Category: AL

TOUT AL’s Larry Schechter Talks About It

For much of the season Tout AL’s 2011 Champ has been leading the league again, but during the summer Jeff Erickson closed the gap and at times has been in the lead. Larry answered…

What are your chances of winning as a percentage?   48%  (Jeff 47%, others 5%)

What percentage of your success this year was based on your draft?  90%

What percentage was based on trading?  0%

What percentage was based on waiver pickups?  10%

What was the best thing that happened to your team this year.   That I happened to have Soriano, which minimized the loss of Rivera.

What was the worst thing? And how did you get over it? 

#1 worst)  after trading Hamilton, Big Papi went down immediately and hasn’t come back–and probably won’t come back.  That has really hurt my HR/RBI, which were in great shape when I made the trade.  I haven’t gotten over it, and it’s a big reason my lead disappeared.

#2 worst) Romero was a distaster.  Picking up Miguel Gonzalez and Guthrie has helped…(hopefully in 4 weeks I can still say that they helped.)

Any other comments, stories, observations, jokes you would like to tell about this year’s Tout Wars season? I wonder if Wolf/Colton would have taken Big Papi instead of Hamilton?  That would have helped me immensely.  One of the reasons I offered Hamilton instead of Papi is because I felt Hamilton was a bigger injury risk; and being in 1st, I wanted to be risk averse.