YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

I have a pay-league keeper draft on Monday. I picked up someone else's team, and I am dumping all but 3 guys.

wow!

i have a yahoo one with some co-workers (6 teams)! and i'm trying the b0 d0g one this year, just for kicks

12 mgr $ league

Fielders
C - Joe Mauer
1B - Paul Konerko
2B - Robinson Cano
SS - Hanley Ramirez
3B - Larry "Chipper" Jones
OF - Ichiro Suzuki
OF - Jeremy Hermida
OF - Aaron Rowand
DH - JIM THO...ME

Bench
2B - Kelly Johnson
OF - Josh Willingham
3B - Kevin Kouzmanoff
C - Benji Molina

Pitchers
SP - Daisuke Matsuzaka
SP - Aaron Harang
SP - Joe Blanton
SP - AJ Burnett
SP - Randy Johnson
RP - Huston Street
RP - Brian Wilson

don't know if i can be much help with the aide-de-B0ra$ - but i'm here for you brah

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OH! sharing!

my 12 team:
C • B. McCann
1b • L. Berkman
2b • K. Johnson
ss • M. Tejada
3b • C. Jones
of • M. Holliday
of • S. Victorino
of • B. Hawpe
utl • Adam Jones

of • K. Fukodome
3b • T. Glaus

sp • E. Bedard
sp • C. Young
sp • T. Lilly
sp • F. Liriano
sp • C. Buchholz
sp • D. McGowan

rp • J. Nathan
rp • C. Marmol
rp • bj ryan

OK here's the beef:

1. (11) Johan Santana SP
2. (18) David Ortiz 1B
3. (39) Adam Dunn OF
4. (46) C.C. Sabathia SP
5. (67) Ian Kinsler 2B
6. (74) Brian McCann C
7. (95) Brad Hawpe OF
8. (102) Bobby Jenks RP
9. (123) Matt Cain SP
10. (130) Rich Hill SP
11. (151) Dustin McGowan SP
12. (158) Jhonny Peralta SS
13. (179) Troy Glaus 3B
14. (186) Oliver Perez SP
15. (207) Mike Cameron OF
16. (214) Brian Wilson RP
17. (235) Michael Bourn OF
18. (242) Pat Neshek RP
19. (263) Mark Reynolds 3B
20. (270) Mark Buehrle SP
21. (291) Jack Cust OF
22. (298) Josh Bard C
23. (319) Luke Scott OF
24. (326) Jayson Nix 2B
25. (347) Chad Qualls RP

your OF will have a rough April IMO

10-team league i do w/ some bros from school: (4 OF positions, 2 util, H2H, traditional stats)..got a lot of dudes i wanted cuz lots of them are ATL homers and took braves irrationally high --

C - Russ Martin
1B - Justin Morneau
2B - BJ Upton
SS - Hanley Ramirez
3B - Ryan Zimmerman
OF - Hunter Pence
OF - Josh Hamilton
OF - Jermaine Dye
OF - Pat Burrell
Util - Carlos Guillen
Util - Paul Konerko
Bench - Evan Longoria
Bench - Lastings Milledge
Bench - Michael Bourne

SP - Jake Peavy
SP - Chris Young
RP - Billy Wagner
RP - Todd Jones
P - Brian Fuentes
P - Andy Pettitte
P - John Maine
Bench - Jeff Francis

12 team, 5x5 league. First three rounds of the draft were last year's keepers.

1. (7) B.J. Upton 2B,OF
2. (8) Miguel Cabrera 3B
3. (9) Adam Dunn OF

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4. (39) C.C. Sabathia SP
5. (58) Hunter Pence OF
6. (63) Jarrod Saltalamacchia C,1B
7. (82) Ryan Zimmerman 3B
8. (87) Billy Wagner RP
9. (106) Todd Helton 1B
10. (111) Khalil Greene SS
11. (130) Kosuke Fukudome OF
12. (135) Joba Chamberlain RP
13. (154) Ian Snell SP
14. (159) Jeremy Bonderman SP
15. (178) Justin Upton OF
16. (183) Zack Greinke SP,RP
17. (202) Jonathan Broxton RP
18. (207) Jeff Kent 2B
19. (226) Ian Kennedy SP
20. (231) Jason Giambi 1B
21. (250) Brian Fuentes RP

12 teams, with scoring rules I can never keep straight and 10 keepers... this season we scrapped the minor league system we've had for a decade.

C - Geovanny Soto
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Brian Roberts
3B - David Wright
SS - Jhonny Peralta
OF - Nick Markakis
OF - Chris Young
OF - Raul Ibanez or Jacoby Ellsbury or Delmon Young
UT - Chone Figgins
bench - Nick Johnson, Edwin Encarnacion, JR Towles

SP - Johan Santana
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - Tim Lincecum
SP - Pedro Martinez
SP - Johnny Cueto
RP - Joe Nathan
RP - Jonathan Papelbon
RP - CJ Wilson
P - Randy Johnson
P - Manny Parra
P - Mark Prior

I kinda tanked my draft I think.

10 team league drawn from folks on an o's messageboard at which i post. i slept through part of the draft. league allows for 5 dl slots and two util positions offensively.

the field:

Brian McCann
Ryan Howard
Rickie Weeks
Miguel Cabrera
Orlando Cabrera
Josh Fields
Ichiro Suzuki
Kosuke Fukudome
Mark Teixeira
Nate McLouth
Jeremy Hermida
Juan Pierre
Justin Upton
Stephen Drew

the pitchers:

John Lackey
Scott Kazmir
Francisco Rodríguez
Chad Billingsley
Kelvim Escobar
Pedro Martínez
Ian Snell
Edison Vólquez

not bad for napping part way through!

Do you like my 7-man rotation?

I signed up for a 20-team league where you draft 30 guys (27 starters), and every two weeks one team gets eliminated. I've never done a league like this. Here's my ultra-weird roster:

C: Soto, Jeff Mathis
1B: Giambi, Mike Sweeney
2B: Kelly Johnson, Eugenio Velez
3B: Kevin Kouzmanoff, Willy Aybar
SS: Miguel Tejada, Rich Aurilia
LF: Chris Duncan, Adam Jones
CF: Ryan Church, Nyjer Morgan
RF: Josh Hamilton, Randy Winn
Util: Paul McAnulty, David Dellucci
Bn: Chin-lung Hu

SP: Peavy, Sabathia, Haren, Jared Weaver, Ian Kennedy, Mike Hampton, Carlos Villanueva, Dustin Moseley

RP: Kerry Wood, Heath Bell, Chad Qualls

Magic ILBBall, should I trade Rich Hill for Adam "Papa" LaRoche?

ugh i would nott

Even though I have Glaus @ 3rd (if he doesn't get hurt, he's still only going to sit out 1 game @ series) and the league also requires me to start an additional corner infielder (who is at present Mark Reynolds), and coupled with Hill's shaky control this spring...?

hmm i actually like mark reynolds but i guess it prob depends on what your other SPing is like. i still think hill will have a good season if he stays healthy. also ive just never been a laroche fan

His guys:
Carlos Quentin
George Sherrill
Randy Wolf

for my guys:
Brad Hawpe
C.C. Sabathia

Y/N?

eah.

Maybe? Sherrill's a lock to get many saves (as many as BAL will allow, anyway), tho:

1) I imagine CC's going to straighten out (you're trading him at the worst possible time, obv), and Randy Wolf's pitching as well as he will be all year (and is only a 6-inning pitcher, and ridiculously injury-prone, and could be meat outside of Petco).

2) Hawpe's going to outproduce CQ by a wide margin, I imagine.

If saves mean that much to you, go for it. Otherwise, I'd pass.

That's one of the better offers I've gotten for CC so far. Other was him and Papi for Westbrook, Crede, and C-Pat. This being the Bora$ league, I have to think that these trades are actually not stupid, but some elaborate psy-ops overture to the soon-to-materialize knuckle-deep negotiations.

FIRST PLACE IN TWO LEAGUES.

If only the season stopped today I'd be up $3500.

STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE

His guys are all the sort you can get off the wire all year if you look for them, whereas CC is a top 50 fantasy player who's struggling right now. You're better off hiding him on your bench and trying to cover for him with some young guy for awhile. We're not even out of April yet.

14-team 4x4 keeper league. Pitching's been very suspect so far, but I didn't have any choice but to trade Hiroki Kuroda when somebody offered me Drew and Bruce for him (!).

C: Kenji Johjima, Jason Kendall (two starters on every team)
1B: Mark Teixeira
2B: Dustin Pedroia
3B: Chipper Jones
SS: Michael Young
MI: Yunel Escobar
CI: Richie Sexson
OF: J.D. Drew
OF: Jonny Gomes
OF: Vladimir Guerrero
OF: Josh Hamilton
OF: Matt Holliday
OF: Matt Kemp
Bench/Injured: Ryan Theriot, Jay Bruce, J.R. Towles, Elijah Dukes

P: Zach Duke
P: Tim Hudson
P: Jair Jurrjens
P: Ian Kennedy
P: Kevin Millwood
P: Micah Owings
P: Jonathan Papelbon
P: Justin Verlander
P: Billy Wagner
Bench/Injured: Manny Parra, Matt Garza, Dontrelle Willis

so i just flipped Joe Mauer for Ben Sheets (already had McCain catching and have now picked up Doumit).
good trade or best trade ever?

lol @ McCain

heh. can you tell i'm hungry?!

so i just flipped Joe Mauer for Ben Sheets (already had McCain catching and have now picked up Doumit).
good trade or best trade ever?

This is not change I can believe in.

My 20-team elimination league is down to 13 teams. Now my pitching staff is:

Haren
Zambrano
Sabathia
Beckett
Bench: Eveland
Bench: Lilly
DL: Peavy

Wood
Fuentes
+relievers

That's a pretty dang good 1-5, I think.

Lilly's been a tad sketchy lately tho.

That's why he's on the bench!

But yeah, I bought low on him a little. He's like the JD Drew of pitchers.

The JD Drew of pitchers = Rich Harden
The Ted Lilly of hitters = Jose Guillen

The Ted Lilly of hitters has been raking lately (both of them).

okay, in my other league, i had a bunch ofpitchers on the DL to start the year so i'm well under my innings quota. only reliever specific stat is saves. my staff is currently:

kazmir
lackey
pedro
verlander
volquez
harden
jason bergmann
k-rod
jon rauch
c.j. wilson

ah yes - the pedro/harden one-two dl knockout punch!

my other bizarre-o 6-team league went totally bonkers just before the trade deadline - the net results of the 4 trades i was involved in:

got:
Chase Utley
Hanley Ramirez
Brian McCann
Cole Hamels
Joe Saunders

for:
Ian Kinsler
Michael Young
Brain Roberts
Carlos Zambrano
Kevin Gregg
Joe Saunders (i got him and then traded him immediately!)

that's some crazy shit, no?!

Lee, I hope to God you did NOT trade CC.

CC is still a whatever-the-hell-my-team-name-is, but only because I haven't touched that league since Papi first got hurt.

just managed to get Youkilis for Brian Roberts from a SB-starved (yet 1st place) team! (Beltre and Cris Davis *were* my 3B guys)

v. proud that in my h2h(i know) league that i am 61-9 over the past 6 wks...it's only got me up to 4th/12 teams, but at least im prob safe 2 make the playoffs

i am in a 12 team work h2h league with $250 on the table that is a total joke.
min innings were set to 10, which i took full advantage of on draft day. it also caused a minor revolt six weeks in when people realized what was happening.

punting wins and Ks, two elite closers, two strong closers. edwin jackson and latos off the wire as backup innings eaters.

here's my lol offense:

Pos Edit Batters draft actual
C A.J. Pierzynski 206 218
1B Prince Fielder 21 9
2B Brian Roberts 39 22
3B Michael Young 80 34
SS Clint Barmes 323 127
LF Ryan Braun 7 6
CF Marlon Byrd 316 135
RF Ben Zobrist 305 42
Util Nelson Cruz 124 93
BN Aramis Ramírez 28 469
BN Nyjer Morgan 313 67
BN Carlos Peña 101 70
DL Justin Upton 129 56

lol 1st playoff week & prob the 1st day i bench pedroia all year cuz he went 3/26 over the last wk & he hits 2 hrs his 1st 2 ABs

1 thing that is heartening 2 know is that my opponent's add of NELSON FIGUEROA 2 days ago was not the determinitive factor..though it nearly was, as complete games was a scoring category

oh well, 2nd place!

Paging Prince Fielder...would you wake up and join your team, please...

Other (auto-drafted) team apparently in no hurry to surpass opponent who has never played a left fielder while Cliff Lee remains on the DL and Barry Zito rots on the bench.

Anybody think Jimmy Rollins is going to be healthy this year?

Recommendation: Hill doesn't have a multi-hit game since May 9 and is now batting .156 on the season. He was definitely due to regress this season, but this is getting ridiculous. With a 25:20 K:BB ratio, he remains a strong buy-low target.

so in my other league i proposed a trade to a SP starved team, buchholz (from me) for denard span (from him) -- my outfield right now is a bunch of guys who are gonna hit .275 w/ homers & rbi (ethier, heyward, hawpe, marlon byrd, victorino) & i'm looking for a solid average outfielder -- i feel like this is a pretty even trade, but my friend was telling me that span was pretty worthless

Apart from early and late April, he has been solid AVG-wise.

