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

you can actually add straight to your IL now!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:37 AM (two hours ago)

Are you positive? I just tried to do an IL pick-up 1:1 for an IL drop and the league settings wouldn't allow it.

i also tried, and didn't have any luck replacing one IL for another ["would put you over max roster size"]

don't remember if i tried adding a player directly to an empty IL spot or if i had to drop someone (i mean, i could check my log)

Huh. I remember doing it earlier - but maybe it was my other league?! I’ll have to go through the settings I guess.

If it is something i can switch on, would we want that for our league, or would it feel too “easy mode” for us?!

Also how mad would everyone get if I suggested LF, CF, RF positions instead of 3x OF next season?!

hm, would definitely switch OF positions to "advanced". not sure

Also how mad would everyone get if I suggested LF, CF, RF positions instead of 3x OF next season?!

I would be mad because NYY is using Soto in RF instead of LF, giving me 2x legacy RF keepers (w/ Kyle Tucker).

That said, if we could find a way to grandfather in (this would take *MOD/COMMISH POWERS*) those of us who established keepers based on the rules at the time, I would be game?

yes, i had to check bc i have 2 likely OF keepers, and they are LF/CF, and wouldn't be ok if they were the same position.

it appears i had to clear a spot on my active roster for Manoah (IL) to be added there before going on my IL, which maybe makes sense anyway?

Seemingly at this point I have three outfield keepers but it looks like I would be okay within the new rules, though maybe it would be a moot point if Corbin Carroll keeps hitting like Larry Bowa... 😵‍💫

My team crapped the bed this week and I've fallen from first to seventh (32 points back) in only three days!

and i seemed to have climbed a few spots despite half my pitching staff being dead.

hmmm. what about having CF, OF, OF then? shoving a CF to a corner spot or moving a guy from one corner OF spot to the other happens often enough in baseball that there's less of a need to make a distinction for LF/RF as long as you have at least one guy capable of playing CF.

Remember like a month-ish ago I was bragging about my unstoppable 7-man rotation?

JFC, I'm going through it.

May change my team name to ElAttrache's Pulled Pork Sliders.

yeah, my team is verrrrrrrry injured. the replacements for the injuries get injured

Some mornings I wake up convinced I'll be in last place because I know I had at least two unfilled spots the day before; those days I move up. Other days I get at least two good games from my starting pitchers, and I think I'll move up to fourth or fifth; those days I drop down.

it's hard to predict how your team's performance will impact your ranking day-to-day because the scoring is relative to the other players, so your ranking is also based on how the other teams did that day

also having unfilled spots may be bad for the counting stats but can be helpful for your average-based stats if your active players do well

my injuries are out of control too. IL is full, have dropped two guys already due to being injured, and have two IL guys on my bench

Is it a common strategy to make sure both your catchers are on the same team? I've got Jansen from the Jays and Moreno from the D-Backs right now (while I wait for Sean Murphy to return). There are so many days when they're both sitting.

And honestly, is Jansen that fragile that Schneider has to sit him down when he's so hot? I assume he's 100% mended by now.

i was about to offer some advice, but then remembered i am in 12th place and called Barf Sandwich

Advise away, please. My bouncing-between-9th-and-5th-place ego is under control.

Fyi clemenza Bello was activated off the IL today and pitched five innings with 2 ER

Backup catchers don't produce much at the plate (plenty of first string catchers don't either), I usually don't even bother with a second catcher, let alone worry about whether they play for the same team.

(xpost) Thanks--saw that and reactivated him this morning.

I'll give that some thought. When Murphy returns, maybe I'll just go with him.

Now if I had the Ernie/Buck 1985 platoon, I'd want one of them in there every day.

