How do we get Taylor Swift into fantasy baseball? Your 2024 ILX Fantasy Thread! (also, there is an opening for a new manger!)

holy shit dude. 5 relievers!! your lineup at least turned out somewhat ok.

i dunno...

c: bo naylor
1b: arraez
2b: ketel marte
3b: max muncy, coby mayo
ss: bobby witt, oneil cruz
of: adolis garcia, jazz chisholm, esteury ruiz, james wood, henry davis
sp: yamamoto, pablo lopez, dylan cease, eduardo rodriguez, reese olson, casey mize, bryan woo
rp: clay holmes, yennier cano, adbert alzolay

Satanic Frelick in the Attic checking in

C: Cal Raleigh, Logan O'Hoppe (ideal name for a fictional leprechaun imo)
1B: Freddie Freeman
2B: Zack Gelof
3B: Maikel Garcia, Josh Jung
SS: Anthony Volpe, Garcia
OF: Jung Hoo Lee, Riley Greene, Sal Frelick, Evan Carter, Josh Lowe
SP: Framber Valdez, Bailey Ober, John Means, Hunter Brown
RP: Hunter Harvey, Hector Neris, Yuki Matsui, Alexis Diaz, Devin Williams
NA: Paul Skenes

Had to look up who Skenes is. That’s a pretty wild flier!

Honey Nut Chouri◎s
https://i.postimg.cc/Nj8sWYn5/chourio-sparkle-250.jpg

02 Sal
1B PASQUANTINO
2B Gleyber
3B POLANCO
OF Eloy
OF AROZARENA
OF CHOURI◎
OF SOLER
NA LANGFORD, Wyatt

SP RYAN
SP BIBEE
SP STEELE
SP SNELL
SP LODOLO
RP MUNOZ
RP LECLERC
RP HELSLEY
RP MILLER, Mason

*continued rebuild: focus on keeper-eligibles.
juust missed Holliday, drafted Langford for my #1 (6th overall)

had my eye on Skenes - he was the best prospect in The Show game last year

yep. was also eyeing holliday, langford and skenes. didn't think i'd also miss colin cowser and jordan westburg!

my top three were Holliday, Yamamoto and Langford. wanted to try later for one of Bobby Miller, Kyle Harrison or Bibee and then Jordan Walker or Evan Carter. Cowser was a total stab in the dark with one of my last picks, since i missed those last two.

Morning Alonso's new team name is "No Xmas For Colt Keith"

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

almost went with "I am Seiya Suzuki" but then i remembered I have him in a different league

oh yeah Giolito Shuffle is now Naked Ragans, extra Chicago punk points. my alternate was Adley Drawn Boy.

ha! i love that last one.

Probably stick with my current name but also thought about Freddie Freeman in Paris (Joni not Kanye/Jay-Z) and Hunter Greene Typewriters

that logo + name is legit! 🎅👍

Anything I ask will be Fantasy Baseball for Dummies level...What is the easiest, best way for me to keep track of injuries? I mean really easy--all in one spot, well organized. Is that information right on the Yahoo site, maybe even right on my team list? I won't even get into what I'm supposed to do if I have an injured player until I do.

In the web app or mobile app you'll need to check the manually status of your player, eg Tommy Edman here, notice the red IL:

https://i.imgur.com/vioZIF0.png

But pay special attention to the "notes" box in blue right above the red IL. If you click on that blue box it expands out to a player "card" and then on the far right you'll see some recent updates and news blurbs culled from various sites, but typically injured players will have their injury listed and either definite news or guesses at how much this will affect their playing time/rehab:

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

I'm sure there are aggregators that have every injury listed in real time but I do not use those, perhaps someone else does?

Thanks. Hopefully something I can access on a desktop or laptop (no cell).

I find it waaaay easier to navigate all the info on desktop. Mobile is handy for basic daily roster moves tho.

Also Clem once you move a player to the IL you can add a player from the free agent list or waiver wire. Players who get dropped go to the waiver wire for 2 days from the end of the day (12am PT) they were dropped, and you can put in a claim. You will see lots of teams adding and dropping players due to injuries, poor performance, minor league call-ups, trades, hot streaks, etc. and it's a way you can speculate whether those players are better than your current roster.

