Waiting 171 days to submit your keepers will not give you another year of control – 2019 I Love Fantasy Baseball League is open!

i'm sure they're relishing the idea of being able to spectate, heckle and back-seat draft our draft!

hahaha oh god some of them will totally do that

we also have so many keepers/so few picks in that league, i just checked the timestamps for last year's draft, and it took... 45 minutes, lol. the league is only batters and team pitching (like team defense in football, kinda?) so it's 16 rounds, and 4 keepers, so really only 12 rounds (w/ 10 teams, and some teams have too few picks, so it ends up being... 115 total?)

we use fantrax btw, and it RULES, i'd almost recommend migrating but then we'd lose league history :(

Ok – so I'm going to move the draft time up an hour. will see if a mod can edit my original post to show the new time.

sabathias theater~

SEAGER, Corey 24
HARPER, Bryce 26
CASTELLANOS, Nick 27
ALTUVE, Jose 28
FREEMAN, Fred 29

Yikes, I will be out of town that weekend but will try to cut out a chunk of time to devote to this.

an idea, maybe others will be into it, maybe not, but is there any chance we could determine the draft order more than an hour before the draft this year? i do kinda like the "who knows for sure" aspect of it but at the same time i will be coming fresh off another draft so the more prep i can do the better. won't be offended if nobody likes the idea, just wanted to float it. even if the order is decided, like, a day or two in advance, it'd give me the chance to set up my sheets or whatever... what do you think?

i can update everyone here as soon as i know. (once all the keepers are set)

oh wait... am i misremembering? do we not do random draft order on draft day?

If it's a true keeper league the draft order should be the reverse standings at the end of the previous season.

People have insanely good keepers and I have...

Josh Shithead Hader 24
Trevor Story 26
Gary Sanchez 26
Eugenio Suarez 27
Gerrit Cole 28

Colonisqattsi:

Cody Bellinger
Aaron Nola
Jean Segura
Patrick Corbin
Giancarlo Stanton

lol my other draft just got moved to 2pm. should still be ok because that one goes fast, but lol... this 3pm isn't gonna move up anymore, is it?

*types lol a 15th time nervously*

no, i have a brunch/daytime drinking event i'm going to be leaving early from for the draft as it is.

oh hey you know how upthread i said, double check the ages because the moving opening day can make them inaccurate sometimes?

chris sale's birthday is march 30, opening day is march 28, making him keepable this year! so jealous

Definitive keepers for Mad Boone Rising

Rhys Hoskins <27
Ronald Acuna <27
Yoan Moncada <27
Anthony Rendon 27-29
Aaron Hicks 27-29

It occurs to me - might have to set a transaction limit of we same day pick ups.

Sale is keeperable? that changes everything!

27-29 SALE, Chris
27-29 PEREZ, Sal
27-29 OZUNA, Marcell
27> MACHADO, Manny
27> JIMENEZ, Eloy

flirting with the team name Orel Halo

LuvWilTeheranUsApart keepers

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. <27
Alex Bregman <27
Matt Olson <27
Anthony Rizzo 27-29
Trevor Bauer 27-29

Subbing out Myers for Vazquez, because I don't wanna be mr nobp (that's no + obp) again

Victor Robles - 21
Aaron Judge - 26
Mookie Betts - 26
Nolan Arenado - 27
Felipe Vazquez - 27

Pretty sure Sal Perez is out for the season Francis.

shhhhhhhhhhhh

jk

Thermo/Will, how many more people are we waiting to finalize keepers? Is there a deadline?

i think thermo said a week today (mar 11) for keeper deadline. all i know is only one team hasn't posted their keepers in this thread yet (guns of buxton) and they have an embarrassment of riches to choose from and i am kinda jealous.

Nice! If I get a chance tonight I'm gonna start building my a pre-ranking list in the event I'm unable to attend the live draft.

I can't wait to end up with 5 shortstops!

sub:
PEREZ, Sal x_x
for
GALLO, Joey o_O

thx for heads up!

(Gallo for Perez, doy)

took me a few years, but i finally found a trustworthy list of players birthdates (vs. just a "list of ages" that is never accurate) so hopefully my keeper sheets will never have an opening day age issue again! but do double-check and let me know if there are any mistakes!

If I had the time, I would scrape the baseball-reference site for their entire birthdate database and then use that as a master to run a SQL query against (or vlookup if in a spreadsheet).

someone beat us to it, apparently! link

Haha, exactly.

If it's a true keeper league the draft order should be the reverse standings at the end of the previous season.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:26 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is something i'd definitely be interested in talking abt more! always made sense to me as the strongest teams will typically have the strongest keepers, so reverse order (and no snake) made the most sense for the next year's draft. is this something we could consider in the future? (i'm not just saying this because i finished in the basement for what feels like the first time ever!)

I’d consider it - but what’s to stop teams from benching guys and tanking once things start looking bleak?

i'd say there should be some kinda "at least start guys" rule or you get kicked to the bottom of the draft order per commish's discretion. as long as we had something like that, i think most of us are above-board folks. and no dropping good-ass players in september!

ya - we are all pretty awesome, but i would prefer to eliminate temptations wherever i can.
maybe what i might propose doing is going half way between random and standings-based draft order.
basically what i've been doing is putting team names into an online random list generator. what i could do is make it a weighted draft lottery – giving 13 entries to the 13th place team, 12 to 12th place and so on until 1st place getting one entry and then draw for the first pick using the rondo generator, then 2nd round etc.
a bit more work for me, but more fun and wouldn't 100% guarantee the first pick to tanky mcsitstrout.

i'm also thinking of a daily transaction limit of 3, to prevent anyone from going crazy with the same-day FA adds. that seem reasonable?

can't imagine needing more than 3, although i know yahoo has a safeguard against "churning" free agents, so like i can't pick up and drop 20 guys to put em all on WW. anyone you pick up and drop same day just goes back in the FA pool, iirc? but yeah still 3 per day seems fine!

also love the weighted lottery idea!

anyone you pick up and drop same day just goes back in the FA pool, iirc?

oh! i that's the case, i won't even bother with transaction limits. i'll look into this some more, thanks.

FWIW: When I was commish we had a seasonal tranactional limit. Limitless leagues are much easier to game.

ok player has to be rostered for 24 hours to go on waivers. transaction limit cancelled.

scooter gennett (29)
george springer (29)
trea turner (26)
francisco lindor (26)
jose ramirez (26)

sorry for lollygagging.

thanks dude - i'm just glad you're alive!

holy crap at that infield.

ok - draft order and keepers are set. please check your teams and make sure everything looks right.

where does the draft order show up?

from the main page > draft >> draft results

!!! No snake draft though really?

we all know you were juicing like mad in '17!

i feel "ok" about my keepers i guess:

Bogaerts (27-29)
Tatis (<27)
Conforto (27-29)
Dahl (<27)
Benintendi (<27)

i'm worried Benintendi not-so-secretly sucks but he's also only 25 and looks to have a more prominent lineup role w/Betts gone.

Thank you for letting me be the Dusty Baker to your AJ Hinch xp

I totally forgot to put the trades in from last year, I'll put them in now -- check that link in about 5 mins