YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

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.

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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.

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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.

Burn it all down.

easy for you to say! i'll probably just quit (again)

You are denying yourself an fantastic cathartic opportunity.

anyone else getting their asses beat this playoff season

thought i was a genius streaming tyler wells in a doubleheader and he decided to give up 4 runs, which makes it my second 4+-run reliever appearance this week. that plus ryu/rogers/framber the past 2 days balooned my previously good ERA/WHIP to 5.83/1.45. i'm still somehow beating the other guy but i'm still getting my ass kicked. it isn't sustainable. i had 1 home run until last night.

also my cheating LM (facing the other seed this week thankfully) did his most obvious cheat yet - moved ohtani (pitcher)'s bad start to the bench and moved ohtani (hitter)'s home run to the active lineup. it's ESPN so you can't have both active at the same time. is anyone supposed to believe he benched an ohtani start in the playoffs? i know it's the astros but come on

My other league, I am neck and neck with the guy who’s been in first for half the season. Overtook him for one full day a couple days ago before dropping a few points. All my guys are healthy - and I’m about to get Giolitto back. I like my odds. I am hopefully overtaking him in sb and holds today.

i'm getting gio back too so i apologize in advance for my awful pitching luck also tanking your team

my 2 playoff teams are combined 11/67 with 3 runs and 3 RBI. not feeling good.

annoying thing is my cheating LM instituted a rule years ago limiting teams to 5 adds per week in the playoffs, in response to me winning the league 2 years in a row in part because there was no rule or limit against streaming a crazy amount of starting pitchers at any time, which is how the league always functioned because he personally likes to stream pitchers without limits. i had already made a post in the league requesting a limit because i didn't like how every year turned into a stupid race to see who could stream the most pitchers, which he completely ignored. he only added the limit after i won the league streaming like crazy out of spite. he then had the audacity to tell my father that he had to institute a limit to prevent me from abusing the system again, and that i'm probably really angry about it. when i'm the one who was pushing for the limit in the first place.

anyway he instituted it in the dumbest way possible, by making a straight up add/drop limit instead of a GS/IP limit, or just limiting pitcher streams. it basically freezes all position player add/drops in the playoffs because everyone needs to use their precious 5 changes on pitchers. i would like to be able to drop the ice cold josh donaldson for any number of super hot hitters on waivers right now but i gotta save that so i can stream cole irvin on friday. i hate this league.

oh i also hate my extended family, that's probably more important

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i hate fantasy baseball, i really do

i'm not built for this just put me in a playpen

holy shit, after 2 weeks of LM cheating in the most obvious manner and destroying the #4 seed, the #4 seed has somehow taken the lead which i didn't even think would be possible... this is how close it is

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if he cheats his way out of this one i'm going nuclear

bear in mind that second ERA should probably be a full run higher than it is... he used LM powers to move 18 ER (4 different starts) to the bench

Are you screen capping his lineup moves and doing before/afters?

yeah, but it shouldn't come down to that... he has montas and ohtani both going (and they just got him the lead back), if one of them blows up he'll move them to his bench. and then i'll make a message board post "wtf just happened...i've been watching this matchup with a laser focus because i need to know who i'm facing next week, why did ohtani just get moved" etc

it's all in the transaction log anyway

other guy only has descla going and he just allowed a 2 run homer... oy

and ohtani's probably done.... need montas to give up some runs to uh... rengifo jose rojas max stassi.... uh oh

just made a very loud sound against that bases loaded ohtani K

I’ve managed to slide back into first again by a single point and I am going to be a mess for the next 1.5 weeks. Nowhere else for me to gain points unless I get stupid lucky with SB. I basically need to stay ahead of the guys right behind me in runs, holds, and wins. In a few more games I should be good to dump my closers for a set up guy and maybe a SB-prone outfielder.

perhaps of interest

Best fantasy baseball season ever: How Phil Dussault did it
https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2197422

That dude makes me feel like such a slacker.

i have 4 starters pitching sunday and might go berserk after that. i've been standing pat instead of streaming starters etc (i have a solid rotation) might dump 2 and my closers and add an extra hitter or two and set up guys until i'm sure i'm safe there. maybe stream a starter, but i have to be careful with my era. THIS IS GONNA BE SO CLOSE!

i'd heard about dussault and wanted to check out his rosters but everything is private on NFBC. crazy that he did it without drafting youths........

contrary to that i lost my random non-family H2H money league by being a complete dumbass. came into the sunday of round 1 in a decent lead, only really nervous about losing wins. put 2 FAAB claims in for paolo espino and logan gilbert. wasn't paying attention to how many adds my opponent had, just assumed i would be able to get one of them. didn't think to even put any money on them, just assumed i would get one. opponent scoops both of them up with $1 and $3 bids and adds JA Happ too, gets a win out of all three and beats me by one. a hundred bucks down the drain because i got cheap and refused to bid $2 FAAB on paolo espino. hubris!

i've never played that way before, where you have to bid on FAs. seems weird.

it's interesting in leagues where there's a weekly bidding period (like NFBC). in daily leagues it's much less impactful, most teams aren't putting crazy claims in based on one game or one day. it's just like waivers except you can cut the line if you want to use a little FAAB.