YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

is there a public place to berate and embarrass the offender? a chat room or fb group or something? i'd say that's a good start, and get the rest of your league on it... is there an incentive to tanking this obviously?

no - not a keeper league, or a cash league or anything. he's just being a suck. that i don't care about so much as our commissioner deciding making a blatantly one sided-trade with that team. i have no idea what he was thinking.

yeah ef both of those guys, hopefully everyone vetoes the trade. next year I'd hesitate to join the league and if asked why, just mention these incidents and that you'd be wary of such sketchy COLLUSION.

Trade is already dead. The commish tho is a pretty great guy normally. I’m really baffled.

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

ouch... murphy?

you can forgive yourself for benching him tho, he hasn't been exactly setting the world on fire in 2018. still hurts

Had 6 guys go on the DL in the last 24 hours:

Kinsler
Myers
Swarzak
Skaggs
McCullers
Wood

...not to mention Dee Gordon DTD with rolled ankle & Posey on concussion protocol...

in another roto league i just moved into joint 1st place today, after taking first for the first time only 3 days before the end of the season. same guy was on top all year until i ruined it! Had my WHIP been 0.0038 lower, I would have won outright. Perhaps more shockingly, had my WHIP been 0.00026 (!!!) higher, I wouldn't have finished in first.

I won my friends league. $$$ back-to-back champs. :)

If Twitter ever released my search results for this year it would just say "mariners lineup" over and over again.

So my team name in my other league has been WHIP Priest for a few years, a nod to the Fall song as well as the baseball stat, walks plus hits over innings pitched.

Never had a really good image to use as my team logo, though. Not until today!

New Team Logo
(original for comparison)

i need at least one person other than me and my commish to get this (i guess you could say it's nooooooot a-ppre-ci-a-ted)

I lol'd. Nice inclusion of Homer.

inclusion of homer? where? (i have already forgotten everything i have done)

Homer, the Marlins sculpture lol

"sculpture"

IT HAS A NAME?????

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article219183640.html

wow. this somehow makes me love it even more wtf

i have my AL-only league's auction draft coming up this weekend. with 10-teams putting together a full roster can get a little daunting – and bidding for all-star caliber players can easily turn batshit.
been thinking about it non-stop all week, whereas i did literally no prep-work for the ilbb draft!

Seems like yahoo! got rid of roto leagues unless you run your own league, you can't just jump in and join an open league... or is H2H just that much more popular?

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

This includes 7 of the top 80 (yahoo pre-season rank) offensive players in a 5x5 league.

I want to take this opportunity to extol my pitching staff in an eight-team league I have with some friends who only watch Giants games.

Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw, Bauer, Thor (he's been bad), and Paxton (someone dropped him!) are my vets, with Chris Paddack and Shane Bieber as the up-and-comers.

My offense is also good! I love it.

Yahoo! standard H2H leagues have always had something like this:

Note: Each week, your pitching staff must total a minimum of 20 innings pitched. If you fail to reach this mark, you will lose all of your pitching games for that week.

A manager in a league that I'm in says this week he may have his pitching stats zeroed out as he potentially won't hit the cutoff this week as games with his SPs keep getting PPD.

It's Thursday. He can't stream a couple of pitchers?

Yeah that was mentioned but it's a 10 manager league so he'd have to drop some heat.

...for example Jack Flaherty (#4 average pick overall in Yahoo!) has pitched exactly one game this season: July 24th which was exactly 2 weeks ago.

In my head to head league where I finished pretty much at the bottom, I finished 2nd overall (aggregate) in steals but went 1W-5L-1T.

...in that category.

i am in first place by two points right now in my brutally shallow AL only league and the guy in second has been overtaking me on and off for a month now.
in a desperate attempt to keep/gain points i have dropped both closers and all normal starters in favour of set-up (holds) guys and to hopefully not lose out on wins i am starting Skubel. which might be incredibly stupid since I can't afford to bloat my ERA

CJ Cron has been added/dropped 3x in one league already.

someone should hold him! unless it's like a 6 team league or something. he'll be decent!

He’s like the Joel Payamps of yourleague!

