How to Win at Bush League Baseball
Obviously, there are many of ways to win at this online game. However, I have found certain techniques that help in situations when a team with lower skilled players come across and have to play a team of higher players: How do you win?
First off, before I go into that, it’s important to have a good team set up. Versatility is essential when you take-over the team. And what do I mean versatility? People on the BLB forums will tell you all day long that some of these “don’t” work, but it has probably beaten there teams, day in and day out. And it was probably my team that did it, or one of my teams.
Versatility:
Pitchers (have five to six on the roster), and when I say this, I mean “full time” pitchers. I’ll elaborate more on this in a second.
You’ll want someone to be able to throw knuckle-balls, fast & change-ups, and curves and sliders.
- As far as players who can pitch, the more the better, however, there is generally a cost involved when you have a “position” player who can pitch. With that said, I still feel that it is good to grab as many reasonable position players who can also pitch as possible.
Your full-time pitchers, the stamina on these players you’ll want to have in 70s. I have found that a four-man rotation with a full-time closer works best. The two best pitchers work the “games-that-are-important” where the other two starters work the other games on the schedule. You’ll generally find rhythm that works for you. Your closer will seem get gassed out as the schedule wears on, but the guy handles the workload quite well.
(On a personal note, I did have it happen once where my closer and one of my starters went down with an injury at the same time, but I had a total of 12 players on the team who were pitchers, but only five “full-timers”, so I was able to juggle it and make it work, although not all that easy. VERSATILITY)
The Waiver Market:
I generally have two rules of thumb on here. The first: GET THE BEST VISION on the player possible. VISION. And what that means, is you have to click on the player and actually look at the players attributes. Click on the name, look at the guy, and look (ironic isn’t it) at the vision.
Secondly, get the best overall player. Do not care about what position they play. That doesn’t matter. Catchers can play outfield, second base, heck, they do a brilliant job pitching. Outfielders can catch… yada, yada, yada… you get the point. But if you have a great player who can’t see… is that player really great? Vision is extremely important. The two teams I currently have, they both average (the hitters, mind you) around 75% on vision, and do quite well. And that was before I grasped the “vision concept”.
Now, to what this is really all about. How to beat a team that is better than your team: How do you do it? I really don’t have all the answers, but I have figured out quite a bit. And that’s what makes this game so much fun for me. I can’t enjoy the “evil tactics” that I used to use due to being sick now, but that has forced me into some more thoughtful stuff and just as effective, if not more so. Although, I still wish I could use a combination of both.
Let’s see how well I can put this all into words:
Step One: Look at your team (I know this stuff is going to sound idiotic at first, but work with me) – you need to see who have to work with even before going to step two. Most likely you’ll do this anyway. It’s robotic. I figure most players only go this far. And seriously, that’s why they suck (sorry, that’s why they lose).
Step Two: Open up your opponent’s information in a separate window browser. It’s important that you have your information and their information up at the same time. I have found that I can compare their team’s WEAKNESSES to my teams STRENGTHS… and really, it’s not about my strengths, it’s about their WEAKNESSES. You have to exploit them. You have to exploit them like a presidential party campaign does to each candidate. You have to pull out all the stops. And once you see what they have that isn’t good (by going to their team management & attributes), you can devise a game plan to best squish them as you can. And seriously, they most likely will look at your team, look past your players, and tactics.
Step Three: This is one of my “Evil Tactics” that I used when I first entered into BLB. I knew my teams where “fresh” and couldn’t stand up to the competition, so what I did would be to show them one strategy, and then, come 30 or even as little as 20 minutes before game-time, I would change-up EVERYTHING to what I really wanted to do. This takes special care, because it means logging in early in the day to and doing steps one and two, but not showing a different game-plan than what you really want to do, and then changing the game plan to what you want to do at the last minute. There is a down-fall to this, however. And that is being careful in your last minute changes. I know this from experience, if you don’t do EVERYTHING RIGHT is will generally cost you the game. The good thing is if you get everything right, most likely you will win.
In training your players, I have found that rehab doesn't do squat for building up your players abilities for anything. In other words, if your working on hitting and you have your guys in the rehab house... forget about it.
I know there is plenty more to add to this, however, I am really brain-dead right now, but still, off the top of my head, I feel I’ve done pretty good. As I remember more, I will add to it. If you decide to join Bush League Baseball and want to use these tactics against me, feel free to. I have only two teams remaining now:
Cooperstown server: SINGP Warriors
Texas server: TXSIN Head Bashers
(I've joined forces with Sadistic Intent Nation, hence the S.I.N. tag)