9 NSB (9/10) already -- he was at 13 last year.

I MAKE THIS DEAL.

alright cool

lol @ johan being the weak link in my starting staff

Tim Lincecum
Ubaldo Jiménez
Cliff Lee
Matt Garza
Johan Santana
Jonathan Papelbon
Heath Bell
Ryan Franklin

9 NSB (9/10) already -- he was at 13 last year.

Meant to say 10/11.

denard span is the real but must suffer from some shin-soo choo disease as no one appreciates him.
to bring it back to ilxor people were all NO WAY about the Jones/Capps trade which i thought was odd. then a week later found out Jones was a first half all-star last year which sort of explains it.

i was more incredulous at Prado/Span as the former is an infield switchblade due for some serious regression while Span could be Uptonesque soon.

i was more incredulous at Prado/Span as the former is an infield switchblade due for some serious regression while Span could be Uptonesque soon.

Yeah, well... takes one to know one! :(

to be fair, prado has had two steady seasons w/ about the same numbers -- obv he's not gonna hit .340 but it's not out of the question for him to hit .320+

i don't know Prado's always looked like Angel Pagan to me with infield elgibility. not that that shouldn't be discounted.
two weeks ago i was watching a braves game and he was announced as the third baseman, i was like no he's a 1B,2B,3B.

btw no attack on Leee i think any trade makes sense if it fills a need
roto trades don't amount to much across a season's length

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The thing I really love about my other league is that the other managers don't seem to give a shit, or they have a life or something. The guy who has Strasburg didn't bother starting him tonight.

same with my other league. i even sent him a text abut it!

Trailing NSV leader by 30 and ahead of third-place NSV by 64, so I'm shutting down my closer corps (of five pitchers). Doubt I'll have to do anything like that again. (Maybe I should have done it a couple weeks ago.)

am in the 2-wk-long finals of my H2H league but my opponent has tulo :<

i was thinking of doing the same - dispersing the closers and adding guys where there'll be more impact. or at least two of them (i has 4)

parting with Wagner Soria or Capps is going to feel wrong tho.

fuckin danny valencia w/ 2hr 5rbi (so far) on my bench!

anyone else in close finishes clicking stattracker like a cracked out lab rat?

YES!! i have been in a seesaw battle for 1st for about a month. 6.5 point lead going into today! i'm feeling good. Jay the Bruce has been team hero for the last few days!

think im gonna win! I learned my lesson, Nelson figueroa is a last-day-of-season all-star!

i've never had a last day like this.

in one league i'm almost in a money spot but been in a dead heat with the competition the last two months. another we've been wildly swinging back and forth for the championship this week and the difference in who wins as of right now is .004 points of OPS.

Yea I basically won by 1 strikeout

my entire season hinges on Venable's AB right now.

^^ looking back at the box score Venable K'ed twice but I still took the league by the skin of my teeth.

Was thinking about starting an auction league one-off for ilxors and/or friends. Never done an auction before and thought it might be fun, but I don't want to distract from Therm's ILB roto league.

What's a good set up for a minimum maintenance league? Didn't Ade run one? I was thinking roto style auction, with no trades, no free agents, and no faab. Sort of like a set it and the fun would be in the auction itself and how it plays out months later. Would people get bummed about injuries not being able to replace? And how would one set up pitching scoring so active managers with an eye on their starters wouldn't have an advantage? No bench?

Any interest out there?

i've always wanted to try an auction - but i already run a 2nd league with my friends/coworkers here and for me a 3rd would be too much.

yeah i hear you, in the same boat. been meaning to do this for a couple years then saw this today:
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/yahoo_saber_league/

i'd just join that except:

1) won't join another Sunday afternoon draft when beautiful warm spring is here
2) not really feeling setting pitchers or keeping an eye on the waiver wire

you know what, f it, i think i'll try this instead: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fangraphs-gets-a-fantasy-game/#comments

I want to do an auction if anyone winds up doing one.

i might do the auction and then abandon the team (if i'm capable of such a thing)

The stat service I use for the five money leagues I run (Fanball) is shutting down. Which means I have to pick another service and re-enter ~1800 players and their contracts. And thus far it looks like Fanball was the only one with a semi-modern front end (type in part of a name and it fills in the rest or gives you the nearest options), all the others require a lot of scrolling.

auction always seems novel but I think I would give myself a panic attack or something trying to figure it all out and not end up with the worlds shittiest team and like, pujols.

That's what makes it so awesome! The risk of drafting poorly is sooooo much higher.

so how does that work anyways? are you bidding against other teams - or is there a set price for players or what?
or what.

You are bidding against other teams. Poly is correct about the risk, but there's additional tension as it's a little like monopoly or eBay -- you want to deplete other team's resources. If I hate Jeter but my projections say he's worth $10 and he's about to go for $4 then I price enforce with an $8 bid.. and I might be stuck holding the bag.

The main problem is that these drafts can last 4+ hours, really more of an in person thing.

btw milo z that sounds like a horrifying situation

If you do in-person leagues at all, I highly recommend auctions. Much more fun, much more exciting, and it seems to involve people in their teams more than if they just drafted.

One league I made up the rules for has a small roster (one apiece at each infield spot, three outfield, one UT/DH, six pitchers) and a cap of $220. Your entry fee is whatever your team initially cost. Aside from the usual 'nominate someone you don't want to flush out the money' gamesmanship (which is totes fun), you also have to weigh whether that late-in-the-auction player is worth five real dollars or if you're content to wait for a one-dollar player. And it hurts just a little more when you're actually dropping $70 on Pujols and he shatters every bone in his body on the first play of Opening Day.

For our keeper leagues, prices increase by a set amount each year based on what their salary was last year (so a $1-5 player becomes $7, $6-10 becomes $12, etc. on up to topping out at $54). So you can keep that rookie $1 steal forever, if you want, but after six years he'll cost you $54 and from then on you can keep him forever at that. Or if you buy Pujols this year for $60 you keep him forever at that (or don't).

I don't like the free agent bidding process in the season, too complicated. We do reverse-order pickups, and any new pickup starts at a salary of $5 or $10 depending on the league.

Found Fantrax, they seem awesome, and they're half the price per league Fanball was last year.

Also if you realize you have a shitty team right off the bat (you chickened out on buying any superstars, etc.) it's fun to try and steal young cheap players during the auction and build for the future. Only applicable if you don't care about losing money this year and you're sure it will be around down the road. I first played in one of my leagues in 1990, when I was 9 (and won! courtesy Bobby Thigpen and Cecil Fielder), so I'm pretty comfortable in assuming we can keep them going from year to year.

impressive!

someone plz alert me when HACKING MASS goesup in late March, thx

let's say I had 30 minutes to prepare for an (online) auction draft when I'd never done one before...

what would be good to keep in mind?

hmmm. get drunk asap.

ah - positional scarcity maybe?

am getting drunk tbh!

is there some half-decent cheatsheet w/r/t player values?

why is ~$260 the amount instead of some nice round number?

When I get to pick the guy who's up for bidding, I always pick guys I know I don't want at all and let other people spend their money, so I have more money left over for the guys I do want.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://games-ak.espn.go.com/s/flbdraftkit/11/mlbdk2k11_300.pdf?addata%3D2011%3Dflbdft_cht_sht_300_xxx&pli=1

i've never done an auction before, so i'm no real help - aside from encouraging you to drink.
sort of jealous tho - would love to try one sometimes (2 teams is enough for me).

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nice, thanks pp

i seriously had a dream/nightmare that i signed up for a 3rd

that espn list - is that fine for a 10 person $262 league? the values seem a lot lower

here's what I ended up with:

c - brian mccann
1b - miguel cabrera
2b - kinsler
3b - arod
ss - jimmy rollins
of - ryan bruan
- ichiro
- grady sizemore (this spot will be the ??? zone)
util - justin morneau

bn - rajai davis, brian roberts, ryan raburn, ike davis

sp - sabathia, verlander
rp - jonathan broxton, leo nunez
p - chad billingsley, david aardsma, phil hughes

bn - matt garza, jaime garcia, cj wilson, jonny venters

I like auction more than I thought I would, I think I prefer it even

Looks good to me!

CJ Wilson and Chad Billinsgley are most definitely starting pitchers!

i'd really like to try auction.. curious about the new fangraphs WAR leagues too, just don't have any time before opening day to sit through a 5-6 hour auction without distractions.

how long did the draft take?

bout 3 hours, sorta draining

i'd love to do a slow draft auction.. nominate multiple players at once online and rather than a minute clock have the gavel go down a day or two after bids cease.

Brandon Funston is the ugliest fantasy sports expert.

in a keeper league that i won last yr i just noticed how unbelievably stacked on of my opponents teams is, shit is nuts

tulo
kemp
votto
bautista
fielder
posey

+tabata

not much pitching but grienke & wainwright on the dl

have my draft tonight & feel so unprepared!

have the 3rd pick -- how are ppl ranking say -

kemp
miggy
braun
pujols

?

i cant believe i just got big game james in the 5th rd

didnt mean to but i got the brewers projected 3-4-5 hm

1.	(3)	Ryan Braun
(Mil - OF)
2.	(22)	Cliff Lee 
(Phi - SP) K
3.	(27)	Michael Young
(Tex - 1B,2B,3B)
4.	(46)	Aramis Ramirez
(Mil - 3B)
5.	(51)	James Shields
(TB - SP)
6.	(70)	Billy Butler
(KC - 1B)
7.	(75)	Brian Wilson 
(SF - RP) K
8.	(94)	J.J. Hardy
(Bal - SS)
9.	(99)	David Ortiz
(Bos - Util)
10.	(118)	Mark Trumbo
(LAA - 1B,OF)
11.	(123)	Tyler Clippard
(Was - RP)
12.	(142)	Logan Morrison
(Mia - OF)
13.	(147)	Ryan Roberts
(Ari - 2B,3B)
14.	(166)	Andrew McCutchen 
(Pit - OF) K
15.	(171)	Jeff Francoeur
(KC - OF)
16.	(190)	Miguel Montero 
(Ari - C) K
17.	(195)	Doug Fister 
(Det - SP) K
18.	(214)	Jordan Walden 
(LAA - RP) K
19.	(219)	Matt Moore 
(TB - RP) K
20.	(238)	Bud Norris
(Hou - SP)
21.	(243)	Johan Santana
(NYM - SP)
22.	(262)	Joaquin Benoit
(Det - RP)
23.	(267)	R.A. Dickey
(NYM - SP)
24.	(286)	Mat Gamel
(Mil - Util)

You got fuckIng Matt Moore in the 19th fucking round?!

keeper from last yr

oh.

i guess that explains McCutchen too.

i had a draft last weekend that was Al only and by the end - i didn't even know who i was drafting.
curious to see what ILBB thinks of the trivial decisions i was making towards the end...
i picked Jarred Parker over Brad Peacock and Dayan Viciedo over Alejandro De Aza.
none of whom i'd heard of before that draft had started!

h2h league has gotten p interesting w/ everyone wise 2 streaming sps as much, i find myself picking up really marginal guys defensively just in case my opponent adds them and they throw a weird, not uncommon last week-ish gem

streaming sps?!

fortunately my opponent streamed carlos villanueva 2nght -__-

As did I in an h2h league. oh, vanillawafer.

the worst thing in the world is being forced to stream like crazy because your opponent is streaming like crazy, and you can't bring up the possibility of an IP limit because the commissioner does it too

it is on some game theory nuclear elevation ish

10 team league drawn from folks on an o's messageboard at which i post. i slept through part of the draft. league allows for 5 dl slots and two util positions offensively.

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lol i want to know what messageboard and what league this was, i might've been in it

not sure if i'll join but came across this insanely complicated slow draft league kicking off this weekend where you are limited by real contracts and a $100 million payroll: http://homeruntrot.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=leaguerules&action=display&thread=3

keeper league with a minor league draft too. reminded me of clemenza's work on 2012 WAR/salary value plays, not that I can find that thread.

think u mean z_s

2012 awards thread

yep it was z_s, nice work there.

so we has the draft for my 12 team AL ONLY league yesterday. the last six rounds were hilarious, as no one had any clue whatsoever.

