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POSEY, Buster(C)MURPHY, Daniel (1B/2B)DOZIER, Brian (2B)DONALDSON, Josh (3B)MACHADO, Manny (SS/3B)OZUNA, Marcell (OF)GALLO, Joey (OF/1B)DICKERSON, Corey (OF)ENCARNACION, Edwin (UT/1B)TAYLOR, Chris (MI/OF)JIMENEZ, Eloy [NA (April pls)+WAIVER GUY
SALE, Chris (SP)SCHERZER, Max (SP)FOLTYNEWICZ, Mike (SP)FLAHERTY, Jack (SP)McHUGH, Collin (SP/RP)ARRIETA, Jake (SP)MATZ, Steven (SP)JANSEN, Kenley (RP)BRADLEY, Archie (RP)PRINCE, Fresh (RP)+WAIVER GUY
― francisF, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
Porno for Shapiros is back! https://i.imgur.com/kShncCC.jpg
C (and back-up 1B): J.T. Realmuto (keeper, 28)1B: Joey "Votto-matic" Votto2B: Ozhaino Albies (keeper, 22)SS: Carlos " The Captain" Correa (keeper, 24)3B: Justin TurnerOF (and back-up 3B): Kris "Sparkles" Bryant (keeper, 27)OF: A.J. "Pollo" PollockOF: Jesse Winker (25)
UTL/2B/SS3B/OF: Joey Wendle (28)UTL/OF: Ender Inciarte (28)UTL/C: Wilson "Buffalo" Ramos
SP: Luis "Sevy" Severino (keeper, 25)SP: Clayton "Kid K" Kershaw SP: José "Honey Nut" Berríos (24)SP: Charlie "Ground Chuck" MortonSP: Hyun-Jin RyuSP: Zack Godley (28)NA waiting-in-the-wings SP prospect: Jesus Luzardo (21)
RP: Kirby Yates RP: Matt BarnesRP: Jose AlvardoRP: Seranthony Dominguez
Team strengths: OBP, OBP, OBP, not popping up, keeper depth (consider yourself on notice, Correa)Weaknesses: Tea Cup pitching staff, home runs, self doubt
team standings since 2011: 10/15, 7/15, 7/14, 1/13, 4/12, 2/11, 2/12, 2/13yes, that is three straight seasons of 2nd place finishes.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 18 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
LuvWilTeheranUsApart returns for another year of mediocrity. Updated team name pending if I can think of a new one (usually I can't).
C Yasmani Grandal1B Anthony Rizzo (the captain, my veteran keeper in his final year with the team)2B Robinson Cano3B Matt ChapmanSS Alex Bregman OF Michael BrantleyOF Stephen PiscottyOF Hunter RenfroeUtil Mat Olson
BN Mitch MorelandBN Shin-soo ChooBN Garrett HampsonBN Vladimir Guerrero Jr.BN Bo Bichette
SP Jacob de GromSP Trevor BauerSP Kyle FreelandSP Mike Fiers
SP-RP Ross StriplingSP-RP Brad Peacock
RP Adam OttavinoRP Pedro Strop
The good:
I didn't draft too many pitchers like I do every year.I'm set for 2021-2023 with a core of Bichette, Vlad, and Bregman.The SS/3B controversy between Bregman and Chapman (Bregman had to make the switch to SS when I drafted Chapman) should push them both to excel, much like with Jeter and A-Rod.I've been alternating three bad years with three good ones for a decade in this league which means I'm due this year.
The bad:
Relief core is weak.OF is sketchy.My starters are fragile and/or might get eaten by Coors Field.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
you should change your name to the Oakland Athletics. because of all the Oakland Athletics.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
Nth-consecutive autodraft (with certain jerks hastily filtered out beforehand). Roster tidying imminent.
Probably no point in keeping this guy much longer.
Tigers just announced that Michael Fulmer has been recommended for Tommy John surgery after undergoing MRI and consulting with Dr. James Andrews. He's seeking a third opinion.— Jason Beck (@beckjason) March 19, 2019
― Andy K, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
ColonisqattsiC: D. Jansen, R. Chirinos1B: L. Voit2B: T. Shaw3B: J. ProfarSS: J. SeguraOF: G. Stanton, C. Bellinger, D. SantanaBN: S. Ohtani, N. Goodrum, W. FloresStash: K. Hiura
SP: Y. Kikuchi, A. Nola, W. Buehler, P. Corbin, T. ToussaintRP: S. Doolittle, C. Green, B. Woodruff, R. Pressley
― @TtamAlubic (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
If I win, I'm lobbying to be reinstated as commish next year:
https://i.imgur.com/RjaQY2O.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 23 March 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
(I'll be drafting all catchers fwiw)
Pitch framing is not an available stat on yahoo, fyi.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 23 March 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
...yet
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 23 March 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
So I just realized what that jpg is you shared.
