YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

i've gotten a little obsessed. i got a lot more interested when i found out about some of the different options for playing. right now i play strictly 50/50 leagues, which means that if you place in the top 50 out of 100 for a contest, you win - doesn't matter whether you finish in 1st or 49th place. they have the 50/50 contests at different price levels, but i play the $2 games which give you $3.60 if you win. so basically, if you can place in the top half of the contest 55% of the time, you'll break even. i like the 50/50 games because they reward having a consistent method - i don't have to rely on luck to pick someone who has a 2 HR game, i just need to pick a set of players who will get me consistent production so that i can get into the top half of the field of entries.

a lot of other people play head-to-head games and tournament style entries where placing in the top 3 gets you a ton of money and you have to place in the top 10% or so to make any money back. i might dabble with those later but for now i'm very content to refine my 50/50 method. currently i'm winning 65% of my games, well past the 55% breakeven point.

al-only auction league that i co-manage w/ a friend - today is the deadline for trading expiring contracts and someone was trying to unload avisail garcia to us

me checking his game log: "you know he has only 2 xbh since june?!?"
co-manager: "so he's due lol"
me: "hes not due hes doodoo"

just wanna show this off

http://s11.postimg.org/3kqmika1f/bbll.png

oh if we're glorping about how good we are then

http://i.imgur.com/LnpqmWs.png

only benching dee and robinson next week due to matchups btw

also i get to keep green players for free next year, and other playesr cost their draft value (up to 4)... probably trout 1, bryant whatever probably 3, and whoever else has a decent value next year (keeper cost based on average draft pos)

something has gone horribly wrong when my starting OF's total age (4 slots) rn is 147 yrs

That's an average age of 37! Don't even know how you pulled that off. Is Torii Hunter involved?!

not even!

byrd/beltran/werth/cruz

wow - still hanging onto werth?!

only just grabbed him, kinda feel he could heat up idk. same theory w/ beltran/byrd really

basically my pitching and Donaldson/altuve are keeping this team afloat fwiw

I made this for my irl league. I'm Michael. The highlighted part is a deep tiebreaker I'm not sure about. Should be a stressful week!

http://i.imgur.com/eCcOOoy.png

win rule is just pissing me off so much lately late season/playoffs now. just give it to the fucking starting pitcher if he did a decent job. i really don't get it. why are umps allowed to award it willy-nilly to middle relievers who threw 8 pitches if they don't think the SP did well enough but it doesn't work the other way around? i got fucked out of two wins that way towards the end of the season. now my playoffs w/$450 prize are in somewhat more jeopardy because my wily peralta isn't going to get a W for a well-pitched game and his francisco rodriguez is going to get a W because he blew a save.

i typically actually defend wins as a stat in FBB but fuck wins

fuck quality starts too don't even start with that

finished in the 8 seed with a 6-9-6 record. Currently leading against the 1 seed

i can't buy a win to save my life right now. i feel you on that

that's a lot of playoff teams

tbf i lucked my way into a playoff spot (and my money back) with a shit team in my h2h points league because this year the guy in charge thought it'd be a good idea to have 4 3-team divisions

i'm getting destroyed though

ONCE AGAIN. noah syndergaard allows one run in seven innings. tyler clippard allows three runs in one inning. guess who's getting the win!!

don't ask me why my playoff opponent has tyler clippard i don't know

also fuck brett gardner

obv jayson werth on my bench (2hr/5rbi)

infinite love for bud norris and his fucking up shields' era just now

fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally

$560 total on $150 between two leagues. should've been more. missed out on another $20 by .0004 of batting average.

got tied at 2nd on the last day of the year in a roto. FUCK. it was a dumb league with a low innings limit and weekly locked rosters and i managed to do ok but at the end i hit the 1000 IP and the guy in third was way back and he started like 7 SPs in the last week (using the dirty SPARP trick) and just caught me. went from like 90 to 45 on 20... i actually don't even remember how much it is, but it's LESS NOW.

also in my h2h pts league i set a 4-year record for regular season points, then my team plopped one in the semis, and then in the "finals" (when my team wasn't counted because our league is 100% payout to #1) i would have set an all-time points record. fuck fantasy baseball

in my big money league there's no limits on pitching, at all, because the guy who runs it is an obsessive streamer, and the playoffs every year end in a ridiculous war over every starter

i still managed to pull off a 2.66 ERA and 1.10 WHIP and 235 Ks in 229 innings in the finals though (he had 241 total). i had a freakishly good playoff run, 4 RBI away from sweeping both rounds. i don't think i'll ever have a team this good again.

i'm in two H2H leagues and both my opponents had 3 HRs from corey seager today

and both had 5 HR on monday

my uncle, who is always in last place and reliable for a good boost if you're facing him, got 8 home runs yesterday

on a monday where his entire lineup isn't even playing

me today, knowing that i need HR and AVG and i probably have bags down because he doesn't have any burners, decides to bench billy hamilton

who hits a home run

I've been clinging to my first place position, down to a half point lead for the past few days. The guy in second place has Jose Fernandez and Mike Leake for a total of 25 Ks over 12 innings so far tonight so that's it for me.