*had the draft yesterday, not has.

my hilarious line-up:

C - Salvador Perez
1b - Mark Trumbo / Youkilis
2b - Dustin Pedroia
SS - Jed Lowrie
3b - Brett Lawrie / Trumbo / Youkilis
OF - Michael Morse, Andy Dirks, Craig Gentry, Seth Smith, Wil Meyers & a waiver claim on Jackie Bradley or failing that Darin Mastroianni

SP - Price, Fister, Hellickson, Tillman, Gavin Floyd, Bad Norris & Michael Pineda (DL)
RP - Grant Balfour, Al Aberquerque, Matt Thornton, Scott Downs (hold are a stat)

My other league is 8 people that I know IRL and it's super casual, 9 batting positions, points H2H, 5 bench spots, lock players for the week, and most interestingly you pick a pitching staff instead of individual pitchers. We each got 2 keepers (picked in rd 1/2) and the expansion teams got two "free" picks in the first two rounds from the non-keepered dudes. Every team looks like a separate all-star team, it's silly. Here's mine:

Rd 1, Pk 7 - Mike Trout (Keeper 1)
Rd 2, Pk 2 - Matt Kemp (Keeper 2)
Rd 3, Pk 7 - Ian Kinsler
Rd 4, Pk 2 - Ryan Zimmerman
Rd 5, Pk 7 - Paul Goldschmidt
Rd 6, Pk 2 - Washington Nationals
Rd 7, Pk 7 - Billy Butler
Rd 8, Pk 2 - Jacoby Ellsbury (yeah nobody wanted to fuck with JE)
Rd 9, Pk 7 - Ian Desmond
Rd 10, Pk 2 - Miguel Montero
Rd 11, Pk 7 - Oakland Athletics
Rd 12, Pk 2 - Adam Eaton
Rd 13, Pk 7 - Jimmy Rollins (seriously I just took the dudes nobody wanted to fuck with)
Rd 14, Pk 2 - Mike Moustakas
Rd 15, Pk 7 - Chris Davis
Rd 16, Pk 2 - Angel Pagan (dropped for Yasiel Puig as a stasher, gonna pick him up again when Eaton gets DLed finally)

Arguably one of the worst teams in the league, and my first H2H opponent:

Rd 1, Pk 2 - Jose Bautista (keeper 1)
Rd 2, Pk 7 - Chase Headley (keeper 2)
Rd 3, Pk 2 - Prince Fielder
Rd 4, Pk 7 - Aaron Hill
Rd 5, Pk 2 - Danny Espinosa (apparently an accident, he got real mad when he realized he did that)
Rd 6, Pk 7 - Michael Bourn
Rd 7, Pk 2 - Toronto Blue Jays (homer)
Rd 8, Pk 7 - Joe Mauer
Rd 9, Pk 2 - Shin-Soo Choo
Rd 10, Pk 7 - Elvis Andrus
Rd 11, Pk 2 - Josh Reddick
Rd 12, Pk 7 - Tyler Colvin
Rd 13, Pk 2 - Michael Saunders (canadian homer)
Rd 14, Pk 7 - Pedro Alvarez
Rd 15, Pk 2 - Alex Avila
Rd 16, Pk 7 - Arizona Diamondbacks

Is that through MLB.com? I remember they did that team pitching thing (not a fan).

drafted for my annual money league which is the only league i care about (bc money) and i ended up drafting every single trendy sleeper pitcher and now i'm worried. i just couldn't stop. i even compiled a list of boring pitchers to aim for because i always ignore boring pitchers. and i ignored the entire list. this is getting to be a problem :(

Yu Darvish
Matt Moore
Max Scherzer
Tim Lincecum
Jeff Samardzija
Brett Anderson
Matt Harvey
Jason Hammel

well, take off hammel and add marco estrada and julio teheran and i would've had all of them

Yeah, it's through them.

I actually find it really refreshing. Way, way way less streaming/other shenanigans w/ pitching (altho sometimes people will pick up a middling team because their ace has two starts or particularly weak opponents). But also a lot of people in the league, god love em, would probably be overwhelmed if they had to know the difference between two different non-Toronto 4th starters or 8th inning loogies. The system wouldn't work if the points weren't so well-balanced between pitching & batting (or if it were roto or if you could swap out players/staffs ever day).

This is the second year we've run it though and last year was an absolute blast, probably the most enjoyment I've ever gotten out of a fantasy game, because I knew everyone and even the least fantasy-geek inclined people were completely engaged all season.

xp btw

and then in my points league i ended up with a really weird team bc pitchers always get more points than hitters, so if you organize ESPN's draft module thing by projected points you end up with a top 50 that includes like 35 pitchers. apparently EVERYONE else in the draft only paid attention to this and filled up quick on pitching because they don't understand how value works. so i ended up with this lineup:

C: Buster Posey
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Ian Kinsler
3B: Pablo Sandoval
SS: Marco Scutaro
OF: Matt Holliday
OF: Jason Heyward
OF: Norichika Aoki
UTIL: Nick Swisher

and meanwhile my pitching staff is worse than the norm but not by much

jesus... how many people in this?!

it's 10 teams so it's already pretty shallow, but i also got some good pitchers in there too

like jon niese, who is projected to make more points than all of them except pujols

has anyone done an ottoneu? my friend's younger bro is starting 1 and i only very vaguely know what it is, but i kinda want 2 do it i think

u guys wont hurt my feelings if by way of seeing my ZiPS projections in ilx2k13 suggesting that im prob too dumb for ottoneu~

it has a dumb name so no

Um... What is it?

im just gonna start reading abt it; the name at least is from this dude
(http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1009525&position=SS)
and my hunch is the idea that u need to be on the level as if u wld know who the modern day equiv of this meaningless bastard today ~ ie. behave like an actual gm or w/e

hopefully its so realistic that i can act like steve phillips and get some action from an intern

13 teams; Hitters: R, H, HR, RBI, AVG, OPS, NSB; Pitchers: W, HR, K, ERA, WHIP, OBPA, SV+H. I drafted #6:

C: Salvador Perez
1B: Adrian Gonzalez
2B: Neil Walker
3B: Adrian Beltre
SS: Asdrubal Cabrera
LF: Carlos Gonzalez
CF: Yoenis Cespedes
RF: Lorenzo Cain
UTIL: Michael Bourn

Bench: Kendrys Morales, Howie Kendrick, Hunter Pence, Andrelton Simmons, Ryan Doumit, Daniel Murphy

SP: Yu Darvish, Yovani Gallardo, Jarrod Parker, Jeremy Hellickson
RP: Joe Nathan, Jim Johnson, Grant Balfour, Ernesto Frieri

14 teams small roster league I made up a couple of years ago - AVG, HR, RBI, net steals, OPS, R; 2xW-L, net saves, K/9, QS, ERA, WHIP
it's as stat-friendly as I can get the locals

I was having some trouble running the auction (noisy sports bar) and I'm not totally enamored of my team. Also totes fucked if Ryan Braun gets suspended, I dropped $68 of our $250 budget on him.

Montero, Miguel C - ARI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Goldschmidt, Paul 1B - ARI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Utley, Chase 2B - PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Alvarez, Pedro 3B - PIT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Rollins, Jimmy SS - PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Braun, Ryan OF - MIL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Choo, Shin-Soo OF - CIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Upton, B.J. OF - ATL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - .000
Konerko, Paul 1B - CHW

Griffin, A.J. P - OAK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - -
Kuroda, Hiroki P - NYY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - -
Lester, Jon P - BOS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - -
Minor, Mike P - ATL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - -
Parker, Jarrod P - OAK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - -
Samardzija, Jeff P - CHC

12-team traditional rotisserie league, $300 cap - I won it my first year playing in 1991 w/ Cecil Fielder and Bobby Thigpen leading the charge; I don't remember collecting winnings as a 10-year old, tbh, so I think I might have gotten screwed. I think I've managed to win every 4-5 years since then on average.
I had to throw back Jason Heyward @17, Mike Napoli@17, Billy Butler@27, some other good ones due to keeper restrictions. But I have Strasburg and Bryce Harper cheap and some other quality youth cheap - prices increase by a schedule every year, so if you keep a $16-21 player this year, he's $22 next year then $27 and on up until $52 where the price sticks.

C - Arencibia $3
C - Posey $17
1B - Rizzo $7
2B - Uggla $11 - I really wanted Jedd Gyorko here but I started bidding on Uggla and I don't know why
3B - Beltre $27
SS - Castro $12
1/3 - Alvarez $17
2/S - Jeter $8 - there was no one left, fuck fuck fuck
OF - Bourn $21
OF - Harper $7
OF - Adam Jones $22
OF - Markakis $6
OF - BJ Upton $35 - oh shit have him in two leagues fuck
UT - VERNON WELLS - lol cut him for the best free agent left

Josh Beckett - $1
AJ Burnett - $4
AJ Griffin - $5
Dan Haren - $7
Hellickson - $8
Motte - $12 - hope you don't need a new elbow, bro
Niese - $7
Parnell - $5
Strasburg - $17
Verlander - $27

Minors:
Travis D'Arnaud
Leonys Martin
Manny Banuelos
Archie Bradley
Dylan Bundy

I tend to blow off saves and try to get them during the season, but our auctions don't really work out for going with super-cheap pitching so I never quite nail down the LIMA plan/etc.

also two big roster (24 active, 10 reserve, 5 minors) draft leagues but they're boring and I only play in them because I always have. Auctions are so much better. If you've only played draft or online, find a local group and have an auction league!

Second one I have buyer's remorse on keeping Adam Jones @ $22 over Heyward @ $17, but I think Jones has a lower floor for this year at least.

nice price on starlin

was thinking the same thing on castro

Posey, Rizzo, Castro, Harper, Strasburg all started out in my minors
first year call-up, the salary is $5, goes up to $7 then up in $5 increments every year. If you pay attention to your minors, you can build a solid, cheap core. I'm jelly of the guy who beat me to Trout in the minor league draft.

The only thing that's screwed me is that we only protect 6 position players/4 pitchers max. Everyone else uses Baseball America or w/e for their minors draft, so they wind up with single-A shortstops who can't hit beyond the five or six guys who get a lot of press.

feel ok abt this draft from last night. wasn't happy w/ the wraparound last/first pick scenario and also being directly behind the 3rd and 2nd place finishers from last yr (draft order decided by reverse finish order prev yr), i literally 4 times had guys queued up that were picked right b4 me

Round Pick Player
1. (12) Matt Cain
2. (13) Aramis Ramirez
3. (36) Jimmy Rollins
4. (37) Joe Mauer
5. K(60) Billy Butler
6. (61) Rafael Soriano
7. (84) Adam LaRoche
8. (85) Michael Morse
9. (108) Todd Frazier
10. (109) Oscar Taveras
11. (132) Jason Kubel
12. K(133) Andrew McCutchen
13. (156) Matt Harrison
14. (157) Ernesto Frieri
15. (180) Ben Revere
16. K(181) Matt Moore
17. K(204) Jarrod Parker
18. K(205) Jose Altuve
19. K(228) R.A. Dickey
20. (229) David Hernandez
21. (252) Jeff Keppinger
22. (253) Carlos Marmol
23. (276) Jason Vargas
24. (277) Hyun-Jin Ryu

currently on my roster:

Jason Motte (DL)
Mitchell Boggs
Trevor Rosenthal
Edward Mujica

my only other closer is greg holland. should've fucking punted saves.

just gonna c&p how filthy this dudes team is in my, decently-competitive, yahoo h2h league right now, shit is mind boggling

C Victor Martinez
(Det - C)
1B Freddie Freeman
(Atl - 1B)
2B Everth Cabrera
(SD - 2B,SS)
3B Evan Longoria
(TB - 3B)
SS Jean Segura
(Mil - SS)
OF Chris Davis
(Bal - 1B,OF)
OF Jose Bautista
(Tor - OF)
OF Mike Trout
(LAA - OF)
Util Adrian Beltre
(Tex - 3B)
Util Kyle Seager
(Sea - 2B,3B)
BN Joey Votto
(Cin - 1B)
BN Michael Cuddyer
(Col - 1B,OF)

SP Adam Wainwright
(StL - SP)
SP Matt Harvey
(NYM - SP)
RP Jason Grilli
(Pit - RP)
RP Glen Perkins
(Min - RP)
P Kenley Jansen
(LAD - RP)
P Trevor Rosenthal
(StL - RP)
P Kevin Gregg
(ChC - RP)
BN Jim Henderson
(Mil - RP)
BN Shelby Miller
(StL - SP,RP)
BN Hisashi Iwakuma
(Sea - SP,RP)
BN Clayton Kershaw
(LAD - SP)
DL Michael Pineda
(NYY - SP)DL
DL Brandon Beachy
(Atl - SP)DL

fuck fuck fuck
jsut made a huge blockbuster trade deadline deal
desmond, davis and tigers pitching staff out (hard to explain)
jupton, granderson, harper in
15 minutes later
harper leaves the game
possibly oblique injury
UUUUGGGGHHHHH

ok two days ok ok ok calm down will

with grandy off the dl and heyward hitting better, i had a v packed OF -- those 2 + bautista, rios, de aza and aoki for four spots. and ben zobies can move over in a pinch. so i just traded rios for aj burnett w/a dude with a whole lot of pitching desperate for a OF. sort of surprised he jumped on it so quickly, sort of worried abt burnett being a million yrs old

I worry about Heyward.

Like, constantly.

AHAHAHA

BAUTISTA AND HEYWARD TO THE DL ON CONSECUTIVE DAYS

FUCK MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Heyward was just starting to pick things up too :(

bautista
heyward
beachy
colon
now harvey!

i am SINKING INTO HELL
FUUUUUUUUCK MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

yeah i am in a 4 yr cycle in my h2h league of - win the league, miss the playoffs, win the league, now probably going to miss the playoffs :[

oh well, @ least that bodes well for nxt yr

I'm overthinknig this so much. In the finals vs. a guy I really don't want to win my other glorping league. Starting to overthink this.

