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. :/
― Z S, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
MOVE THE DRAFT
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Z S, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
what you need to do is contract the flu by sunday.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
and also pray.
This sounds like a case for...
EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA
― Z S, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
What time is the draft again? (sorry, I'm iphoning and cant check)
― Z S, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
erm...
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
3 pm est. 2 pm if you forget to set your clocks ahead.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 10 March 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe it's sometime during December 2012
― Z S, Thursday, 10 March 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― Z S, Thursday, 10 March 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.logotypes101.com/files/513/d269a8be518e4e9f3f581db97c0b2e21/lrg_Las_Vegas_51s125.gif
― francisF, Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Andy K, Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
as per my tradition, i plan on getting stoned.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 March 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
everybody must.
oh, wait...
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 10 March 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Thursday, 10 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i pre-ranked last year and all i have are players their own mothers would feel ambivalent about having as their keeper picks.
― omar little, Thursday, 10 March 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Thursday, 10 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 March 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I get to do the draft today, AND I don't have explosive diarrhea! Today's going to be a great day!
― Z S, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I did a mock draft yesterday on yahoo, which was actually sort of fun although probably not very useful.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
30 mins!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
shit is not re-loading for me :(gonna be funny who i get
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
my connection is fine now, does it not let you in once it starts? welp,
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ive tried every link i could find for 20 mins & it wont load
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/15/enterdraft
?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
that one doesnt even try to load
There was a problem
* You cannot enter the draft for this team. (Error #439)
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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/enterdrafthttp://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268/2/enterdraft
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
its ok tho guys
which team r u
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
77 active uzrs
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
you're actually looking okay
i did start to feverishly drag and drop for the while i had access
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shitty dude - only checked the thread now.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 13 March 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
meh i can work w/ these guys - plus i went out and ran some errands i was procrastinating on so ~w/e~ mister yahoo u can suk it
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Good luck everyone!
I kinda thought I had a balanced team this year, unlike most years when I end up totally punting a category like SV or NSB and it ends up biting me in the ass, but now I'm looking at my hitters and realized I might be staring a .375 team SLG in the face.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
one last time, just to be annoying - if everyone changes their "team slogan" to their ILX name it'll be way easier to track who is who
if you're into that kind of thing
― Z S, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Through a combination of managerial incompetence and Yahoo! inscrutability, I have ended up with four 2B-eligible guys, five 1B-eligibles, and no SS. Please make me offers. (Also looking for RP.)
― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Barry - i think i might actually be harder up than you with SLG! will trade for tacos!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a lot of keeper eligible dudes this year - i think i went a bit overboard in putting the "***KEEPER!!***" marker by certain players in spreadsheet!
also, for some reason mixed up Eric Hosmer with the other KC infield prospect, Mike Moustakas. Moutstakas is expected to get significant playing time this year. Hosmer is behind Billy Butler, and is expected to drink beer with his minor league friends this year.
― Z S, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
if Hosmer mashes at AAA they could bring him up and bump Butler to DH. probably smarter of them to wait until all their pitching is ready to come up too though.
― ciderpress, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ya - i have a shit tonne of keepers too. how attached are you to Dunn, Z?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty attached, because i don't really have an alternative at 1B. are you thinking of giving up butler?
― Z S, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Given my 1B surplus, maybe we can swing a 3-way?
― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe...though not likely tbh. I was pretty ok with dunn, actually (he was my first pick) - i'd have to get a mighty sweet deal to deal him away.
― Z S, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
probably not going to even pay attention this year tbh, so the fact that i had to autodraft for a second year in a row and didn't really pre-rank too much isn't a big deal. done after this year, though.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
xp this is the last time I suggest a three-way.
― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link