My B0ra$ league is underway I know even less than what I was doing before if anyone's on help!!
― Leee, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a pay-league keeper draft on Monday. I picked up someone else's team, and I am dumping all but 3 guys.
― David R., Friday, 21 March 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
wow!
i have a yahoo one with some co-workers (6 teams)! and i'm trying the b0 d0g one this year, just for kicks
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
12 mgr $ league
Fielders C - Joe Mauer 1B - Paul Konerko 2B - Robinson Cano SS - Hanley Ramirez 3B - Larry "Chipper" Jones OF - Ichiro Suzuki OF - Jeremy Hermida OF - Aaron Rowand DH - JIM THO...ME
Bench 2B - Kelly Johnson OF - Josh Willingham 3B - Kevin Kouzmanoff C - Benji Molina
Pitchers SP - Daisuke Matsuzaka SP - Aaron Harang SP - Joe Blanton SP - AJ Burnett SP - Randy Johnson RP - Huston Street RP - Brian Wilson
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
don't know if i can be much help with the aide-de-B0ra$ - but i'm here for you brah
xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OH! sharing!
my 12 team: C • B. McCann 1b • L. Berkman 2b • K. Johnson ss • M. Tejada 3b • C. Jones of • M. Holliday of • S. Victorino of • B. Hawpe utl • Adam Jones
of • K. Fukodome 3b • T. Glaus
sp • E. Bedard sp • C. Young sp • T. Lilly sp • F. Liriano sp • C. Buchholz sp • D. McGowan
rp • J. Nathan rp • C. Marmol rp • bj ryan
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 21 March 2008 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
OK here's the beef:
1. (11) Johan Santana SP 2. (18) David Ortiz 1B 3. (39) Adam Dunn OF 4. (46) C.C. Sabathia SP 5. (67) Ian Kinsler 2B 6. (74) Brian McCann C 7. (95) Brad Hawpe OF 8. (102) Bobby Jenks RP 9. (123) Matt Cain SP 10. (130) Rich Hill SP 11. (151) Dustin McGowan SP 12. (158) Jhonny Peralta SS 13. (179) Troy Glaus 3B 14. (186) Oliver Perez SP 15. (207) Mike Cameron OF 16. (214) Brian Wilson RP 17. (235) Michael Bourn OF 18. (242) Pat Neshek RP 19. (263) Mark Reynolds 3B 20. (270) Mark Buehrle SP 21. (291) Jack Cust OF 22. (298) Josh Bard C 23. (319) Luke Scott OF 24. (326) Jayson Nix 2B 25. (347) Chad Qualls RP
― Leee, Friday, 21 March 2008 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
your OF will have a rough April IMO
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 21 March 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
10-team league i do w/ some bros from school: (4 OF positions, 2 util, H2H, traditional stats)..got a lot of dudes i wanted cuz lots of them are ATL homers and took braves irrationally high --
C - Russ Martin 1B - Justin Morneau 2B - BJ Upton SS - Hanley Ramirez 3B - Ryan Zimmerman OF - Hunter Pence OF - Josh Hamilton OF - Jermaine Dye OF - Pat Burrell Util - Carlos Guillen Util - Paul Konerko Bench - Evan Longoria Bench - Lastings Milledge Bench - Michael Bourne
SP - Jake Peavy SP - Chris Young RP - Billy Wagner RP - Todd Jones P - Brian Fuentes P - Andy Pettitte P - John Maine Bench - Jeff Francis
― johnny crunch, Friday, 21 March 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
12 team, 5x5 league. First three rounds of the draft were last year's keepers.
