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impressed bnw managed to finish 7th, despite not touching his team all season!

so – i've officially moved the draft date on the league page to the afore mentioned 21st – for 4pm edt

for anyone who doesn't have their selects in by the 14th, i will let Will select their keepers – and he's *crazy*!
the sooner we get them in, the sooner i can post the draft order.

not as pure garbage as i worried. surely i will manage them worse then 7th now.

Julio Urias (24)
Shane Bieber (25)
Josh Hader (26)
Trevor Story (28)
Eugenio Suarez (29)

Snitker Conspiracy

Rafael Devers 24
Franmil Reyes 25
Austin Meadows 26
Noah Syndergaard 28
Mike Trout 29

keepers/who has responded tracker

i've sent a webmail to the two non-confirmed, hopefully they get those -- i'll also try yahoo to see if there's some way to reach out there...

(xp: will update with that one now!)

and sorry i've been so inactive. a combination of online exhaustion and valheim have made me extremely bad at everything. doing the work now tho!

Andy – Meadows is 25. you got him for another year!

I did a little websleuthing based on my longterm knowledge of higgins... he is on Facebook so I could try to ping him there if we get desperate.

Sorry for the wait! My keeper picks:

LuvWilTeheranUsApart

Alex Bregman (27)
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (22)
Bo Bichette (23)
Carson Kelly (26)
Jonathan Villar (29)

Villar is horrible but I literally don't have anyone else (all the other keeper eligible guys I drafted were dropped).

hi hi sorry hi hello i am 'any kestons?' this year

Keston Hiura, 24
Walker Buehler, 26
Cody Bellinger, 27
Tim Anderson, 27
Jorge Soler, 29

Jimmie Love – Bellinger is only 25!

Andy – Meadows is 25. you got him for another year!

Thanks for the correction. Firing my assistant.

https://cdn.mlbtraderumors.com/files/2018/10/dave-dombrowski-red-sox-1024x697.jpg

But other than my bad math, my list is still good, right Thermo?

yup!

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BURN YOUR FIRE FOR NO JEFFRESS

FLAHERTY, Jack (<27)
MAY, Dustin (<27)
MACHADO, Manny (27-29)
GALLO, Joey (27-29)
JIMÉNEZ, Eloy (<30)

Hopefully my keepers are admissable! Pretty sure

finally - a reference i get!!!

ayyyy that's everyone confirmed! just need keepers from two teams (unless i missed em). the hardest part of fantasy baseball is almost done! wait what do you mean i have to do a draft

I did a little websleuthing based on my longterm knowledge of higgins... he is on Facebook so I could try to ping him there if we get desperate.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

they responded on the yahoo forums and will be returning!

Awesome! There are only so many ace surf guitarists in the DC area, I'll have to tease him when he shows back up.

ha!

also i was brainstorming new team names and decided to base it on the guy who might not even play this year, wander franco... i went wander... what sounds like wander... one direction? that's it! wanderection!

my brain vetoed this almost immediately, but then i came up with WanderVision so I'll go with that!

thought stacking my draft with youths would give me a better keeper than alex verdugo but here's alex verdugo:

Alex Verdugo (<27)
Corey Seager (<27)
Bryce Harper (27-29)
Aaron Judge (27-29)
Blake Snell (27-29)

emailed guns of buxton for keepers, that'll be the last list we need!

might need you to reach out after all albert, need those keepers from higgins

so sorry for spacing out

correa, berrios, turner, ramirez, laureano

All good m’dude. Still got it in on time.

ok gang. draft order is set and picks are in. please, for the love of all this is holy, double check i got your keepers right (it's easy to mess up this stage)!

you can view the order and selects HERE.

You got mine right!

Thank you so much Thermo for doing this.

oh dang i've got second choice? i need to do some research

does anyone know how to find a list on yahoo fantasy of ALL the available players (ie with the keepers taken out) by the rank they use for the draft? like i want to see the list of players as we'll see it during the draft. the Players list removes the keepers but doesn't let you look at one list of batters and pitchers, only one or the other.

unfortunately i don't think you can do that with yahoo for some bizarre reason. the only place i know of to see the list w/ pitchers and batters at the same time is "pre-draft rankings," which includes keepers. yahoo is kinda bad at some things! i recommend just pulling a list from some other site like fantasypros.

i'm just trying to figure out what players are around my draft turns without having to manually assemble something. annoying.

The in-game sortable draft module is pretty robust imho.

guys – all you have to do is view "players" from our league home page. the kept players aren't included.

but you have to select either batters or pitchers, you can't get a list of both at once afaik?

ooohhh - no, you're right.

Does any one else use the fangraphs auction calculator? I know we don’t do auction drafts, but it still spits it out as an ordered list and you can input all the league stats and setting.

