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#56752	12/17/2017 5:35:25 pm	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
wickersty Joined: 05/11/2017 Posts: 1002 Deadwood Perambulators II.1	I've got a young team (i.e., no expensive 30+ year olds) that has gelled together to decisively win their LL6 division. Anyone have any advice/thoughts/warnings for my first time entering LL5? I of course expect the competition to be tougher... and I expect that my guys who were great this season might probably be just good or very good in LL5. But is the drop-off even more than that? Looking forward to the next step... afraid I'm going to get devoured and bounced right back to LL6 Thx Jeff
#56754	12/17/2017 5:52:30 pm	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	LL VI to LL V is the biggest jump in the game from my experience. I say that even with the knowledge of the jump from LL II to Legends shaving .050 points off the OBP and BA for every hitter. It isn't so much that the competition is that much better, but the fact that more than 3 or 4 teams are actually active and have knowledge about how the game works. There are far fewer gimme series in LL V than there are in VI.
#56767	12/18/2017 5:56:40 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
Cactusguy21 Joined: 07/25/2017 Posts: 815 Presque Isle Vikings III.4	I can attest that LL V is very difficult :p You start running into some really solid teams at this level, which can completely wreck a fledgeling team like yours (or mine). At level 6, there are so many bots and only very rarely a top-flight team that competes in the cup. Here in LL V, you usually have one or two teams in the division make a cup run, if that gives you an idea of their competitiveness. Your roster looks like you'll be tough enough to stick around though, however you might wanna start dumpster diving for another starter and reliever, just in case. Updated Monday, December 18 2017 @ 5:58:34 am PST
#56768	12/18/2017 6:16:10 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
wickersty Joined: 05/11/2017 Posts: 1002 Deadwood Perambulators II.1	I’ve got most of my real pitchers in aaa at the moment, including all but one of my starters, as I finish out the season with all youth. I am definitely looking to somehow find one decent starter for next season though. All 2034 my starting 5 has been really a starting 3, with a rotating door for 4&5 until I found 2 guys that didn’t suck. But one of those 2 will be 32 next season.
#56769	12/18/2017 6:41:13 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
Tiger504 Joined: 06/17/2014 Posts: 1314 Kalamazoo Bloody Tigers III.4	You gotra be cocky and arrogant, even when you're getting beat. That's the secret. You gotta play this game with fear and arrogance. Right. Fear and ignorance. No. You hayseed. It's arrogance not 'ignorance.'
#56770	12/18/2017 7:47:06 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2237 New York Lancers V.4	JUST WIN, BABY Updated Monday, December 18 2017 @ 7:48:31 am PST
#56772	12/18/2017 9:52:10 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
mjreichard Joined: 10/22/2016 Posts: 143 New Orleans Knights IV.5	I am in the same boat. I took over with an aging roster that was still okay...even won a Level V championship...only for everybody to get old and get hammered in IV, back to V to get hammered and then down to VI the year. I have rebuilt with youth and will be moving back to V, having already clinched in VI, but the same fear is there. Is this team just going to get hammered again in V?
#56774	12/18/2017 10:27:40 am	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
wickersty Joined: 05/11/2017 Posts: 1002 Deadwood Perambulators II.1	Good luck to both of us then, mjreichard! PS, can I have Iwakuma? K, Thanks. Updated Monday, December 18 2017 @ 10:27:53 am PST
#56775	12/18/2017 12:13:05 pm	Oct 20th, 2034	Ignore
mjreichard Joined: 10/22/2016 Posts: 143 New Orleans Knights IV.5	I lucked out and got him on waivers...sometimes you get lucky there! He was a 50 claim guy!!!

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