1. (7) B.J. Upton 2B,OF 2. (8) Miguel Cabrera 3B 3. (9) Adam Dunn OF
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4. (39) C.C. Sabathia SP 5. (58) Hunter Pence OF 6. (63) Jarrod Saltalamacchia C,1B 7. (82) Ryan Zimmerman 3B 8. (87) Billy Wagner RP 9. (106) Todd Helton 1B 10. (111) Khalil Greene SS 11. (130) Kosuke Fukudome OF 12. (135) Joba Chamberlain RP 13. (154) Ian Snell SP 14. (159) Jeremy Bonderman SP 15. (178) Justin Upton OF 16. (183) Zack Greinke SP,RP 17. (202) Jonathan Broxton RP 18. (207) Jeff Kent 2B 19. (226) Ian Kennedy SP 20. (231) Jason Giambi 1B 21. (250) Brian Fuentes RP
― mattbot, Friday, 21 March 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
12 teams, with scoring rules I can never keep straight and 10 keepers... this season we scrapped the minor league system we've had for a decade.
C - Geovanny Soto 1B - Adrian Gonzalez 2B - Brian Roberts 3B - David Wright SS - Jhonny Peralta OF - Nick Markakis OF - Chris Young OF - Raul Ibanez or Jacoby Ellsbury or Delmon Young UT - Chone Figgins bench - Nick Johnson, Edwin Encarnacion, JR Towles
SP - Johan Santana SP - CC Sabathia SP - Tim Lincecum SP - Pedro Martinez SP - Johnny Cueto RP - Joe Nathan RP - Jonathan Papelbon RP - CJ Wilson P - Randy Johnson P - Manny Parra P - Mark Prior
I kinda tanked my draft I think.
― Garrett Martin, Friday, 21 March 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
10 team league drawn from folks on an o's messageboard at which i post. i slept through part of the draft. league allows for 5 dl slots and two util positions offensively.
the field:
Brian McCann Ryan Howard Rickie Weeks Miguel Cabrera Orlando Cabrera Josh Fields Ichiro Suzuki Kosuke Fukudome Mark Teixeira Nate McLouth Jeremy Hermida Juan Pierre Justin Upton Stephen Drew
the pitchers:
John Lackey Scott Kazmir Francisco Rodríguez Chad Billingsley Kelvim Escobar Pedro Martínez Ian Snell Edison Vólquez
― j.q higgins, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
not bad for napping part way through!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you like my 7-man rotation?
― Leee, Saturday, 22 March 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I signed up for a 20-team league where you draft 30 guys (27 starters), and every two weeks one team gets eliminated. I've never done a league like this. Here's my ultra-weird roster:
C: Soto, Jeff Mathis 1B: Giambi, Mike Sweeney 2B: Kelly Johnson, Eugenio Velez 3B: Kevin Kouzmanoff, Willy Aybar SS: Miguel Tejada, Rich Aurilia LF: Chris Duncan, Adam Jones CF: Ryan Church, Nyjer Morgan RF: Josh Hamilton, Randy Winn Util: Paul McAnulty, David Dellucci Bn: Chin-lung Hu
SP: Peavy, Sabathia, Haren, Jared Weaver, Ian Kennedy, Mike Hampton, Carlos Villanueva, Dustin Moseley
RP: Kerry Wood, Heath Bell, Chad Qualls
― polyphonic, Saturday, 29 March 2008 06:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Magic ILBBall, should I trade Rich Hill for Adam "Papa" LaRoche?
― Leee, Saturday, 29 March 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh i would nott
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 29 March 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Even though I have Glaus @ 3rd (if he doesn't get hurt, he's still only going to sit out 1 game @ series) and the league also requires me to start an additional corner infielder (who is at present Mark Reynolds), and coupled with Hill's shaky control this spring...?
― Leee, Saturday, 29 March 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm i actually like mark reynolds but i guess it prob depends on what your other SPing is like. i still think hill will have a good season if he stays healthy. also ive just never been a laroche fan
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
His guys: Carlos Quentin George Sherrill Randy Wolf
for my guys: Brad Hawpe C.C. Sabathia
Y/N?
― Leee, Friday, 18 April 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
eah.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 19 April 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe? Sherrill's a lock to get many saves (as many as BAL will allow, anyway), tho:
1) I imagine CC's going to straighten out (you're trading him at the worst possible time, obv), and Randy Wolf's pitching as well as he will be all year (and is only a 6-inning pitcher, and ridiculously injury-prone, and could be meat outside of Petco).
