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

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

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C: D. Jansen, R. Chirinos
1B: L. Voit
2B: T. Shaw
3B: J. Profar
SS: J. Segura
OF: G. Stanton, C. Bellinger, D. Santana
BN: S. Ohtani, N. Goodrum, W. Flores
Stash: K. Hiura

SP: Y. Kikuchi, A. Nola, W. Buehler, P. Corbin, T. Toussaint
RP: S. Doolittle, C. Green, B. Woodruff, R. Pressley

If I win, I'm lobbying to be reinstated as commish next year:

https://i.imgur.com/RjaQY2O.png

(I'll be drafting all catchers fwiw)

Pitch framing is not an available stat on yahoo, fyi.

...yet

So I just realized what that jpg is you shared.

Am 100% down for adding WAR, at the very least.

Come into my kitchen:

https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/9455/12?stat1=ADVST

i'm not even sue what all those things are.

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 are
OPS+* - 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.

ha!

the disparity between my team's offensive and pitching points is truly inspiring

https://imgur.com/pjTghwP

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.

(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.)

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?

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.

Yeah, having HR and SLG and XBH seems way too power-shifted, this isn't 1996-2002 anymore. Perhaps chicks dig WAR these days.

we don't include defense at all right now, right? WAR would be at least a step towards that

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

Exactly... Tampa's "openers" always get denied QS due to archaic scoresheet criteria.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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!

THAT IS NICE TO HEAR! seriously. could do with more positive feedback.

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

i care about0 this one, my good irl friends one and this one.

i promise to be more positive (once I win).

I'm in first place, so I'm very positive about our league right now!

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

You should have used my spreadsheet.

My crew of sluggers are still slugging behind their obp

well shit

Boys of March!

team ERA: 6.52
team WHIP: 1.64

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.

Need six IL slots — maybe a dozen by the end of the week.

was thinking next year, with the short IL (DL) we might should add a 3rd slot.

https://media.giphy.com/media/joV1k1sNOT5xC/giphy.gif

https://marquetteeducator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/snail.jpg

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.

at least i have a very good OBP

it is astonishing, i'm not sure what happened. everything is terrible.

I’m impressed really.

you ready for tomorrow Barry? 1.25 seasons of waiting!

Hell yes dude, I'm not sure if I'm more excited for the fantasy or real life Vlad era.

Virtually the only good thing I’ve done this year is draft Tatis Jr, the poor man’s Vlad Jr.

I had a dream nightmare last night my roster was replaced with the Detroit Tigers