These 12 managers signed up for 2016 Fantasy Baseball. What happened next will shock you!

This is the third year in a row I've had a commanding lead on first place going into June only to fall apart over the next four months so don't count out touchdown everyone-else

i'm 30 points away from first and 14 ahead of 3rd. trevor story is for real – all you fools are in a race for 3rd!!

also – we all like our league's sexy new icon?!
feel free to submit any new icon ideas as they come up over the season.

Nomar and I have the same problems. I couldn't have asked for much more from my offense, but my starting pitching stinks. Without Kershaw I would be in last place in almost every pitching category.

*Chaperones 48-hour school trip to Toronto, forgets to download fantasy app, arrives home, sees slide from third to eighth place*

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FANTASY BASEBALL

my SPs are all basically guys who are too potentially good to outright drop, too mediocre to rely on, and too weak to dangle as decent trade bait. Plus my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps.

i think losing Pollock hurt a bit but it's also highlighting the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher, last year I had scherzer (plus good Sonny Gray.) keeping my fingers crossed that Kluber turns it on at some point, he seems pretty unlucky this year. But despite the Cy Young award he's not a guy to anchor a winning FBB rotation.

my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps

should be ok tho, since we got SV+H now?

the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher

If anything this year for me is highlighting the importance of getting lucky with pitchers more than anything...

Two years ago I drafted pitching pretty hard with Wainwright, Salazar, Hamels, Sonny Gray, and kept Ryu... not so good. Gray was p good, Wainwright was p good, but Salazar crashed and burned that year, Hamels and Ryu underwhelming.

Last year I drafted Lester, Hughes, Samardzija, and then waited on my other dudes. Had Hughes kept up his incredible K/BB game up and Samardzija hadn't sucked out loud, i would've done better again, but... it was not meant to be.

This year I was risky AGAIN with pitching, not picking one until Cueto, then Liriano, Darvish, Matz, and finally Nola in the last round... for once, I'm actually getting amazing results. Nola and Matz in particular have been absolute steals, to the point where I was comfortable dropping an expensive but underwhelming Liriano fairly early. Cueto also hasn't disappointed.

Basically for pitching: if you pay a lot for it, your batting pays, but it doesn't always make the pitching work out.

That said, I have the champagniest of champagne problems this year... I have no idea who to keep for next year! Goldschmidt and either Belt or Kenley... and three of Harper, Arenado, Betts, Matz, Nola, Arcia and Franco. Harper's a lock, Arenado and Betts are borderline locks, but Nola and Matz have been SO GOOD and who even knows, maybe Arcia ends up being this year's Carlos Correa...

Was 1.5 GB out of 1st place. now I'm 3.5GB and failed to realize my Ace-in-the-hole is making his first start tonight! Look out for the Lonelys, we're not even at full steam yet :D

Really, I just want to beat Lincecumlords; he's been coming on pretty hard since that savvy Edwin pickup :P (I have Chris Carter now by the way lol)

and...Lincecum's ahead of me >:( I will have vengeance GO CARTER

Do you guys use Yahoo Fantasy Baseball? It bugs me that they give you so much info on each player and game, including ratings of how well a player is expected to do in that day's game, but they don't tell you which starting pitcher they're facing that day. So you have to open MLB.com in a separate tab to get that info.

it says the opposing pitcher if you click matcup ratings, at least in browser.

In browser go to My Team and click Opponents

also, if you are losing the season and you have good old pitchers, ilxmail me and we'll figure out a way to give you an A+ keeper for next year in exchange for me not throwing this fucking season in the garbage can

Greinke and Kershaw injured on the same day? There goes my season?!?

it says the opposing pitcher if you click matcup ratings, at least in browser.

― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In browser go to My Team and click Opponents

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither of these options work for me? matchup ratings aren't clickable and there's no opponents option under my team. weird. thanks for trying though!

"Opponents" should be sitting between "Ranks" and "Matchup Ratings" to the right of where the date and "stats" is. click that and there'll be a column for opposing pitchers. it might not be visible on a smartphone/tablet tho.

ah that did it. thanks.

we're at the halfway mark! HOMERBaili has a 10.5 pt lead over Olney the Lonely.

top ten batters at the break:

Donaldson
Ortiz
Trout
Bryant
Altuve
Encarnacion
Rizzo
Betts
Arenado
Trumbo (!!)

top ten pitchers:

Kershaw
Bumgarner
Scherzer
Cueto
Fernandez
Syndergaard
Strasburg
Sale
Miller
Jansen

depending on how my July pans out, i might be in selling mode. I have a stunning number of non-keeper impact players on offense, plus the now-30 yr old Corey Kluber.

surprised Donaldson is over papi now as #1 batter

I can't believe I took Bautista over Donaldson; I'd be in first! >X'S

no idea why i added Bregman. Already have Correa and Story. may have gotten a little carried away in the hype

free agent add of Jett Bandy, what a time to be alive

Sorry Nomar, your trade offer was good but I was thinking about pulling that one all week...

just turned down one hell of a crazy 8-player deal...
I'm surprised, tbh, Harper fetched so little. this is fun tho - our league had gotten quiet for a bit there.

what was the point of the villar deal? villar can't even be kept...

i knew i overreached on my epic eight player deals.

sending you an email. my app didn't let me write a response when i turned it down.

i liked it. but there's a hitch.

Also, to everyone: I won't be able to keep all 3 of Story, Correa and Sano (Bryant and Fernandez aren't going anywhere). let see some dumb trades! (would want pitching and/or 27-29 keeper.

^i am cooking up an insane offer rn

sweet.

question is do i have the stones to even offer it?!

pondering that trade offer...

Welp. Was asking a lot for Story since his production was going to be tough to replace. And now he's no good to me for the rest of the year. If anyone has an open DL slot and wants him as a keeper, hit me up. Will toss him overboard in a few days otherwise.

fuck it indeed!

Only slightly better than Vogt. But I was dropping him anyways, so what the hell.

thermo i came at you with another proposal

It's pretty good. Only thing holding me up is I'd be light in the OF dept after this.

Wow, this trade is wild.

Just crazy enough.

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some intersting names when u sort best performers the past 30 days

dozier
napoli
verlander
justin turner
miggy
votto
scherz
schrimpf
danny duffy
blackmon

Was out of town for the weekend, limited internet access, didn't realize Betts was back. Benched a 3 HR game. Due to another similar error earlier this year I'm pretty sure I benched ANOTHER one of his multi-HR games, meaning due to two days I've missed out on 20% of his homers, lol.

ridic that kershaw is still ranked #1

i'm gunning for that fourth place medal hardcore

i'm going to jinx Will right now and prematurely congratulate him on his eminent victory this year.
way to kick all of our butts!

how dare you :P