2) Hawpe's going to outproduce CQ by a wide margin, I imagine.
If saves mean that much to you, go for it. Otherwise, I'd pass.
― David R., Saturday, 19 April 2008 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
That's one of the better offers I've gotten for CC so far. Other was him and Papi for Westbrook, Crede, and C-Pat. This being the Bora$ league, I have to think that these trades are actually not stupid, but some elaborate psy-ops overture to the soon-to-materialize knuckle-deep negotiations.
― Leee, Saturday, 19 April 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
FIRST PLACE IN TWO LEAGUES.
If only the season stopped today I'd be up $3500.
― milo z, Saturday, 19 April 2008 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE
His guys are all the sort you can get off the wire all year if you look for them, whereas CC is a top 50 fantasy player who's struggling right now. You're better off hiding him on your bench and trying to cover for him with some young guy for awhile. We're not even out of April yet.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 19 April 2008 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link
14-team 4x4 keeper league. Pitching's been very suspect so far, but I didn't have any choice but to trade Hiroki Kuroda when somebody offered me Drew and Bruce for him (!).
C: Kenji Johjima, Jason Kendall (two starters on every team) 1B: Mark Teixeira 2B: Dustin Pedroia 3B: Chipper Jones SS: Michael Young MI: Yunel Escobar CI: Richie Sexson OF: J.D. Drew OF: Jonny Gomes OF: Vladimir Guerrero OF: Josh Hamilton OF: Matt Holliday OF: Matt Kemp Bench/Injured: Ryan Theriot, Jay Bruce, J.R. Towles, Elijah Dukes
P: Zach Duke P: Tim Hudson P: Jair Jurrjens P: Ian Kennedy P: Kevin Millwood P: Micah Owings P: Jonathan Papelbon P: Justin Verlander P: Billy Wagner Bench/Injured: Manny Parra, Matt Garza, Dontrelle Willis
― govern yourself accordingly, Sunday, 20 April 2008 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
so i just flipped Joe Mauer for Ben Sheets (already had McCain catching and have now picked up Doumit). good trade or best trade ever?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ McCain
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
heh. can you tell i'm hungry?!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This is not change I can believe in.
― David R., Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
My 20-team elimination league is down to 13 teams. Now my pitching staff is:
Haren Zambrano Sabathia Beckett Bench: Eveland Bench: Lilly DL: Peavy
Wood Fuentes +relievers
That's a pretty dang good 1-5, I think.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Lilly's been a tad sketchy lately tho.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That's why he's on the bench!
But yeah, I bought low on him a little. He's like the JD Drew of pitchers.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The JD Drew of pitchers = Rich Harden The Ted Lilly of hitters = Jose Guillen
― David R., Wednesday, 11 June 2008 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The Ted Lilly of hitters has been raking lately (both of them).
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, in my other league, i had a bunch ofpitchers on the DL to start the year so i'm well under my innings quota. only reliever specific stat is saves. my staff is currently:
kazmir lackey pedro verlander volquez harden jason bergmann k-rod jon rauch c.j. wilson
― j.q higgins, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ah yes - the pedro/harden one-two dl knockout punch!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
my other bizarre-o 6-team league went totally bonkers just before the trade deadline - the net results of the 4 trades i was involved in:
got: Chase Utley Hanley Ramirez Brian McCann Cole Hamels Joe Saunders
for: Ian Kinsler Michael Young Brain Roberts Carlos Zambrano Kevin Gregg Joe Saunders (i got him and then traded him immediately!)
that's some crazy shit, no?!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 11 August 2008 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Lee, I hope to God you did NOT trade CC.
― David R., Monday, 11 August 2008 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
CC is still a whatever-the-hell-my-team-name-is, but only because I haven't touched that league since Papi first got hurt.
