Waiting 171 days to submit your keepers will not give you another year of control – 2019 I Love Fantasy Baseball League is open!

you can use Gleyber of Love if you want, but he's going to be on my team

keeper decisions i struggled with
- not keeping willson contreras - probably not going to improve on him for catcher in the draft but i'd have to lose devers or torres to keep him (since he doesn't turn 27 until may) and they both seem potentially more valuable over the long term, especially since they're both so young
- not keeping jon gray - i keep expecting him to have a breakout season and his strikeout numbers can be gaudy when he's hot but he just hasn't been consistently good on the level of clevinger so i went with him instead

Will: are the times overlapping?
also: your outfield is disgusting. i hate it.

what do you mean by the times overlapping?

your two drafts.

oh for the drafts! xp lol

no probably not -- the IRL one is usually around 1pm Eastern. but then we usually hang out for a while and possibly do dinner (we even have ppl drive in from out of town usually). iiiiiif it were possible to do the draft later that day, like 7pm instead of 4pm, awesome, but honestly, i'll have my laptop and my cheatsheets and shit, i might just take a chill 45m break from being super-social and be only semi-social while drafting. no need to move the day/time unless it doesn't work for others!

ok, noted. thanks.

ah good i got my 2019 team name last night! say hello to Bellinger EscapePlan (i hate that character limit sooooo much)

i just remembered i have a wedding to attend on 3/17 at 5PM PDT. What are the chances the draft could be moved to 11AM PDT?? just to cut it less close.

i realize it also still might be moved to another date per the first post in the thread...

i don't want to move it up too much because of Will's draft, but if I move it up by an hour - it shouldn't affect him. our drafts are normally pretty quick because of the keepers – would you be able to be there for most of it (possibly in a tux) if i changed it to 12 PDT (3 EST)?

that'll work, thanks!

3pm should still be okay for me... should be right around when my live one ends. my commish is giving me endless (joking, i think) shit for caring about literally any other league but 3 might actually work better, because it'll be done before we all go out for group dinner?

i'm sure they're relishing the idea of being able to spectate, heckle and back-seat draft our draft!

hahaha oh god some of them will totally do that

we also have so many keepers/so few picks in that league, i just checked the timestamps for last year's draft, and it took... 45 minutes, lol. the league is only batters and team pitching (like team defense in football, kinda?) so it's 16 rounds, and 4 keepers, so really only 12 rounds (w/ 10 teams, and some teams have too few picks, so it ends up being... 115 total?)

we use fantrax btw, and it RULES, i'd almost recommend migrating but then we'd lose league history :(

Ok – so I'm going to move the draft time up an hour. will see if a mod can edit my original post to show the new time.

sabathias theater~

SEAGER, Corey 24
HARPER, Bryce 26
CASTELLANOS, Nick 27
ALTUVE, Jose 28
FREEMAN, Fred 29

Yikes, I will be out of town that weekend but will try to cut out a chunk of time to devote to this.

an idea, maybe others will be into it, maybe not, but is there any chance we could determine the draft order more than an hour before the draft this year? i do kinda like the "who knows for sure" aspect of it but at the same time i will be coming fresh off another draft so the more prep i can do the better. won't be offended if nobody likes the idea, just wanted to float it. even if the order is decided, like, a day or two in advance, it'd give me the chance to set up my sheets or whatever... what do you think?

i can update everyone here as soon as i know. (once all the keepers are set)

oh wait... am i misremembering? do we not do random draft order on draft day?

If it's a true keeper league the draft order should be the reverse standings at the end of the previous season.

People have insanely good keepers and I have...

Josh Shithead Hader 24
Trevor Story 26
Gary Sanchez 26
Eugenio Suarez 27
Gerrit Cole 28

Colonisqattsi:

Cody Bellinger
Aaron Nola
Jean Segura
Patrick Corbin
Giancarlo Stanton

lol my other draft just got moved to 2pm. should still be ok because that one goes fast, but lol... this 3pm isn't gonna move up anymore, is it?

*types lol a 15th time nervously*

no, i have a brunch/daytime drinking event i'm going to be leaving early from for the draft as it is.

oh hey you know how upthread i said, double check the ages because the moving opening day can make them inaccurate sometimes?

chris sale's birthday is march 30, opening day is march 28, making him keepable this year! so jealous

Definitive keepers for Mad Boone Rising

Rhys Hoskins <27
Ronald Acuna <27
Yoan Moncada <27
Anthony Rendon 27-29
Aaron Hicks 27-29

It occurs to me - might have to set a transaction limit of we same day pick ups.

