YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

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

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.

Would the stats just have been 5x5?

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.

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.

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: #4
HR: #3
RBI: #7
SB: #5
AVG: #12
W: #11
SV: #2
K: #10
ERA: #6
WHIP: #9

Seems like I'd be midpack right?

Wrong. I'm 4-16 and in dead last place.

i hate it! i've had such a bad week in both my H2H leagues, it's frustrating because i spent more time preparing for them than most years and then 90% of it just comes down to dumb luck

i think at the very least 2-week matchups should be the standard. one week is ridiculous. week 1 i got 10 SBs and lost. this week i got 3 SBs and won. it's stupid. and unless your league has very restrictive weekly IP limits, so much comes down to which owner gets more starts.

4-16?! how many matches you have a week?!

or is it a match a day?

It's H2H so 10 categories per week. I went 2-8 week one then 2-8 week two. Mathematically I should be 6th or 7th but I am just getting incredibly unlucky losing ratio cats by tenths of percents and counting stat cats by a handful, if that.

So many external factors at play with weather, COVID team quarantines (even if they aren't on your team) on top of the usual rampant injuries, slow starts, etc.

need a shrink to tell me why i keep caring so deeply about a family league run by my cousin's husband who has been using admin powers to cheat for years. he just did it again today, even though he's already beating me 7-1-2. just flipped ohtani with urshela so he can get ohtani's SB and bring him a little closer in the one category i'm beating him in (why was he starting urshela over ohtani anyway??)

i don't even have any blood family in this anymore, just his relatives including his father and now his teenage son. his own son!

regardless i still consider this my "main" league, more important than the other ones, etc

i just want to destroy him every year

Is there a system log/do you have receipts? Does nobody else care? Can u shame him publicly? That shit is deplorable

And you still choose him over us?! This is some Stockholm shit!!

I would screenshot and then call his ass out on the forum or email list and force him to give up his admin powers. What an absolute bell-end.

oh i accepted long ago i'm not gonna do anything about it, i don't think anything good would come of it and it would just make things weirder than they already are between me and an extended family i've always had a weird relationship with. i thought maybe he stopped after the ESPN redesign because he was scared it would be more obvious. i have screenshots if i ever decide to go nuclear. and it is all logged in the transactions, just a little hard to find. i've confronted him about it privately years ago and he just played dumb. i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

And you still choose him over us?! This is some Stockholm shit!!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, April 26, 2021 7:54 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if ILX league turns into a money league and/or any of you turn out to be my uncle i'll reprioritize

Hmm. What’s your aunt situation like?

this is my aunt.....

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4mkAAOSwd1teRFgj/s-l1600.jpg

good luck 😬😬😬

right in my wheelhouse.

i thought i had nowhere to post this but now i see this thread

good time to be rostering shane bieber, carlos rodon and anthony desclafani... has to be the first month in my decade long fantasy career getting three complete game shutouts in one month

Hopefully you're in a CG/SO league. When I started the ILX league in 2003 I think we had CG/SOs (or maybe that was in 2004?).

So the rando yahoo H2H league where I'd gone 2-8 the first 2 weeks, why yes I did go 2-8 in the 3rd week as well bringing me to 6-24.

So now in week 4 I'm up against the #1 team in the league (and I'm dead last @ #12)... I'm up 9-0 after one day. Nice to see some regression but I hope I can hold on.

was finally having a good week in the money league i'm dead last in, was up 9-1 or 8-2 all week until today, now losing 5-3

been doing H2H for like 15 years and i feel like this has happened every single week of every season ever

in my other H2H league, i specifically set an alarm this morning to see if jesse winker was playing today, but i slept through it in a Moderna #2 daze and now his 3 runs are on my bench and i'm going to lose the category because my opponent has chris taylor (4! runs so far)

lol make that 5!!!!! runs for chris taylor

my non-ILX league trades:

Means for Blackmon

Matz/Walsh for Maeda/Dom Smith

hurts

I'd want the Walsh side.

I have Blackmon and he's been frustrating.

i wish i was on that side too!

i really gotta remember to stop putting so much faith in early statcast numbers

one thing i've complained about over the years in my family league is the complete lack of pitching limits - no transaction limits, no IP or GS limits - so any team with bad pitching can just stream like crazy the last few days of their matchups if they're already losing ERA/WHIP and get wins in Ws and Ks by sheer quantity. if your pitching sucks and you have no attachment to your players, you have no reason not to. if you have a decent staff full of pitchers that are too good to drop, you basically just have to lay over and lose those categories

my opponent did that to me this week - i was winning 8-2 and killing him in all pitching categories, so he streams 7 pitchers the last two days. started today winning 5-3 in Ws, he gets 3 wins to go up 6-5 before the night game, where he has both pitchers. i have craig kimbrel. if craig kimbrel gets the win, i tie instead of lose that category. craig kimbrel is currently the pitcher of record in the bottom of the tenth. if craig kimbrel doesn't win here i will quit forver

this is the only scenario that can get me to listen to a-rod's commentary

6-3-1 SUCK MY ASSHOLE

i hate fantasy baseball btw

i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

― ✖, Monday, April 26, 2021 10:06 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

can confirm my shitbag cousin LM cheats against his teenage son

does his kid know?

