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[Robin]

The best of my Smallball teams is a nine star team in ProLeague seven. This team (463618 DT) has played well over its' career and all in all I have been very happy with their play of the last couple seasons. This season however they are losing to teams that i know they should be beating, but i just can't seem to figure out what is wrong. I know that one of my benchies needs to be rookied but there really isn't anything I can do about that.
I am still a newbie in the smallball world and so I am hoping that an experienced player would be willing to look over the team as an AT and see if their are any glaring errors. I would like to know how I can get my team back on track, thank you. PM me or post here if you are willing to help.
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[Philgil]

teams change over season and so do the players your best hitter last season could be your worst hitter this season the only thing i think you can do is change how you train them
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[chspogo]

tweak your schedule.. smallball players get fusy if they always have the same schedule
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[rikderimmer]

[pinstriped paully]

What's the problem? To be honest with you, your team seems to be doing just fine. I mean, you've got a pretty good chance to advance to the next pro league this season, and it looks like you have some pretty tough competition. Those teams are for the most part nine star teams with a few exceptions. You had a few heart breaking one run losses, if those had gone the other way, you would be guaranteed advancement to the next pro league. So just to get a few extra runs, you might want to adjust your batting order slightly. Also, some of your players have a rather low batting average. Might want to concentrate on offence for a while when training. Maybe give those guys on the bench a shot.

[rikderimmer]

Guess we are never sattisfied with the performance of our team unless we win every singel match.

I do not think that advancement will be a possibility in your case because that will at least require 12 wins in PL7. I agree with the low batting avarage because this avarage should be at least higher then 0.3 and approaching 0.4 for all players.

Do you train skill and/or contact on a frequent base?
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[mitype2]

I'm a retired drip does that make me an ex spurt?
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[kirbymaster28]

The 7th League is one of the toughest leagues to advance in the ProLeague.

As a former nine-star owning team, it took 3 seasons to get my team to advance past 7th League, but once I got into the 6th League, I blazed through it easily and then after 3 straight losses in the 5th League, my team continued on. 4th League was downright difficult. I spent 5 seasons between 4th League and 5th League until I quit (due to the fact that I had a new computer and couldn't get my old team back for some unknown reason).

Don't be hard on yourself if you can't seem to advance. Usually, it's because your players don't have good enough batting contact or batting skill. Power shouldn't even be an issue in games that go right down to the wire.

Trust me, once you get past 7th League, you should have no problem

[nelmo]