Sale is keeperable? that changes everything!

27-29 SALE, Chris
27-29 PEREZ, Sal
27-29 OZUNA, Marcell
27> MACHADO, Manny
27> JIMENEZ, Eloy

flirting with the team name Orel Halo

LuvWilTeheranUsApart keepers

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. <27
Alex Bregman <27
Matt Olson <27
Anthony Rizzo 27-29
Trevor Bauer 27-29

Subbing out Myers for Vazquez, because I don't wanna be mr nobp (that's no + obp) again

Victor Robles - 21
Aaron Judge - 26
Mookie Betts - 26
Nolan Arenado - 27
Felipe Vazquez - 27

Pretty sure Sal Perez is out for the season Francis.

shhhhhhhhhhhh

jk

Thermo/Will, how many more people are we waiting to finalize keepers? Is there a deadline?

i think thermo said a week today (mar 11) for keeper deadline. all i know is only one team hasn't posted their keepers in this thread yet (guns of buxton) and they have an embarrassment of riches to choose from and i am kinda jealous.

Nice! If I get a chance tonight I'm gonna start building my a pre-ranking list in the event I'm unable to attend the live draft.

I can't wait to end up with 5 shortstops!

sub:
PEREZ, Sal x_x
for
GALLO, Joey o_O

thx for heads up!

(Gallo for Perez, doy)

took me a few years, but i finally found a trustworthy list of players birthdates (vs. just a "list of ages" that is never accurate) so hopefully my keeper sheets will never have an opening day age issue again! but do double-check and let me know if there are any mistakes!

If I had the time, I would scrape the baseball-reference site for their entire birthdate database and then use that as a master to run a SQL query against (or vlookup if in a spreadsheet).

someone beat us to it, apparently! link

Haha, exactly.

If it's a true keeper league the draft order should be the reverse standings at the end of the previous season.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:26 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is something i'd definitely be interested in talking abt more! always made sense to me as the strongest teams will typically have the strongest keepers, so reverse order (and no snake) made the most sense for the next year's draft. is this something we could consider in the future? (i'm not just saying this because i finished in the basement for what feels like the first time ever!)

I’d consider it - but what’s to stop teams from benching guys and tanking once things start looking bleak?

i'd say there should be some kinda "at least start guys" rule or you get kicked to the bottom of the draft order per commish's discretion. as long as we had something like that, i think most of us are above-board folks. and no dropping good-ass players in september!

ya - we are all pretty awesome, but i would prefer to eliminate temptations wherever i can.
maybe what i might propose doing is going half way between random and standings-based draft order.
basically what i've been doing is putting team names into an online random list generator. what i could do is make it a weighted draft lottery – giving 13 entries to the 13th place team, 12 to 12th place and so on until 1st place getting one entry and then draw for the first pick using the rondo generator, then 2nd round etc.
a bit more work for me, but more fun and wouldn't 100% guarantee the first pick to tanky mcsitstrout.

Sorry guys. Meant to get the ball rolling this weekend. Shit in my life is kinda fucked rn tbh.
Will renew tomorrow when I’m back in the office.

i can probably take over a team if anyone is dropping out, was hoping to do some more teams this year

i'll update the keeper sheet tonight!

KEEPER SHEET

there could be errors! you would know better than me so let me know!

no pressure thermo! life shit sucks

i shouldn't have raf devers or franmil reyes as keeper options, i traded them away to blast first petit last season

im likely gonna bail this year so my team (sabathias theater) is up for grabs; prayers to the new owner that altuve can still hit w/o knowing what pitch is coming

When's the deadline to finalize keepers?

🤷‍♂️i just work here

Btw - Johnny, you sure?

Looks like you might get your team, X.

Btw, I’ll set thing up tmrw for real this time!

im sure! farewell & pls consider me for the ilbb hof in 5 years

we all know you were juicing like mad in '17!

i feel "ok" about my keepers i guess:

Bogaerts (27-29)
Tatis (<27)
Conforto (27-29)
Dahl (<27)
Benintendi (<27)

i'm worried Benintendi not-so-secretly sucks but he's also only 25 and looks to have a more prominent lineup role w/Betts gone.

Thank you for letting me be the Dusty Baker to your AJ Hinch xp

I totally forgot to put the trades in from last year, I'll put them in now -- check that link in about 5 mins