― Leee, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
just managed to get Youkilis for Brian Roberts from a SB-starved (yet 1st place) team! (Beltre and Cris Davis *were* my 3B guys)
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
v. proud that in my h2h(i know) league that i am 61-9 over the past 6 wks...it's only got me up to 4th/12 teams, but at least im prob safe 2 make the playoffs
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 August 2009 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i am in a 12 team work h2h league with $250 on the table that is a total joke.min innings were set to 10, which i took full advantage of on draft day. it also caused a minor revolt six weeks in when people realized what was happening.
punting wins and Ks, two elite closers, two strong closers. edwin jackson and latos off the wire as backup innings eaters.
here's my lol offense:
Pos Edit Batters draft actualC A.J. Pierzynski 206 2181B Prince Fielder 21 92B Brian Roberts 39 223B Michael Young 80 34SS Clint Barmes 323 127LF Ryan Braun 7 6CF Marlon Byrd 316 135RF Ben Zobrist 305 42Util Nelson Cruz 124 93BN Aramis Ramírez 28 469BN Nyjer Morgan 313 67BN Carlos Peña 101 70DL Justin Upton 129 56
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lol 1st playoff week & prob the 1st day i bench pedroia all year cuz he went 3/26 over the last wk & he hits 2 hrs his 1st 2 ABs
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
1 thing that is heartening 2 know is that my opponent's add of NELSON FIGUEROA 2 days ago was not the determinitive factor..though it nearly was, as complete games was a scoring category
oh well, 2nd place!
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 October 2009 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Paging Prince Fielder...would you wake up and join your team, please...
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Sunday, 25 April 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Other (auto-drafted) team apparently in no hurry to surpass opponent who has never played a left fielder while Cliff Lee remains on the DL and Barry Zito rots on the bench.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody think Jimmy Rollins is going to be healthy this year?
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Recommendation: Hill doesn't have a multi-hit game since May 9 and is now batting .156 on the season. He was definitely due to regress this season, but this is getting ridiculous. With a 25:20 K:BB ratio, he remains a strong buy-low target.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
he actually hasn't cheated against me at all, though i think that's more because he hasn't had a good chance to
realizing i actually have a pathway to win via pitching... i have 4 starts today vs his 1 (he was out of adds), and his 1 (morton) is hopefully on a pitch limit. unfortunately i decided to stream reiver sanmartin, who is sucking but has a cool namehttps://i.postimg.cc/rm2BCdy1/image.png
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 19:41 (one year ago) link
of course my pitchers just gave up 2 runs.... and of course if his morton gives up anything he's going straight to the bench
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 19:50 (one year ago) link
Home runs from Vlad, Roberts and Polanco already. Leapfrogged dude in rbis - I think this league is mine!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 19:59 (one year ago) link
And take screen grabs!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:00 (one year ago) link
congrats on (probably) winning!
unfortunately i am pretty screwed, reiver sanmartin is the least of my worries and i'm now running a 4.50 ERA. going to need to get a W from logan webb and somehow make up 4 runs, which just isn't gonna happen today
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:23 (one year ago) link
I maybe have spoken too soon. Still ahead but he caught me in Sb and might pull even in holds shortly
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:48 (one year ago) link
that's why i constantly assume the worst.... you're messing with forces.....
logan webb has 4 more innings in him but the giants are doing too good they're certainly gonna take him out. hopefully reiver sanmartin can continue saving my life for a few more pitches
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:53 (one year ago) link
Indeed. Forces be messing with me now.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 20:59 (one year ago) link
If I hadn’t said it before - this is the league I lost on the last day last year.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:00 (one year ago) link
you gotta find a god to pray to
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:04 (one year ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Kj9f8Y9S/image.png
i've squeaked however briefly. reiver is still pitching which is terrifying me. who knows if webb will come back out. of course the thing that's actually going to happen is giovanny gallegos is going to come in and give up 12 runs in .1 IP
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:16 (one year ago) link
You’re on top there I assume?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:22 (one year ago) link
yup... of course now AVG is starting to come into play, as i'm hitting .143 to his .387
webb is batting, have a very bad feeling they're gonna keep him in until it's a tiny bit too late
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:24 (one year ago) link
and he gives up 2 singles lol
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:29 (one year ago) link
lmao why are you doing this to me gabe kapler....you have won the game.......it's over............
