You know I love you, but I'm playing for keeps: Your 2011 Fantasy Baseball thread!

Is the list of available players up somewhere or does more commissioner work have to be done? no pressure thermo, just bored at work

i've done everything i needed to do. whatever yahoo lists is what they list.
Z S was awesome enough to list all our keepers upthread tho. which, aside from the Morneau/McCutchen swap, should be accurate.

when i was plugging in the keeper picks it was greying out everyone selected. going by yahoo's rankings, #s1-12 (or maybe 13) were all taken followed by a clump of old people about 5 or so deep then another half dozen more keeper pics before things meshed into more of a 50/50 ratio for a while.

Here's the Yahoo! Top 50 with the keepers removed:

1. Albert Pujols
2. Chase Utley
3. Roy Halladay
4. Ryan Howard
5. Álex Rodríguez
6. Mark Teixeira
7. Kevin Youkilis
8. Matt Holliday
9. Nelson Cruz
10. Ian Kinsler
11. Dan Uggla
12. Cliff Lee
13. José Bautista
14. Jimmy Rollins
15. Víctor Martínez
16. Adrián Béltre
17. Jason Heyward
18. Adam Dunn
19. Rickie Weeks
20. Derek Jeter
21. Ichiro Suzuki
22. Brian McCann
23. Billy Butler
24. CC Sabathia
25. Hunter Pence
26. Justin Morneau
27. Jayson Werth
28. Álex Ríos
29. Mariano Rivera
30. Aramis Ramírez
31. Brian Wilson
32. Joakim Soria
33. Michael Young
34. Drew Stubbs
35. Shane Victorino
36. B.J. Upton
37. Pedro Alvarez
38. Heath Bell
39. Jacoby Ellsbury
40. Dan Haren
41. Stephen Drew
42. Roy Oswalt
43. Delmon Young
44. Jonathan Papelbon
45. Paul Konerko
46. Max Scherzer
47. Chris Carpenter
48. Brian Roberts
49. Ben Zobrist
50. Casey McGehee

whoa did someone not keep heyward?

i was hoping no one else would notice. but he was on Will's now defunct team. r.i.p.

Jimmy Rollins what in the fuck are you doing at #14

Delmon Young: 43rd best available player.

You gotta take Y! rankings with a huge grain of salt, of course.

Are yahoo's rankings based on the conventional wisdom of all the mock drafts going on?

I kept thinking someone who didn't play last year would pick up my team just for the chance to get Heyward/McCann/Wainwright(RIP)!

theres surprisingly few players on that list that i like to have a great 2011 season

51. Jeff Weaver
52. Jeff Francoeur
53. Jeff Blauser

i ate 10 tacos next to jeff weaver last night!

draft this sunday, bitches! also: be aware of the daylight savings factor.

Ugh, I have out of state company staying with me all weekend, and plans to "sight see" on Sunday. My fiancée has informed me that skipping out to do "fake baseball crap" will be "the lamest shit ever".

Terrified of having to autodraft. :/

MOVE THE DRAFT

I mean, is there a way to do it so that the autodraft knows your position priorities. Like, if you give it an ordered list of 10 1B, would it pickthe highest available 1B, and then the next round move on to fill another position for me? Or would it keep picking 1B until all 10 on my list were gone?

what you need to do is contract the flu by sunday.

and no - as far as i'm aware the autodraft is still as dumb as a bag of hammers. my only advice (aside from the flu) is to pre-rank like a mo-fo and favour said positions.

and also pray.

This sounds like a case for...

EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA

with the first 5 rounds out of the way it should keep our draft under two hours tho - i don't see why you can't site-see-supervise for part of the day still.

xpost YES

What time is the draft again? (sorry, I'm iphoning and cant check)

erm...

3 pm est. 2 pm if you forget to set your clocks ahead.

i'm at a loss here, does life on Earth as we know it end on New Year's 2012 or directly after New Year's 2011? this is really throwing a wrench into my keeper strategy.

I believe it's sometime during December 2012

"The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012,[1][2][3] which is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae related to this date have been proposed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

http://myshirthouse.com/images/believe_alien_thumb.gif

http://www.logotypes101.com/files/513/d269a8be518e4e9f3f581db97c0b2e21/lrg_Las_Vegas_51s125.gif

Z S, if it makes you feel any better, I came out on top of a league with a roster that began 100% auto-drafted, and I've finished second and fourth in THIS league with partially auto-drafted teams and judgments made with little/no thought due to my kids running interference.

I love the "How to Prepare For and What to Do on Draft Day" articles that tell you to go to bed early, take vitamin C, eat fruit, and ask for divine intervention ('cause you surely will be fucked otherwise).

as per my tradition, i plan on getting stoned.

everybody must.

oh, wait...

you have got to be kidding me.

i'm going away this weekend for my one-year anniversary and will miss the draft, which i missed last year because i was getting married.

i pre-ranked last year and all i have are players their own mothers would feel ambivalent about having as their keeper picks.

I love the "How to Prepare For and What to Do on Draft Day" articles that tell you to go to bed early, take vitamin C, eat fruit, and ask for divine intervention ('cause you surely will be fucked otherwise).

I remember reading a similar article advising people to stay sober if everybody else was drinking at the (presumably in person) draft. Just lolling at the thought of sitting there alone, intensely shuffling papers while everybody else chills out around you.

I guess when money is involved people take it a little more seriously.

my money league last year was won by my weird astros fan friend who drafted half the astros offense and traded all his decent players away for washed up veterans and dropped Mat Latos at the end of April much to my benefit

so yeah don't play fantasy for money imo

I get to do the draft today, AND I don't have explosive diarrhea! Today's going to be a great day!

I did a mock draft yesterday on yahoo, which was actually sort of fun although probably not very useful.

30 mins!

shit is not re-loading for me :(
gonna be funny who i get

my connection is fine now, does it not let you in once it starts? welp,

ive tried every link i could find for 20 mins & it wont load

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/15/enterdraft

?

that one doesnt even try to load

There was a problem

* You cannot enter the draft for this team. (Error #439)

these are the ones from the home page/draft central and wont load for me at all now. i guess the like 1m my internet was the exactly worst time

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/enterdraft
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/2/enterdraft

its ok tho guys

which team r u

77 active uzrs

you're actually looking okay

i did start to feverishly drag and drop for the while i had access