Am 100% down for adding WAR, at the very least.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 23 March 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Come into my kitchen:
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/9455/12?stat1=ADVST
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 05:07 (five years ago) link
i'm not even sue what all those things are.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
It's all on Yahoo's FAQ about Advanced Metrics:
HR/FB%* - Hit Reach/Facebook - how many of their good hits end up as viral videos on social media platforms.GB/FB* - Good bloopers/Facebook - how many of their mistakes end up as viral videos on social media platforms.BABIP* - Bad Ass Boys In Pyjamas - how often they accidentally wear their PJs to the game.ISO* - Isometric. Basically a measurement of how similar their height is to their width and depth. Bartolo Colon has a high ISO; Billy Hamilton, not so much.CT%* - Chrono Trigger% - how many endings they have completed of Squaresoft's seminal 1995 Japanese RPG Chrono Trigger.wOBA* - Short for Wobble. Basically, how awkward their running looks. Good for telling if they are likely to attempt to steal second.wRAA* - How many near-homers they hit, only to get caught at the warning track and make you yell WRAAAAAA.RC* - Royal Crown - How much non-Pepsi, non-Coke cola they drink.TOB* - Time on base - how many hours, minutes, and seconds they spend either safe on a base, or defending a base. Tends to be higher for infielders.GB* - Good Boys - how many good boys they know.GB%* - Good Boy Percentage - how many good boys they know, divided by how many good and bad boys they know.FB* - Future Bank - how much money they have yet to earn.FB%* - Future Bank % - how much money they have yet to earn, dividing by past bank + future bank. Good indicator of how satisfied vs. hungry they areOPS+* - Occurences playing Sheeran's "+" - how many times the player has spun the triple platinum Ed Sheeran album from 2011.P/PA* - Pen-Pineapple-Apple. A measure of how many second pens they are missing.GDPR* - God Damn Power Rifles. A measure of their Lootscore in popular video game Destiny 2.SL* - Sleazy lines. You know when you see a guy get a single and talk to the first basemen? Sometimes they're gross about it.WAR* - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
ha!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
the disparity between my team's offensive and pitching points is truly inspiring
https://imgur.com/pjTghwP
― na (NA), Monday, 1 April 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
I probably asked this before, but remind me why there are categories for both SLG & XBH? Seems like double dipping into the same skill set for its own sake.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
(I guess I could do a regression and see how correlated they are, but I am not really feeling like doing yet another regression in my free time.)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
i think it's supposed to be double-dipping for power hitters (triple-dipping if you count homers), kinda like QS and W for SP?
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
Ah but QS and W are not correlated, as evidenced by Jake DeGrom last year (and my team, I was towards the top in QS but only midpack in W). QS is kind of an equalizer for good pitchers on low-scoring teams or with bad luck (or both, eg: DeGrom). Kind of a way to hack advanced stats using traditional stats.
I'll do a regression on SLG & XBH just to make my point. It seems to be pretty much double-counting power, with a little bit of a correlation with NSB.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, having HR and SLG and XBH seems way too power-shifted, this isn't 1996-2002 anymore. Perhaps chicks dig WAR these days.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
we don't include defense at all right now, right? WAR would be at least a step towards that
― na (NA), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
but more innings means higher likelihood of wins, no? and also qs is literally about more innings
i mean unless we have RPs out here throwing 160 innings a season
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Exactly... Tampa's "openers" always get denied QS due to archaic scoresheet criteria.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
I mean, not the openers, but the followers who pitch the bulk of the game.
> but more innings means higher likelihood of wins, no?
slightly, wins and QS only correlate 63% of the time. Not a dutiful correlation imho.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
with two outliers (kersh and degrom, who any other year wd probably have more), all of the 20+ QS guys have at least 12 and up to 20 wins. Of all of the 15+ wins guys, only one didn't post double-digit QS (yarborough, because rays). it might have a leaguewide correlation of 63% (which still seems... pretty high to me!), but don't we only care about the most valuable players? (i use "most" loosely here, like, top 100 pitchers or something)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
if WAR is available next season i would definitely be open to replacing Wins and XBH with it. however – i'm not sure it will be. right now they have it viewable with a bunch of other advanced stats - but i don't see it as an option for actual scoring stats.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
Right, and reminder it's Will that's hung up on QS/W correlation, it is I who thinks XBH+HR+SLG seems superfluous towards power.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
idk if i'd say i'm hung up on it, just kinda wondering out loud about it. i'm happy w/ how the league is!
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
THAT IS NICE TO HEAR! seriously. could do with more positive feedback.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
oh geez! sorry if i don't say it enough but i look forward to this league every year! in fact this yera i dropped out of a couple of leagues because i wanted to pay attention to the only ones i care about this one, my good irl friends one and this one. i dig how totally different it is from everything else, it kinda makes you focus on good players vs. "good fantasy players" (or adapt your meaning of "good fantasy players" with STATS.XLS) and the age gated thing is a thing of beauty that i have ripped off for other-sport leagues over the past few years. it's great, you're great, i kiss u
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
i care about0 this one, my good irl friends one and this one.
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
i promise to be more positive (once I win).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 4 April 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
I'm in first place, so I'm very positive about our league right now!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 4 April 2019 06:17 (five years ago) link
i'm so incredibly in last place right now i almost wonder if my season is over on april 4. still a good league!
for real tho i saw my score today and almost threw my phone out the window. NOBODY IS HITTING NOBODY IS PITCHING
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Thursday, 4 April 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
You should have used my spreadsheet.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
My crew of sluggers are still slugging behind their obp
― francisF, Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
well shit
― omar little, Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Boys of March!
― Andy K, Monday, 15 April 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
team ERA: 6.52team WHIP: 1.64
― omar little, Monday, 15 April 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
My team's first time in 3rd since early September 2018.
...and with that post, I have cursed my team to a freefall into the cellar.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 15 April 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
Need six IL slots — maybe a dozen by the end of the week.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
was thinking next year, with the short IL (DL) we might should add a 3rd slot.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 April 2019 05:57 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/joV1k1sNOT5xC/giphy.gif
― omar little, Monday, 22 April 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
https://marquetteeducator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/snail.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
jesus i took a bath last night - dropped from middle of the pack to 12th. not quite Corrosion Of Conforto territory, but still not good.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
at least i have a very good OBP
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
it is astonishing, i'm not sure what happened. everything is terrible.
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I’m impressed really.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link