7/9 of my starters are decided -- the rest of my team is "stacked" on paper but seriously having my doubts. I'm starting Trout and Harper in the OF (big trade last year & this year to get them in a keeper league, awwww yeeeeah), but I need to start another OF and another U. Who would you pick from this list?

Swisher (hot), Jupton (not so much + lots of righties), Granderson (cold), Butler (hmmmmm), Kemp (ugh), Ellsbury (injured until at least Wednesday). Rosters get locked tonight for the week, btw.

Any thoughts?

You have Trout, Harper, Granderson, Butler, Kemp, and Ellsbury on the same team? Jeez.

It's a super shallow 8 team league, and I made a massive trade near the deadline shipping out my late round goldmine Chris Davis (along with the Tigers pitching staff and Ian Desmond) getting Grandy, Jupton and Harper back. It was a pretty lopsided pull but the other guy was out of the running and wanted a keeper for next year who'd give him a big advantage (Davis over Jupton or Harper or Grandy makes sense).

Year before I traded the same guy Fielder and got Trout. Which at the time might have looked like kind of an over-pay... that one worked out. :) The others -- Kemp, keeper; Ellsbury, fell realllly far in the draft for some reason; Butler, mid-round pick that hasn't really been good enough for my starting nine (did I mention I jumped super early on Goldschmidt, too?)

fucking fuck

at the very end of the very last games played today, every single thing went wrong to prevent me from taking third place and $125

-tulo walks instead of making an out
-venable gets a useless hit, giving denorfia one last chance to make an out, which he does
-pence gets the walkoff, preventing sandoval from giving me one last chance to get a hit and tie BA
-rex fucking brothers loads the bases in the bottom of the ninth with a 1-run lead and fails to fucking continue failing
-ron fucking washington decides to continue abusing his elderly pitchers and goes with nathan for the bottom of the ninth after using him the previous 3 days, rather than letting the young, virile scheppers get the two-inning save

and none of this would've been a problem if it weren't for PEDRO FUCKING STROP, EX-ORIOLE BENT ON REVENGE AGAINST ME PERSONALLY, giving up a useless run to STL, ensuring that there wouldn't be a save opportunity for trevor rosenthal.

JUST ONE of these things happening/not happening is the difference between nothing and $125. I NEED $125

shld mention, this was a two week matchup, and this is what our final batting averages looked like:

me: 148/539
him: 148/538

if i had tied it would've given me the win

I was just one home run away from $160 yesterday

I was down by 40 points (a huge amount) and in the last day managed to pull back to tied (unreal) and Beltre hit a homer, and Goldschmidt didn't

fml

at least when it wasn't close my hopes weren't up

lol nvm apparently i won

just offered yu and scherzer for trout. it's a league with a whopping three (3) keepers that get recycled every three (3) years, so what's the fucking point anyway, i just really want cabrera and trout on my team together

i led my roto league by like 30 points for almost the entire season and in the last week someone overtook me and pushed me to 2nd place by like 2 points

not ready this year. i might just not prepare at all, maybe that'll be smart. who knows. i'm looking at mockdraftcentral's averages and i just have no idea anymore. apparently hunter pence deserves to go in the low 20s? apparently he had a good year or smth? mark trumbo at 26? really? idek.

should i keep scherzer or bautista

y

dunno the stats you track, or what the people in your league value, but when i have a tough pick (esp between a pitcher and a batter) i try to figure out which one is most likely to still be available in the last pick of the first round. if you think you can grab one in the redraft, drop that one.

the keepers are so pointless it doesn't matter, it's just a 3-keeper league and my other 2 are cabrera and yu. my plan is just "pick the top three players according to ADP" and because mockdraftcentral has bautista way higher than scherzer, i figured i'd take him. and then ESPN actually started drafting and scherzer's like 10 spots higher than jose (this is an ESPN league). MDC rankings are always better but i'm actually not sure who value more. probably going with jose but it's annoying.

my other team name: Machado About Nothing. i am very proud of this one.

golf clap

(i have a good new one for our new season)

torn on a last keeper -- say all else equal or w/e, who'd you take of the below for just this year

Werth
Ryu
Wacha
Matt Moore

wacha/moore over ryu. i'd lean wacha between the two personally, but moore might be a better option depending on your league (ie. which one is worth more in trade value? which one can you not just redraft later?).

that said tho, i haven't mentioned werth bc you need to rule out 2 SPs... the real question is, does it make more sense to keep a pretty great OF or a pretty great SP in your league? i'd say odds are werth is the best option in most leagues, but i dunno yours.

My team name in the ILX league I was pretty satisfied w/, so I put it in and left it (Villar Love Triangle). However in my other league I completely haven't come up with one I like so far... lowlights include Imagine Pagans, Pauliment Funkagoldschmidt, and my most recent, STROP LORD.

or go 'ten gold chains like im job, JOBA RRANKS'

In my other league I'm going with Tanana Hammock but halfway through the year I'm changing to Sid Bream Police.

auction leagues are sad cause you end up with 8 extra dollars you coulda put on jose abreu and now you have xander bogaerts in your UTIL spot

A bit of controversy in my irl league. There's a manager in my league who has made the following recent trades:

Traded David Wright for Nolan Arenado (before Arenado's hit streak, btw) (approved)
Traded Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole for Masahiro Tanaka and Ben Revere (vetoed)
Traded Evan Longoria for Tommy Hunter (vetoed)

Now he's pissed off that we vetoed those two trades. He's at the bottom of the league and the guys he's trading to are at the top.

My philosophy is that all non-colluding trades should be accepted, but in this league we don't do it that way, so I voted to veto.

How do you guys feel about the veto? Are we being unfair?

2nd is pretty sketchy. 3rd is dumb but i'd let it go

Longoria is a second or third round pick in current drafts, and Hunter is not even being drafted in the top 200.

yeah i'd need a pretty compelling case to not veto 2 & 3, but I also have 2 red flags that make me veto: 1) collusion and 2) sour grapes teams trying ot fuck with the rest of the league

first day of H2H playoffs (FOR MONEY OK IT MATTERS) and miggy goes 4/5 with 2 homers on my bench cause ESPN notifications said he wouldn't be playing

opponent's pitching staff has thus far allowed 1 ER in 27 innings

incl jarred cosart, who he picked out of free agency 2 minutes before i could

in the past few weeks i've lost yu darvish, anibal sanchez, anthony rizzo, starlin castro and daniel murphy

now desperately sprinting towards 3rd place ($125) with no pitching limits so at this point it becomes a free agent free-for-all trying to take wins and K's, and among my opponent's 6 matchups today he had arrieta, lohse and buehrle. only one stinker. 40 innings, 1.99 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 43 K's. 3 wins. jfc. now i'm scared. meanwhile i started jake odorizzi (3IP 5ER) and jake odorizzi (3IP 5ER) only.

so now i'm doing something that probably isn't kosher and scooping up as many FA probables as i can with no intention of playing them, just so he doesn't get them. it isn't against the rules but eeeehhhhh

Guys I got this trade offer in my other GLORPING league and I need feedback... on the face of it it's a great deal for me.

Pts league (TB+RBI+R, +2(SB)-CS) where we get two minor league keeper slots for free.
The offer I got:
Jose Reyes + Rusney Castillo (M), for
Xander Bogaerts + Corey Seager (M)

I think he wins the minor league deal, Seager is more exciting than Castillo, but like... Reyes for Xander? Am I insane to not pull the trigger on that?

i accepted it bc life's too short

^ Lol :(

so you're to blame for Reyes!

hey, he needed to go on the DL when I traded for him... they finally PUT him on the DL when I DID trade for him... so... you're welcome!

Who do I start at 3B today - Yunel Escobar, Joey Gallo, or Kyle Seager?

5x5 roto?

tough to look past seager. hitting .300 in june, against shaun marcum today, doesn't give you a 50% K rate (gallo -- small sample, but not out of line with expectations either) or a .074 ISO with only one steal on the year (Yunel). in fact, trade joey gallo now unless it's a dynasty/keeper!

Thanks. I'm new to this but my league seems pretty conservative about trading. I'm not seeing anyone doing much trading at all, and I've put up a couple of offers recently that were just ignored for several days, not even rejected.

i put gallo on the trading block after one game and got eduardo rodriguez and jorge soler for him

polyphonic that is a dope deal you made. is it a keeper? frnakly keeper or no, you win that deal (especially if you can bench soler until he heats up)

yeah i plugged him in my dl slot which was empty. already fairly loaded at 3b (longoria and rendon)

not keeper

especially fun because i picked gallo off the free agent pile the previous day

Well that didn't work out but Escobar didn't do anything either and Gallo didn't play so that's about par for the course for me lately.

does anyone do fanduel/draft kings etc?

tbh it's kind of taken over my fantasy baseball shit this year. i've been playing $2 games and using 3 different methods for selecting teams each day, tracking the results meticulously in an attempt to develop a formula that wins reliably enough for me to quit my job and hang out on the beach and watch seagulls while getting wasted

anyway i was thinking of starting a thread but wanted to see if anyone else participates in daily leagues

i have been avoiding them for some reason. do you love it?

for me to quit my job and hang out on the beach and watch seagulls while getting wasted

and then to bet on this, yes

i've gotten a little obsessed. i got a lot more interested when i found out about some of the different options for playing. right now i play strictly 50/50 leagues, which means that if you place in the top 50 out of 100 for a contest, you win - doesn't matter whether you finish in 1st or 49th place. they have the 50/50 contests at different price levels, but i play the $2 games which give you $3.60 if you win. so basically, if you can place in the top half of the contest 55% of the time, you'll break even. i like the 50/50 games because they reward having a consistent method - i don't have to rely on luck to pick someone who has a 2 HR game, i just need to pick a set of players who will get me consistent production so that i can get into the top half of the field of entries.

a lot of other people play head-to-head games and tournament style entries where placing in the top 3 gets you a ton of money and you have to place in the top 10% or so to make any money back. i might dabble with those later but for now i'm very content to refine my 50/50 method. currently i'm winning 65% of my games, well past the 55% breakeven point.

al-only auction league that i co-manage w/ a friend - today is the deadline for trading expiring contracts and someone was trying to unload avisail garcia to us

me checking his game log: "you know he has only 2 xbh since june?!?"
co-manager: "so he's due lol"
me: "hes not due hes doodoo"

just wanna show this off

http://s11.postimg.org/3kqmika1f/bbll.png

oh if we're glorping about how good we are then

http://i.imgur.com/LnpqmWs.png

only benching dee and robinson next week due to matchups btw

also i get to keep green players for free next year, and other playesr cost their draft value (up to 4)... probably trout 1, bryant whatever probably 3, and whoever else has a decent value next year (keeper cost based on average draft pos)

something has gone horribly wrong when my starting OF's total age (4 slots) rn is 147 yrs

That's an average age of 37! Don't even know how you pulled that off. Is Torii Hunter involved?!

not even!

byrd/beltran/werth/cruz

wow - still hanging onto werth?!

only just grabbed him, kinda feel he could heat up idk. same theory w/ beltran/byrd really

basically my pitching and Donaldson/altuve are keeping this team afloat fwiw

I made this for my irl league. I'm Michael. The highlighted part is a deep tiebreaker I'm not sure about. Should be a stressful week!

http://i.imgur.com/eCcOOoy.png

win rule is just pissing me off so much lately late season/playoffs now. just give it to the fucking starting pitcher if he did a decent job. i really don't get it. why are umps allowed to award it willy-nilly to middle relievers who threw 8 pitches if they don't think the SP did well enough but it doesn't work the other way around? i got fucked out of two wins that way towards the end of the season. now my playoffs w/$450 prize are in somewhat more jeopardy because my wily peralta isn't going to get a W for a well-pitched game and his francisco rodriguez is going to get a W because he blew a save.

i typically actually defend wins as a stat in FBB but fuck wins

fuck quality starts too don't even start with that

finished in the 8 seed with a 6-9-6 record. Currently leading against the 1 seed

i can't buy a win to save my life right now. i feel you on that

that's a lot of playoff teams

tbf i lucked my way into a playoff spot (and my money back) with a shit team in my h2h points league because this year the guy in charge thought it'd be a good idea to have 4 3-team divisions

i'm getting destroyed though

ONCE AGAIN. noah syndergaard allows one run in seven innings. tyler clippard allows three runs in one inning. guess who's getting the win!!

don't ask me why my playoff opponent has tyler clippard i don't know

also fuck brett gardner

obv jayson werth on my bench (2hr/5rbi)

infinite love for bud norris and his fucking up shields' era just now

fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally

$560 total on $150 between two leagues. should've been more. missed out on another $20 by .0004 of batting average.

got tied at 2nd on the last day of the year in a roto. FUCK. it was a dumb league with a low innings limit and weekly locked rosters and i managed to do ok but at the end i hit the 1000 IP and the guy in third was way back and he started like 7 SPs in the last week (using the dirty SPARP trick) and just caught me. went from like 90 to 45 on 20... i actually don't even remember how much it is, but it's LESS NOW.

