It's Not a Trick, It's a Collusion – 2018 In Love Baseball Fantasy League

thanks!

ok guys – i've inputted our keepers and the draft order is set. please double check that i got your picks right etc
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/24882/draftresults?drafttab=team

everything looks right except for me picking 10th because UGH THERE'S 9 GUYS I WANT

Thanks, thermo. Looking forward to the draft and subsequent mediocrity.

That’s the spirit!

Looking forward to dropping a scuffling player right before he turns into Lou Gehrig.

Incredibly excited that my wife scheduled a large group meal with my in-law's at 4pm EST on Sunday!

Colonisqattsi might want to drop a recently-injured pitcher. Is it too late?

Actually never mind, he's still just 28, I'll keep his old Bum(garner) ass

I think I can still edit the draf until an hour before it starts.

lol is anyone else getting..

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with this dn you'll know whose fantasy team is mine now

yahoo seems to be working for most of us!

Help I'm trying to get in, is Ohtani still on the board?

you were there most the draft, no?!

Here's the keeprs for next year which I will try to actually keep up to date this year! (next year's ages are listed, not this year's, and as players get dropped they will disappear from the list (whenever I update it once a month or whatever))

Hope someone got a kick out of Altherred Images auto-drafting (with some impetuous pre-draft jockeying, but still) Aaron Altherr.

i was going to ask if anyone actually ended up with the player their team is named after

Could someone explain the specific keepers format (for someone who is going to campaign hard to drop it next year)?

Spreadsheet shows:

Alex Wood	28	27-29
Travis Shaw	28	27-29
Billy Hamilton	28	27-29
Jeurys Familia	29	27-29
Max Kepler	26	<27
Carl Edwards Jr.	27	27-29
Mitch Haniger	28	27-29

...or should I just read the 2nd post in this thread?

...so basically I should have drafted another <=26yo.

you can still try and trade for one

ISO: Ohtani (batter)
FT: Kluber

i don't get it - why join the league if you don't like the whole keeper thing??

I've never done a keeper league to be honest. I just started playing fantasy again after a very long break! Trade me a <26 keeper and I'll promise not to stage a coup to regain league commissioner powerz.

I was losing it when Aaron Judge nearly got to me in the first round (picking 11th!). He seemed like a clear top three pick, taking keeper eligibility into account.

Yeah knowing that, I'd have taken him over Kluber but Kluber was ranked #1 of all eligible players.

TBF Kershaw, Kluber, Scherzer & Votto were the only four guy I was going to target above a young SP.

and guess i should have made extra sure the rules/settings were understood by the new teams before we got to the draft.
when we first went to a keeper format (which i love), i didn't like that someone might be able to keep a Trout or Kershaw for their entire career. didn't seem fair to keep so many elite players out of reach. and since irl most players hit free agency by the time they've hit 30, i thought the age cut-off was a good way to go. and also 30 is a nice, round, easy to remember number. as far as the age brackets go, i like it because it A) prevents people from bunching up a crew of similar aged guys and B) it forces teams to plan for the career progression of it's younger picks – i wanted more thought to go into team than just having a bucket of under-30 guys you can hang onto. almost like when a guy hits 27, you have to decide if that he's good enough to extend. an interesting side effects as well, seems to be that it has inspired some incredibly interesting trades over the years.
the only thing i'm not crazy about is when we calculate someone's age. we go by our leagues draft date, which can be a moving target. iirc only one guy has been effected by the phenomenon of their official age shifting due to this, so it hasn't really been a major problem.

Yeah, please don't mind me, I'm just trolling mostly.

I also have no idea who all the hot young prospects are so it's almost better I luckily backed into a few under 30 guys rather than intentionally chased a flash in the pan with an upper round pick.

if i'm in the running for first place, we can talk in a few months... i have at least two too many *young* young guys. and i probably am not the only one.

Lincecumlords are now CorrosionOfConforto

^ a reference I get!

It's the draft date? Oops. I thought it was MLB opening day. Probably doesn't make a big difference...

oh - you know what, it is. Ignore me. I don't know the rules of my own league.

Just peeked in on my team and one of my starters had just given up 3 homeruns in a half-inning...

dammit, i was just about to add Martinez!

https://media.giphy.com/media/12PMxjnRn4Hynu/giphy.gif

(i was pretty "lucky" that Conforto went to the 10-day DL)

Someone in my other league has 6 home runs today. So far.

So are we gonna introduce our teams?
Here is Vorped Mind 2018's most formidable contender (complete with ILX-friendly name change, as strongly suggested at the draft):

Hallojoeygallo, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gallo's Pole
https://i.imgur.com/j7A5WnR.jpg

C Sal PEREZ, Evan GATTIS
1B Justin SMOAK
2B Brian DOZIER
3B Josh DONALDSON, Manny MACHADO
SS Marcus SEMIEN
OF GALLO and his Pole
OF Marcell OZUNA
OF Adam JONES
OF Avisaíl GARCÍA
NA Eloy JIMÉNEZ
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SP Chris SALE
SP Lucas GIOLITO
SP Charlie MORTON
SP Jeff SAMARDZIJA
RP Craig KIMBREL
RP Aroldis CHAPMAN
RP Sean DOOLITTLE
RP Archie BRADLEY
RP Anthony SWARZAK

Inquiries about trades welcome.
Trading Block:
3B: Machado
Youth: Jimenez, Giolito
C: Gattis, Perez

