YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

Also if you realize you have a shitty team right off the bat (you chickened out on buying any superstars, etc.) it's fun to try and steal young cheap players during the auction and build for the future. Only applicable if you don't care about losing money this year and you're sure it will be around down the road. I first played in one of my leagues in 1990, when I was 9 (and won! courtesy Bobby Thigpen and Cecil Fielder), so I'm pretty comfortable in assuming we can keep them going from year to year.

impressive!

someone plz alert me when HACKING MASS goesup in late March, thx

let's say I had 30 minutes to prepare for an (online) auction draft when I'd never done one before...

what would be good to keep in mind?

hmmm. get drunk asap.

ah - positional scarcity maybe?

am getting drunk tbh!

is there some half-decent cheatsheet w/r/t player values?

why is ~$260 the amount instead of some nice round number?

When I get to pick the guy who's up for bidding, I always pick guys I know I don't want at all and let other people spend their money, so I have more money left over for the guys I do want.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://games-ak.espn.go.com/s/flbdraftkit/11/mlbdk2k11_300.pdf?addata%3D2011%3Dflbdft_cht_sht_300_xxx&pli=1

i've never done an auction before, so i'm no real help - aside from encouraging you to drink.
sort of jealous tho - would love to try one sometimes (2 teams is enough for me).

xposts

nice, thanks pp

i seriously had a dream/nightmare that i signed up for a 3rd

that espn list - is that fine for a 10 person $262 league? the values seem a lot lower

here's what I ended up with:

c - brian mccann
1b - miguel cabrera
2b - kinsler
3b - arod
ss - jimmy rollins
of - ryan bruan
- ichiro
- grady sizemore (this spot will be the ??? zone)
util - justin morneau

bn - rajai davis, brian roberts, ryan raburn, ike davis

sp - sabathia, verlander
rp - jonathan broxton, leo nunez
p - chad billingsley, david aardsma, phil hughes

bn - matt garza, jaime garcia, cj wilson, jonny venters

I like auction more than I thought I would, I think I prefer it even

Looks good to me!

CJ Wilson and Chad Billinsgley are most definitely starting pitchers!

i'd really like to try auction.. curious about the new fangraphs WAR leagues too, just don't have any time before opening day to sit through a 5-6 hour auction without distractions.

how long did the draft take?

bout 3 hours, sorta draining

i'd love to do a slow draft auction.. nominate multiple players at once online and rather than a minute clock have the gavel go down a day or two after bids cease.

Brandon Funston is the ugliest fantasy sports expert.

in a keeper league that i won last yr i just noticed how unbelievably stacked on of my opponents teams is, shit is nuts

tulo
kemp
votto
bautista
fielder
posey

+tabata

not much pitching but grienke & wainwright on the dl

have my draft tonight & feel so unprepared!

have the 3rd pick -- how are ppl ranking say -

kemp
miggy
braun
pujols

?

i cant believe i just got big game james in the 5th rd

didnt mean to but i got the brewers projected 3-4-5 hm

1.	(3)	Ryan Braun
(Mil - OF)
2.	(22)	Cliff Lee 
(Phi - SP) K
3.	(27)	Michael Young
(Tex - 1B,2B,3B)
4.	(46)	Aramis Ramirez
(Mil - 3B)
5.	(51)	James Shields
(TB - SP)
6.	(70)	Billy Butler
(KC - 1B)
7.	(75)	Brian Wilson 
(SF - RP) K
8.	(94)	J.J. Hardy
(Bal - SS)
9.	(99)	David Ortiz
(Bos - Util)
10.	(118)	Mark Trumbo
(LAA - 1B,OF)
11.	(123)	Tyler Clippard
(Was - RP)
12.	(142)	Logan Morrison
(Mia - OF)
13.	(147)	Ryan Roberts
(Ari - 2B,3B)
14.	(166)	Andrew McCutchen 
(Pit - OF) K
15.	(171)	Jeff Francoeur
(KC - OF)
16.	(190)	Miguel Montero 
(Ari - C) K
17.	(195)	Doug Fister 
(Det - SP) K
18.	(214)	Jordan Walden 
(LAA - RP) K
19.	(219)	Matt Moore 
(TB - RP) K
20.	(238)	Bud Norris
(Hou - SP)
21.	(243)	Johan Santana
(NYM - SP)
22.	(262)	Joaquin Benoit
(Det - RP)
23.	(267)	R.A. Dickey
(NYM - SP)
24.	(286)	Mat Gamel
(Mil - Util)

You got fuckIng Matt Moore in the 19th fucking round?!

keeper from last yr

oh.

i guess that explains McCutchen too.

i had a draft last weekend that was Al only and by the end - i didn't even know who i was drafting.
curious to see what ILBB thinks of the trivial decisions i was making towards the end...
i picked Jarred Parker over Brad Peacock and Dayan Viciedo over Alejandro De Aza.
none of whom i'd heard of before that draft had started!

h2h league has gotten p interesting w/ everyone wise 2 streaming sps as much, i find myself picking up really marginal guys defensively just in case my opponent adds them and they throw a weird, not uncommon last week-ish gem

streaming sps?!

fortunately my opponent streamed carlos villanueva 2nght -__-

As did I in an h2h league. oh, vanillawafer.

the worst thing in the world is being forced to stream like crazy because your opponent is streaming like crazy, and you can't bring up the possibility of an IP limit because the commissioner does it too

it is on some game theory nuclear elevation ish

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.

