I was targeting Cron very intentionally in the ilx league but I also targeted Daniel Murphy and Ian Desmond when they first signed with the Rockies so...
― ✖, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
love that bell and cron have come up in our various fantasy threads as guys who might be disappointing and i had them both written down as sleepers (and missed both in ilx, but it worked out)
my h2h points league team is weird and might be good? my keepers are nowhere near as good as others, we have a complicated system that makes some teams better for a couple of years (maybe i explained it before, i'll explain below this)
C - Daulton Varsho1B - Matt Olson (K)2B - Ha-seong Kim3B - Rafael Devers (KD3)SS - Adalberto MondesiOF - Eloy Jimenez (KD5)OF - J.D. MartinezOF - Trent GrishamUT - Randy Arozarena
TmPit - San Diego
BN - Christian WalkerBN - Josh BellBN - Ryan Mountcastle (KD5)BN - Josh DonaldsonBN - Royce Lewis*BN - Kyle Lewis
Min - Gavin Lux (Free)Min - Nick Madrigal (Free)Min - Brendan Rodgers (Free)Min - Wander Franco (Free)Min - Jo Adell (Free)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
our keepers rules -- we look at the fantasypros rankings for batters on whatever day ends up being the "settle date" (usually the day after the super bowl) and those are the keeper costs -- so if they rank Mike Trout 1 he costs a first round, if he's ranked 11th or 19th he costs a 2nd, etc... and you have to make your 4 keepers fit into the picks you have for that year. However, you get discounts: we also have a "minors" system you can keep for free. the second you pull a player up and start him, his "timer" starts, and the next 3 years you can keep him at a 5/3/3 round discount. Also additionally you have one "bullet dodge" to keep any one player an additional one round later, in case you have a logjam.
So as you can see I have Eloy and Mountcastle as last-year-call-ups for my team, Devers is 2nd year I think (technically third, but we made a rule to not count 2019 as a year if you chose to bench a guy all season, which I did w/ Devers and Eloy). Olson was ranked in like the 6th round so he was a good deal. I had like 5 of the first 20 actual picks or something, but of course most of the good players were never even up as options. also yes we have team pitching, it's kinda nice! i took SD 3rd overall (the 1st overall pick was freeman, bc the guy who had him had too many good keepers but was picking first anyway so it's like he got a free keeper), 2nd pick was LAD and then I went SD. Picked a few good players in those first few rounds -- JD, Mondesi, Grish, Randy -- and then spent 3 rounds "picking" my keepers, so everyone after Randy was the second half of the draft. Took Kim knowing I'd probably call up Lux or Madrigal quickly this season, so you can imagine one of them is starting there. Royce Lewis with the asterisk because he'll move into my minors, drafted him to replace.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Presenter Mode is a welcome addition to drafts this year. I love those big ol' tiles
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
doing an espn mock draft and i can't believe they've gotten even worse. why the hell would you remove chat from a draft interface?
