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! :(
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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+
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
btw no attack on Leee i think any trade makes sense if it fills a needroto trades don't amount to much across a season's length
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 May 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
same with my other league. i even sent him a text abut it!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― Andy K, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
am in the 2-wk-long finals of my H2H league but my opponent has tulo :<
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 September 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
parting with Wagner Soria or Capps is going to feel wrong tho.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin danny valencia w/ 2hr 5rbi (so far) on my bench!
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 September 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone else in close finishes clicking stattracker like a cracked out lab rat?
― sanskrit, Sunday, 3 October 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
think im gonna win! I learned my lesson, Nelson figueroa is a last-day-of-season all-star!
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 October 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Sunday, 3 October 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Yea I basically won by 1 strikeout
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 October 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
my entire season hinges on Venable's AB right now.
― sanskrit, Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ 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?
― sanskrit, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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 here2) not really feeling setting pitchers or keeping an eye on the waiver wire
― sanskrit, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― sanskrit, Monday, 14 February 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to do an auction if anyone winds up doing one.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i might do the auction and then abandon the team (if i'm capable of such a thing)
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That's what makes it so awesome! The risk of drafting poorly is sooooo much higher.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
so how does that work anyways? are you bidding against other teams - or is there a set price for players or what?or what.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
btw milo z that sounds like a horrifying situation
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Found Fantrax, they seem awesome, and they're half the price per league Fanball was last year.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
impressive!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
someone plz alert me when HACKING MASS goesup in late March, thx
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm. get drunk asap.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ah - positional scarcity maybe?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
am getting drunk tbh!
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
is there some half-decent cheatsheet w/r/t player values?
why is ~$260 the amount instead of some nice round number?
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
xposts
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 March 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
nice, thanks pp
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i seriously had a dream/nightmare that i signed up for a 3rd
― bnw, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
that espn list - is that fine for a 10 person $262 league? the values seem a lot lower
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
here's what I ended up with:
c - brian mccann1b - miguel cabrera2b - kinsler3b - arodss - jimmy rollinsof - 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
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I like auction more than I thought I would, I think I prefer it even
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks good to me!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
CJ Wilson and Chad Billinsgley are most definitely starting pitchers!
― Mark C, Monday, 21 March 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link