I know Fantasy, I have the best Baseball – 2017 ILX league is open!

i was wondering when someone was going to grab cozart

well, my Urias gambit is officially a failure.

A twelve point, one day turnaround at the top of the standings!

Ya, I did not expect to wake up to that.

i knew it was coming, just not when.

i've almost unlocked a new trophy for my case: the all-waiver wire starting lineup.

please tell me that's a real thing

maybe it's a secret trophy

judge and bellinger weren't drafted this season, imagining they'll go 1&2 next year maybe...?

Bellinger is three years younger so he's probably the clear #1.

really? given judge's better this year and his excellence was perhaps more "expected" i'd be taking him above bellinger. also bellinger's swing fucking scares me. look at his legs when he swings hard.

Seven on the DL.

my team is open for business!

trade bait:

Smoak
Schoop
Rendon
Pollock
Marte
Conforto
Souza
Gennett
Morrison
Lester
Carrasco
Severino
Chapman

there are others, too. i just didn't mention them because who the hell wants Schwarber now.

none of these guys are keepers, fwiw. I'm looking for at least one (1) good 27-29 keeper for next season and perhaps a <27 keeper.

off the market (barring an astonishing offer): Benintendi, Bogaerts, Carlos Martinez, DeGrom.

I've been waiting all season to trade Kershaw if my team was out of it, and he's injured :(

SIX regulars on the DL plus two assholes day to day.

Aaaand my lead is gone

Another change at the top. And my team has its highest point total since June!

I don't understand what happened this morning. I had a pretty typical day; not bad... drop 6.5 points.

another drop! time to fucking panic!!

:-)

oh it's on!

whoa, i'm in spitting distance again?

Five points separating first from third. Best pennant race our league has had in years!

the last week my team is hitting a robust .176 (34-for-197) w/5 HR, 17 RBI, 9 XBH, 1 SB.

but hey i scored 23 runs.

More flip-flopping at the top!

Finally all my best players are healthy and kicking ass (too little too late).

Order is restored.
For now.

Four or five lead changes later, and it's a tie at the top!

My offense has done nothing this month ... hoping for a great stretch run from both my pitchers and hitters was too much to ask. Not to say that I could have won, but it's still frustrating.

didnt even notice! am in a semifinal h2h struggle to the death in another league rn

i want off this crazy roller coaster.

Is there a Yahoo medal for seven SPs on one day or

Grabbing spot starters for the final few days of the season has completely backfired for me so far ...

Two points separating first and second! (yes I am living the end of the season vicariously through managers with better teams).

Tomorrow I am firing my entire coaching staff.

fun season ;)

Congrats dude! Some quality late season management there.

thx !
2 straight 2nds for you therm? that is impressive in itself~

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Grabbing spot starters for the final few days of the season has completely backfired for me so far ...

Had to grab spot starters throughout the last month to make up for several simultaneous DL stints. Boosted the counting stats -- no hope for the rate stats -- to go from eighth to fifth. Probably made more moves this year than in all previous years combined.

Team evidently led the league in doubles that didn't plate anyone -- first in XBH, second in SLG, seventh in RBI.

You killed it in team transactions!

my draftees were either disappointed, injured, or suspended. except for the excellent work by my SPs -- deGrom, Carrasco, and CarMart. I got very lucky on the waiver wire with Severino and Alex Wood. which is why in my pitching stats i had all 11s or 10s (except for sv+hold.) the less said about my terrible offense the better.

disappointING, not disappointed. though there was a lot of disappointment to go around.

Thanks you to Thermo and j.crunch for an exciting stretch run. And special thanks to Thermo for his great job as commish.

It was a middling year for me, the pitchers turned it up a notch in the second half but my offense never really got going. I'm feeling OK about my keeper options for next year though. Now that I'm losing Kershaw to the over-30 crowd I'll have to stop using my pitching as a crutch and figure out how to draft a decent offense.

my offense was def my strong suit all yr

pitching was gerry rigged together esp after arrieta & roark disappointed early and often; erv santana, keuchel & rich hill were huge, & then acquiring jimmy nelson and archer in separate trades was juust enough

please help me come up with a name for this years thread!
i'll start a new one once yahoo registration opens (soon i expect).
also, if anyone wants to volunteer to co-commish, would appreciate. there's some pretty not good things happening for me right now and having a back-up/bench commissioner might not be a bad idea.

I'd be willing to be a backup/bench commish! Never done it before but I do love me some FBB. I can't come up with a snappy title... rock out with your pitch clock out? ugh gross i'll think about it

looking forward to this. i was just looking at the keeper spreadsheet to remind myself of my options and i don't think it was kept up to date ... looks like it's missing some trades from later in the season. not complaining, just informing.

either that or i don't understand the keeper rules. which is entirely possible.

It's very possible I missed some trades! I should be able to update it maybe tomorrow? Or maybe tonight depending.

wow yeah lol i didn't update this fucking thing since july 14. i got some work to do!

thanks Will, you're hired. when i open up the new league you will find yourself with AMAZING NEW POWERS!
appreciate it.

Here is the link to what I hope is the updated spreadsheet. Since I did this super late, the dates are a little buggy on drops (made it 2018, oops, but it's irrelevant really) and Yahoo has changed the formatting on some names so PLEASE double-check that you didn't actually drop a player you're keeping. E.g. "A.J. Ramos" became "AJ Ramos" in the system and i'm using vlookup here.

LMK if there are any corrections, questions, etc.!