― ✖, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
afaict it is impossible to scroll through the player list on a laptop without accidentally jumping down 300 picks
― ✖, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:26 (three years ago) link
Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
My guess is because it’s 2021
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
So my other league just drafted... AL only. Auction. Just added a new manager to bring the total to 9. It lasted three hours and was batshit insane. Top players and regular, mid-draft types were going for a few bucks more than you’d expect - but once we started hitting the later-round players in a normal draft, and people started to panic, prices skyrocketed. Fringe set-up guys going for $12. I had to pay double the bag price for Plesac and Luzardo, who are my #1&2 starters. My catcher is Wilson Ramos. Gary Sanchez want for $22. I saw some shit tonight.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
Bag price = avg price
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, March 26, 2021 10:46 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah I was assuming the mock draft interface was the same. It would be a very ESPN thing to do
― ✖, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
I think it’s more current year thing to do. 11 people trying to draft and 1 asshole yelling “stop the steal! MAGA! Covid is fake news! Blue lives matter! MAGA!”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
lol so it turns out yahoo's even taken the chat out of real drafts with randoms (i wanted to do another money league and NFBC is done drafting apparently)
like i'm gonna be in a league with these people all year, the league page has a message board, but we couldn't say a word to each other in chat
seems stupid
― ✖, Monday, 5 April 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
Fucking weird. Like only invite/legacy leagues have chat?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 April 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
not that people are ever very sociable in randoms but it was awkward. i just wanted to tell people about how biden and kamala have been secretly arrested and a new day is upon us
― ✖, Monday, 5 April 2021 06:19 (three years ago) link
I could usually get a person or two talking about their rationalization for their picks. Sometime I’d love to be able to messge people months later and be like “I TOLD YOU HIS REGRESSION WOULD BE UGLY!”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 April 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
having one of those very frustrating "would be whipping everyone except the guy i'm facing" H2H weeks
― ✖, Thursday, 8 April 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
would've ended the week tied in runs but my opponent had bohm lol
― ✖, Monday, 12 April 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
just an awful week, made a stupid drop because i was desperate to chase wins, at the point in the season where i have to tell myself to stop taking it seriously
― ✖, Monday, 12 April 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
Wish I had convinced the old timers in my old leagues to try a free form roster version - 26 roster spots, one at each position and five pitchers, fill the rest however you want.
I almost had that going with a small roster auction league (one at each position, DH, six pitchers) but it would have been interesting to see people strategize between dominating hitting or pitching or falling into the safe territory of ‘normal’ rosters.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
Would the stats just have been 5x5?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
Ottoneu in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/13/ottoneu-fantasy-baseball-niv-shah/
Shah added a player pool into the web app, then realized he could access stats, too. There was no longer any reason to keep their league on Yahoo. And now they could choose new scoring categories that better reflected modern baseball thinking, swapping out batting average for on-base percentage. (Later versions would incorporate scoring based on the Wins Above Replacement metric, a sabermetric shibboleth.) They began to play on Shah’s site, naming the league after a player, Otto Neu, who appeared in one game for the St. Louis Browns in 1917 but never made a plate appearance or had a chance in the field.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
xp - semi-standard 5x5, we did OPS, net steals, a reliever formula (holds plus 2X saves minus blown, I think?) and I think the stat service we used had FIP the last season we held leagues. There would also have to be some PA/IP minimums to keep people from having a 0.00 ERA with 6IP for the entire year.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Like our buddy ✖, here's reason #18972340918 I hate H2H:
I got lucky with the #1 pick (Acuna) in this league but look at this shit...
Category/my team rank (of 12):R: #4HR: #3RBI: #7SB: #5AVG: #12W: #11SV: #2K: #10ERA: #6WHIP: #9
Seems like I'd be midpack right?
Wrong. I'm 4-16 and in dead last place.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 April 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link
i hate it! i've had such a bad week in both my H2H leagues, it's frustrating because i spent more time preparing for them than most years and then 90% of it just comes down to dumb luck
i think at the very least 2-week matchups should be the standard. one week is ridiculous. week 1 i got 10 SBs and lost. this week i got 3 SBs and won. it's stupid. and unless your league has very restrictive weekly IP limits, so much comes down to which owner gets more starts.
― ✖, Monday, 19 April 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
4-16?! how many matches you have a week?!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
or is it a match a day?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
It's H2H so 10 categories per week. I went 2-8 week one then 2-8 week two. Mathematically I should be 6th or 7th but I am just getting incredibly unlucky losing ratio cats by tenths of percents and counting stat cats by a handful, if that.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
So many external factors at play with weather, COVID team quarantines (even if they aren't on your team) on top of the usual rampant injuries, slow starts, etc.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
need a shrink to tell me why i keep caring so deeply about a family league run by my cousin's husband who has been using admin powers to cheat for years. he just did it again today, even though he's already beating me 7-1-2. just flipped ohtani with urshela so he can get ohtani's SB and bring him a little closer in the one category i'm beating him in (why was he starting urshela over ohtani anyway??)