I'd rather keep Moreno and hope he figures it out than spend a roster spot on a few handy at-bats from Kirk. If the backup guy was significantly better than Kirk is, like when William Contreras was a backup but still raking, that's another story.

i prefer to just find a decent catcher and forget about the off days, i assume if they're good enough i'll get 130-140 starts from them and if the raw numbers are good and the OBP and slugging are solid, i prefer to not waste ABs on what is likely a lesser player who will bring down the latter stats. i also usually assume (unless i draft a star) i might have to find a catcher in the free agent pile anyway, considering the volatility of the position. i rarely carry two catchers except in the case of injury, or if there's a guy who's really solid in the free agent pile and my catcher is a good enough hitter to stick in the utility slot or another position they're eligible for (such as Honey Nut Chourios playing Salvy Perez at 1B right now.)

I'm wondering if I've been playing the whole time under a fundamentally false assumption--that counting numbers matter as much (if not more) than rate stats. That's why I worry about days with an unfilled position. When I look at categories like runs, 2B, HR, etc., are we talking total or on a percentage basis?

include me on the injury train; i've got 7 players on the IL as well as one who's DTD and another on bereavement leave. i'm trying to hold tight because it looks like some of them could be coming off the IL later this week, but it's really hampering my flexibility

Dumped Sal Frelick finally and changed my team name to Celebrity Skenes.

xp those are counting stats, whoever has the most HRs wins the category

On one hand we have more counting stats than rate stats, on the other hand, counting stats are cumulative but rate stats can go up or down. I always worry about starting a third string player because if he goes 5-35 for the week with 2 RBI and a run scored, then my rate stats will certainly go down, and that will hurt my team more than the extra two ribbies will help. At least that's my feeling, am I wrong about this?

To make up for that 5-35, another player would need to go 15-35 and have a monster week, which is not something you can count on. Whereas picking up an extra run scored and two RBIs from a decent starting player isn't much of an ask.

What are the settings in this league? Is it head-to-head weekly matchups? How many transactions and bench spots are there?

didn't you used to be in it?! still a points league with no transaction limit, 6 bench spots and since covid we've been running with 4 IL spots

Yeah it's been a long time though! I didn't remember how it was set up.

You should come back! You won back-to-back years like forever ago, right?

Hmm, I don't recall. Could be. I've been playing since the '90s so there's been a lot of leagues haha.

I thought about playing this year but it's cooler to me seeing people who haven't played before get involved. Plus it's not for money. ;)

didn't you used to be in it?! still a points league with no transaction limit, 6 bench spots and since covid we've been running with 4 IL spots

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, May 13, 2024 12:48 PM (two hours ago)

Correction: it's a roto league.

Ya thank you. Weird brain fart there. It’s not head to head. That’s the important thing.
We hate h2h.

sorry to ask again but is there a new spreadsheet this season? i need to see which of my players are keeper-eligible before i can decide who to drop :(

now that i've got eight players on the IL, including three of my SPs

bookmark or ctrl-f "sheet":

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hpsG8k76efjA3bMamBZbU_RRa9Wf99KXzrFZHbsKdeI/edit#gid=1545943393

Trying to find a historical IRL analogue for my team... who was one of the great offensively stacked teams but had terrible pitching?

maybe the 2007 or 2009 Rockies?

thanks - i swear i searched the thread

Dumped Sal Frelick finally and changed my team name to Celebrity Skenes.

Immediately Sal hits his first and then second home runs of the season. He just needed me to set him free!

I loved looking at the team compositions and names, impossible to say which one I like best but damn, some of you have been hit hard with injuries. I’ll have to play this next year.

i was worried i'd get hit with a rash of injuries after Royce Lewis went 2 for 2 with a HR and promptly injured himself AGAIN***, but my team has been shockingly healthy. and yet aside from a couple SPs everyone i drafted is really underperforming.

***https://memeguy.com/photos/images/well-ok-then-283717.jpg

♪♫ For ACL or torn hammy, call Jacob Emrani. Call Jacob! ♫

^ this rules, I would also submit a modified version as:


♪♫ For broken wrist or John that’s Tommy, call Jacob deGrommy . Call Jacob! ♫

Lol very good. I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to experience one of LA's finest ear worms, that omar so thoughtfully reinserted in my ear.