Billy Childish Bambino tentative keepers:
Juan Soto (22)Kyle Tucker (24)Adalberto Mondesi (25)Matt Olson (27)Nick Castellanos (29)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 5 March 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
impressed bnw managed to finish 7th, despite not touching his team all season!
so – i've officially moved the draft date on the league page to the afore mentioned 21st – for 4pm edt
for anyone who doesn't have their selects in by the 14th, i will let Will select their keepers – and he's *crazy*!the sooner we get them in, the sooner i can post the draft order.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 March 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
not as pure garbage as i worried. surely i will manage them worse then 7th now.
Julio Urias (24)Shane Bieber (25)Josh Hader (26)Trevor Story (28)Eugenio Suarez (29)
― bnw, Saturday, 6 March 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Snitker Conspiracy
Rafael Devers 24Franmil Reyes 25Austin Meadows 26Noah Syndergaard 28Mike Trout 29
― Andy K, Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
keepers/who has responded tracker
i've sent a webmail to the two non-confirmed, hopefully they get those -- i'll also try yahoo to see if there's some way to reach out there...
(xp: will update with that one now!)
and sorry i've been so inactive. a combination of online exhaustion and valheim have made me extremely bad at everything. doing the work now tho!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
Andy – Meadows is 25. you got him for another year!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 7 March 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
I did a little websleuthing based on my longterm knowledge of higgins... he is on Facebook so I could try to ping him there if we get desperate.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 March 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
Sorry for the wait! My keeper picks:
LuvWilTeheranUsApart
Alex Bregman (27)Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (22)Bo Bichette (23)Carson Kelly (26)Jonathan Villar (29)
Villar is horrible but I literally don't have anyone else (all the other keeper eligible guys I drafted were dropped).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 7 March 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
hi hi sorry hi hello i am 'any kestons?' this year
Keston Hiura, 24Walker Buehler, 26Cody Bellinger, 27Tim Anderson, 27Jorge Soler, 29
― The Jesus Luzardo (Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx), Sunday, 7 March 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
Jimmie Love – Bellinger is only 25!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 7 March 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the correction. Firing my assistant.
https://cdn.mlbtraderumors.com/files/2018/10/dave-dombrowski-red-sox-1024x697.jpg
― Andy K, Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
But other than my bad math, my list is still good, right Thermo?
― The Jesus Luzardo (Jimmie Lovefoxxxxxx), Sunday, 7 March 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
yup!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 7 March 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/z5x1LNd/Jeffress-Fire.jpgBURN YOUR FIRE FOR NO JEFFRESS
FLAHERTY, Jack (<27)MAY, Dustin (<27)MACHADO, Manny (27-29)GALLO, Joey (27-29)JIMÉNEZ, Eloy (<30)
Hopefully my keepers are admissable! Pretty sure
― francisF, Sunday, 7 March 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
finally - a reference i get!!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 7 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
ayyyy that's everyone confirmed! just need keepers from two teams (unless i missed em). the hardest part of fantasy baseball is almost done! wait what do you mean i have to do a draft
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
I did a little websleuthing based on my longterm knowledge of higgins... he is on Facebook so I could try to ping him there if we get desperate.― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
they responded on the yahoo forums and will be returning!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
Awesome! There are only so many ace surf guitarists in the DC area, I'll have to tease him when he shows back up.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 March 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
ha!
also i was brainstorming new team names and decided to base it on the guy who might not even play this year, wander franco... i went wander... what sounds like wander... one direction? that's it! wanderection!
my brain vetoed this almost immediately, but then i came up with WanderVision so I'll go with that!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
thought stacking my draft with youths would give me a better keeper than alex verdugo but here's alex verdugo:
Alex Verdugo (<27)Corey Seager (<27)Bryce Harper (27-29)Aaron Judge (27-29)Blake Snell (27-29)
― ✖, Monday, 8 March 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
emailed guns of buxton for keepers, that'll be the last list we need!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 12 March 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
might need you to reach out after all albert, need those keepers from higgins
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 14 March 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
so sorry for spacing out
correa, berrios, turner, ramirez, laureano
― j.q higgins, Sunday, 14 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
All good m’dude. Still got it in on time.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 14 March 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
ok gang. draft order is set and picks are in. please, for the love of all this is holy, double check i got your keepers right (it's easy to mess up this stage)!
you can view the order and selects HERE.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
You got mine right!
Thank you so much Thermo for doing this.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 March 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
oh dang i've got second choice? i need to do some research
― na (NA), Monday, 15 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
does anyone know how to find a list on yahoo fantasy of ALL the available players (ie with the keepers taken out) by the rank they use for the draft? like i want to see the list of players as we'll see it during the draft. the Players list removes the keepers but doesn't let you look at one list of batters and pitchers, only one or the other.
― na (NA), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
unfortunately i don't think you can do that with yahoo for some bizarre reason. the only place i know of to see the list w/ pitchers and batters at the same time is "pre-draft rankings," which includes keepers. yahoo is kinda bad at some things! i recommend just pulling a list from some other site like fantasypros.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
i'm just trying to figure out what players are around my draft turns without having to manually assemble something. annoying.
― na (NA), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
The in-game sortable draft module is pretty robust imho.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
guys – all you have to do is view "players" from our league home page. the kept players aren't included.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
but you have to select either batters or pitchers, you can't get a list of both at once afaik?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
ooohhh - no, you're right.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
Does any one else use the fangraphs auction calculator? I know we don’t do auction drafts, but it still spits it out as an ordered list and you can input all the league stats and setting.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 20 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
So when I view available players on the mobile app, it does list pitchers and hitters together.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
heads up - every time i try to join a mock draft i get a "You must be 13 to play in Yahoo! Fantasy Sports games" error. if i get this in the real draft, apparently i'll have to quickly make a new account and have team ownership transferred over, even though it worked fine last year
for the record, i am in fact older than 13. the account itself is older than 13 (which may be the problem)
― ✖, Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
I'm going to need to see some ID pal.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
screw you old man!!!!!