i don't even have any blood family in this anymore, just his relatives including his father and now his teenage son. his own son!
regardless i still consider this my "main" league, more important than the other ones, etc
― ✖, Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link
i just want to destroy him every year
― ✖, Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
Is there a system log/do you have receipts? Does nobody else care? Can u shame him publicly? That shit is deplorable
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 26 April 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
And you still choose him over us?! This is some Stockholm shit!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
I would screenshot and then call his ass out on the forum or email list and force him to give up his admin powers. What an absolute bell-end.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 26 April 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
oh i accepted long ago i'm not gonna do anything about it, i don't think anything good would come of it and it would just make things weirder than they already are between me and an extended family i've always had a weird relationship with. i thought maybe he stopped after the ESPN redesign because he was scared it would be more obvious. i have screenshots if i ever decide to go nuclear. and it is all logged in the transactions, just a little hard to find. i've confronted him about it privately years ago and he just played dumb. i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.
― ✖, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, April 26, 2021 7:54 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
if ILX league turns into a money league and/or any of you turn out to be my uncle i'll reprioritize
― ✖, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
Hmm. What’s your aunt situation like?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
this is my aunt.....
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4mkAAOSwd1teRFgj/s-l1600.jpg
good luck 😬😬😬
― ✖, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
right in my wheelhouse.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
i thought i had nowhere to post this but now i see this thread
good time to be rostering shane bieber, carlos rodon and anthony desclafani... has to be the first month in my decade long fantasy career getting three complete game shutouts in one month
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 April 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
Hopefully you're in a CG/SO league. When I started the ILX league in 2003 I think we had CG/SOs (or maybe that was in 2004?).
So the rando yahoo H2H league where I'd gone 2-8 the first 2 weeks, why yes I did go 2-8 in the 3rd week as well bringing me to 6-24.
So now in week 4 I'm up against the #1 team in the league (and I'm dead last @ #12)... I'm up 9-0 after one day. Nice to see some regression but I hope I can hold on.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:47 (three years ago) link
was finally having a good week in the money league i'm dead last in, was up 9-1 or 8-2 all week until today, now losing 5-3
been doing H2H for like 15 years and i feel like this has happened every single week of every season ever
― ✖, Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
in my other H2H league, i specifically set an alarm this morning to see if jesse winker was playing today, but i slept through it in a Moderna #2 daze and now his 3 runs are on my bench and i'm going to lose the category because my opponent has chris taylor (4! runs so far)
― ✖, Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
lol make that 5!!!!! runs for chris taylor
― ✖, Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
my non-ILX league trades:
Means for Blackmon
Matz/Walsh for Maeda/Dom Smith
hurts
― ✖, Monday, 17 May 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
I'd want the Walsh side.
I have Blackmon and he's been frustrating.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 17 May 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
i wish i was on that side too!
i really gotta remember to stop putting so much faith in early statcast numbers
― ✖, Monday, 17 May 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
one thing i've complained about over the years in my family league is the complete lack of pitching limits - no transaction limits, no IP or GS limits - so any team with bad pitching can just stream like crazy the last few days of their matchups if they're already losing ERA/WHIP and get wins in Ws and Ks by sheer quantity. if your pitching sucks and you have no attachment to your players, you have no reason not to. if you have a decent staff full of pitchers that are too good to drop, you basically just have to lay over and lose those categories
my opponent did that to me this week - i was winning 8-2 and killing him in all pitching categories, so he streams 7 pitchers the last two days. started today winning 5-3 in Ws, he gets 3 wins to go up 6-5 before the night game, where he has both pitchers. i have craig kimbrel. if craig kimbrel gets the win, i tie instead of lose that category. craig kimbrel is currently the pitcher of record in the bottom of the tenth. if craig kimbrel doesn't win here i will quit forver
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
this is the only scenario that can get me to listen to a-rod's commentary
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
6-3-1 SUCK MY ASSHOLE
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link