Everyone has been auto-renewed. Draft is set for Sunday 25th at 4pm.Am willing to change that, if not enough people can't make that.Lets try to have our keeper picks posted here by the Monday before (19th).Here's last year's draft results, for anyone trying to figure out their picks: https://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/mlb/2017/36915/draftresultsAnd here's Will's awesome chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16TUg_y2ANk7_JrFh-QRbAMB_TXS0UvsyhRmkElplwy8/edit#gid=1570099203I'll be travelling the next two weeks, but will still be popping into the thread – but I've also granted Will co-comish status, so he can help out too if needed.Most importantly, lets keep it clean and have fun out there.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
Hey – also we may have another new team this year... Possibly?
Here's the rules:• total of 5 keepers• 2 of which must be 27, 28 or 29 yrs old• another 2 players 26 or under• one final keeper that can be either (basically anyone under the age of 30)• age is based on that year's opening date (May 29, this year)• for a player to be keep-eligible he must have been drafted on draft day by your team or traded to you by a team that drafted him. that means:• free agent/waiver pick-ups cannot be kept• if you have less than 5 keepers, you will get an extra draft pick at the end of the draft.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
i realize i made a rather odd typo in the title, but fuck it. let's just go with it.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 17 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
I'll start!
Rougned Odor (24)Mookie Betts (25)Nolan Arenado (26)Wil Myers (27)Ken Giles (27)
VOTTO TRAP HOUSE ready to win all yr adoration again.
― flippy bard (Will M.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Thanks to my desperate adding and dropping last season I'm certain I only have 3 keepers. The other good ones all aged out so fuck it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but for LINCECUMLORDS it's only:
Carlos MartinezXander BogaertsAndrew Benintendi
― omar little, Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
that's what i got for you too ;_;
― flippy bard (Will M.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
i look forward to have two Mr Irrelevants
― omar little, Sunday, 18 February 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link
having
age is based on that year's opening date (May 29, this year)
another small typo -- this should be March 29
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:10 (six years ago) link
Sorry. That was dumb
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
oh yeah that reminds me! the ages on my spreadsheet are not always 100% accurate! they were originally based on opening day of whatever year i started it, and players added later are based on THAT year's opening day, so since it changes slightly every year, they might not be 100% accurate. if you're unsure, google your own players. i'll actually unfilter the players marked as "old".
― flippy bard (Will M.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
or maybe just unfilter everyone 30 or less, if they're marked 30 and too old jsut google thme to confirm it's true
ok i have already caught a lot of errors just googling. i will try to rectify this list to the best of my ability soon. degrom and kimbrel so far are not listed @ the correct age. anyone know a fuckin' excel sheet somewhere with every player's birthdate? lol
― flippy bard (Will M.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
I just blasted thru the whole keeper-eligible list and made some changes, mostly players born in march/april had messed up birthdates. ages across the board went down, and a few players became "keeper eligible" once i fixed it. have a look again if you only looked once! omar you can keep degrom too!
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
i also had jose ramirez like 3 years older than he should be because at some point there was another jose ramirez
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
oh nice!
So then the LINCECUMLORDS revised list:
DeGrom - (27-29)Benintendi (<27)Bogaerts (<27)Carlos Martinez (<27)
― omar little, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
when do we have to pick keepers by?
that draft date is not great for me bc i'll be traveling, but i'll be traveling for the next week after that so there isn't really a great alternative unless we do it earlier. so i'll just deal with it.
― na (NA), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
i know i'm keeping yelich, lamb, and jonathan gray but need to do some SERIOUS ANALYSIS for the last two
― na (NA), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
If all the keepers are done by the 19th, that would be great. /Lombard
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
SABATHIAS THEATER (w possible name change by draft day):
ALTUVE, Jose (27)HARPER, Bryce (25)SEAGER, Corey (23)FREEMAN, Freddie (28)ARCHER, Chris (29)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
PROTOSCHWARBER:
Willson Contreras <27Jonathan Gray <27Ender Inciarte 27-29Jake Lamb 27-29Christian Yelich <27
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
Porno for Shapiros:Mazara (22)Correa (23)Bryant (26)Paxton (29)Quintana (29), I guess
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
Thanks again to Will for compiling that spreadsheet and making this so much easier:
IwakumaJamaicaAroma:
Marcus Stroman (26)Robbie Ray (26)Anthony Rizzo (28)Alex Bregman (24)Trevor Bauer (27)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 4 March 2018 08:27 (six years ago) link
holla Tuivalula
Gary Sanchez <27Adam Duvall 27-29Gerrit Cole 27-29Gregory Polanco <27Stephen Strasburg 27-29
― bnw, Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
Altherred Images (previously Ultralight Bream, Carter Guti Boyd)
Edwin Díaz (24)Noah Syndergaard (25) Mike Trout (26) Dee Gordon (29)
Díaz is not on the spreadsheet, but he was (auto-)drafted last year.