also in my h2h pts league i set a 4-year record for regular season points, then my team plopped one in the semis, and then in the "finals" (when my team wasn't counted because our league is 100% payout to #1) i would have set an all-time points record. fuck fantasy baseball

in my big money league there's no limits on pitching, at all, because the guy who runs it is an obsessive streamer, and the playoffs every year end in a ridiculous war over every starter

i still managed to pull off a 2.66 ERA and 1.10 WHIP and 235 Ks in 229 innings in the finals though (he had 241 total). i had a freakishly good playoff run, 4 RBI away from sweeping both rounds. i don't think i'll ever have a team this good again.

i'm in two H2H leagues and both my opponents had 3 HRs from corey seager today

and both had 5 HR on monday

my uncle, who is always in last place and reliable for a good boost if you're facing him, got 8 home runs yesterday

on a monday where his entire lineup isn't even playing

me today, knowing that i need HR and AVG and i probably have bags down because he doesn't have any burners, decides to bench billy hamilton

who hits a home run

I've been clinging to my first place position, down to a half point lead for the past few days. The guy in second place has Jose Fernandez and Mike Leake for a total of 25 Ks over 12 innings so far tonight so that's it for me.

oh ya – that would explain the big jump i had last night in our league!

wilson ramos is 100% a keeper rn

i hate closers and especially mike scioscia

"hey why not bring our shitty substitute closer into a non-save situation so he can give up 14 runs for no reason"

lmao h2h league, the person im matched up w this week after one day their offense went 10/30 and 7 of the ten hits were homeruns

http://deadspin.com/show-us-your-earliest-fantasy-team-1785807487

i just checked my earliest fantasy team and i actually won the league, with one of my OFers being JAY PAYTON. i remember the good ol' days when you'd be languishing somewhere down in fourth place and then your fifth OFer, a guy like payton or let's say jeffrey hammonds, would get traded to the Rockies and suddenly start hitting like Dante Bichette (which is to say, empty IRL but astronomically helpful in FBB.)

weird, i was just looking at some of my old teams today! unfortunately the earliest baseball one i have is 2006, i was more into other sports apparently in ~2001. Looking at my team from 10 years ago (when I knew NOTHING about baseball or fantasy in general, really... lil baby me) now... btw you cna also click "draft results."

Apparently I took Johan Santana 2nd overall. LOL. I guess he was the #1 pitcher but 2nd overall? Then it keeps going and it's clear that I know (a) jays guys and (b) think japanese names are cool. Glaus, Delgado, DiceK, Damon, Kenji Johjima, Aki Iwamura, Frank Thomas... no wonder this team finished 7/12. Fuck.

lol my earliest team was 2003 - 1st draft pick was barry bonds; 4th rd pick was bartolo colon!; last rd pick was adam hyzdu

my final roster from that team has 3 players still active! papi, beltre, and bart

i signed into yahoo for the first time in ages and it doesn't seem to have any FBB info, no idea where to go to find that if it still exists

i CAN get to a 2009 espn league because i'm still in it

it's a doozy

https://s10.postimg.io/roetqdosp/draffft.png

i really hate playoff season

especially when you're opposed by a team with brian dozier

and you have tony watson on one of your teams

and cole hamels decides to fuck me yesterday

8 homers today for one of my opponents

this is in a league where i finished the regular season as the leader in 6 categories and second in 2 more

i'm currently in first place in mine, probably gonna set the regular season record after 5 years of play, and the team that is gonna sneak into fourth did so on dozier and freeman's backs (he was in last place out of 10 before the ASB) which is... concerning

i like the dude and i was cheering for him to pull this epic comeback but now i am looking at the current 2-4 teams and going SHIT THEY ARE ALL FLAMING OUT but this dude is RESURGENT

i sound like a psychopath but i really knew i shouldve added josh collmenter for his start today

right there with you, desperately clinging onto Ks in a streaming arms race and trying to scrape them together without killing my WHIP

tomorrow is the last day of a 2-week first round and it's just a total streaming shitshow, it's enough that i've finally brought up my displeasure with unlimited pitching and how this happens every single year in the playoffs where it isn't about making smart choices it's just about going nuts streaming horrible september pitchers. i'm set to have 40+ starts when this round is all said and done

awkward because this league is family, the guy in charge of the rules is my cousin's husband, the guy i'm having an arms race with right now is his dad who i've never met, and his dad's on my side. i think everyone in the league is probably on my side, the problem is my cousin's husband loves streaming.

meanwhile this team is the best i've ever had in this league, i won 6 categories in the regular season with 2nd place finishes in 2 others (dominated in everything but HR and RBI)

and my entire team has decided to stop doing all of these things right as the playoffs began

struggling like crazy to get 5 wins because a tie wins it for me, i have ERA down but it's a race for Ks, WHIP is shaky, AVG is extremely shaky (he was briefly beating me yesterday), and i've literally restructured my entire offense minus 3 spots (both corner infield and C) to produce stolen bases, and NO ONE is stealing bases right now. hamilton went down and i had to drop him for streaming SPs, and it's been so very tough without him. i'm starting terrence gore! every day! he hasn't even stolen a base since i picked him up! i picked up stanton off the scrap heap when he started to chirp about coming back early, then he came back WAY early and ended up being a huge albatross on my bench. he's still an albatross because he doesn't contribute in AVG and SBs, the only cats i have any hope in. it sucks.

had to punt saves after winning it in the regular season because the goddamn trade deadline cut them in half. i'm usually very good about winning saves in the playoffs via streaming for vultures, but i had to give that up for the Ks arms race.

i'm just gonna go crazy about these stolen bases. i'm on vacation right now and this fucking league is gonna ruin my last day tomorrow. if these assholes don't start stealing some goddamn bags i swear

meanwhile he just got 4 Ks from kimbrel and i want to die

i think i'm gonna regret starting brock stewart at ARI

hopefully not as much as he's gonna regret starting shelby miller in ARI

had an amazing day in the end, anchored by jon gray

but only 2 SBs, keeping us in a tie, and him up 5-4-1

i thought maybe i could pull a quick one and drop my streamers tomorrow to fill in every single batter with someone who is at least capable of stealing a base (machado apparently, MCab and gary sanchez are not) but he has 5 starters tomorrow and the lead gray gave me still isn't enough to potentially cede Ks

in the semifinals of my h2h point league right now. i just set the league record for best regular season ever, 19-5. third season out of five where i've finished the season in 1st place. and now once again i am getting shitkicked in the semis. granted the week is only half over but the score's 135-106, my opponent who limped into the POs decided ot go high-risk and start basically every available NY Met due to the pitching matchups, and now lol EVAN FUCKING GATTIS has hit like 400 home runs in 3 days.

my team this week: molina, votto, kipnis, seager, villar, bryant, trout, hanley, abreu (+ LAD pitching staff, we do team pitching)
his team this week: gattis, goldschmidt, drury, healy, asdrubal, granderson, myers, springer, ortiz (+... you guessed it NYM staff)

the worst part is, i almost didn't have to face him at all in the semis, it came down to the last day and he could have easily finished 3rd (only face in finals) or 5th (not in POs) but of course not. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

ADD TO THIS THE FACT THAT I AM LOSING GROUND IN THE ILX LEAGUE AND I AM VERY CROSS INDEED

i didn't know team pitching was a thing

at least you have kershaw, he's capable of much disruption

mlb.com does team pitching, we transitioned to fantrax but recreated the team pitchin. it honestly makes so much sense for our league where the two-start-pitcher thing would almost certainly cause a huge points gap between the check-every-hour folks and the check-every-week folks. plus idk it makes sense! it's a v cool system actually & you don't get completely fucked if you lose a pitcher (which you always do)

but yeah... kershaw put up 20 points (MASSIVE) on monday, and i'm still losing by 30. that's how fucking fucked i am. i guess he gets another go this week but honestly i need my BATTERS to do something ffs.

ugh – i hated team pitching, but i guess it makes sense in a H2H (which i'm also not crazy about).

i'm in a crazy tight 1-2-3 battle in my other league. started yesterday in 2nd place, 4 points behind our long time league leader. my team hit 5 home run (thanks Gattis/Sanchez!) – dropped to 3rd.

is there a way i can blame my team going from first place by 20 points to tied for first place within a month on the yahoo hacking scandal

man I wish I wasn't stuck streaming starters and vulture saves so I could actually bench francisco lindor's underperforming ass for a day

I've considered just dropping him for drubes but there's no discernible reason for him to be sucking so hard right now.

the six non-playoff teams aren't allowed to make moves so there's always a freakish amount of hot hitters (like drubezzzz) who never get picked up while I keep a spot on my roster for sean fucking manaea

this sounds like the worst league set-up ever.

now i have to determine if i should punt saves and drop britton colome and the newly minted i guess neris... maybe neris is enough to compete in it but i'm already behind by 2

everyone says uehara is the backup guy in boston so who gets the vulture save today? ziegler. i could've gotten drubez with that spot. or roman quinn and his bag.

also lol the rangers are about to clinch so i guess it's time to pick up RAUL FUCKING ALCANTARA to face their b-team tomorrow, worked with chase anderson vs the cubs

my new meta is planning this shit out way in advance. eno sarris said he loved it but he's sort of gone off the deep end lately.

and indeed the rangers are throwing out the worst lineup in history today

watch out for glasnow vs the nats and anderson vs the dodgers, though anderson might have better luck with their real lineup of mostly lefties

both teams have an E# of 2

so apparently elvis andrus isn't feeling hungover

so apparently my opponent's team felt like scoring 18 RBI today

yup i just lost last night in the semis after setting the regular season record for the second year in a row

playoffs are bullshit and people who use them should feel bad

just added every single FA pitcher to start tomorrow, will do the same for sunday's games

i hope this pisses someone off at least

i also hope it works

IT'S NOT WORKING

https://s21.postimg.org/8szgto55z/pitch.png

one. hecking. masterpiece.

i did this mainly to catch my opponent in wins

he had 4 starts and also got 2

AND WE'RE OFF

https://s10.postimg.org/wnmi6782h/pitching2.png

for a brief moment, this squadron of goofuses actually wrested WHIP from my opponent

this was right before clay richard decided to try his hand at pitching baseball

my cousin just cheated with commissioner powers

second time he's done this

anyone with ESPN experience know if there's a log somewhere where you can see commissioner forced changes? he moved dickerson from his bench to an active spot like a full hour after he hit a 3-run homer.

i'm not going to call him out on it because lol family but i'd like to have concrete evidence anyway

https://s10.postimg.org/lan2w1h2h/chrischeating.png

there it is

he's done it 13 times this year

Uh, family or not that is fucking laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

But wait, second time he's done this, or 13th?

second time i've caught him doing it. first time was years ago when matt kemp mysteriously migrated from the bench after hitting a bomb. i called him out on it on fb, he told me he had no clue what i was talking about, i gave him the benefit of the doubt and convinced myself i looked at his roster too early the first time.

13th time he's done it this season according to the TranLog. i didn't know until just now that it specified via the "(By LM)" thing so i just did a ctrl-f. he did it 10 times last year, and that seems to be as far back as the logs go. maybe a few of those were more or less kosher but i know for a fact that the one he just did wasn't.

i should point out that he's won the entire league 3 out of the last 5 years

last LM transaction before this was exactly 2 weeks ago in the semifinals, right after they got close

Lame. Time to find a new league.

i won -- second year in a row i beat him for it. his cheating resulted in him tying me in RBI but i still won 7-2. at one point i was winning 9-1 with all starting pitching categories. had 10 starts yesterday and 10 starts today, mostly garbage scrap guys, and they combined for a 3.16 ERA and a 1.28 WHIP along with 8 wins and 99 Ks. that's freakishly good isn't it? would've been even better if i'd only picked jose berrios.

not sure what to do now without making thanksgiving really awkward. and my damn dad's in the league now. and HIS dad! that's the weirdest part.

ask him if you can have the password to change your lineup after games have already started

If he gives it to you, use it to completely annihilate him

At dinner, mention that you are master of both fantasy and reality

also, you can tell him about the vastly superior keeper league – with its amazing, handsome commissioner – you're thinking of joining.

Thanksgiving is gonna be amazing this year!

serious suggestions:
* ask if you can have a turn being the administrator
* say you're too busy to do it this season and then sign up in a different league

I quit fbb

update: still have to draft my dad's team

never escaping this hell

Had one of the best offensive days I can ever remember:

14/35 (.400)
7 RS
6 HR
11 RBI
1 SB

I should mention this is a Deep League...

one of my lineups on fanduel tonight is 14,092nd out of 14,117. it is the maybe the worst i have ever done at anything.

6 home runs is p crazy.

My Catcher situation is so dire I'm considering picking up the Rangers back-up/every-5-days-or-so Catcher as my full-time backstop.

I just traded for Machado - only cost me Bautista, so im not too worried about what I gave up. But does anyone think he can turn his season around?

