ouch... murphy?
you can forgive yourself for benching him tho, he hasn't been exactly setting the world on fire in 2018. still hurts
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
Had 6 guys go on the DL in the last 24 hours:
KinslerMyersSwarzakSkaggsMcCullersWood
...not to mention Dee Gordon DTD with rolled ankle & Posey on concussion protocol...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 5 August 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
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)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I lol'd. Nice inclusion of Homer.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
inclusion of homer? where? (i have already forgotten everything i have done)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
Homer, the Marlins sculpture lol
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
"sculpture"
IT HAS A NAME?????
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article219183640.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
wow. this somehow makes me love it even more wtf
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
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!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 March 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
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?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rDqXlsD.png
This includes 7 of the top 80 (yahoo pre-season rank) offensive players in a 5x5 league.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
It's Thursday. He can't stream a couple of pitchers?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah that was mentioned but it's a 10 manager league so he'd have to drop some heat.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
...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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 25 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
...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
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 27 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
CJ Cron has been added/dropped 3x in one league already.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
someone should hold him! unless it's like a 6 team league or something. he'll be decent!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
He’s like the Joel Payamps of yourleague!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
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...
― ✖, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
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 Varsho1B - Matt Olson (K)2B - Ha-seong Kim3B - Rafael Devers (KD3)SS - Adalberto MondesiOF - Eloy Jimenez (KD5)OF - J.D. MartinezOF - Trent GrishamUT - Randy Arozarena
TmPit - San Diego
BN - Christian WalkerBN - Josh BellBN - Ryan Mountcastle (KD5)BN - Josh DonaldsonBN - 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)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
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.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Presenter Mode is a welcome addition to drafts this year. I love those big ol' tiles
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
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?
― ✖, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
afaict it is impossible to scroll through the player list on a laptop without accidentally jumping down 300 picks
― ✖, Saturday, 27 March 2021 01:26 (three years ago) link
Yahoo got rid of the mock chat aswell.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
My guess is because it’s 2021
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
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.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 04:40 (two years ago) link
Bag price = avg price
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, March 26, 2021 10:46 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah I was assuming the mock draft interface was the same. It would be a very ESPN thing to do
― ✖, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
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!”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
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
― ✖, Monday, 5 April 2021 03:42 (two years ago) link
Fucking weird. Like only invite/legacy leagues have chat?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 April 2021 05:10 (two years ago) link
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
― ✖, Monday, 5 April 2021 06:19 (two years ago) link
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!”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 April 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
having one of those very frustrating "would be whipping everyone except the guy i'm facing" H2H weeks
― ✖, Thursday, 8 April 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
would've ended the week tied in runs but my opponent had bohm lol
― ✖, Monday, 12 April 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
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
― ✖, Monday, 12 April 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Wish I had convinced the old timers in my old leagues to try a free form roster version - 26 roster spots, one at each position and five pitchers, fill the rest however you want.
I almost had that going with a small roster auction league (one at each position, DH, six pitchers) but it would have been interesting to see people strategize between dominating hitting or pitching or falling into the safe territory of ‘normal’ rosters.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
Would the stats just have been 5x5?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
Ottoneu in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/13/ottoneu-fantasy-baseball-niv-shah/
Shah added a player pool into the web app, then realized he could access stats, too. There was no longer any reason to keep their league on Yahoo. And now they could choose new scoring categories that better reflected modern baseball thinking, swapping out batting average for on-base percentage. (Later versions would incorporate scoring based on the Wins Above Replacement metric, a sabermetric shibboleth.) They began to play on Shah’s site, naming the league after a player, Otto Neu, who appeared in one game for the St. Louis Browns in 1917 but never made a plate appearance or had a chance in the field.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
xp - semi-standard 5x5, we did OPS, net steals, a reliever formula (holds plus 2X saves minus blown, I think?) and I think the stat service we used had FIP the last season we held leagues. There would also have to be some PA/IP minimums to keep people from having a 0.00 ERA with 6IP for the entire year.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Like our buddy ✖, here's reason #18972340918 I hate H2H:
I got lucky with the #1 pick (Acuna) in this league but look at this shit...
Category/my team rank (of 12):R: #4HR: #3RBI: #7SB: #5AVG: #12W: #11SV: #2K: #10ERA: #6WHIP: #9
Seems like I'd be midpack right?
Wrong. I'm 4-16 and in dead last place.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 April 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link