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― j.q higgins, Friday, March 21, 2008 10:19 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i want to know what messageboard and what league this was, i might've been in it

not sure if i'll join but came across this insanely complicated slow draft league kicking off this weekend where you are limited by real contracts and a $100 million payroll: http://homeruntrot.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=leaguerules&action=display&thread=3

keeper league with a minor league draft too. reminded me of clemenza's work on 2012 WAR/salary value plays, not that I can find that thread.

think u mean z_s

2012 awards thread

yep it was z_s, nice work there.

so we has the draft for my 12 team AL ONLY league yesterday. the last six rounds were hilarious, as no one had any clue whatsoever.

*had the draft yesterday, not has.

my hilarious line-up:

C - Salvador Perez
1b - Mark Trumbo / Youkilis
2b - Dustin Pedroia
SS - Jed Lowrie
3b - Brett Lawrie / Trumbo / Youkilis
OF - Michael Morse, Andy Dirks, Craig Gentry, Seth Smith, Wil Meyers & a waiver claim on Jackie Bradley or failing that Darin Mastroianni

SP - Price, Fister, Hellickson, Tillman, Gavin Floyd, Bad Norris & Michael Pineda (DL)
RP - Grant Balfour, Al Aberquerque, Matt Thornton, Scott Downs (hold are a stat)

My other league is 8 people that I know IRL and it's super casual, 9 batting positions, points H2H, 5 bench spots, lock players for the week, and most interestingly you pick a pitching staff instead of individual pitchers. We each got 2 keepers (picked in rd 1/2) and the expansion teams got two "free" picks in the first two rounds from the non-keepered dudes. Every team looks like a separate all-star team, it's silly. Here's mine:

Rd 1, Pk 7 - Mike Trout (Keeper 1)
Rd 2, Pk 2 - Matt Kemp (Keeper 2)
Rd 3, Pk 7 - Ian Kinsler
Rd 4, Pk 2 - Ryan Zimmerman
Rd 5, Pk 7 - Paul Goldschmidt
Rd 6, Pk 2 - Washington Nationals
Rd 7, Pk 7 - Billy Butler
Rd 8, Pk 2 - Jacoby Ellsbury (yeah nobody wanted to fuck with JE)
Rd 9, Pk 7 - Ian Desmond
Rd 10, Pk 2 - Miguel Montero
Rd 11, Pk 7 - Oakland Athletics
Rd 12, Pk 2 - Adam Eaton
Rd 13, Pk 7 - Jimmy Rollins (seriously I just took the dudes nobody wanted to fuck with)
Rd 14, Pk 2 - Mike Moustakas
Rd 15, Pk 7 - Chris Davis
Rd 16, Pk 2 - Angel Pagan (dropped for Yasiel Puig as a stasher, gonna pick him up again when Eaton gets DLed finally)

Arguably one of the worst teams in the league, and my first H2H opponent:

Rd 1, Pk 2 - Jose Bautista (keeper 1)
Rd 2, Pk 7 - Chase Headley (keeper 2)
Rd 3, Pk 2 - Prince Fielder
Rd 4, Pk 7 - Aaron Hill
Rd 5, Pk 2 - Danny Espinosa (apparently an accident, he got real mad when he realized he did that)
Rd 6, Pk 7 - Michael Bourn
Rd 7, Pk 2 - Toronto Blue Jays (homer)
Rd 8, Pk 7 - Joe Mauer
Rd 9, Pk 2 - Shin-Soo Choo
Rd 10, Pk 7 - Elvis Andrus
Rd 11, Pk 2 - Josh Reddick
Rd 12, Pk 7 - Tyler Colvin
Rd 13, Pk 2 - Michael Saunders (canadian homer)
Rd 14, Pk 7 - Pedro Alvarez
Rd 15, Pk 2 - Alex Avila
Rd 16, Pk 7 - Arizona Diamondbacks

Is that through MLB.com? I remember they did that team pitching thing (not a fan).

drafted for my annual money league which is the only league i care about (bc money) and i ended up drafting every single trendy sleeper pitcher and now i'm worried. i just couldn't stop. i even compiled a list of boring pitchers to aim for because i always ignore boring pitchers. and i ignored the entire list. this is getting to be a problem :(

Yu Darvish
Matt Moore
Max Scherzer
Tim Lincecum
Jeff Samardzija
Brett Anderson
Matt Harvey
Jason Hammel

well, take off hammel and add marco estrada and julio teheran and i would've had all of them

Yeah, it's through them.

I actually find it really refreshing. Way, way way less streaming/other shenanigans w/ pitching (altho sometimes people will pick up a middling team because their ace has two starts or particularly weak opponents). But also a lot of people in the league, god love em, would probably be overwhelmed if they had to know the difference between two different non-Toronto 4th starters or 8th inning loogies. The system wouldn't work if the points weren't so well-balanced between pitching & batting (or if it were roto or if you could swap out players/staffs ever day).

This is the second year we've run it though and last year was an absolute blast, probably the most enjoyment I've ever gotten out of a fantasy game, because I knew everyone and even the least fantasy-geek inclined people were completely engaged all season.

xp btw

and then in my points league i ended up with a really weird team bc pitchers always get more points than hitters, so if you organize ESPN's draft module thing by projected points you end up with a top 50 that includes like 35 pitchers. apparently EVERYONE else in the draft only paid attention to this and filled up quick on pitching because they don't understand how value works. so i ended up with this lineup:

C: Buster Posey
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Ian Kinsler
3B: Pablo Sandoval
SS: Marco Scutaro
OF: Matt Holliday
OF: Jason Heyward
OF: Norichika Aoki
UTIL: Nick Swisher

and meanwhile my pitching staff is worse than the norm but not by much