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:31 (one year ago) link
that one run (so far) lost me ERA.... now i have to pray for aroldis chapman to blow up or something
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:33 (one year ago) link
from the bottom of my heart fuck gabe kapler you dumb idiot
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:36 (one year ago) link
Let us all pray Chapman blows up.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:41 (one year ago) link
it's gonna need to be that or estevez in colorado... or barlow in texas but they're losing big. those 3 runs just killed me.
if one of them does blow up and they find themselves on his bench though...........................
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:45 (one year ago) link
and they aren't even bringing in estevez... forgot he has mychal givens so it all comes down to him
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:00 (one year ago) link
givens gives up 2... he's still beating me 3.986 to 4.009
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:02 (one year ago) link
oh i'm a dummy, they didn't bring in estevez because it isn't the 9th.... i'm going crazy
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:03 (one year ago) link
and they just blew the save opp for estevez... though as an o's fan i can't complain if the dbacks win here
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:11 (one year ago) link
championship now hinges on carlos estevez getting fucked up
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:18 (one year ago) link
HOLY SHIT?????/
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:32 (one year ago) link
let's see if this sticks lol
https://i.postimg.cc/FHQjjc2F/image.png
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:35 (one year ago) link
I have taken it!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:17 (one year ago) link
One less RBI today and it would have been a tie. We wound up tied in NSB and holds!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:18 (one year ago) link
hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:47 (one year ago) link
(barring last minute scoring changes™)
Nice!!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:03 (one year ago) link
I’m sure if others were as amazing as, they’d be here too!
You sure dude isn’t going to try and cheat you (literally) out of your victory?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:16 (one year ago) link
if he does i'm saying something about it, i really need the money right now
― ✖, Monday, 4 October 2021 01:16 (one year ago) link
hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!― ✖, Sunday, October 3, 2021 7:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― ✖, Sunday, October 3, 2021 7:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
oh i have not removed my bookmark, my other glorping league has just been such a boring bummer it hasn't been worth mentioning. but i'll give my season recap!
we have pitching staffs in this league instead of individual pitchers, which works well enough -- the team's collective pitching result scores them 0-27 points a day (technically like 30+ is possible but that's like a 15k perfect game). players score for all of the regular stuff, no minuses for strikeouts. also worth mentioning -- we have a "minors" system, where you can get not-yet-mlb-players during a second draft around the irl mlb draft, slot them in one of your six minor slots, and once you call them up, you "start a timer" on them. see, our keepers cost whatever round they're "ranked" at per fantasypros, but there are a bunch of ways to get discounts, the main one being your minors callups, who are at a 5/3/3 round discount in their first second and third years. we have 4 keepers (5 next year), so it's definitely worth getting minors guys in the pipeline. we had a guy with trea, acuna, and a couple of others all in rounds like 4-6 for years.
went into the season looking at a bit of a rebuilding year -- have a strong core of keepers -- devers, eloy, mountcastle on 3, 5, 5 rd discounts, olson at sticker price minus one, and a bunch of minors players ready to get called up -- lux, wander, rodgers. started the season EXTREMELY strong due to a bunch of my picks firing on all cylinders -- my first round pick of the padres pitching looked fantastic, jd martinez was raking, mondesi was raking when he played, chris taylor inexplicably solid -- so my gameplan was kind of out the window. i was in first place by the ASB despite having a middling overall score (5th or 6th out of 10, but my matchups had just been exceedingly lucky). my plan to sell at the deadline now made no sense, but buying in didn't feel right either, so i just kinda coasted. of course, when the sticky scandal ended in the sticky ban, the padres turned into dogshit and i started losing. failed my way into the playoffs, got beat in the first round, and our finals were... well, actually i need to go backwards again for a second.
