Winning in Colorado

[ASchatz]

I'm curious about other players who have played as Colorado in Mogul. What strategies have you used to win as the Rockies? Do you find that certain types of pitchers (for example, high movement, control, or power) are affected less by the high altitude? How do you change the strategies that you use as other teams to take advantage of (or counter) the difference of Coors Field?

Aaron

[kaill]

I have never played Colorado myself (I rarely change leagues and the Rockies are usually snapped up) but whenever I have seen success from Coors, it has almost always been from PITCHING. In other words, get top-flight pitching and watch your waiver-worthy hitters bash the ball.

I don't know if the small sample size (5-6 leagues) is distorting the results, but that's what I've seen.

On the other hand, I could be lying - you're in at last one of my leagues so I don't particularly want you to have a good team. =)

[sunzfan]

I have been Colorado for 14 seasons now, and i consider myself to have a decent understanding of being a commish of the mighty rockies: Frustration. While I'm still ranked #1 in mogul points, with a tri-fecta of series titles, and a shoebox full of playoff appearances, I have come onto some tough times lately. With Kip Wells anchoring my early days, pitching was a simplicity, and the reason I won. However, long gone are the Andruw Jones's and Kip Wells now, and I've trade for the best pitchers in baseball to no avail. 10 straight 2 era years elswhere, +5 in colorado. Basically my strategy is to trade until i get a guy who performs well there...

kinda sucks

course the revenue's nice