The battle for Jose Fernandez - our 2014 fantasy thread!

if only it were ilhoops and i could name my team pau bsohl

last place shitty shitheads checking in

Buster Posey (SF - C,1B) 27
Elvis Andrus (Tex - SS) 25
Gerrit Cole (Pit - SP) 23
Homer Bailey (Cin - SP) 27
Desmond Jennings (TB - OF) 27

Tinker2Evans2Chainz checking in, but no final keeper decisions have yet been made.

yesssssssssssssss

Tinker2Evans2Chainz:

Madison Bumgarner 24
Gio Gonzalez 28
Jean Segura 24
Julio Teheran 23
Jonathan Lucroy 27

SUPER EMBARRASSED that I screwed up my team name, loss of brain cells or something. Tinker2EVERS2Chainz, rather.

also: you can't keep Lucroy – you picked him up as a free agent.

Well then who drafted him? I thought I took him:
Jonathan Lucroy (Mil - C,1B) Round 11, Pick 14

you took Granderson in the 1th round. "ellsbury poly" drafted him.
http://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/mlb/2013/43463/draftresults?drafttab=team

he was dropped Apr 13 and then you picked him up on Apr 27.
http://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/mlb/2013/43463/transactions?mid=4&filter=add

Damn, didn't even remember that. I guess I'll keep Dexter Fowler instead.

wait dont lock that in, might wanna keep Andrelton Simmons instead

nope on further reflection I'm tossing mr. defense back into the pool, Fowler it is

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. My team is large, it contains Bumgarners.

i realize it's too late for this now, but isn't including both XBH and SLG kind of rewarding the same skill twice?

hmmm, maybe not. i'm looking at the projections for Adam Dunn and Yadier Molina, and they're projected for almost an identical SLG (.438) even though Dunn is projected for 51 XBH to Yadi's 38.

in 2014 i am honoring my tradition of modifying another projection system to make my own personal system that makes absolutely no sense. last year's version was so successful that i ended up drafting josh rutledge two picks after Shin-Soo Choo and just before Napoli and Profar!

I don't think I've mentioned this but I have tried to tell 3-4 people irl about the name "lincecumlords" and collapsed into laughter

every time i look at the league and see that name i die

i just wanted to say that

yeah that's the best. i tried to explain Tinker2Evers2Chainz to my wife, who allegedly grew up a baseball fan with a nutty baseball-lovin' father, only to find out she'd never heard of the third-greatest baseball poem of all time. such disappoint.

i don't get it either actually. but, then again, i'm sorta dumb.

not much to get, kind of dumb actually, but here: http://www.1907cubs.com/tinkers-to-evers-to-chance.php

QUESTION is it too late to change my keepers y/n

it's still march 9!

side note, am i miscounting or is a team sitll missing?

thanks we're missing two, actually. there were 14 teams last year, and only 12 are up on the 2014 league so far. along the same lines, i'm wondering what their keepers are going to be.

embarrassing question i should have asked a long time ago: are the player ranking in Yahoo tailored to our league (ie, with holds, obp, etc) or are they standard 5x5 roto ranks?

one of those two isn't coming back (first post) but the other one i dunno abt.

I believe Jordan still has to sign up - as is tradition. And I think some else still needs to let me know their picks.
And go ahead if anyone wants to change theirs.
Aaand no - yahoo doesn't tayler the rankings.

*tailored

hi sorry for the late picks:

Carlos SANTANA
Ian DESMOND
Max SCHERZER
Chris SALE
Chris TILLMAN

(THEE TEE OHS)

okay I know it is March 10 but taking my shot here for Tinker2Evers2Chainz, if it is too late that's okay:

the Brewer in me cringes to say this but I'm gonna drop Jean Segura back into the pool and keep Austin Jackson instead

thanks either way

no problem. now we just need Jordan to turn up.

ok guys. keepers are set (last 5 rounds). let me know if i goofed anywhere:
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/13902/draftresults?drafttab=team

definitely having 2nd thoughts about (one of) my keepers already ;_; oh welllllll

now to make ridiculously complicated excel spreadsheet printouts to forget to bring to the draft where i will inevitably wing it

ya - if whoever has Melden wants to rethink that – i don't mind making that change.

*Medlen

heh, im stuck w/ him. no one else age eligible to keep :[
it'll be nice to plug him on the DL i guess

The draft order has been set already?!?

I have to in order to set the keepers.

i feel like we go through this every year, but isn't there always some surprise at draft time? like right now i'm listed as the second pick, but doesn't it get reversed at the last moment so that i would get the second to last pick instead?

i dunno, my memory's awful - anyone else remember this?

your memory is true. BUT that would happen when i entered the picks at the beginning of the draft – now that I have them at the end, the draft order will be the draft order. so you should be safe to decide whatever non-Jose Fernandez pick you'd like to go with!

i am definitely grabbing josh rutledge while he's still available, then

Bryan lahair is eligible right?

6th pick should be good enough for Kyle Farnsworth, unless somebody sells me out.

everybody pretending jose is #1 like there isn't a 600 pound miguelephant in the room

did you just come up with "miguelephant" just now?!

i did

and i wanted to use it so bad

I'm impressed.

i can't remember the position eligibility requirements for our league - is it 20 games at a position in 2013? 5 games?

Batters need either 5 Games Started or 10 Games Played at a position to gain eligibility. Pitchers need 3 Starts to gain SP eligibility, 5 Relief Appearances to gain RP eligibility.

i'm currently in spreadsheet panic mode because my made-up ranking system has drastically different results, in some cases, then the standard projections, and i go back and forth between thinking that's because i have now key unique insights or that i completely fucked up

xpost thanks will. for some reason i can't find that listed on our league's scoring & settingspage.