J-Gao wrote:
I wish expansion teams didn't suck at the beginning. Thank god for the dream draft.
I won the world series in my second year with an expansion team. (No Dream Draft) Simulating every game. No extra points at the start either. I won only .135% of the games in the first year, but in year 2 I just barely won the Wild Card spot and then went on the win the world series. Every year after that is a cake walk to the world series.
Just train contact and top speed the first year. By the end of the year, top speed will be at least somewhat respectable and your contact will be A for almost every player. (Although you may need the Spring Training to finish it up.) In year 2, continue training top speed but depending on how many points you have try to put some money into offspeed pitching. Try to make it so that all the offspeed pitches of your various pitchers are at least a 3, preferably 4. Top speed is more important though.
Winning the World Series in year 2 through pure simulation is pretty hard. It's more qualifying for the playoffs that's the hard part as your team will only be mediocre (although drastically better than last year) for the first half of the season but will play much better during the second half.
3rd year+ - Stop training or things will get too easy.... try to keep your salary as low as possible. (25,000 should be easy to maintain) Don't resign any players who want more than 2,000 a year - you have tons of players in the minors with A contact and 95 mph top speeds who will play for 400. See how many points you can accumulate.