Good Mid-Season Fantasy Leagues (for beginners)?

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I just got interested in baseball for the first time (just finished Moneyball), and I am thinking about joining a mid-season league. Does anyone have any tips for me, i.e. sites to steer toward or stay away from, things to keep in mind, etc.? I think I have to join soon if I want to do it, so the sooner, the better.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and if by any chance this intersection is possible, cheaper is better for me. Especially since I'm a beginner, a free league would be awesome, although I'm not sure how possible that is mid-season.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

fantasysports.yahoo.com

free leagues available

― gear (gear), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It says registration is over. Am I missing something?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

They usually have midseason leagues, they might not have opened them up yet.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 30 June 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

the midseason leagues are OVA! i know because i joined four of them right before the deadline.

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Also Dave M, your enthusiasm will be quickly tempered when you realize that most of fantasy baseball is built upon those 100-year-old boxscore stats that Moneyball deemed archaic and not the best measurements of a player's worth.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

this is my first year playing fantasy baseball, and that has not tempered my enthusiasm at all! who gives a fuck about those moneyball faggots?

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey now...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3944519

― Paul Depodesta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the help. I actually found that you can start a league any time at Sportsline, so I did that, and there are some Moneyball-friendly statistics type leagues even. Also, if anyone wants to thrown in (metaphorically, i.e. no money involved) with me on this league, that would be awesome. I need at least five more people (maybe six) by tomorrow (!). Just respond or email me and I'll send an invite.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Puh-lease help! If anyone is even mildly interested in this, let me know so you can sign up before midnight ET tonight. I would appreciate not having to recreate the league all over again. Okay, last time.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 July 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

So should I pick Cole Hamels off the waiver wire in my keeper league.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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