who knows! i don't talk to him. what if i told him? what if i told him his father is a dirty cheater? what if he loses all respect for his father, runs away from home and joins up with a corrupt element? what if he starts commissioning hits on the dark web and gets embroiled in an international conspiracy? what if he takes out a foreign ambassador, setting off a domino effect that leads to the fall of civilization? and then what if his dad blames me for it and garrotes me in my sleep? i can handle inadvertently causing world war 3 but i don't wanna DIE thermo

anyway the 11th place team in my random yahoo money league just got 17 RBIs from 6 hitters and i want to fucking die

I managed to land Semien for Franmil Reyes and Skubal in my AL only league.
I’m pretty sure it was a rad deal, but now I’m stoned and second guessing myself.

that is good in redraft at least, as skubes is going to start getting load managed

dumbest thing i did this year was drop semien in april after his bad start, absolutely insane move in retrospect

He had a pretty rough 2020, so I wouldn’t blame you.

And ya - it’s a redraft. Don’t think I could cope with two keeper leagues!

I managed to pick up Eloy when they announced he would be starting rehab! And my OF was already stacked, so Reyes seemed like an easy choice to shop. The AL only format can be really tough, I lost Madrigal and there were no playable options for middle infield, so I’d been running Torres and Polanco out there every day.

What is the german word when you are 1-9 on Saturday am and finish 10-0 on Sunday night in a H2H league? Cuz that happened to me last week lol.

Einsundneunamsamstagmorgenundendezehnundnullamsonntagabend

family league has apparently reached the point of insanity with people desperately trying to hold onto relevance, have recently picked up gallo, fletcher and crawford off waivers. softens the blow of losing acuna a bit. also just traded walsh/mccullers/blackmon for matt olson which hopefully won't blow up in my face like most trades i make

what you're saying is, i should be dumping my Matt Olsen stocks? (that's a lot to give up!)

it is a lot but i feel like my team is deep enough that i can start consolidating for upside... it's a shallow league and there's always solid options on waivers. i always want to pull off these 3-for-1 deals where i get the best player back but no one ever wants to bite

walsh has been dogshit for a month which sort of validates his cruddy statcast numbers (which i try not to put a lot of stock in but...), blackmon doesn't bring high enough upside for a starting role in a 4OF league, mccullers hurts but he's lost some spin without the goop and tends to get hurt a lot. i proposed trevor rogers first but he countered with mccullers

this is also a keep 3 league, not a big deal but olson might be a keeper. no way i was gonna keep any of the 3 i gave up

"these 3-for-1 deals where i get the best player back"

well fucking duh i would be getting the best player back, smh

i want to drop bellinger so bad but I'm afraid :(

oh i accepted long ago i'm not gonna do anything about it, i don't think anything good would come of it and it would just make things weirder than they already are between me and an extended family i've always had a weird relationship with. i thought maybe he stopped after the ESPN redesign because he was scared it would be more obvious. i have screenshots if i ever decide to go nuclear. and it is all logged in the transactions, just a little hard to find. i've confronted him about it privately years ago and he just played dumb. i'm really curious if he does it when he matches up with son though.

― ✖, Monday, April 26, 2021 10:06 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah. so i sent him an anonymous email last week telling him to stop and included a screenshot of the logs just to show him there's a record of it happening. and to vaguely threaten him with the possibility of sending it to the rest of the league (which i'm not gonna do). he didn't respond, and i have no real way of knowing whether he read it or not (might've gone to spam, who knows). he hadn't cheated since then but it was mostly because he didn't have an opportunity to - lots of rainouts and he started running a short bench (which i thought might've been a strategic move after reading the email, cause he always keeps a lot of possibilities on the bench, for cheating purposes). but he cheated today, moving mark canha onto an active spot after he homered.

i don't know what to do at this point. i've been in this league for i think 13 years, i've always considered it my "main" league. i've won twice, i'm almost always in the playoffs. if i were going to call him out publicly the time do it probably would've been before his teenage son joined, i don't want to be the one to tell his son that his dad cheats against him at fantasy baseball. fantasy baseball in general doesn't seem like a big enough deal to start a whole *thing* about. maybe this is why my other family members (my cousin and his FIL) quit.