YOUR OTHER GLORPING FANTASY LEAGUES!!!

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.

6 days to go and am back ahead again by a single point (was in second for a couple days).

things that could go right (all long shots): I gain 2 nsb on the 2nd place team and gain another 2 points on the lead. Gain 7 RBI on 2nd place team for 2 points.

Things that could go wrong (all very possible): 2nd place team gains three holds and overtakes me, moving into 1st. Another team overtakes me in era (difference of 0.05 right now) costing me a point. Another team gains three wins on me costing me a point.

I’ve already stacked my team with set-up guys. Might drop my last closer for another in a few days. Might also drop my lone bench bat for a speedier dude. I can’t really stream starters because it’s too risky for my ERA, but as long as I maintain my staff I should be ok.
Last season I lost the lead on the last day of baseball and I plan on being totally strung out until Sunday keeping an eye on everything!

Ugh. He could also gain 4 points just by improving his avg by 4 points! Tough to control over one week, but another thing that could go totally wrong for me!

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may look like a commanding lead but it sure doesn't feel like one. especially when my opponent only needs a tie to win and is willing to cheat at every opportunity. my entire offense has suddenly died, either hurt (starling, belt) or just completely stopped producing (bogaerts, dalbec, olson, yordan, tucker). i only have 2 adds left and i can't waste them on a hitter. my opponent's entire pitching staff seems to be having another start today or tomorrow, where all of mine have their starts hypothetically scheduled for the weekend - most if not all will have their starts cancelled or shortened. not feeling great!

lol

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my team has 3 RBIs, 6 runs and 0 HR in the past 3 days

Still pulled off a tie tho!

He has the tie breaker on account of cheating his way to the 1 seed. He also has 4 days to sneak past me in HR/RBI

oh that's the cheater :/

i'm down to just a 0.5 point lead in my other league. on the plus side, i'm only 3 RBIs behind the second place threat after last night and he's maxed out SS and 3B. if i can overtake him there i should be golden... i might even take on an extra catcher just to get as many rbi opportunities possible over the last three games.

well he decided to get 7 HRs and 11 RBIs today, which is 7 HRs and 11 RBIs more than i got. i don't think i've ever seen a other shoe drop so powerfully

Dude had an unholy day at the plate yesterday and jumped two points into a tie for first place with me.
I can take first if his average drops or if I get a few more RBIs or SB than him. But I can lose if he gets so much as one hold while hanging onto his other stats. Today is going to be nuts!

i had pretty much no chance of winning unless i had a really good offense day and he didn't...but 5 of my hitters are benched today while every last one of his is starting

Not like it matters who starts or not anyways.

he actually hasn't cheated against me at all, though i think that's more because he hasn't had a good chance to

realizing i actually have a pathway to win via pitching... i have 4 starts today vs his 1 (he was out of adds), and his 1 (morton) is hopefully on a pitch limit. unfortunately i decided to stream reiver sanmartin, who is sucking but has a cool name
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of course my pitchers just gave up 2 runs.... and of course if his morton gives up anything he's going straight to the bench

Home runs from Vlad, Roberts and Polanco already. Leapfrogged dude in rbis - I think this league is mine!

And take screen grabs!

congrats on (probably) winning!

unfortunately i am pretty screwed, reiver sanmartin is the least of my worries and i'm now running a 4.50 ERA. going to need to get a W from logan webb and somehow make up 4 runs, which just isn't gonna happen today

I maybe have spoken too soon. Still ahead but he caught me in Sb and might pull even in holds shortly

that's why i constantly assume the worst.... you're messing with forces.....

logan webb has 4 more innings in him but the giants are doing too good they're certainly gonna take him out. hopefully reiver sanmartin can continue saving my life for a few more pitches

Indeed. Forces be messing with me now.

If I hadn’t said it before - this is the league I lost on the last day last year.

you gotta find a god to pray to

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i've squeaked however briefly. reiver is still pitching which is terrifying me. who knows if webb will come back out. of course the thing that's actually going to happen is giovanny gallegos is going to come in and give up 12 runs in .1 IP

You’re on top there I assume?

yup... of course now AVG is starting to come into play, as i'm hitting .143 to his .387

webb is batting, have a very bad feeling they're gonna keep him in until it's a tiny bit too late

and he gives up 2 singles lol

lmao why are you doing this to me gabe kapler....you have won the game.......it's over............

that one run (so far) lost me ERA.... now i have to pray for aroldis chapman to blow up or something

from the bottom of my heart fuck gabe kapler you dumb idiot

Let us all pray Chapman blows up.

it's gonna need to be that or estevez in colorado... or barlow in texas but they're losing big. those 3 runs just killed me.

if one of them does blow up and they find themselves on his bench though...........................

and they aren't even bringing in estevez... forgot he has mychal givens so it all comes down to him

givens gives up 2... he's still beating me 3.986 to 4.009

oh i'm a dummy, they didn't bring in estevez because it isn't the 9th.... i'm going crazy

and they just blew the save opp for estevez... though as an o's fan i can't complain if the dbacks win here

championship now hinges on carlos estevez getting fucked up

HOLY SHIT?????/

let's see if this sticks lol

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I have taken it!

