Strategy Question (1 Viewer)

[DawnBTVS]

Thinking of testing this process out in a H2H league I'm in and was curious to see the reactions of others. Has anybody tried to play a position using home/road splits only (i.e. a better hitter with a home game starts over the weaker hitter on the road and vice versa)?

I was looking at 2B as an example and found these two guys from last year...

2B Rickie Weeks (Road Games Only): 255 AB - 50 R - 65 H - 11 HR - 29 RBI - 9 SB - .255 BA (.355 OBP/.463 SLG)

2B Jose Lopez (Home Games Only): 323 AB - 45 R - 101 H - 13 HR - 54 RBI - 0 SB - .313 (.329 OBP/.511 SLG)

Now you wouldn't play it perfectly but combined, you'd get a great hitter: 578 AB - 95 R - 166 H - 24 HR - 83 RBI - 9 SB - .287 BA

I'm thinking that if you can snap up a player early and a "gem" with poor totals but a beast on the road/home later, you could have a better position total overall compared to most other owners.

 

[Spartans Rule]

I've done home/road platoons with Rockies, but nobody else.

The problem is that a lot of the home/road splits over a single season are more variance than anything.

For example, Jose Lopez 2007:

Home: 244 AB, .225 AVG, 5 HR, 28 R, 26 RBI, 1 SB

Away: 280 AB, .275 AVG, 6 HR, 30 R, 36 RBI, 1 SB

I wouldn't bank on him performing better at home just because of last year.

Weeks, on the other hand, does have a decent trend of performing better on the road, which is very odd because it's not like Miller Park is a pitcher's paradise.

If you really want to try this, get Clint Barmes - .932 OPS at Coors, .643 on the road.