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 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ McCain
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
heh. can you tell i'm hungry?!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
This is not change I can believe in.
― David R., Wednesday, 11 June 2008 16:25 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
The Ted Lilly of hitters has been raking lately (both of them).
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:15 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Lee, I hope to God you did NOT trade CC.
― David R., Monday, 11 August 2008 18:19 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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
so in my other league i proposed a trade to a SP starved team, buchholz (from me) for denard span (from him) -- my outfield right now is a bunch of guys who are gonna hit .275 w/ homers & rbi (ethier, heyward, hawpe, marlon byrd, victorino) & i'm looking for a solid average outfielder -- i feel like this is a pretty even trade, but my friend was telling me that span was pretty worthless
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Apart from early and late April, he has been solid AVG-wise.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
9 NSB (9/10) already -- he was at 13 last year.
I MAKE THIS DEAL.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
alright cool
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ johan being the weak link in my starting staff Tim Lincecum Ubaldo Jiménez Cliff Lee Matt Garza Johan SantanaJonathan Papelbon Heath Bell Ryan Franklin
― velko, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Meant to say 10/11.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
denard span is the real but must suffer from some shin-soo choo disease as no one appreciates him.to bring it back to ilxor people were all NO WAY about the Jones/Capps trade which i thought was odd. then a week later found out Jones was a first half all-star last year which sort of explains it.
i was more incredulous at Prado/Span as the former is an infield switchblade due for some serious regression while Span could be Uptonesque soon.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, well... takes one to know one! :(
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
to be fair, prado has had two steady seasons w/ about the same numbers -- obv he's not gonna hit .340 but it's not out of the question for him to hit .320+
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know Prado's always looked like Angel Pagan to me with infield elgibility. not that that shouldn't be discounted.two weeks ago i was watching a braves game and he was announced as the third baseman, i was like no he's a 1B,2B,3B.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
btw no attack on Leee i think any trade makes sense if it fills a needroto trades don't amount to much across a season's length
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 May 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The thing I really love about my other league is that the other managers don't seem to give a shit, or they have a life or something. The guy who has Strasburg didn't bother starting him tonight.
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
same with my other league. i even sent him a text abut it!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 05:21 (thirteen years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
from the bottom of my heart fuck gabe kapler you dumb idiot
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:36 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
givens gives up 2... he's still beating me 3.986 to 4.009
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:02 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
championship now hinges on carlos estevez getting fucked up
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
HOLY SHIT?????/
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
let's see if this sticks lol
https://i.postimg.cc/FHQjjc2F/image.png
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
I have taken it!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:17 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
(barring last minute scoring changes™)
Nice!!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:03 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
if he does i'm saying something about it, i really need the money right now
― ✖, Monday, 4 October 2021 01:16 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
Your league sounds very complicated!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:38 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
ah that makes sense then. sounds fun
― ✖, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:13 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
pet insurance is cheaper
― ✖, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:25 (two years 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 (one year 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link