It's Not a Trick, It's a Collusion – 2018 In Love Baseball Fantasy League

just putting this out there – if anyone with a young arm (Martinez, Syndergaard, etc) are interested in making a swap once the season starts, let me know. i'm going to try to address my keeper pitching issues in the draft, but i'm not crazy about my options (or the competition for young guys i'll think i might be facing).

Okay I'll keep Sano (even though it's kind of stupid and disgusting to do so), LeMahieu, Bumgarner, and Stanton.

Oh and I changed my team name to Colonisqattsi

just four?

think they only had one player under 27 (and like 8 players 27-29)

by my count only two teams left to pick keepers -- guns of buxton (similar situation, but reversed: five under 27, one 27-29) and olney the lonely (has about 4028459 players to choose between).

you've got the draft at 4 p.m., is that eastern time?

yep! 4:00pm EDT

thanks. traveling from central to eastern next week so wanted to mitigate my potential confusion.

Hello! Sorry my picks are late:

Gallo's Pole (formerly Olney The Lonely):

Sale, C 29
Kimbrel, C 29
Ozuna, M 27
Machado, M 25
Giolito, L 23

I will not miss the draft this year!!

Hey y'all!

Could I simply usurp a dormant team's keepers or is part of the hazing to start with nothing?

You’re out of luck there - no defunct franchises laying around. You’d be the second new team this year tho, so you’ll have some company with building from the ground up.

anyone in touch with our last team yet to pick keepers? appears their last 3 posts on ilx were related to their 2017 and 2016 keepers, lol. u out here lurkin, jq higs?

i send a yahoo mail. will try again through the ilx message. for now, i'm assuming he plans on staying in the league.

send=sent

how2shot invite?

i sent a link to you via ilx. you good on the rules etc?

I can't remember what email I used for ILX but strange query:
would you happen to use an email that is a punny portmanteau of the following:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/nintchdbpict000068162276.jpg
http://aboutmeditation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Deepak-Chopra-Meditation.jpg

Nevermind, I'm in!

ha ha hhahaahaaa yes, yes i do. 'tis my hip-hop alias.

;-)

trea turner (24)
francisco lindor (24)
jose ramirez (25)
george springer (28)

sorry for the delay. don't think i have any other qualifying players in the 27, 28, 29 bracket.

thanks!

ok guys – i've inputted our keepers and the draft order is set. please double check that i got your picks right etc
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/24882/draftresults?drafttab=team

everything looks right except for me picking 10th because UGH THERE'S 9 GUYS I WANT

Thanks, thermo. Looking forward to the draft and subsequent mediocrity.

That’s the spirit!

Looking forward to dropping a scuffling player right before he turns into Lou Gehrig.

Incredibly excited that my wife scheduled a large group meal with my in-law's at 4pm EST on Sunday!

Colonisqattsi might want to drop a recently-injured pitcher. Is it too late?

Actually never mind, he's still just 28, I'll keep his old Bum(garner) ass

I think I can still edit the draf until an hour before it starts.

lol is anyone else getting..

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with this dn you'll know whose fantasy team is mine now

yahoo seems to be working for most of us!

Help I'm trying to get in, is Ohtani still on the board?

you were there most the draft, no?!

Here's the keeprs for next year which I will try to actually keep up to date this year! (next year's ages are listed, not this year's, and as players get dropped they will disappear from the list (whenever I update it once a month or whatever))

Hope someone got a kick out of Altherred Images auto-drafting (with some impetuous pre-draft jockeying, but still) Aaron Altherr.

i was going to ask if anyone actually ended up with the player their team is named after

Could someone explain the specific keepers format (for someone who is going to campaign hard to drop it next year)?

Spreadsheet shows:

Alex Wood	28	27-29
Travis Shaw	28	27-29
Billy Hamilton	28	27-29
Jeurys Familia	29	27-29
Max Kepler	26	<27
Carl Edwards Jr.	27	27-29
Mitch Haniger	28	27-29

...or should I just read the 2nd post in this thread?

...so basically I should have drafted another <=26yo.

you can still try and trade for one

ISO: Ohtani (batter)
FT: Kluber

i don't get it - why join the league if you don't like the whole keeper thing??

I've never done a keeper league to be honest. I just started playing fantasy again after a very long break! Trade me a <26 keeper and I'll promise not to stage a coup to regain league commissioner powerz.

