usefull to you for 100 bats in your season, and if you give 80 at bats in the first 20 games of the season he will be so tired that his performance will probably make him an albatros on your team, so managing that is something i have to get used to.