Here's the URL of our league if you want to dive-in to the mechanics of the UX:

https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/41654

i'm sorry, i'm very bad at puns. my team is still called The Worst Players in Baseball.

fear this team:

c: francisco alvarez + keibert ruiz
1b: bellinger
2b: nolan gorman
ss: ezequiel tovar
3b: elly de la cruz
of: trout, jordan walker, lane thomas
dh/bench: james outman, jd martinez, justin turner, byron buxton, amed rosario
prospect/NA stash: Junior Caminero

SPs: Glasnow, Eury Perez, Sonny Gray, Hunter Greene, Christan Javier, Nick Pavetta

RPs: Jordan Romano, Aroldis "fuck this guy" Chapman (oof), Alex Lange

shit, i probably need some holds and saves, don't i

oh hey clemenza, maybe already addressed upthread, but another thing to keep an eye on are the weather postpones/delays! for example, the MIL @ NYM game today is postponed, so i benched the mets' alvarez so i don't end up with a zero line for catcher today.

same with everyday players who unexpectedly get a day of rest - if you can find that out before their game officially starts, you can switch them out with someone from your bench that's going to play, so at least you can accumulate some numbers.

(sometimes this is annoying, actually, because although there are days where i have free time and can check the weather and last minute substitutions and move players around, there are also days where i'm either too busy or just don't feel like checking all the games across the day and spending time on an app.)

i believe most of the stuff i just mentioned ^^ is on the web browser page for the league. i usually just go to the "My Team" view and scan the games really quickly to look for who is playing, who isn't, and the weather - it's pretty intuitive but feel free to ask if you want help using it!

Thanks for all the help, everyone. I plan to continue playing dumb till I take over first place, then I will reveal who I really am.

https://i.postimg.cc/dQWtQ8Zp/book.jpg

That rainout advice was really helpful--I just moved four guys from bench to playing (but still came up one OF short).

glad to hear it!

if you miss benching a guy due to a rainout, it's not necessarily bad. keeping in mind you have a games limit, you might want to simply hold out for your preferred starter coming back tomorrow to play two games in a doubleheader instead of burning one position game today on a lesser player (ALSO keeping in mind that sometimes players don't play both ends of a doubleheader so it could be a moot point! but if it's a star player you figure they would! idk!)

Three home runs for me so far today - off to a good start!

#stopthecount

Clem, just took a peek at your lineup and you want to make sure all your RPs are in your lineup daily. They won't earn you any points if they're on the bench. Your starters will *95% of the time* (sometimes there's some surprises) be indicated as starting with a green check mark next to their name. If I were you, I'd have Mayza in Hicks' spot in the P slot.

Damn--of course, thanks. I'll try to get in a routine of checking that every morning. (I hit my limit on supply teaching today, finished until September now, so notwithstanding all the LOST INCOME, my fantasy team will reap the rewards of undivided attention.)

Corbin Burnesen running away with the league!!

Another basic question. Because of a rainout, I moved my utility player, Isaac Paredes, into my lineup at 2B. He played, but at third--does he still get points?

sure does.

Where they play irl (3b, DH, C etc) has no bearing on where you’ve slotted them in your lineup. As long as you’ve started them, the stats count.

CLE @ OAK will probably PPD

Day 2 and I'm already fucking up my starts. We are so back

Shout-out to my "batters" for going 4 for 32 yesterday. Auspicious!

begs2 are you a former haikunym etc.? nice to see you; hope you are doing well

If I have Jordan Hicks as a P, but not an SP, does he get points today for everything he does as an SP?

all pitching stats are counted the same and you just slot in your pitchers in where you can

refer to your maximum innings pitched chart at the bottom. you'll want to stick closely to the projected number of 1400 over the course of a season

Thanks. I see I can't change him to an SP anyway.

he'll become eligible for SP soon enough and will keep his RP status from last year. so you'll soon be able to slot him in anywhere. great to have that versatility

Another 3 HR (so far) day for Gott Money!

4!

My catcher is out for 10 days. I actually don't know what to do...Do I just stick with my backup and live with no points if he or his team isn't playing, or do I get someone from a reserve list? And if I do, can someone claim the guy I drop?

Also, I somehow created an "Empty" pitcher on my roster--how do I get rid of that?

https://i.postimg.cc/nrmfqsPD/empty.jpg

When someone is injured you can put them in an IL slot and add another player. You do this the same way you slot them into position or onto the bench. When they are on the IL they don’t count as being on your roster.

Your empty pitcher just means you have an open P slot. Move a pitcher off the bench to fill the empty slot.

Got it, thanks. Count on these kinds of questions for two or three more weeks, then I should be okay.

i had a billion of these questions at first too, clemenza, it's very normal. just a head's up, i was checking your team and saw you're starting 2 guys (seager and bryson stott) who aren't in the starting lineup today

https://i.imgur.com/g8kwcLr.png

the red x's on the right mean they're not starting, while the numbers in green circles mean they're starting and indicate where in the order they're hitting.

i think the injury management stuff is a big part of the fantasy "game". whether you drop a player who has a significant injury or keep them because you don't want to risk losing them on waivers. on the flip side, during the season you can sometimes pick someone up who was is coming off the IL.

(got that screenshot from your team page here: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/41654/11)

so who was is
or
the worst players in baseball

these questions are a big part of the fantasy "game" for me lol