I was targeting Cron very intentionally in the ilx league but I also targeted Daniel Murphy and Ian Desmond when they first signed with the Rockies so...

love that bell and cron have come up in our various fantasy threads as guys who might be disappointing and i had them both written down as sleepers (and missed both in ilx, but it worked out)

my h2h points league team is weird and might be good? my keepers are nowhere near as good as others, we have a complicated system that makes some teams better for a couple of years (maybe i explained it before, i'll explain below this)

C - Daulton Varsho
1B - Matt Olson (K)
2B - Ha-seong Kim
3B - Rafael Devers (KD3)
SS - Adalberto Mondesi
OF - Eloy Jimenez (KD5)
OF - J.D. Martinez
OF - Trent Grisham
UT - Randy Arozarena

TmPit - San Diego

BN - Christian Walker
BN - Josh Bell
BN - Ryan Mountcastle (KD5)
BN - Josh Donaldson
BN - Royce Lewis*
BN - Kyle Lewis

Min - Gavin Lux (Free)
Min - Nick Madrigal (Free)
Min - Brendan Rodgers (Free)
Min - Wander Franco (Free)
Min - Jo Adell (Free)

our keepers rules -- we look at the fantasypros rankings for batters on whatever day ends up being the "settle date" (usually the day after the super bowl) and those are the keeper costs -- so if they rank Mike Trout 1 he costs a first round, if he's ranked 11th or 19th he costs a 2nd, etc... and you have to make your 4 keepers fit into the picks you have for that year. However, you get discounts: we also have a "minors" system you can keep for free. the second you pull a player up and start him, his "timer" starts, and the next 3 years you can keep him at a 5/3/3 round discount. Also additionally you have one "bullet dodge" to keep any one player an additional one round later, in case you have a logjam.

So as you can see I have Eloy and Mountcastle as last-year-call-ups for my team, Devers is 2nd year I think (technically third, but we made a rule to not count 2019 as a year if you chose to bench a guy all season, which I did w/ Devers and Eloy). Olson was ranked in like the 6th round so he was a good deal. I had like 5 of the first 20 actual picks or something, but of course most of the good players were never even up as options. also yes we have team pitching, it's kinda nice! i took SD 3rd overall (the 1st overall pick was freeman, bc the guy who had him had too many good keepers but was picking first anyway so it's like he got a free keeper), 2nd pick was LAD and then I went SD. Picked a few good players in those first few rounds -- JD, Mondesi, Grish, Randy -- and then spent 3 rounds "picking" my keepers, so everyone after Randy was the second half of the draft. Took Kim knowing I'd probably call up Lux or Madrigal quickly this season, so you can imagine one of them is starting there. Royce Lewis with the asterisk because he'll move into my minors, drafted him to replace.

Presenter Mode is a welcome addition to drafts this year. I love those big ol' tiles

doing an espn mock draft and i can't believe they've gotten even worse. why the hell would you remove chat from a draft interface?

afaict it is impossible to scroll through the player list on a laptop without accidentally jumping down 300 picks

Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.

My guess is because it’s 2021

So my other league just drafted... AL only. Auction. Just added a new manager to bring the total to 9.
It lasted three hours and was batshit insane. Top players and regular, mid-draft types were going for a few bucks more than you’d expect - but once we started hitting the later-round players in a normal draft, and people started to panic, prices skyrocketed. Fringe set-up guys going for $12. I had to pay double the bag price for Plesac and Luzardo, who are my #1&2 starters. My catcher is Wilson Ramos. Gary Sanchez want for $22. I saw some shit tonight.

Bag price = avg price

Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.

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Ah I was assuming the mock draft interface was the same. It would be a very ESPN thing to do

I think it’s more current year thing to do. 11 people trying to draft and 1 asshole yelling “stop the steal! MAGA! Covid is fake news! Blue lives matter! MAGA!”

lol so it turns out yahoo's even taken the chat out of real drafts with randoms (i wanted to do another money league and NFBC is done drafting apparently)

like i'm gonna be in a league with these people all year, the league page has a message board, but we couldn't say a word to each other in chat

seems stupid

Fucking weird. Like only invite/legacy leagues have chat?!

not that people are ever very sociable in randoms but it was awkward. i just wanted to tell people about how biden and kamala have been secretly arrested and a new day is upon us

I could usually get a person or two talking about their rationalization for their picks.
Sometime I’d love to be able to messge people months later and be like “I TOLD YOU HIS REGRESSION WOULD BE UGLY!”

having one of those very frustrating "would be whipping everyone except the guy i'm facing" H2H weeks

would've ended the week tied in runs but my opponent had bohm lol

just an awful week, made a stupid drop because i was desperate to chase wins, at the point in the season where i have to tell myself to stop taking it seriously