― Andy K, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
Ive got diaz marked down as dropped on Sept 1 but i could be wrong
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
checks out
Sep 1 7:37 AM Edwin Díaz(Sea - RP)Player NoteDrop Carter Guti Boyd Waivers Andy K
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
You're right. I forgot that I dumped relievers to make up for injured starters. No Díaz, then. Thanks!
― Andy K, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
just putting this out there – if anyone with a young arm (Martinez, Syndergaard, etc) are interested in making a swap once the season starts, let me know. i'm going to try to address my keeper pitching issues in the draft, but i'm not crazy about my options (or the competition for young guys i'll think i might be facing).
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Okay I'll keep Sano (even though it's kind of stupid and disgusting to do so), LeMahieu, Bumgarner, and Stanton.
― Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx, Sunday, 18 March 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Oh and I changed my team name to Colonisqattsi
― Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx, Sunday, 18 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
just four?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 March 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
think they only had one player under 27 (and like 8 players 27-29)
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
by my count only two teams left to pick keepers -- guns of buxton (similar situation, but reversed: five under 27, one 27-29) and olney the lonely (has about 4028459 players to choose between).
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
you've got the draft at 4 p.m., is that eastern time?
― na (NA), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
yep! 4:00pm EDT
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
thanks. traveling from central to eastern next week so wanted to mitigate my potential confusion.
― na (NA), Monday, 19 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Hello! Sorry my picks are late:
Gallo's Pole (formerly Olney The Lonely):
Sale, C 29Kimbrel, C 29Ozuna, M 27Machado, M 25Giolito, L 23
I will not miss the draft this year!!
― francisF, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Hey y'all!
Could I simply usurp a dormant team's keepers or is part of the hazing to start with nothing?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
You’re out of luck there - no defunct franchises laying around. You’d be the second new team this year tho, so you’ll have some company with building from the ground up.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
anyone in touch with our last team yet to pick keepers? appears their last 3 posts on ilx were related to their 2017 and 2016 keepers, lol. u out here lurkin, jq higs?
― it's so hot in here! (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
i send a yahoo mail. will try again through the ilx message. for now, i'm assuming he plans on staying in the league.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
send=sent
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
how2shot invite?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
i sent a link to you via ilx. you good on the rules etc?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
I can't remember what email I used for ILX but strange query: would you happen to use an email that is a punny portmanteau of the following:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/nintchdbpict000068162276.jpghttp://aboutmeditation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Deepak-Chopra-Meditation.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Nevermind, I'm in!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
ha ha hhahaahaaa yes, yes i do. 'tis my hip-hop alias.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
;-)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
trea turner (24)francisco lindor (24)jose ramirez (25)george springer (28)
sorry for the delay. don't think i have any other qualifying players in the 27, 28, 29 bracket.
― j.q higgins, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
I would not fight that.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 10 June 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
so I'm officially putting Scherzer and DeGrom on the market in exchange for a good keeper (they're ranked #1 and #7 in pitching btw!!!) Greinke too, but I doubt he's super interesting to anyone. actually the rest of my team probably isn't very interesting beyond the keepers I won't trade.
― omar little, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
regarding NSB:
Is the statistical variable absolute or nah?
I think I might end the season with negative steals...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
ugh, despite my solid keepers my season is lost. went in with a bunch of promising options for my 4th/5th slot (mookie/arenado/judge being the big 3)... and they're dropping like flies due to injury or sucking. Alex Reyes, probably Shohei Ohtani, Ken Giles, Rougned Odor... worst part is, now would be when I start dismantling my team for next year, but I don't really have anyone worth offering up. Not looking for for the ol' Trap.
Well anyway if you're making a run for it and anyone not named Aaron, Mookie or Nolan interests you, I could probably stand to upgrade Hosmer & Robles I guess? as my 2019 keepers at each age bracket, so get at me!
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
#1 in HRs yet last in SLG...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
Impressive!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
me last night: "I should add Gurriel" me this morning: "Fuck."
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 29 July 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Hey man, I'm just like trying to preserve like my 10th place over here.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
I blame you for what happened to him today!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 July 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Lol, you want him?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 30 July 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
not now that you broke him!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 July 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
When’s the trade deadline again?
On the block: Scherzer, Greinke, DeGrom, Marco Gonzales. A quality rotation could be yours for the right price!
Also: Gattis, Kemp, Franco, Molina...beyond that my offense is keeping me down and I doubt anyone would want any other non-keepers.