ISO: a future 27-29yo
1B/OF combo
SP

oh FUCK, that photoshop is boss

i'll do mine in a minute

Applying pop-Marxism to Sabermetrics, owning libs who still believe in RBIs, and seemingly obsessed with WWI-era Detroit Tigers pitcher Bernie Boland, this is your VOTTO TRAP HOUSE for the season.

https://i.imgur.com/tgma1HH.jpg

C - LUCROY, Jonathan
1B - HOSMER, Eric
2B - ODOR, Rougned
3B - ARENADO, Nolan
SS - COZART, Zack
OF - JUDGE, Aaron
OF - MARTE, Starling
OF - BETTS, Mookie

1B - MYERS, Wil
OF - PUIG, Yasiel
SS - BECKHAM, Tim
NA - ROBLES, Victor

SP - OHTANI, Shohei
SP - PRICE, David
SP - TAILLON, Jameson
SP - TEHERAN, Julio
SP - WEAVER, Luke
DL - SALAZAR, Danny
DL - REYES, Alex

RP - GILES, Ken
RP - RIVERO, Felipe
RP - MADSON, Ryan
RP - MUSGROVE, Joe
DL - MELANCON, Mark

No reasonable trade offer denied without reason

haha amazing. Can Ohtani be employed as offense and defense?

nope, he is in the system as two players. i have the "pitcher" version. the "hitter" version is available on the waiver wire!

CORROSIONOFCONFORTO

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/4f/80/314f809940dc85218f603ef2095deaf8.jpg

C - Yadier Molina
1B - Jay Bruce
1B - Jose Martinez
2B - Robinson Cano
2B - Ian Happ
3B - Adrian Beltre
3B - Matt Davidson
SS - Xander Bogaerts
SS - Paul DeJong
OF - Manuel Margot
OF - Andrew Benintendi
OF - Michael Taylor
OF - Michael Conforto
UTIL - Ryan McMahon

SP - Max Scherzer
SP - Zack Greinke
SP - Carlos Martinez
SP - Felix Hernandez
SP - Jacob DeGrom
SP - Drew Pomeranz
RP - Raisel Iglesias
RP - Arodys Vizcaino
RP - Corey Knebel
RP - Brad Peacock

I don't compete now, I make money moves
Say I don't gotta compete, I make money move

The expansion team shopping for keepers BODAK YELLICH

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/gty_670347988_90348650.jpg?w=1000&h=636

C - Wilson Ramos
1B - Rhys Hoskins
2B - Yoan Moncada
3B- Anthony Rendon
SS - Orlando Arcia
SS - J.P Crawford
SS - Bo Bichette
OF - Byron Buxton
OF - Ronald Acuna
OF - Josh Reddick
OF - Aaron Hicks
OF - Adam Eaton
UTIL - Ian Kinsler

SP - Aaron Sanchez
SP - Cole Hamels
SP - Rich Hill
SP - Zach Davies
SP - Sean Manaea
SP - Michael Kopech
SP - Carson Fulmer
RP - Brendon Morrow
RP - Dave Robertson

lol at jpgs.

One thing about yfb that bugs is that games that lineups where players in games that have been PPD are not available to be subbed.

sorry that made no sense, let's try again: If a game has been PPD, you should be able to edit that player from the PPD game out of your lineup.

hey, how about some more bellyaching from me!

there's some obvious lag/glitch between the actual lineup page and the StatTracker, here's what my actual lineup is (Gardner benched/Frazier starting):

https://i.imgur.com/IN7bai9.png

and here's what the StatTracker is showing (with Frazier on the bench & Gardner starting... and more importantly, Frazier's stats aren't being calculated on the StatTracker):

https://i.imgur.com/gXMvVVP.png

Van Horn: FYI you can move a couple guys into DL slots and one of your minor league dudes into the NA slot. that'll open up three roster spots for you.

I guess you guys inspired me – did up a quick spoof logo to go with the name:
https://imgur.com/a/M1rYR

C – J.T. Realmuto
backup / DL replacement C – Brian McCann
1B – Jose Abreu
2B – Ozzie Albies (shame on you people for letting him fall to me)
3B – Kris Bryant
back-up 3B – Matt Chapman
SS – Carlos Correa
OF – Andrew McCutchen
OF – Nomar Mazara
OF – Ryan Braun
OF and DL mainstay – Michael Btantly
OF / NA stash: David Dahl
2B/OF/rebound candidate – Jason Kipnis
super-mega utility dude – Eduardo Nunez

SP – Lius Severino
SP – Jose Quintana
SP – James Paxton
SP – Jake Arrieta
SP – Garrett Richards
SP – Jake Faria
RP – Edwin Diaz
RP – Addison Reed
RP – Kyle Barraclough

27-29 Keepers for 2019:
Bryant (27), Realmuto (28)

< 27 keepers (in order of the odds I'll be hanging on to them):
Correa (24), Severino (25), Albies (22), Mazara (23), Dahl (25), Faria (25), Chapman (25), Diaz (25)

my team's standing every year since we starting keeping players in 2011:
10/15, 7/15, 7/14, 1/13, 4/12, 2/11, 2/12

looking to end that three year dry spell, especially after two misses and losing Jose Fernandez.
will probably start looking to move Mazara/Dahl/Faria/Chapman for an upgrade a little into the season once we have a better look at them/the standings.