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

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.

i'm also thinking of a daily transaction limit of 3, to prevent anyone from going crazy with the same-day FA adds. that seem reasonable?

can't imagine needing more than 3, although i know yahoo has a safeguard against "churning" free agents, so like i can't pick up and drop 20 guys to put em all on WW. anyone you pick up and drop same day just goes back in the FA pool, iirc? but yeah still 3 per day seems fine!

also love the weighted lottery idea!

anyone you pick up and drop same day just goes back in the FA pool, iirc?

oh! i that's the case, i won't even bother with transaction limits. i'll look into this some more, thanks.

FWIW: When I was commish we had a seasonal tranactional limit. Limitless leagues are much easier to game.

ok player has to be rostered for 24 hours to go on waivers. transaction limit cancelled.

scooter gennett (29)
george springer (29)
trea turner (26)
francisco lindor (26)
jose ramirez (26)

sorry for lollygagging.

thanks dude - i'm just glad you're alive!

holy crap at that infield.

ok - draft order and keepers are set. please check your teams and make sure everything looks right.

where does the draft order show up?

from the main page > draft >> draft results

!!! No snake draft though really?

Oh it is, whoopsies.

damn im in the 13th/1st swing position~
& i think i am going to be autodrafting most likely O_o

Same, I can't wait to end up with 5 catchers and no shortstop.

you've got the first overall pick and three extra rounds to yourself – pre-rank like like a mad man!

is there a way in Yahoo to see all players in one list, except for keepers, sorted by some kind of preseason ranking? i can see how to view batters and pitchers separately but that doesn't help in trying to guess who'll be available each time i come up in the draft. in case you can't tell i'm VERY bored at work today

https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/9455/players

yeah but you can't see batters and pitchers together

i was hoping to see the list we see on draft day essentially. but OH WELL

ah, ya. no idea.

TWO of my best keepers on the ringer's list of fantasy players to avoid

One of my keepers some of you people laughed at for even considering may well be the closer for your team, NA.

your IRL team that is.

good luck with that

Other draft is over, got 45 minutes to cram for this one lets goooooo

Wait a sec... the draft is today?