YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

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

ah yes - the pedro/harden one-two dl knockout punch!

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?!

Lee, I hope to God you did NOT trade CC.

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.

just managed to get Youkilis for Brian Roberts from a SB-starved (yet 1st place) team! (Beltre and Cris Davis *were* my 3B guys)

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

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 actual
C A.J. Pierzynski 206 218
1B Prince Fielder 21 9
2B Brian Roberts 39 22
3B Michael Young 80 34
SS Clint Barmes 323 127
LF Ryan Braun 7 6
CF Marlon Byrd 316 135
RF Ben Zobrist 305 42
Util Nelson Cruz 124 93
BN Aramis Ramírez 28 469
BN Nyjer Morgan 313 67
BN Carlos Peña 101 70
DL Justin Upton 129 56

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

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!

Paging Prince Fielder...would you wake up and join your team, please...

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.

Anybody think Jimmy Rollins is going to be healthy this year?

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.

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

Apart from early and late April, he has been solid AVG-wise.

9 NSB (9/10) already -- he was at 13 last year.

I MAKE THIS DEAL.

alright cool

lol @ johan being the weak link in my starting staff

Tim Lincecum
Ubaldo Jiménez
Cliff Lee
Matt Garza
Johan Santana
Jonathan Papelbon
Heath Bell
Ryan Franklin

9 NSB (9/10) already -- he was at 13 last year.

Meant to say 10/11.

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.

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.

Yeah, well... takes one to know one! :(

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+

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.

btw no attack on Leee i think any trade makes sense if it fills a need
roto trades don't amount to much across a season's length

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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.

same with my other league. i even sent him a text abut it!

Trailing NSV leader by 30 and ahead of third-place NSV by 64, so I'm shutting down my closer corps (of five pitchers). Doubt I'll have to do anything like that again. (Maybe I should have done it a couple weeks ago.)

am in the 2-wk-long finals of my H2H league but my opponent has tulo :<

i was thinking of doing the same - dispersing the closers and adding guys where there'll be more impact. or at least two of them (i has 4)

parting with Wagner Soria or Capps is going to feel wrong tho.

fuckin danny valencia w/ 2hr 5rbi (so far) on my bench!

anyone else in close finishes clicking stattracker like a cracked out lab rat?

YES!! i have been in a seesaw battle for 1st for about a month. 6.5 point lead going into today! i'm feeling good. Jay the Bruce has been team hero for the last few days!

think im gonna win! I learned my lesson, Nelson figueroa is a last-day-of-season all-star!

i've never had a last day like this.

in one league i'm almost in a money spot but been in a dead heat with the competition the last two months. another we've been wildly swinging back and forth for the championship this week and the difference in who wins as of right now is .004 points of OPS.

Yea I basically won by 1 strikeout

my entire season hinges on Venable's AB right now.

^^ looking back at the box score Venable K'ed twice but I still took the league by the skin of my teeth.

Was thinking about starting an auction league one-off for ilxors and/or friends. Never done an auction before and thought it might be fun, but I don't want to distract from Therm's ILB roto league.

What's a good set up for a minimum maintenance league? Didn't Ade run one? I was thinking roto style auction, with no trades, no free agents, and no faab. Sort of like a set it and the fun would be in the auction itself and how it plays out months later. Would people get bummed about injuries not being able to replace? And how would one set up pitching scoring so active managers with an eye on their starters wouldn't have an advantage? No bench?

Any interest out there?

i've always wanted to try an auction - but i already run a 2nd league with my friends/coworkers here and for me a 3rd would be too much.

yeah i hear you, in the same boat. been meaning to do this for a couple years then saw this today:
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/yahoo_saber_league/

i'd just join that except:

1) won't join another Sunday afternoon draft when beautiful warm spring is here
2) not really feeling setting pitchers or keeping an eye on the waiver wire

you know what, f it, i think i'll try this instead: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fangraphs-gets-a-fantasy-game/#comments

I want to do an auction if anyone winds up doing one.

i might do the auction and then abandon the team (if i'm capable of such a thing)

The stat service I use for the five money leagues I run (Fanball) is shutting down. Which means I have to pick another service and re-enter ~1800 players and their contracts. And thus far it looks like Fanball was the only one with a semi-modern front end (type in part of a name and it fills in the rest or gives you the nearest options), all the others require a lot of scrolling.

auction always seems novel but I think I would give myself a panic attack or something trying to figure it all out and not end up with the worlds shittiest team and like, pujols.

That's what makes it so awesome! The risk of drafting poorly is sooooo much higher.

so how does that work anyways? are you bidding against other teams - or is there a set price for players or what?
or what.

You are bidding against other teams. Poly is correct about the risk, but there's additional tension as it's a little like monopoly or eBay -- you want to deplete other team's resources. If I hate Jeter but my projections say he's worth $10 and he's about to go for $4 then I price enforce with an $8 bid.. and I might be stuck holding the bag.

The main problem is that these drafts can last 4+ hours, really more of an in person thing.

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.

plus commish & i do plenty of spreadsheets to make it easy for ppl to see who they can keep in what round etc

i am mostly confused about having a robust minor league system but only 4/5 keepers a year

I think there’s two sets of keepers - one for majors and one for minors?

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."

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)

ah that makes sense then. sounds fun

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.

pet insurance is cheaper

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

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

Love the early season standings chaos. Could use a day like that myself (or two)

Confluence of SPs and RPs all pitching today, but take a look at the Ks (esp K/IP):

https://i.imgur.com/1jGxzgG.png