Historically he has a better 1st half than 2nd... :-(

he's toast stick a fork in him

Ugh.

well his BABIP is crazy low – his hard-hit rate is as high as ever, along with walk rate. the only thing that troubling is his K rate has gone up by about 3%. i still like his odds of bouncing back ROS.

so my other league is AL-only and i have the top waiver priority. Is Duda really the best thing that's going NL-to-AL this trade deadline?!

one of the things i insist on doing for some reason is making sure each of my teams has a new team name every year and this year i had one i was pretty unhappy with from the draft until now (Mahtook Ones (Pt II)) but the other day I was walking and I had just the most gloriously stupid idea for a name that I cannot shake so I present to you all the logo for my 4th (!?!) team this year,

Bartoleteriat

https://i.imgur.com/K4cm4V5.jpg

other three teams -

WHIP Priest (almost changed team name this year but one more year bc rip mark e)
Votto Trap House
Steamed Phams

my other team: Gose in the Snell

This year I ran an auction league draft for the first time. I've been wanting to do an auction forever. So fun!

We're using Fangraphs points scoring, which is insane. No RBIs, no runs, no pitcher wins ...

which platform?

Yahoo!

My other league is auction too. It’s awesome except for the fact anyone who misses the draft is fucked.

my team name next season: Mad Boone Rising.

I’m stealing that.

not stealing if i'm sharing it!

So that makes two no hitters for my other team this year!

Someone in one of my leagues dropped Eddie Rosario a couple days ago:

2018: .285/.309/.529 9HR 4SB

For this league's stats, he was rated 140 in preseason and is currently rated 43 for the season.

His trend is downward, but not horrible:
Last 30 days rating: 17
Last 14 days rating: 336
Last 7 days rating: 445

My other eligible outfielders are Whit Merrifield, Dee Gordon (DL), Teoscar Hernandez, Mark Trumbo, Nelson Cruz (DL?), Daniel Descalso.

This is a no brainer right?

3/4 today! it's a sign!
i reached for him in my other league. he's been streaky but worth every penny.

Lol, now Trumbo is heading to the DL so I'm gonna pull the trigger.

^^^^

11-27 since I picked him up, currently rated #39 overall.

Three homers for Rosario today!

!!! Pick up of the season for me so far...

my glorping pick for me so far would be Gleyber Torres.

i'm in a shallow auction league where after the draft i was like "lol my team is going to be the best"

currently floating in 3rd of 8 teams, and fully 33% (8 of 24) of my squad is on the DL: donaldson, belt, pollock, archer, kershaw, syndergaard, darvish, robbie ray (i said it was a shallow league)

like... shallow or not, i can't drop a single one of thes fucking guys

Who's on the WW/FA list? I find it hard you'd be too attached to Archer & Darvish...

By ysahoo's season ranking, there's Mikolas, Wacha, Folty, Mengden, Gio G, Berrios, Cahill, Ryu, Newcomb, Porcello... All better than them this year, but not exactly inspiring.

Archer was dropped in my 10-team AL only league (I snatched him up); but if he's droppable there you're probably safe to turf him.

done, let's see what berrios can do. i was initially gonna just ride it out because i was killing my innings limit, but when half of your pitchers go down that head start begins to erode real quick

keep an eye on archer tho – he's apparently only missing one start.

Over the course of 4 days, Paul Goldschmidt has risen from 298 to 87 in overall player rankings in default H2H yahoo league scoring.

After yesterday's hit-piece in ESPN on Miguel Sano, he's been dropped in 3% of Y! leagues, including a couple of mine.

Worth a look or nah?

depends on whether or not you count high-a stats

lol, just saw the news!

so in my other glorping league - we have a team that missed the (auction) draft and has been pouting about it all season (the auto draft left him with an abomination of a team). he was doing some weird waiver wire shit - dropping a few of his respectable players and literally benched his entire team. weird, but whatever. the commish, who is a smart, talented, decent guy knew about all this as well. no biggie. but then over the weekend this trash team trades literally his only two ok/good players to the commish – for two nobodies. trade was voted down a day later; but i was kinda of appalled at what poor judgment he exercised. he took over the commish job from me a few years ago, so i don't want to rag on him... the other team should really be locked imho. maybe he got the hint when his trade was smacked down and that will be enough... maybe i should fire him a message? leaning towards keeping quiet.

is there a public place to berate and embarrass the offender? a chat room or fb group or something? i'd say that's a good start, and get the rest of your league on it... is there an incentive to tanking this obviously?

no - not a keeper league, or a cash league or anything. he's just being a suck. that i don't care about so much as our commissioner deciding making a blatantly one sided-trade with that team. i have no idea what he was thinking.

yeah ef both of those guys, hopefully everyone vetoes the trade. next year I'd hesitate to join the league and if asked why, just mention these incidents and that you'd be wary of such sketchy COLLUSION.

Trade is already dead. The commish tho is a pretty great guy normally. I’m really baffled.

https://i.imgur.com/VcWgsPC.png

ouch... murphy?

you can forgive yourself for benching him tho, he hasn't been exactly setting the world on fire in 2018. still hurts

Had 6 guys go on the DL in the last 24 hours:

Kinsler
Myers
Swarzak
Skaggs
McCullers
Wood

...not to mention Dee Gordon DTD with rolled ankle & Posey on concussion protocol...

in another roto league i just moved into joint 1st place today, after taking first for the first time only 3 days before the end of the season. same guy was on top all year until i ruined it! Had my WHIP been 0.0038 lower, I would have won outright. Perhaps more shockingly, had my WHIP been 0.00026 (!!!) higher, I wouldn't have finished in first.

I won my friends league. $$$ back-to-back champs. :)

If Twitter ever released my search results for this year it would just say "mariners lineup" over and over again.

So my team name in my other league has been WHIP Priest for a few years, a nod to the Fall song as well as the baseball stat, walks plus hits over innings pitched.

Never had a really good image to use as my team logo, though. Not until today!

New Team Logo
(original for comparison)

i need at least one person other than me and my commish to get this (i guess you could say it's nooooooot a-ppre-ci-a-ted)

I lol'd. Nice inclusion of Homer.

inclusion of homer? where? (i have already forgotten everything i have done)

Homer, the Marlins sculpture lol

"sculpture"

IT HAS A NAME?????

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article219183640.html

wow. this somehow makes me love it even more wtf

i have my AL-only league's auction draft coming up this weekend. with 10-teams putting together a full roster can get a little daunting – and bidding for all-star caliber players can easily turn batshit.
been thinking about it non-stop all week, whereas i did literally no prep-work for the ilbb draft!

Seems like yahoo! got rid of roto leagues unless you run your own league, you can't just jump in and join an open league... or is H2H just that much more popular?

https://i.imgur.com/rDqXlsD.png

This includes 7 of the top 80 (yahoo pre-season rank) offensive players in a 5x5 league.

I want to take this opportunity to extol my pitching staff in an eight-team league I have with some friends who only watch Giants games.

Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw, Bauer, Thor (he's been bad), and Paxton (someone dropped him!) are my vets, with Chris Paddack and Shane Bieber as the up-and-comers.

My offense is also good! I love it.

Yahoo! standard H2H leagues have always had something like this:

Note: Each week, your pitching staff must total a minimum of 20 innings pitched. If you fail to reach this mark, you will lose all of your pitching games for that week.

A manager in a league that I'm in says this week he may have his pitching stats zeroed out as he potentially won't hit the cutoff this week as games with his SPs keep getting PPD.

It's Thursday. He can't stream a couple of pitchers?

Yeah that was mentioned but it's a 10 manager league so he'd have to drop some heat.

...for example Jack Flaherty (#4 average pick overall in Yahoo!) has pitched exactly one game this season: July 24th which was exactly 2 weeks ago.

In my head to head league where I finished pretty much at the bottom, I finished 2nd overall (aggregate) in steals but went 1W-5L-1T.

...in that category.

i am in first place by two points right now in my brutally shallow AL only league and the guy in second has been overtaking me on and off for a month now.
in a desperate attempt to keep/gain points i have dropped both closers and all normal starters in favour of set-up (holds) guys and to hopefully not lose out on wins i am starting Skubel. which might be incredibly stupid since I can't afford to bloat my ERA

CJ Cron has been added/dropped 3x in one league already.

someone should hold him! unless it's like a 6 team league or something. he'll be decent!

He’s like the Joel Payamps of yourleague!

I was targeting Cron very intentionally in the ilx league but I also targeted Daniel Murphy and Ian Desmond when they first signed with the Rockies so...

love that bell and cron have come up in our various fantasy threads as guys who might be disappointing and i had them both written down as sleepers (and missed both in ilx, but it worked out)

my h2h points league team is weird and might be good? my keepers are nowhere near as good as others, we have a complicated system that makes some teams better for a couple of years (maybe i explained it before, i'll explain below this)

C - Daulton Varsho
1B - Matt Olson (K)
2B - Ha-seong Kim
3B - Rafael Devers (KD3)
SS - Adalberto Mondesi
OF - Eloy Jimenez (KD5)
OF - J.D. Martinez
OF - Trent Grisham
UT - Randy Arozarena

TmPit - San Diego

BN - Christian Walker
BN - Josh Bell
BN - Ryan Mountcastle (KD5)
BN - Josh Donaldson
BN - Royce Lewis*
BN - Kyle Lewis

Min - Gavin Lux (Free)
Min - Nick Madrigal (Free)
Min - Brendan Rodgers (Free)
Min - Wander Franco (Free)
Min - Jo Adell (Free)

our keepers rules -- we look at the fantasypros rankings for batters on whatever day ends up being the "settle date" (usually the day after the super bowl) and those are the keeper costs -- so if they rank Mike Trout 1 he costs a first round, if he's ranked 11th or 19th he costs a 2nd, etc... and you have to make your 4 keepers fit into the picks you have for that year. However, you get discounts: we also have a "minors" system you can keep for free. the second you pull a player up and start him, his "timer" starts, and the next 3 years you can keep him at a 5/3/3 round discount. Also additionally you have one "bullet dodge" to keep any one player an additional one round later, in case you have a logjam.

So as you can see I have Eloy and Mountcastle as last-year-call-ups for my team, Devers is 2nd year I think (technically third, but we made a rule to not count 2019 as a year if you chose to bench a guy all season, which I did w/ Devers and Eloy). Olson was ranked in like the 6th round so he was a good deal. I had like 5 of the first 20 actual picks or something, but of course most of the good players were never even up as options. also yes we have team pitching, it's kinda nice! i took SD 3rd overall (the 1st overall pick was freeman, bc the guy who had him had too many good keepers but was picking first anyway so it's like he got a free keeper), 2nd pick was LAD and then I went SD. Picked a few good players in those first few rounds -- JD, Mondesi, Grish, Randy -- and then spent 3 rounds "picking" my keepers, so everyone after Randy was the second half of the draft. Took Kim knowing I'd probably call up Lux or Madrigal quickly this season, so you can imagine one of them is starting there. Royce Lewis with the asterisk because he'll move into my minors, drafted him to replace.

Presenter Mode is a welcome addition to drafts this year. I love those big ol' tiles

doing an espn mock draft and i can't believe they've gotten even worse. why the hell would you remove chat from a draft interface?

afaict it is impossible to scroll through the player list on a laptop without accidentally jumping down 300 picks

Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.

My guess is because it’s 2021

So my other league just drafted... AL only. Auction. Just added a new manager to bring the total to 9.
It lasted three hours and was batshit insane. Top players and regular, mid-draft types were going for a few bucks more than you’d expect - but once we started hitting the later-round players in a normal draft, and people started to panic, prices skyrocketed. Fringe set-up guys going for $12. I had to pay double the bag price for Plesac and Luzardo, who are my #1&2 starters. My catcher is Wilson Ramos. Gary Sanchez want for $22. I saw some shit tonight.

Bag price = avg price

Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.

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Ah I was assuming the mock draft interface was the same. It would be a very ESPN thing to do

I think it’s more current year thing to do. 11 people trying to draft and 1 asshole yelling “stop the steal! MAGA! Covid is fake news! Blue lives matter! MAGA!”

lol so it turns out yahoo's even taken the chat out of real drafts with randoms (i wanted to do another money league and NFBC is done drafting apparently)

like i'm gonna be in a league with these people all year, the league page has a message board, but we couldn't say a word to each other in chat

seems stupid

Fucking weird. Like only invite/legacy leagues have chat?!

not that people are ever very sociable in randoms but it was awkward. i just wanted to tell people about how biden and kamala have been secretly arrested and a new day is upon us

I could usually get a person or two talking about their rationalization for their picks.
Sometime I’d love to be able to messge people months later and be like “I TOLD YOU HIS REGRESSION WOULD BE UGLY!”

having one of those very frustrating "would be whipping everyone except the guy i'm facing" H2H weeks

would've ended the week tied in runs but my opponent had bohm lol

just an awful week, made a stupid drop because i was desperate to chase wins, at the point in the season where i have to tell myself to stop taking it seriously

Wish I had convinced the old timers in my old leagues to try a free form roster version - 26 roster spots, one at each position and five pitchers, fill the rest however you want.

I almost had that going with a small roster auction league (one at each position, DH, six pitchers) but it would have been interesting to see people strategize between dominating hitting or pitching or falling into the safe territory of ‘normal’ rosters.

Would the stats just have been 5x5?