One less RBI today and it would have been a tie. We wound up tied in NSB and holds!

hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!

(barring last minute scoring changes™)

Nice!!!

I’m sure if others were as amazing as, they’d be here too!

You sure dude isn’t going to try and cheat you (literally) out of your victory?

if he does i'm saying something about it, i really need the money right now

hell yeah! the two ilxors who haven't removed their bookmarks from this thread won their leagues!

― ✖, Sunday, October 3, 2021 7:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

oh i have not removed my bookmark, my other glorping league has just been such a boring bummer it hasn't been worth mentioning. but i'll give my season recap!

we have pitching staffs in this league instead of individual pitchers, which works well enough -- the team's collective pitching result scores them 0-27 points a day (technically like 30+ is possible but that's like a 15k perfect game). players score for all of the regular stuff, no minuses for strikeouts. also worth mentioning -- we have a "minors" system, where you can get not-yet-mlb-players during a second draft around the irl mlb draft, slot them in one of your six minor slots, and once you call them up, you "start a timer" on them. see, our keepers cost whatever round they're "ranked" at per fantasypros, but there are a bunch of ways to get discounts, the main one being your minors callups, who are at a 5/3/3 round discount in their first second and third years. we have 4 keepers (5 next year), so it's definitely worth getting minors guys in the pipeline. we had a guy with trea, acuna, and a couple of others all in rounds like 4-6 for years.

went into the season looking at a bit of a rebuilding year -- have a strong core of keepers -- devers, eloy, mountcastle on 3, 5, 5 rd discounts, olson at sticker price minus one, and a bunch of minors players ready to get called up -- lux, wander, rodgers. started the season EXTREMELY strong due to a bunch of my picks firing on all cylinders -- my first round pick of the padres pitching looked fantastic, jd martinez was raking, mondesi was raking when he played, chris taylor inexplicably solid -- so my gameplan was kind of out the window. i was in first place by the ASB despite having a middling overall score (5th or 6th out of 10, but my matchups had just been exceedingly lucky). my plan to sell at the deadline now made no sense, but buying in didn't feel right either, so i just kinda coasted. of course, when the sticky scandal ended in the sticky ban, the padres turned into dogshit and i started losing. failed my way into the playoffs, got beat in the first round, and our finals were... well, actually i need to go backwards again for a second.

so one of our managers quit midseason. he was in the league 5 years, but wasn't really enjoying it the past year or so, and this year after going like 10-2 in the first six weeks and 2-10 in the next six, quit. we had an "interim" guy step to the plate just to make sure the team was starting healthy players etc, although he wasn'tsure if he wanted to be a permanent manager going forward. the reason i bring this up is because the finals were that guy, and the commish who has won 3 of the past 10 years (he's no cheater like ✖'s commish, although he is definitely an absolute trade beast who knows when people are weak enough to make a bad trade). def not the finals i wanted to see! (obv i wanted to see me, or if not me, there are two other teams who had dominant seasons and have never won a pennant -- they both fell in the semis). the new guy won!

what gets funnier is that the old manager was like "oh cool, so we'll split the winnings?" and the commish was like "wtf you quit" and the new manager was like "uhh yeah ok i guess" and the commish was like "don't be soft!! you don't owe him anything!!" and it was a very minor scandal i guess. new manager ended up giving old manager back his buy-in at a charity event, and gave his entire winnings to the charity. no word on whether or not the old manager also donated his entry fee, i hope he did.

that's the whole story! i don't have advantageous draft picks next season yet, but i do have an overwhelming number of discount keepers that i might flip some of -- rodgers -5, wander -5, lux -5, devers -3, eloy -3, mountcastle -3, hiura -3, jp crawford -3... and adell, madrigal, marcelo mayer, elijah green and andruw jones jr (!) in the minors ready to call up when i have the room. almost certainly this coming season i will have to pull the trigger and really go for it, and the pipeline means my window is probably a few years.

(btw im not saying the sticky ban is why the padres tanked, but the timing more or less lined up with them going from Best Pitching In League to uhh in my league *checks stats* 22nd best)

Your league sounds very complicated!