I was losing it when Aaron Judge nearly got to me in the first round (picking 11th!). He seemed like a clear top three pick, taking keeper eligibility into account.

Yeah knowing that, I'd have taken him over Kluber but Kluber was ranked #1 of all eligible players.

TBF Kershaw, Kluber, Scherzer & Votto were the only four guy I was going to target above a young SP.

and guess i should have made extra sure the rules/settings were understood by the new teams before we got to the draft.
when we first went to a keeper format (which i love), i didn't like that someone might be able to keep a Trout or Kershaw for their entire career. didn't seem fair to keep so many elite players out of reach. and since irl most players hit free agency by the time they've hit 30, i thought the age cut-off was a good way to go. and also 30 is a nice, round, easy to remember number. as far as the age brackets go, i like it because it A) prevents people from bunching up a crew of similar aged guys and B) it forces teams to plan for the career progression of it's younger picks – i wanted more thought to go into team than just having a bucket of under-30 guys you can hang onto. almost like when a guy hits 27, you have to decide if that he's good enough to extend. an interesting side effects as well, seems to be that it has inspired some incredibly interesting trades over the years.
the only thing i'm not crazy about is when we calculate someone's age. we go by our leagues draft date, which can be a moving target. iirc only one guy has been effected by the phenomenon of their official age shifting due to this, so it hasn't really been a major problem.

the story of my season today in a nutshell: ridiculous pitching (Eduardo-Rod: 5 IP, 11 K, 0 ER, 11:1 K/BB ratio), and 0-15 with one run scored from the offense.

https://i.imgur.com/p3ucTR0.png

Start Glasnow they* said
*rotoballers

I had the best ERA in the league coming into this game and Glasnow's 0.2 IP outing was enough to move my season ERA a full quarter of a run.

The WHIP race is insane right now: 4 teams within <0.01 at the top.

congrats BNW!
and congrats on ended your 10-year victory drought!

also, i just randomly discovered the league record book today! kinda fun to poke around (fun fact: i hold the all time, single-day strikeout record at 40).

Kept expecting to get overtaken - must have lost like 30 pts in the 2nd half. Gerrit Cole and Suarez got me through. Thanks for the league! All those years of tanking paid off!

Frustrating year for me (every SP was injured at some point, etc.) but congrats bnw for dominating for most of the year and a well deserved win.

I learned a lot (namely that you should draft keepers in a keeper-league) yet I tried to give it a go and make it interesting (which didn't really happen). Impressively dominant win B!

Hey Jimmy, We just got word that January 31st is opening day. Drafts will start February 5th. -Echo 🏈🏀🏒🏆

— Yahoo Fantasy Care (@YahooFantasyCC) January 11, 2019

Will open up a new thread around Feb 1...
open to thread name ideas, since I apparently stopped being clever a few years back.

The keeper list (it's on the second tab in a handier format). Ages are updated and as of today so are drops from September!

Thanks Will.

do we have any control over whether same-day adds or drops are allowed in our league? if we do, is there any interest in adding that?

i think that's just a box i tick or somesuch. i'm fine either way, but wouldn't mind some kind of consensus before i do or don't tho.
i'll make a new thread once me, or someone smarter than me can come up with a name.

i tried to do it in my basketball league and couldn't find it! if you find it lmk where!

How about a name like idk Countdown to CBA Work Stoppage 2019

oh, i like the CBA angle...

it's been slow at work lately and i'm ready for winter to be done so i've been thinking ahead to fantasy baseball. so i think i have my keepers figured out already. not gonna declare until i have to but i think i've got it unless trades/injuries impact my choices.

there it is. new thread title.

Where is it?

Yahoo leagues open this afternoon.

using this entire post as the league name is for some reason hilarious to me:
it's been slow at work lately and i'm ready for winter to be done so i've been thinking ahead to fantasy baseball. so i think i have my keepers figured out already. not gonna declare until i have to but i think i've got it unless trades/injuries impact my choices.

i am very sleep deprived. maybe just the first sentence. or possibly something about manipulating service time. i am so tired.

Yahoo is the only platform that's keeping Ohtani as 2 separate P/DH entities:

Hey guy, any particular reasoning behind making ohtani two players instead of one? Thanks

— Rap Verify (@RapVerify) January 31, 2019

maybe im sleep deprived too because i just laughed at this idea for a threda name (please don't do it)

Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Include Ohtani As One Player; The Inexorable March of Two-Way Players Will Lead Us All to VORPiness