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

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

Every morning I wake up and check the standings like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJM5lHwql0

two problems you might be able to help me with:

1) i have tim anderson and paul dejong, i don't need both. would trade one for a 2B, or maybe 1B, or maybe pitcher of some variety.
2) my potential keepers for 2020 include four 27-29 studs (arenado, judge, castillo, betts -- all 27 next year except arenado who will be 28) but my under 27 crop is (comparatively) weak (buxton, robles, wander franco, mcmahon). i'm definitely listening if someone finds themselves in the opposite situation, looking to shore up their mid-age keepers.

Not bad for a getaway day, I'm sniffing top 3 for the first time in 5 weeks:

https://i.imgur.com/JHHB6xS.png

Also massive thank you to whomever dropped Josh Bell.

3 QS & 0 wins is absolutely the name of my game fwiw.

Not bad! I just checked, and look what my relievers strung together today:
https://imgur.com/Li9rAte.jpeg
May I welcome you to the 3rd place dogfight bnw & I have got going on here

https://imgur.com/vzgNyqv.jpeg

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whoops, yeah so i'm in fifth now ^
game on

so i've gone from 12th to 1/2 game from first!
I've got Kershaw going for me today and He Ain't Javy has Strahm going. Let's do this!

...and the fantasy gods taketh:

https://i.imgur.com/vo2zTDs.png

Win now mode: engaged.

uhhhhh hey so this is awkward.

when i accepted the trade i didnt see mookie in it at all.

i thought it was over the top doing winker and ozzie for lourdes but acceptedf anyweay. then i saw the email, and nightmares.

any chance we can reverse this trade? def willing to negotiate but i fucked up big time

why would you even accept such a one sides trade?! (as-in the one you thought you saw and not the actual trade)

i thought someone was getting frustrated or something! tbh i'm also p sick right now so i don't think brain is working at full speed

i will kaibosh once i'm at a desktop machine i can use my commish tools with.

I was in a league long ago where one of the managers would constantly throw these absurd trade offers out there trawling for someone to click the wrong button and sure enough someone would and then there would be a desperate campaign for folks to vote against said trade, haha (it wasn't me).

the deed is done. and i don't think the trade was absurd!

(it was you tbqh)

https://i.imgur.com/ZYtli0C.jpg

that's maybe half the notifications i've gotten in this chain over the past two days