Ottoneu in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/13/ottoneu-fantasy-baseball-niv-shah/

Shah added a player pool into the web app, then realized he could access stats, too. There was no longer any reason to keep their league on Yahoo. And now they could choose new scoring categories that better reflected modern baseball thinking, swapping out batting average for on-base percentage. (Later versions would incorporate scoring based on the Wins Above Replacement metric, a sabermetric shibboleth.) They began to play on Shah’s site, naming the league after a player, Otto Neu, who appeared in one game for the St. Louis Browns in 1917 but never made a plate appearance or had a chance in the field.

xp - semi-standard 5x5, we did OPS, net steals, a reliever formula (holds plus 2X saves minus blown, I think?) and I think the stat service we used had FIP the last season we held leagues. There would also have to be some PA/IP minimums to keep people from having a 0.00 ERA with 6IP for the entire year.

Like our buddy ✖, here's reason #18972340918 I hate H2H:

I got lucky with the #1 pick (Acuna) in this league but look at this shit...

Category/my team rank (of 12):
R: #4
HR: #3
RBI: #7
SB: #5
AVG: #12
W: #11
SV: #2
K: #10
ERA: #6
WHIP: #9

Seems like I'd be midpack right?

Wrong. I'm 4-16 and in dead last place.

i hate it! i've had such a bad week in both my H2H leagues, it's frustrating because i spent more time preparing for them than most years and then 90% of it just comes down to dumb luck

i think at the very least 2-week matchups should be the standard. one week is ridiculous. week 1 i got 10 SBs and lost. this week i got 3 SBs and won. it's stupid. and unless your league has very restrictive weekly IP limits, so much comes down to which owner gets more starts.

4-16?! how many matches you have a week?!

or is it a match a day?

It's H2H so 10 categories per week. I went 2-8 week one then 2-8 week two. Mathematically I should be 6th or 7th but I am just getting incredibly unlucky losing ratio cats by tenths of percents and counting stat cats by a handful, if that.

So many external factors at play with weather, COVID team quarantines (even if they aren't on your team) on top of the usual rampant injuries, slow starts, etc.

need a shrink to tell me why i keep caring so deeply about a family league run by my cousin's husband who has been using admin powers to cheat for years. he just did it again today, even though he's already beating me 7-1-2. just flipped ohtani with urshela so he can get ohtani's SB and bring him a little closer in the one category i'm beating him in (why was he starting urshela over ohtani anyway??)

i don't even have any blood family in this anymore, just his relatives including his father and now his teenage son. his own son!

regardless i still consider this my "main" league, more important than the other ones, etc

i just want to destroy him every year

Is there a system log/do you have receipts? Does nobody else care? Can u shame him publicly? That shit is deplorable

And you still choose him over us?! This is some Stockholm shit!!

I would screenshot and then call his ass out on the forum or email list and force him to give up his admin powers. What an absolute bell-end.

oh i accepted long ago i'm not gonna do anything about it, i don't think anything good would come of it and it would just make things weirder than they already are between me and an extended family i've always had a weird relationship with. i thought maybe he stopped after the ESPN redesign because he was scared it would be more obvious. i have screenshots if i ever decide to go nuclear. and it is all logged in the transactions, just a little hard to find. i've confronted him about it privately years ago and he just played dumb. i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

And you still choose him over us?! This is some Stockholm shit!!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, April 26, 2021 7:54 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if ILX league turns into a money league and/or any of you turn out to be my uncle i'll reprioritize

Hmm. What’s your aunt situation like?

this is my aunt.....

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good luck 😬😬😬

right in my wheelhouse.

i thought i had nowhere to post this but now i see this thread

good time to be rostering shane bieber, carlos rodon and anthony desclafani... has to be the first month in my decade long fantasy career getting three complete game shutouts in one month

Hopefully you're in a CG/SO league. When I started the ILX league in 2003 I think we had CG/SOs (or maybe that was in 2004?).

So the rando yahoo H2H league where I'd gone 2-8 the first 2 weeks, why yes I did go 2-8 in the 3rd week as well bringing me to 6-24.

So now in week 4 I'm up against the #1 team in the league (and I'm dead last @ #12)... I'm up 9-0 after one day. Nice to see some regression but I hope I can hold on.

was finally having a good week in the money league i'm dead last in, was up 9-1 or 8-2 all week until today, now losing 5-3

been doing H2H for like 15 years and i feel like this has happened every single week of every season ever

in my other H2H league, i specifically set an alarm this morning to see if jesse winker was playing today, but i slept through it in a Moderna #2 daze and now his 3 runs are on my bench and i'm going to lose the category because my opponent has chris taylor (4! runs so far)

lol make that 5!!!!! runs for chris taylor

my non-ILX league trades:

Means for Blackmon

Matz/Walsh for Maeda/Dom Smith

hurts

I'd want the Walsh side.

I have Blackmon and he's been frustrating.

i wish i was on that side too!

i really gotta remember to stop putting so much faith in early statcast numbers

one thing i've complained about over the years in my family league is the complete lack of pitching limits - no transaction limits, no IP or GS limits - so any team with bad pitching can just stream like crazy the last few days of their matchups if they're already losing ERA/WHIP and get wins in Ws and Ks by sheer quantity. if your pitching sucks and you have no attachment to your players, you have no reason not to. if you have a decent staff full of pitchers that are too good to drop, you basically just have to lay over and lose those categories

my opponent did that to me this week - i was winning 8-2 and killing him in all pitching categories, so he streams 7 pitchers the last two days. started today winning 5-3 in Ws, he gets 3 wins to go up 6-5 before the night game, where he has both pitchers. i have craig kimbrel. if craig kimbrel gets the win, i tie instead of lose that category. craig kimbrel is currently the pitcher of record in the bottom of the tenth. if craig kimbrel doesn't win here i will quit forver

this is the only scenario that can get me to listen to a-rod's commentary

6-3-1 SUCK MY ASSHOLE

i hate fantasy baseball btw

i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

― ✖, Monday, April 26, 2021 10:06 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

can confirm my shitbag cousin LM cheats against his teenage son

does his kid know?

who knows! i don't talk to him. what if i told him? what if i told him his father is a dirty cheater? what if he loses all respect for his father, runs away from home and joins up with a corrupt element? what if he starts commissioning hits on the dark web and gets embroiled in an international conspiracy? what if he takes out a foreign ambassador, setting off a domino effect that leads to the fall of civilization? and then what if his dad blames me for it and garrotes me in my sleep? i can handle inadvertently causing world war 3 but i don't wanna DIE thermo

anyway the 11th place team in my random yahoo money league just got 17 RBIs from 6 hitters and i want to fucking die

I managed to land Semien for Franmil Reyes and Skubal in my AL only league.
I’m pretty sure it was a rad deal, but now I’m stoned and second guessing myself.

that is good in redraft at least, as skubes is going to start getting load managed

dumbest thing i did this year was drop semien in april after his bad start, absolutely insane move in retrospect

He had a pretty rough 2020, so I wouldn’t blame you.

And ya - it’s a redraft. Don’t think I could cope with two keeper leagues!

I managed to pick up Eloy when they announced he would be starting rehab! And my OF was already stacked, so Reyes seemed like an easy choice to shop. The AL only format can be really tough, I lost Madrigal and there were no playable options for middle infield, so I’d been running Torres and Polanco out there every day.

What is the german word when you are 1-9 on Saturday am and finish 10-0 on Sunday night in a H2H league? Cuz that happened to me last week lol.

Einsundneunamsamstagmorgenundendezehnundnullamsonntagabend

family league has apparently reached the point of insanity with people desperately trying to hold onto relevance, have recently picked up gallo, fletcher and crawford off waivers. softens the blow of losing acuna a bit. also just traded walsh/mccullers/blackmon for matt olson which hopefully won't blow up in my face like most trades i make

what you're saying is, i should be dumping my Matt Olsen stocks? (that's a lot to give up!)

it is a lot but i feel like my team is deep enough that i can start consolidating for upside... it's a shallow league and there's always solid options on waivers. i always want to pull off these 3-for-1 deals where i get the best player back but no one ever wants to bite

walsh has been dogshit for a month which sort of validates his cruddy statcast numbers (which i try not to put a lot of stock in but...), blackmon doesn't bring high enough upside for a starting role in a 4OF league, mccullers hurts but he's lost some spin without the goop and tends to get hurt a lot. i proposed trevor rogers first but he countered with mccullers

this is also a keep 3 league, not a big deal but olson might be a keeper. no way i was gonna keep any of the 3 i gave up

"these 3-for-1 deals where i get the best player back"

well fucking duh i would be getting the best player back, smh

i want to drop bellinger so bad but I'm afraid :(

oh i accepted long ago i'm not gonna do anything about it, i don't think anything good would come of it and it would just make things weirder than they already are between me and an extended family i've always had a weird relationship with. i thought maybe he stopped after the ESPN redesign because he was scared it would be more obvious. i have screenshots if i ever decide to go nuclear. and it is all logged in the transactions, just a little hard to find. i've confronted him about it privately years ago and he just played dumb. i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

― ✖, Monday, April 26, 2021 10:06 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah. so i sent him an anonymous email last week telling him to stop and included a screenshot of the logs just to show him there's a record of it happening. and to vaguely threaten him with the possibility of sending it to the rest of the league (which i'm not gonna do). he didn't respond, and i have no real way of knowing whether he read it or not (might've gone to spam, who knows). he hadn't cheated since then but it was mostly because he didn't have an opportunity to - lots of rainouts and he started running a short bench (which i thought might've been a strategic move after reading the email, cause he always keeps a lot of possibilities on the bench, for cheating purposes). but he cheated today, moving mark canha onto an active spot after he homered.

i don't know what to do at this point. i've been in this league for i think 13 years, i've always considered it my "main" league. i've won twice, i'm almost always in the playoffs. if i were going to call him out publicly the time do it probably would've been before his teenage son joined, i don't want to be the one to tell his son that his dad cheats against him at fantasy baseball. fantasy baseball in general doesn't seem like a big enough deal to start a whole *thing* about. maybe this is why my other family members (my cousin and his FIL) quit.

Burn it all down.

easy for you to say! i'll probably just quit (again)

You are denying yourself an fantastic cathartic opportunity.

anyone else getting their asses beat this playoff season

thought i was a genius streaming tyler wells in a doubleheader and he decided to give up 4 runs, which makes it my second 4+-run reliever appearance this week. that plus ryu/rogers/framber the past 2 days balooned my previously good ERA/WHIP to 5.83/1.45. i'm still somehow beating the other guy but i'm still getting my ass kicked. it isn't sustainable. i had 1 home run until last night.

also my cheating LM (facing the other seed this week thankfully) did his most obvious cheat yet - moved ohtani (pitcher)'s bad start to the bench and moved ohtani (hitter)'s home run to the active lineup. it's ESPN so you can't have both active at the same time. is anyone supposed to believe he benched an ohtani start in the playoffs? i know it's the astros but come on

My other league, I am neck and neck with the guy who’s been in first for half the season. Overtook him for one full day a couple days ago before dropping a few points. All my guys are healthy - and I’m about to get Giolitto back. I like my odds. I am hopefully overtaking him in sb and holds today.

i'm getting gio back too so i apologize in advance for my awful pitching luck also tanking your team

my 2 playoff teams are combined 11/67 with 3 runs and 3 RBI. not feeling good.

annoying thing is my cheating LM instituted a rule years ago limiting teams to 5 adds per week in the playoffs, in response to me winning the league 2 years in a row in part because there was no rule or limit against streaming a crazy amount of starting pitchers at any time, which is how the league always functioned because he personally likes to stream pitchers without limits. i had already made a post in the league requesting a limit because i didn't like how every year turned into a stupid race to see who could stream the most pitchers, which he completely ignored. he only added the limit after i won the league streaming like crazy out of spite. he then had the audacity to tell my father that he had to institute a limit to prevent me from abusing the system again, and that i'm probably really angry about it. when i'm the one who was pushing for the limit in the first place.

anyway he instituted it in the dumbest way possible, by making a straight up add/drop limit instead of a GS/IP limit, or just limiting pitcher streams. it basically freezes all position player add/drops in the playoffs because everyone needs to use their precious 5 changes on pitchers. i would like to be able to drop the ice cold josh donaldson for any number of super hot hitters on waivers right now but i gotta save that so i can stream cole irvin on friday. i hate this league.

oh i also hate my extended family, that's probably more important

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i hate fantasy baseball, i really do

i'm not built for this just put me in a playpen

holy shit, after 2 weeks of LM cheating in the most obvious manner and destroying the #4 seed, the #4 seed has somehow taken the lead which i didn't even think would be possible... this is how close it is

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if he cheats his way out of this one i'm going nuclear

bear in mind that second ERA should probably be a full run higher than it is... he used LM powers to move 18 ER (4 different starts) to the bench

Are you screen capping his lineup moves and doing before/afters?

