DE team too many line elves?

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:52 pm

mattgslater · Post by **mattgslater** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:18 am

Toby Wardman wrote:Sounds plausible, but you might want to factor in things like Stunty, niggling injuries, Thick Skull and other factors that make AV not a good reflection of the team's fragility. Perhaps ±0.5 for each of those, too?

Perhaps ±0.5 for all of those, collectively. None individually should ever get you to make a decision you couldn't otherwise justify. My objective is to suggest that you should consider 13 players if your guys are expensive and tough, 14 if they're one or the other, or in-between, and 15 if they're cheap and fragile.

I get the Bentham reference, but (being an ignorant Brit) not the Franklin one - what's that all about?

Somehow, during this century, the hedonic calculus got attributed to Franklin. Was it Will Rogers? Somebody important and quotable and American. I'm not making any historical claims, but we Yanks are likely to know HC as the "Ben Franklin Method." It's possible Franklin referenced Bentham at some point?

TeflonDon · Post by **TeflonDon** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:54 am

I voted 14, but then I saw your comment about opponents mainly being newbies, and the leauge not being too bashy. In that case I'd probably go for just 13.

Toby Wardman · Post by **Toby Wardman** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:45 am

mattgslater wrote:My objective is to suggest that you should consider 13 players if your guys are expensive and tough, 14 if they're one or the other, or in-between, and 15 if they're cheap and fragile.

To be honest, that rule-of-thumb sounds more sensible (and memorable) than the formula.

mattgslater · Post by **mattgslater** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:00 pm

But it's not comprehensive.

stashman · Post by **stashman** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:01 am

stashman wrote:My DE team has 16 players and 261 TV

Hehehehe, just to play in our Legend Division (TV 260+)

I bougth 2 line elfs and a reroll to reach 261 TV so my teams TV was 242 with 14 players (played 41 games). I have one line elf with MA4 Wrestle, Dodge and he will be sacked after season is finished becuse the two other teams maybe won't be able to play at this TV next season.

Atleast 14 players and 4 rerolls.

I just got a runner killed so I'm down to 248 TV.

The line elfs will soon die or loose stats so keep em untill the leave the team

Grogmir · Post by **Grogmir** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:05 pm

I voted for 14, as this the figure I normally aim for. but in your league perhaps running with 13 is doable.

However I don't really like sacking people just for the sake of it. I would run with more players and only remove if they get injured in anyway.

With 4 Blitzers, 2 WEs and 1 Runner to fill in that means you'll want to eventually remove 4 line elves.

I'm sure attrition will take care of that.

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