So when I view available players on the mobile app, it does list pitchers and hitters together.

heads up - every time i try to join a mock draft i get a "You must be 13 to play in Yahoo! Fantasy Sports games" error. if i get this in the real draft, apparently i'll have to quickly make a new account and have team ownership transferred over, even though it worked fine last year

for the record, i am in fact older than 13. the account itself is older than 13 (which may be the problem)

I'm going to need to see some ID pal.

screw you old man!!!!!

that's weird as fuck.

i guess you probably have an "invalid" age in your profile. you can see it pretty easily by going to account info – but it's not letting me edit my own

hopefully no one else has this issue.

yeah, there's no way to edit it. i don't have an age listed anywhere, i'm guessing my account predates mandatory birthdates and they just randomly decided to start enforcing that

i googled it and the top hit comes up from three years ago – so looks like it's kinda of random.

but if a bunch of people get hit with this when trying to log into the draft, i might have to push is back 15-30 minutes so people can sort it out. but i'll have to know a bit before the draft starts. so this could possibly suck.

I just tested a mock draft and had no issues

ok. team transfer request sent.

thanks, switched over. i have a big boy account now

ha!

draft room is open!

according to the draft room "standings" – i am 12/13. so... not last!

Also am relieved af that everyone was able to join (I think)

team managers (much like real life GMs) probably overvalue their young talent

my ears are burning lol

tbh the kingmaker trades have actually been around? i just feel like the first salvo just happened a little early this year.

buuuuuuut if everyone's cool with it then that's cool. it does keep things a little more interesting

i believe the season i won (two years ago?) i made one trade? devers and franmil reyes for verlander. this season has definitely had more trades, especially of big names, than any since i joined ILX fantasy. i generally think it's fun, though i might find it more annoying if i was anywhere near contending.

Im already psyched for next season when i can unveil my amazing new team name

Great pennant race we've got going on here.

oh wow – you're right. I'd been so focused on my other team i hadn't paid much attention to our standings! i wish yahoo did like a visual timeline for standings.

oh they do!
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/8949/viewstandingschart

pretty basic tho. animated would be more fun (like at the end of a game of CIV).

been a while, but i updated the 2022 keeper sheet with all of the adds/drops up until a few mins ago, probably the last update til the offseason! all of the trades included now as well.

Thanks dude

Thanks!

Two of my starters got shelled yesterday to the tune of 14 combined ER in 5 IP, and my team ERA went up by about .1. Still managed to move back into first place, somehow.

1.5 points separating 1st and 2nd with 6 days left!

I'm not posting anything (well, besides this post) for fear of jinxing my season.

Saw you making some lazy afternoon moves. Was expecting the both of you to be making some panicky early morning transactions!

for the record i don't think i've ever maxxed out any position and my outfielders and ss are done as of today. crazy.

I have been near the bottom of the league in #moves all season long. My middle name is "don't panic" ... but my first name is "I traded away seven more years of Vlad Jr. and if I don't win the season I will die".

Looks like yours to lose really, seeing how jq is maxed out in so many slots (just 7 innings left to use aswell)

Congrats NoTime!! Your insane gamble of trading away your home-team-superstar-best-hitter-in-baseball-and-also-only-22-years-old player paid off!!!

Thanks I know! (*laughs and then cries for the next seven years of keeper eligibility*)

congratulations to NoTimeBeforeTime!

I can't believe I finally won in our league after seventeen seasons of trying (and three second place finishes). I didn't have high expectations going into the season but had a great/lucky draft which really helped when injuries started piling up (not to mention the suspension of my perverted/psychopathic ace SP). It was one of those years where most of my roster moves worked out and a few key players overachieved (Ohtani!!).

Congrats again, dude.

A lot of my top players stank this year - Lindor, Yelich etc.
Was a seller this year for the first time in a while (I think I’d been second place two or three years in a row) and dealt Bryant before he became a FA, along with a few other deals and somehow my team started doing better after dumping talent?!

Congrats to NTBT! My big ol trade mostly paid off but it wasn’t enough. A relatively low OBP led to relatively low runs despite great hitting elsewhere, and like any good baseball fan I’ll also blame my starting pitchers for not WINNING despite great numbers elsewhere. I also mostly think NTBT was just too good.

most of the issues this season were in offense. i was particularly hurt by using early draft picks on DJ LaMahieu (who was bad all season) and George Springer (who was injured for big chunks of the season). at least i traded a non-keeper-eligible Aaron Nola for potential hotshot prospect Adley Rutschman, who is keeper-eligible.

forgot to wish NTBT a hearty congrats! hearty congrats to you NTBT!

also came back to say that i remembered to do the final update on that sheet with all of the september drops, here.

Thanks Will! And thanks again for your work on the keeper spreadsheet.

My keeper situation isn't as bad as I'd feared ... Dylan Cease showed legit #1 or #2 starter potential this year, so he and Bichette have me covered for solid <27 keepers. I doubt Ohtani will be as good next year, but obviously I have to keep him. That leaves five players (all of whom were really good last year) for two keeper spots. It's going to be a tough decision!