― ✖, Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
that's weird as fuck.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
i guess you probably have an "invalid" age in your profile. you can see it pretty easily by going to account info – but it's not letting me edit my own
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
hopefully no one else has this issue.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
yeah, there's no way to edit it. i don't have an age listed anywhere, i'm guessing my account predates mandatory birthdates and they just randomly decided to start enforcing that
― ✖, Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
i googled it and the top hit comes up from three years ago – so looks like it's kinda of random.
but if a bunch of people get hit with this when trying to log into the draft, i might have to push is back 15-30 minutes so people can sort it out. but i'll have to know a bit before the draft starts. so this could possibly suck.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
I just tested a mock draft and had no issues
― na (NA), Sunday, 21 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
ok. team transfer request sent.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
thanks, switched over. i have a big boy account now
― ✖, Sunday, 21 March 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
draft room is open!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 21 March 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
according to the draft room "standings" – i am 12/13. so... not last!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 21 March 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
that said i uh i still have 6 top-60ish dynasty league players on my team so if anyone is interested in a 2 for 1 hit me up - turner (8), mookie (9), wander (22), bieber (24), eloy (28), castillo (60) per fantrax today (i picked their dynasty rankings arbitrarily)
that said the trade would probably involve castillo+1 out for a player better than the +1 and i doubt anyone wants to do that
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
team managers (much like real life GMs) probably overvalue their young talent
my ears are burning lol
tbh the kingmaker trades have actually been around? i just feel like the first salvo just happened a little early this year.
buuuuuuut if everyone's cool with it then that's cool. it does keep things a little more interesting
― ✖, Thursday, 29 July 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
i believe the season i won (two years ago?) i made one trade? devers and franmil reyes for verlander. this season has definitely had more trades, especially of big names, than any since i joined ILX fantasy. i generally think it's fun, though i might find it more annoying if i was anywhere near contending.
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Im already psyched for next season when i can unveil my amazing new team name
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
Great pennant race we've got going on here.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 08:33 (two years ago) link
oh wow – you're right. I'd been so focused on my other team i hadn't paid much attention to our standings! i wish yahoo did like a visual timeline for standings.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
oh they do! https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/8949/viewstandingschart
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
pretty basic tho. animated would be more fun (like at the end of a game of CIV).
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
been a while, but i updated the 2022 keeper sheet with all of the adds/drops up until a few mins ago, probably the last update til the offseason! all of the trades included now as well.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
Thanks dude
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 September 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Thanks!
Two of my starters got shelled yesterday to the tune of 14 combined ER in 5 IP, and my team ERA went up by about .1. Still managed to move back into first place, somehow.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 12 September 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
1.5 points separating 1st and 2nd with 6 days left!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
I'm not posting anything (well, besides this post) for fear of jinxing my season.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Saw you making some lazy afternoon moves. Was expecting the both of you to be making some panicky early morning transactions!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
for the record i don't think i've ever maxxed out any position and my outfielders and ss are done as of today. crazy.
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 30 September 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
I have been near the bottom of the league in #moves all season long. My middle name is "don't panic" ... but my first name is "I traded away seven more years of Vlad Jr. and if I don't win the season I will die".
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 30 September 2021 08:27 (two years ago) link
Looks like yours to lose really, seeing how jq is maxed out in so many slots (just 7 innings left to use aswell)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 September 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Congrats NoTime!! Your insane gamble of trading away your home-team-superstar-best-hitter-in-baseball-and-also-only-22-years-old player paid off!!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
Thanks I know! (*laughs and then cries for the next seven years of keeper eligibility*)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 4 October 2021 06:35 (two years ago) link
congratulations to NoTimeBeforeTime!
― na (NA), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
I can't believe I finally won in our league after seventeen seasons of trying (and three second place finishes). I didn't have high expectations going into the season but had a great/lucky draft which really helped when injuries started piling up (not to mention the suspension of my perverted/psychopathic ace SP). It was one of those years where most of my roster moves worked out and a few key players overachieved (Ohtani!!).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Congrats again, dude.
A lot of my top players stank this year - Lindor, Yelich etc. Was a seller this year for the first time in a while (I think I’d been second place two or three years in a row) and dealt Bryant before he became a FA, along with a few other deals and somehow my team started doing better after dumping talent?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
Congrats to NTBT! My big ol trade mostly paid off but it wasn’t enough. A relatively low OBP led to relatively low runs despite great hitting elsewhere, and like any good baseball fan I’ll also blame my starting pitchers for not WINNING despite great numbers elsewhere. I also mostly think NTBT was just too good.
― omar little, Monday, 4 October 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
most of the issues this season were in offense. i was particularly hurt by using early draft picks on DJ LaMahieu (who was bad all season) and George Springer (who was injured for big chunks of the season). at least i traded a non-keeper-eligible Aaron Nola for potential hotshot prospect Adley Rutschman, who is keeper-eligible.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
forgot to wish NTBT a hearty congrats! hearty congrats to you NTBT!
also came back to say that i remembered to do the final update on that sheet with all of the september drops, here.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
Thanks Will! And thanks again for your work on the keeper spreadsheet.
My keeper situation isn't as bad as I'd feared ... Dylan Cease showed legit #1 or #2 starter potential this year, so he and Bichette have me covered for solid <27 keepers. I doubt Ohtani will be as good next year, but obviously I have to keep him. That leaves five players (all of whom were really good last year) for two keeper spots. It's going to be a tough decision!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link