― omar little, Friday, 3 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
this league is so boring for trades
― na (NA), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Deadline is Aug 12.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
hey man i made some wild-ass trades in years past, remember when i gave up bryce harper and won the league?
that said i have 4 sick keepers this year and my team is trash so there's virtually no reason for me to make a trade, but if someone wants one of my non-keepers and they'll put up a 27-29 dude i'm game! i'll also try to update the keeper sheet today if i have some time
(my potential trade bait players: cesar hernandez, starling marte, felipe vazquez, david price, lol this team is terrible)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
have there been any trades at all this season?
― na (NA), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
not this year. previous years have had between 2 and 10
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
(estimation, i don't have time to check now)
i updated the keeper sheet tho!
xxxp i remember, helped me win the following yr ;)
i will trade verlander for a keeper elig type of, say, a nick castellanos quality or rough equivalent fyi
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 August 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
Hmmm. He’s DL’d right now - but I’d move Mazara for some trade deadline nitro. Tho I’m sceptical I’ll be able to close the gap between me and holla.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
I'm ISO some keepers.
FT:Kluber (#4 SP)Aguilar (#5 1B)Trivino (#9 RP)Cruz (#12 OF)Jansen (#15 RP)Happ (#25 SP)
Not sure if anyone else on my team would garner interest but lmk.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
With only 13 teams in the league there are a lot of good unclaimed FA's and less incentive to make trades.
I think all of us are really protective of our keeper eligible guys and don't want to trade them away unless there's a really good chance of winning the league. These kinds of trades happened in the past when the top three teams were more closely bunched.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 5 August 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the realy parity is in the middle... I just went from like 10th to 3rd in ~3 days.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 5 August 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
real*
Trout Mike Replica – check yr email!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
everyone else - also check your email. trade deadline is sunday
― na (NA), Friday, 10 August 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Best thing I’ve done was draft Acuna.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
Yup. Snag of the 2017 draft fo sho.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
the story of my season today in a nutshell: ridiculous pitching (Eduardo-Rod: 5 IP, 11 K, 0 ER, 11:1 K/BB ratio), and 0-15 with one run scored from the offense.
― omar little, Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/p3ucTR0.png
Start Glasnow they* said*rotoballers
I had the best ERA in the league coming into this game and Glasnow's 0.2 IP outing was enough to move my season ERA a full quarter of a run.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
The WHIP race is insane right now: 4 teams within <0.01 at the top.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
congrats BNW! and congrats on ended your 10-year victory drought!
also, i just randomly discovered the league record book today! kinda fun to poke around (fun fact: i hold the all time, single-day strikeout record at 40).
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 1 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Kept expecting to get overtaken - must have lost like 30 pts in the 2nd half. Gerrit Cole and Suarez got me through. Thanks for the league! All those years of tanking paid off!
― bnw, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
Frustrating year for me (every SP was injured at some point, etc.) but congrats bnw for dominating for most of the year and a well deserved win.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
I learned a lot (namely that you should draft keepers in a keeper-league) yet I tried to give it a go and make it interesting (which didn't really happen). Impressively dominant win B!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Hey Jimmy, We just got word that January 31st is opening day. Drafts will start February 5th. -Echo 🏈🏀🏒🏆— Yahoo Fantasy Care (@YahooFantasyCC) January 11, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
Will open up a new thread around Feb 1... open to thread name ideas, since I apparently stopped being clever a few years back.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
The keeper list (it's on the second tab in a handier format). Ages are updated and as of today so are drops from September!
― suggest boban (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
Thanks Will.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
do we have any control over whether same-day adds or drops are allowed in our league? if we do, is there any interest in adding that?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
i think that's just a box i tick or somesuch. i'm fine either way, but wouldn't mind some kind of consensus before i do or don't tho.i'll make a new thread once me, or someone smarter than me can come up with a name.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
i tried to do it in my basketball league and couldn't find it! if you find it lmk where!
How about a name like idk Countdown to CBA Work Stoppage 2019
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
oh, i like the CBA angle...
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
it's been slow at work lately and i'm ready for winter to be done so i've been thinking ahead to fantasy baseball. so i think i have my keepers figured out already. not gonna declare until i have to but i think i've got it unless trades/injuries impact my choices.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
there it is. new thread title.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Where is it?
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
Yahoo leagues open this afternoon.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
using this entire post as the league name is for some reason hilarious to me: it's been slow at work lately and i'm ready for winter to be done so i've been thinking ahead to fantasy baseball. so i think i have my keepers figured out already. not gonna declare until i have to but i think i've got it unless trades/injuries impact my choices.
i am very sleep deprived. maybe just the first sentence. or possibly something about manipulating service time. i am so tired.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Yahoo is the only platform that's keeping Ohtani as 2 separate P/DH entities:
Hey guy, any particular reasoning behind making ohtani two players instead of one? Thanks— Rap Verify (@RapVerify) January 31, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
maybe im sleep deprived too because i just laughed at this idea for a threda name (please don't do it)
Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Include Ohtani As One Player; The Inexorable March of Two-Way Players Will Lead Us All to VORPiness
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link