20 Resims: #21 Team America World Police

At the end of each season owners may submit a new lineup that is used in the 20 Resim competition.  This competition is purely for speculation and is used as a gauge to determine who had the best draft.  The true ATB champion remains the World Series winner.


20 seasons are automatically simulated and compiled.  No lineup changes are allowed and injuries are turned off.  Through a formula that considers Win-Loss record, Playoff Appearances, and Pythagorean Record the teams are ranked in order from worst to first. 


Special thanks to Justin B who provided the formula and methodology behind the raw park OPS values, which provides a new way to interpret park factors.

Tied at 21 we find Team America World Police.  Owner Joe V was active throughout the season, making trades and routinely submitting lineups, but the rotation he drafted simply wasn’t good enough to compete.  With a 4.56 team ERA and 792 runs given up much of the blame lay with the starting rotation.  The league average ERA for starters is somewhere in the low 4.00s and while no starter achieved an ERA that low, Dwight Gooden (4.68), Robin Roberts (5.03), and Satchel Paige (5.47) were particularly ineffective.

Some of their struggles have to do with the ballpark.  The heart of Raw Park OPS is a formula that uses the DMB provided park factors, and literally calculates the difference in OPS from a league average score.  It is not the literal OPS of all the batters who came to bat, rather it is a calculation of what they should have hit, all things being equal.  The World Police played in a park that yields a raw .776 OPS in the league, the 21st highest mark.

Of course while the park hinders the rotation, it helps the lineup.  Coming in with a respectable 670 runs scored (15th in the league), Team America had several offensive stars.  Norm Cash (below) was his usual self, while Benny Kauff (.368 OBP, 58 SB) and Al Simmons (19 2B, 10 3B, 23 HR) help make a good quality top of the order.

800 OPS Batters: 
Norm Cash: .822 OPS, .297 / .376 / .446, 21 HR, 96 RBI

Sub 4.00 ERA Starters
None

Sub 3.25 ERA Relievers
None

Best Value Draft Pick
Rd 26: Chone Figgins in a stretch.  69 SB, but .320 OBP and just 9 EBH per year

Bust Draft Pick
Rd 9: Robin Roberts: 9-15, 5.03 ERA, 1.52 WHIP

Tally
#24 - Downsouth Brews
#23 - Leesburg Snow
#22 – dogphin29
#21 – Team America World Police