so one of our managers quit midseason. he was in the league 5 years, but wasn't really enjoying it the past year or so, and this year after going like 10-2 in the first six weeks and 2-10 in the next six, quit. we had an "interim" guy step to the plate just to make sure the team was starting healthy players etc, although he wasn'tsure if he wanted to be a permanent manager going forward. the reason i bring this up is because the finals were that guy, and the commish who has won 3 of the past 10 years (he's no cheater like ✖'s commish, although he is definitely an absolute trade beast who knows when people are weak enough to make a bad trade). def not the finals i wanted to see! (obv i wanted to see me, or if not me, there are two other teams who had dominant seasons and have never won a pennant -- they both fell in the semis). the new guy won!
what gets funnier is that the old manager was like "oh cool, so we'll split the winnings?" and the commish was like "wtf you quit" and the new manager was like "uhh yeah ok i guess" and the commish was like "don't be soft!! you don't owe him anything!!" and it was a very minor scandal i guess. new manager ended up giving old manager back his buy-in at a charity event, and gave his entire winnings to the charity. no word on whether or not the old manager also donated his entry fee, i hope he did.
that's the whole story! i don't have advantageous draft picks next season yet, but i do have an overwhelming number of discount keepers that i might flip some of -- rodgers -5, wander -5, lux -5, devers -3, eloy -3, mountcastle -3, hiura -3, jp crawford -3... and adell, madrigal, marcelo mayer, elijah green and andruw jones jr (!) in the minors ready to call up when i have the room. almost certainly this coming season i will have to pull the trigger and really go for it, and the pipeline means my window is probably a few years.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 4 October 2021 16:04 (one year ago) link
(btw im not saying the sticky ban is why the padres tanked, but the timing more or less lined up with them going from Best Pitching In League to uhh in my league *checks stats* 22nd best)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 4 October 2021 16:20 (one year ago) link
Your league sounds very complicated!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:38 (one year ago) link
ten or eleven years of additions makes it pretty overwhelming to describe at first, but week-to-week it's pretty easy because you just try to have good players locked in for the week (no in-week changes). and we had pretty stable managership for a few years so everyone was pretty up to date on it.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:48 (one year ago) link
plus commish & i do plenty of spreadsheets to make it easy for ppl to see who they can keep in what round etc
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:50 (one year ago) link
i am mostly confused about having a robust minor league system but only 4/5 keepers a year
― ✖, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 01:40 (one year ago) link
I think there’s two sets of keepers - one for majors and one for minors?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 03:22 (one year ago) link
yes exactly! sorry i didn't see this
the "minors slots" are keepable in perpetuity for free, but once you start them, they are no longer a "minors player" -- and must be kept with a "keeper slot."
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:18 (one year ago) link
to enter the minor slot they must A) be in the irl minors, and B) never been started by any team (so like, if a 30 year old spends a rehab stint in the minors, you can't put him there). once they're there, you can keep them there forever, even if they get called up, but they aren't earning you points. luckily we haven't had to make a rule about how long they're there yet because nobody's abused it. i came close by keeping buxton in my minors for like 3 years of his major league career (i was waiting for him to get good)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:22 (one year ago) link
ah that makes sense then. sounds fun
― ✖, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:13 (one year ago) link
my cheating LM conceded without fucking with things, so i officially won. and will soon receive $450 to go straight to covering insane vet bills accrued over the past month.
You should start seeing a real doctor, btw.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:23 (one year ago) link
pet insurance is cheaper
― ✖, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:25 (one year ago) link
coming into my cousin's league with my best keeper situation ever (jrod, acuna, tucker) unfortunately have not had time to do any research so i don't remember what a baseball is
― ✖, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:52 (two months ago) link
Today in my auction roto: 15/42, 12 Runs, 7 HRs (including a GS), 18 RBIs (!), 3 SBs, .431 OBP
Moved from 7th to 3rd
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 9 April 2023 06:33 (two months ago) link
Love the early season standings chaos. Could use a day like that myself (or two)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 9 April 2023 14:28 (two months ago) link
Confluence of SPs and RPs all pitching today, but take a look at the Ks (esp K/IP):
https://i.imgur.com/1jGxzgG.png
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 April 2023 01:00 (one month ago) link