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Q: Who is noccolo?
A: My name is Nick, 27 years old from Austin Texas. I work in property management. Favorite team is the Texas Rangers (we're getting better, watch out).
Q: How did you learn about whatifsports.com?
A: Someone mentioned it one day on a Rangers blog, lonestarball.com, I checked it out, and have played it since.
Q: Which games of ours have you played?
A: Just Hardball Dynasty.
Q: Besides sports, what are some of your other interests and hobbies?
A: Damn, besides watching baseball, bit of a computer nerd, and enjoy movies, and shiner beer.
Q: Which five people, past or present sit at your dream roundtable discussion?
A: I'll limit it to baseball, Nolan Ryan, Orel Hershisher, Ted Williams, Roberto Clemente, and the man in the original San Diego Chicken suit.
Q: Who are your favorite players of all-time?
A: Nolan Ryan, Ken Griffey Jr., Bobby Brower.
Q: Which are your favorite teams of all-time?
A: Texas Rangers.
Q: Did you play baseball or basketball (or other sports) growing up?
A: In middle school we didn't have baseball, so I played everything, football, baseketball, soccer, track, in high school i played baseball, pitched a few times though no one was fooled by my 60mph fastball.
Q: What is the top sports-related thing you want to do in life that you have not yet done?
A: Well theres sports related things that I wish I could do, like throw a 95mph fastball or an 80mph curve without my arm falling off, but I would love to attend a WS game at the ballpark in arlington watching my rangers.
Q: What would you consider your greatest WIS moment?
A: Making it to the playoffs with this team. It was my first team, and I did good job of butchering it the first 2 years learning how to play, so to come back from that and make the playoffs was something special.
Q: In Hardball Dynasty, how do allocate your budget?
A: 20m for Prospects, try to get 20m for Advance scouting, the rest I play with, Keep my Player budget near what it is, rarely do I budget for a bigtime FA, figure that money is better spent in keeping my current players from getting hurt, or better hs and coll scouting.
Q: How do you approach off-season events with players such as arbitration and free agency?
A: FA try to sign my guys before someone else can, typically cheaper to do that. Arb, if its a guy that I know I want to have for years, I may sign him in his 2nd or 3rd year of arb before he hits FA, a little more money now but saves you some in the long run.
Q: What is your general strategy for hiring/re-hiring coaches?
A: Oh wow, is there a more annoying part to WiS, can't even talk about it.
Q: How do you finalize rosters at each level? What role does spring training play in your decision making?
A: Spring training very little if any. I already have a good idea where I want my guys, and have a good idea who the future ML are going to be. Try to be aggressive on the promotions of thsoe guys unless they have a long way to assume their max potential then I'll drag their development a bit. Also to finalize rosters, always pick up 2-3 pitchers and a position player or 2 per level to sit in inactive in case of injuries.
Q: What is your basic strategy for setting your starting lineups and pitching rotation?
A: Starting Lineups, kinda like the pros, fast OBP guys at the top, mashers in the middle, and fast not so OBP guys at the bottom, though the bottom typically becomes your slick fielding no bat SS. Rotations, many stats i look at there, sta/dur vR/vL Control, Pitches. I keep 5 starters, 2 Long men, 3 set up guys, Closer, and Mopup.
Q: What do you believe are the most important individual player ratings for performance?
A: For hitter, Most important to me Power, but batting eye, splits and contact are also very important. For pitchers control. but again they have a lot of other very important ratings as well.
Q: How do you approach in-season player events like the draft, international prospects, waivers and promotions/demotions?
A: International Prospects is random, unless I really need a certain position at my lower minors I hold out for the sure thing MLers, draft I try to set my top 50 guys, again typically guys I know will make the majors in some capacity, after that if I have time I'll set up for decent minor leaguers and the off shot MLers.
Q: Do you think your strategy will be conducive to building a multi-season dynasty? Or, do you feel that your team may be great for a couple seasons, but then must rebuild?
A: My current team is still young but getting expensive, the trick to continually contending is good drafts, smart trading to get younger, and getting lucky in the International draft
Q: Do you have any favorite players from any of your HBD teams?
A: Yes, but I just traded him, he'll hit 40+ homeruns and steal 70+ bases for a long time for the Expos. With him gone probably Tommy Sweeney, my first 1st round pick so I'm a little partial to him too.
Q: How much time do you spend on your Hardball Dynasty teams? How much do you think is necessary to be competitive?
A: it varies usually multiple times a day for only about 15-30 min at a time. Of course during the draft and preseason you need a lot more time to get things set and going.
Q: Who are the users you respect the most?
A: I typically dont interact much in chat, typically just to congratulate a division mate or the WS winner, or to announce a firesale. But being my first league all the owners here have been awesome and informative and I've appreciated this league immensely.
Q: What is your favorite aspect of HBD?
A: The fun of it all.
Q: What is your least favorite aspect of Hardball Dynasty? As it is still a relatively new game, if you could change three things about HBD, what would they be?
A: Coach hiring, make it shorter, maybe make even a higher percentage of current coaches stay. and the only other complaint would be a little more stability in RPs. It seems they can have awesome ratings and still end up with ERAs above 5, then have a sub 1 era the next year then back to above 5 again. Too random in my opinion for being a randomized game
Q: If you were in one of our games, which sport would you play? At which position? And, what would you be rated?
A: I'd be in this one, as a Pitcher still hanging around in Rookie League praying for a Diamond in the Rough.
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