yeah, but it shouldn't come down to that... he has montas and ohtani both going (and they just got him the lead back), if one of them blows up he'll move them to his bench. and then i'll make a message board post "wtf just happened...i've been watching this matchup with a laser focus because i need to know who i'm facing next week, why did ohtani just get moved" etc

it's all in the transaction log anyway

other guy only has descla going and he just allowed a 2 run homer... oy

and ohtani's probably done.... need montas to give up some runs to uh... rengifo jose rojas max stassi.... uh oh

just made a very loud sound against that bases loaded ohtani K

I’ve managed to slide back into first again by a single point and I am going to be a mess for the next 1.5 weeks. Nowhere else for me to gain points unless I get stupid lucky with SB. I basically need to stay ahead of the guys right behind me in runs, holds, and wins. In a few more games I should be good to dump my closers for a set up guy and maybe a SB-prone outfielder.

perhaps of interest

Best fantasy baseball season ever: How Phil Dussault did it
https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2197422

That dude makes me feel like such a slacker.

i have 4 starters pitching sunday and might go berserk after that. i've been standing pat instead of streaming starters etc (i have a solid rotation) might dump 2 and my closers and add an extra hitter or two and set up guys until i'm sure i'm safe there. maybe stream a starter, but i have to be careful with my era. THIS IS GONNA BE SO CLOSE!

i'd heard about dussault and wanted to check out his rosters but everything is private on NFBC. crazy that he did it without drafting youths........

contrary to that i lost my random non-family H2H money league by being a complete dumbass. came into the sunday of round 1 in a decent lead, only really nervous about losing wins. put 2 FAAB claims in for paolo espino and logan gilbert. wasn't paying attention to how many adds my opponent had, just assumed i would be able to get one of them. didn't think to even put any money on them, just assumed i would get one. opponent scoops both of them up with $1 and $3 bids and adds JA Happ too, gets a win out of all three and beats me by one. a hundred bucks down the drain because i got cheap and refused to bid $2 FAAB on paolo espino. hubris!

i've never played that way before, where you have to bid on FAs. seems weird.

it's interesting in leagues where there's a weekly bidding period (like NFBC). in daily leagues it's much less impactful, most teams aren't putting crazy claims in based on one game or one day. it's just like waivers except you can cut the line if you want to use a little FAAB.

6 days to go and am back ahead again by a single point (was in second for a couple days).

things that could go right (all long shots): I gain 2 nsb on the 2nd place team and gain another 2 points on the lead. Gain 7 RBI on 2nd place team for 2 points.

Things that could go wrong (all very possible): 2nd place team gains three holds and overtakes me, moving into 1st. Another team overtakes me in era (difference of 0.05 right now) costing me a point. Another team gains three wins on me costing me a point.

I’ve already stacked my team with set-up guys. Might drop my last closer for another in a few days. Might also drop my lone bench bat for a speedier dude. I can’t really stream starters because it’s too risky for my ERA, but as long as I maintain my staff I should be ok.
Last season I lost the lead on the last day of baseball and I plan on being totally strung out until Sunday keeping an eye on everything!

Ugh. He could also gain 4 points just by improving his avg by 4 points! Tough to control over one week, but another thing that could go totally wrong for me!

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may look like a commanding lead but it sure doesn't feel like one. especially when my opponent only needs a tie to win and is willing to cheat at every opportunity. my entire offense has suddenly died, either hurt (starling, belt) or just completely stopped producing (bogaerts, dalbec, olson, yordan, tucker). i only have 2 adds left and i can't waste them on a hitter. my opponent's entire pitching staff seems to be having another start today or tomorrow, where all of mine have their starts hypothetically scheduled for the weekend - most if not all will have their starts cancelled or shortened. not feeling great!

lol

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my team has 3 RBIs, 6 runs and 0 HR in the past 3 days

Still pulled off a tie tho!

He has the tie breaker on account of cheating his way to the 1 seed. He also has 4 days to sneak past me in HR/RBI

oh that's the cheater :/

i'm down to just a 0.5 point lead in my other league. on the plus side, i'm only 3 RBIs behind the second place threat after last night and he's maxed out SS and 3B. if i can overtake him there i should be golden... i might even take on an extra catcher just to get as many rbi opportunities possible over the last three games.

well he decided to get 7 HRs and 11 RBIs today, which is 7 HRs and 11 RBIs more than i got. i don't think i've ever seen a other shoe drop so powerfully

Dude had an unholy day at the plate yesterday and jumped two points into a tie for first place with me.
I can take first if his average drops or if I get a few more RBIs or SB than him. But I can lose if he gets so much as one hold while hanging onto his other stats. Today is going to be nuts!

i had pretty much no chance of winning unless i had a really good offense day and he didn't...but 5 of my hitters are benched today while every last one of his is starting

Not like it matters who starts or not anyways.

he actually hasn't cheated against me at all, though i think that's more because he hasn't had a good chance to

realizing i actually have a pathway to win via pitching... i have 4 starts today vs his 1 (he was out of adds), and his 1 (morton) is hopefully on a pitch limit. unfortunately i decided to stream reiver sanmartin, who is sucking but has a cool name
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of course my pitchers just gave up 2 runs.... and of course if his morton gives up anything he's going straight to the bench

Home runs from Vlad, Roberts and Polanco already. Leapfrogged dude in rbis - I think this league is mine!

And take screen grabs!

congrats on (probably) winning!

unfortunately i am pretty screwed, reiver sanmartin is the least of my worries and i'm now running a 4.50 ERA. going to need to get a W from logan webb and somehow make up 4 runs, which just isn't gonna happen today

I maybe have spoken too soon. Still ahead but he caught me in Sb and might pull even in holds shortly

that's why i constantly assume the worst.... you're messing with forces.....

logan webb has 4 more innings in him but the giants are doing too good they're certainly gonna take him out. hopefully reiver sanmartin can continue saving my life for a few more pitches

Indeed. Forces be messing with me now.

If I hadn’t said it before - this is the league I lost on the last day last year.

you gotta find a god to pray to

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i've squeaked however briefly. reiver is still pitching which is terrifying me. who knows if webb will come back out. of course the thing that's actually going to happen is giovanny gallegos is going to come in and give up 12 runs in .1 IP

You’re on top there I assume?

yup... of course now AVG is starting to come into play, as i'm hitting .143 to his .387

webb is batting, have a very bad feeling they're gonna keep him in until it's a tiny bit too late

and he gives up 2 singles lol

lmao why are you doing this to me gabe kapler....you have won the game.......it's over............

that one run (so far) lost me ERA.... now i have to pray for aroldis chapman to blow up or something

from the bottom of my heart fuck gabe kapler you dumb idiot

Let us all pray Chapman blows up.

it's gonna need to be that or estevez in colorado... or barlow in texas but they're losing big. those 3 runs just killed me.

if one of them does blow up and they find themselves on his bench though...........................

and they aren't even bringing in estevez... forgot he has mychal givens so it all comes down to him

givens gives up 2... he's still beating me 3.986 to 4.009

oh i'm a dummy, they didn't bring in estevez because it isn't the 9th.... i'm going crazy

and they just blew the save opp for estevez... though as an o's fan i can't complain if the dbacks win here

championship now hinges on carlos estevez getting fucked up

HOLY SHIT?????/

let's see if this sticks lol

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I have taken it!

One less RBI today and it would have been a tie. We wound up tied in NSB and holds!

hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!

(barring last minute scoring changes™)

Nice!!!

I’m sure if others were as amazing as, they’d be here too!

You sure dude isn’t going to try and cheat you (literally) out of your victory?

if he does i'm saying something about it, i really need the money right now

hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!

― ✖, Sunday, October 3, 2021 7:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

oh i have not removed my bookmark, my other glorping league has just been such a boring bummer it hasn't been worth mentioning. but i'll give my season recap!

we have pitching staffs in this league instead of individual pitchers, which works well enough -- the team's collective pitching result scores them 0-27 points a day (technically like 30+ is possible but that's like a 15k perfect game). players score for all of the regular stuff, no minuses for strikeouts. also worth mentioning -- we have a "minors" system, where you can get not-yet-mlb-players during a second draft around the irl mlb draft, slot them in one of your six minor slots, and once you call them up, you "start a timer" on them. see, our keepers cost whatever round they're "ranked" at per fantasypros, but there are a bunch of ways to get discounts, the main one being your minors callups, who are at a 5/3/3 round discount in their first second and third years. we have 4 keepers (5 next year), so it's definitely worth getting minors guys in the pipeline. we had a guy with trea, acuna, and a couple of others all in rounds like 4-6 for years.

went into the season looking at a bit of a rebuilding year -- have a strong core of keepers -- devers, eloy, mountcastle on 3, 5, 5 rd discounts, olson at sticker price minus one, and a bunch of minors players ready to get called up -- lux, wander, rodgers. started the season EXTREMELY strong due to a bunch of my picks firing on all cylinders -- my first round pick of the padres pitching looked fantastic, jd martinez was raking, mondesi was raking when he played, chris taylor inexplicably solid -- so my gameplan was kind of out the window. i was in first place by the ASB despite having a middling overall score (5th or 6th out of 10, but my matchups had just been exceedingly lucky). my plan to sell at the deadline now made no sense, but buying in didn't feel right either, so i just kinda coasted. of course, when the sticky scandal ended in the sticky ban, the padres turned into dogshit and i started losing. failed my way into the playoffs, got beat in the first round, and our finals were... well, actually i need to go backwards again for a second.

so one of our managers quit midseason. he was in the league 5 years, but wasn't really enjoying it the past year or so, and this year after going like 10-2 in the first six weeks and 2-10 in the next six, quit. we had an "interim" guy step to the plate just to make sure the team was starting healthy players etc, although he wasn'tsure if he wanted to be a permanent manager going forward. the reason i bring this up is because the finals were that guy, and the commish who has won 3 of the past 10 years (he's no cheater like ✖'s commish, although he is definitely an absolute trade beast who knows when people are weak enough to make a bad trade). def not the finals i wanted to see! (obv i wanted to see me, or if not me, there are two other teams who had dominant seasons and have never won a pennant -- they both fell in the semis). the new guy won!

what gets funnier is that the old manager was like "oh cool, so we'll split the winnings?" and the commish was like "wtf you quit" and the new manager was like "uhh yeah ok i guess" and the commish was like "don't be soft!! you don't owe him anything!!" and it was a very minor scandal i guess. new manager ended up giving old manager back his buy-in at a charity event, and gave his entire winnings to the charity. no word on whether or not the old manager also donated his entry fee, i hope he did.

that's the whole story! i don't have advantageous draft picks next season yet, but i do have an overwhelming number of discount keepers that i might flip some of -- rodgers -5, wander -5, lux -5, devers -3, eloy -3, mountcastle -3, hiura -3, jp crawford -3... and adell, madrigal, marcelo mayer, elijah green and andruw jones jr (!) in the minors ready to call up when i have the room. almost certainly this coming season i will have to pull the trigger and really go for it, and the pipeline means my window is probably a few years.

(btw im not saying the sticky ban is why the padres tanked, but the timing more or less lined up with them going from Best Pitching In League to uhh in my league *checks stats* 22nd best)

Your league sounds very complicated!

ten or eleven years of additions makes it pretty overwhelming to describe at first, but week-to-week it's pretty easy because you just try to have good players locked in for the week (no in-week changes). and we had pretty stable managership for a few years so everyone was pretty up to date on it.

plus commish & i do plenty of spreadsheets to make it easy for ppl to see who they can keep in what round etc

i am mostly confused about having a robust minor league system but only 4/5 keepers a year

I think there’s two sets of keepers - one for majors and one for minors?

yes exactly! sorry i didn't see this

the "minors slots" are keepable in perpetuity for free, but once you start them, they are no longer a "minors player" -- and must be kept with a "keeper slot."

to enter the minor slot they must A) be in the irl minors, and B) never been started by any team (so like, if a 30 year old spends a rehab stint in the minors, you can't put him there). once they're there, you can keep them there forever, even if they get called up, but they aren't earning you points. luckily we haven't had to make a rule about how long they're there yet because nobody's abused it. i came close by keeping buxton in my minors for like 3 years of his major league career (i was waiting for him to get good)

ah that makes sense then. sounds fun

my cheating LM conceded without fucking with things, so i officially won. and will soon receive $450 to go straight to covering insane vet bills accrued over the past month.

You should start seeing a real doctor, btw.

pet insurance is cheaper

coming into my cousin's league with my best keeper situation ever (jrod, acuna, tucker) unfortunately have not had time to do any research so i don't remember what a baseball is

Today in my auction roto: 15/42, 12 Runs, 7 HRs (including a GS), 18 RBIs (!), 3 SBs, .431 OBP

Moved from 7th to 3rd

Love the early season standings chaos. Could use a day like that myself (or two)

Confluence of SPs and RPs all pitching today, but take a look at the Ks (esp K/IP):

https://i.imgur.com/1jGxzgG.png

Total see-saw in my H2H league playoffs. I was up on 9-1 on Saturday morning. I woke up this morning and I was down 2-8. At first peek on today, my hitters were 0 for 17.

In the last few days, at least one of our pitchers would have a complete meltdown. Today the other manager (the commish who I've known for years) picked up Bubba Chandler... oof.

Somehow I was able to turn it around and squeak out an 8-2 victory, advancing to the semis.