oh ya – that would explain the big jump i had last night in our league!

wilson ramos is 100% a keeper rn

i hate closers and especially mike scioscia

"hey why not bring our shitty substitute closer into a non-save situation so he can give up 14 runs for no reason"

lmao h2h league, the person im matched up w this week after one day their offense went 10/30 and 7 of the ten hits were homeruns

http://deadspin.com/show-us-your-earliest-fantasy-team-1785807487

i just checked my earliest fantasy team and i actually won the league, with one of my OFers being JAY PAYTON. i remember the good ol' days when you'd be languishing somewhere down in fourth place and then your fifth OFer, a guy like payton or let's say jeffrey hammonds, would get traded to the Rockies and suddenly start hitting like Dante Bichette (which is to say, empty IRL but astronomically helpful in FBB.)

weird, i was just looking at some of my old teams today! unfortunately the earliest baseball one i have is 2006, i was more into other sports apparently in ~2001. Looking at my team from 10 years ago (when I knew NOTHING about baseball or fantasy in general, really... lil baby me) now... btw you cna also click "draft results."

Apparently I took Johan Santana 2nd overall. LOL. I guess he was the #1 pitcher but 2nd overall? Then it keeps going and it's clear that I know (a) jays guys and (b) think japanese names are cool. Glaus, Delgado, DiceK, Damon, Kenji Johjima, Aki Iwamura, Frank Thomas... no wonder this team finished 7/12. Fuck.

lol my earliest team was 2003 - 1st draft pick was barry bonds; 4th rd pick was bartolo colon!; last rd pick was adam hyzdu

my final roster from that team has 3 players still active! papi, beltre, and bart

i signed into yahoo for the first time in ages and it doesn't seem to have any FBB info, no idea where to go to find that if it still exists

i CAN get to a 2009 espn league because i'm still in it

it's a doozy

https://s10.postimg.io/roetqdosp/draffft.png

i really hate playoff season

especially when you're opposed by a team with brian dozier

and you have tony watson on one of your teams

and cole hamels decides to fuck me yesterday

8 homers today for one of my opponents

this is in a league where i finished the regular season as the leader in 6 categories and second in 2 more

i'm currently in first place in mine, probably gonna set the regular season record after 5 years of play, and the team that is gonna sneak into fourth did so on dozier and freeman's backs (he was in last place out of 10 before the ASB) which is... concerning

i like the dude and i was cheering for him to pull this epic comeback but now i am looking at the current 2-4 teams and going SHIT THEY ARE ALL FLAMING OUT but this dude is RESURGENT

i sound like a psychopath but i really knew i shouldve added josh collmenter for his start today

right there with you, desperately clinging onto Ks in a streaming arms race and trying to scrape them together without killing my WHIP

tomorrow is the last day of a 2-week first round and it's just a total streaming shitshow, it's enough that i've finally brought up my displeasure with unlimited pitching and how this happens every single year in the playoffs where it isn't about making smart choices it's just about going nuts streaming horrible september pitchers. i'm set to have 40+ starts when this round is all said and done

awkward because this league is family, the guy in charge of the rules is my cousin's husband, the guy i'm having an arms race with right now is his dad who i've never met, and his dad's on my side. i think everyone in the league is probably on my side, the problem is my cousin's husband loves streaming.

meanwhile this team is the best i've ever had in this league, i won 6 categories in the regular season with 2nd place finishes in 2 others (dominated in everything but HR and RBI)

and my entire team has decided to stop doing all of these things right as the playoffs began

struggling like crazy to get 5 wins because a tie wins it for me, i have ERA down but it's a race for Ks, WHIP is shaky, AVG is extremely shaky (he was briefly beating me yesterday), and i've literally restructured my entire offense minus 3 spots (both corner infield and C) to produce stolen bases, and NO ONE is stealing bases right now. hamilton went down and i had to drop him for streaming SPs, and it's been so very tough without him. i'm starting terrence gore! every day! he hasn't even stolen a base since i picked him up! i picked up stanton off the scrap heap when he started to chirp about coming back early, then he came back WAY early and ended up being a huge albatross on my bench. he's still an albatross because he doesn't contribute in AVG and SBs, the only cats i have any hope in. it sucks.

had to punt saves after winning it in the regular season because the goddamn trade deadline cut them in half. i'm usually very good about winning saves in the playoffs via streaming for vultures, but i had to give that up for the Ks arms race.

i'm just gonna go crazy about these stolen bases. i'm on vacation right now and this fucking league is gonna ruin my last day tomorrow. if these assholes don't start stealing some goddamn bags i swear

meanwhile he just got 4 Ks from kimbrel and i want to die

i think i'm gonna regret starting brock stewart at ARI

hopefully not as much as he's gonna regret starting shelby miller in ARI