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

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.

regarding NSB:

Is the statistical variable absolute or nah?

I think I might end the season with negative steals...

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!

#1 in HRs yet last in SLG...

Impressive!

me last night: "I should add Gurriel"
me this morning: "Fuck."

Hey man, I'm just like trying to preserve like my 10th place over here.

I blame you for what happened to him today!

Lol, you want him?

not now that you broke him!

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.

this league is so boring for trades

Deadline is Aug 12.

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)

have there been any trades at all this season?

not this year. previous years have had between 2 and 10

(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

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, the realy parity is in the middle... I just went from like 10th to 3rd in ~3 days.

real*

Trout Mike Replica – check yr email!

everyone else - also check your email. trade deadline is sunday

Best thing I’ve done was draft Acuna.

Yup. Snag of the 2017 draft fo sho.

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.

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.

The WHIP race is insane right now: 4 teams within <0.01 at the top.

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).

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!

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.

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!

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

Will open up a new thread around Feb 1...
open to thread name ideas, since I apparently stopped being clever a few years back.

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!

Thanks Will.

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?

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.

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

oh, i like the CBA angle...

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.

there it is. new thread title.

Where is it?

Yahoo leagues open this afternoon.

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.

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

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