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At the start of May, my team was 90 points behind the leader, I'm now 22 points back.

Most of my top draft picks were injured or were just awful, my offense was a AAA-level bad joke outside of about two players, and most of my keepers got off to slow starts.

I tried to swing a couple of trades, but nothing worked out, in part because some of the players I wanted to offer got injured.

I'm not sure if my team is regressing to the norm after a bad start or playing way over their heads, but either way, it's been fun.

Y'all I just got back from 8 days truly off the grid (zero wifi/cell service) and somehow I'm in 2nd place. WTF is even happening...

homers hit during the HR derby should count

Anyone interested in a non-keeper trade? I need RP help and have a surplus of OF:

Castellanos or Santander for a top 100 RP
Eloy for a top 200 RP
JDM (DH) for a top 50 RP

Seems to be a glut of quality OF right now. Was trying to unload Lowe in my other league - but everyone seems to already be at one-outfielder-too-many already.

Our league YTD ranks:

JDM: 37
Castellanos: 42
Santander: 54
Eloy: 390 (but was hurt for a couple months, he's as good as or better than the others)

These guys are all first pagers in league leader cats.

Lowe is #92 in comparison.

There's been a great dogfight at the top of the standings for the last few weeks, but it's turning into a runaway now.

I can fool myself into thinking my team could have contended if their first month hadn't been so awful. But that's not realistic, Mourning Alonso and Billy Childish Bambino are just too good.

obviously i am hesitant to declare anyone running away with things again; i can say for sure we have our team name of the year in "Satanic Frelick in the Attic"

i wouldn't call it a runaway yet, i managed to put up that lead over the course of like a week or two and my team is playing out of their minds -- if they start doing the opposite, i could lose all of those just as easily (and september is always weird)

plus BCB cleverly left themselves a way to make up some points...

😬

Yes, this has gotten interesting again.

think Alonso is safe. Corbin has maxed out 4/7 lineup slots AND innings.

The above statement by Therm is 100% untrue.

Corbin has not maxed out any cats but is projected to max out.

The month of September (esp. these last 2 weeks) is always a uh... fun time trying to calculate who gets shut down for the playoffs, shutdown due to lack of playoffs, rotations start to get tweaked to dovetail into playoffs/byes, 40 man roster call-ups taking up regulars positions so that front office can give them a look while they're getting their cup of coffee, &c. &c.

Ah my bad! Pitching will probably be ok, but does mean sitting random dudes here and there or leaving slots empty. Basically 3 games at UTL (for example) that otherwise could have had a dude slotted in there. So counting stats will be a bit suppressed.

Also: I will be away in Germany for the next three weeks, so if there is any fantasy emergencies I might be slow to react.
Will my absence even be noticeable from me team? Not likely.

Congrats Will - you did it!
Between Acuna and the Franco deal, it was one for the books!

Congratulations Will on a great season! Like any of us had a chance against a team with Betts AND Acuna.

I'm happy with my fourth place finish considering my team's horrible start and the injuries to most of my top draft picks. OF and C were a mess all season long, I need to fix that in the draft next year.

After what happened to Manoah - I’m still not dissuaded from the idea that there is some kind of curse on my pitching.

I tried some late season heroics to take Will down but his GLORP was just insurmountable, well done!

Congrats will! I enjoyed my run at the top for awhile but in the end, some of my hot streak players who kept me afloat faded away and a couple of injuries did the rest, not that anyone would overcome the acuna/betts duo.

I guess however for the first time in a few seasons, I'm thoroughly happy with my potential keepers entering next season.

Whew thanks all! Burnesen and bambino really had me sweating at the end, almost as much as my average era of like 9 for most of September did. Now I can finally just... Stop sweating

I'll do a final update on the keeper sheet later today!

congratulations! a dominant performance

frustrating season for me, my offense was pretty great all year but just couldn't get any reliable pitching rotation going. and then the franco trade lol. SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME. whatcha gonna do though.

i have a mere eight players remaining from draft day. six of them are possible keepers.

i was happy with my Freeman trade but it was too late to make a difference. i got wrecked by the early ERA troubles and later OBP troubles, and tried to balance semi-punting saves + holds with going all in with other categories. didn't quite work.

the annual top 10 hitters of the fantasy season

Ronald Acuña Jr.
Freddie Freeman
Matt Olson
Mookie Betts
Shohei Ohtani
Juan Soto
Kyle Tucker
Corey Seager
Corbin Carroll
Marcus Semien

And the top 10 pitchers

Gerrit Cole
Zach Eflin
Spencer Strider
George Kirby
Logan Webb
Zac Gallen
Zack Wheeler
Justin Steele
Kyle Bradish
Luis Castillo

an all-Zachary staff might have taken the chip

How good was Will's team?

I had top #3,6,7 hitters and top #1 & 3 pitchers and he still beat me by something like 10 points. That's kind of unreal in a 13T roto.

i was very fortunate to grab Eflin when i did, what a season that dude had. i'm kinda surprised he was sitting there most of the season, but it was a weird one for pitchers. there weren't a lot of guys who were across-the-board great for the full season, except for Cole.

Hey y'all, Votto No Get Enemy's gonna cut out this year. If it wasn't obvious by my complete lack of engagement, my interest in FBB plummeted to zero last season. Thanks for letting me play along these past few years!

we'll miss you! i hope this means you've also been able to extricate yourself from that truly nightmarish other glorping fantasy league with the family. it was bad enough that i retold your stories to some of the guys in my other league!

also, apparently, this was a lie:

I'll do a final update on the keeper sheet later today!

― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Monday, October 2, 2023 1:46 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

but i was able to do it today.
see here

lemme know if there are any issues! (or wait until next season's thread, when most of you will bother looking at it lol)

godspeed ✖

thanks will

Sorry to hear. I might have to refresh my memory on the other glorping fantasy thread.

I guess will see if any posters are interested in taking over Votto…

the keepers on Votto are p.great! Grayson/Vlad/Oneil, Sandy/Seager/Murphy

ya, some good options there for sure

compared to my rebuilding-a$$ at least

Is there a policy on how are abandoned teams are handled if no takers on adopting it? All players straight back to the draft or is there another way of redistributing?

Also, how do we get gyac to discover and relish the great American pastime of yahoo! Fantasy Baseball?

All players just go back into the draft pool. Any keepers not drafted are shot.

When is the deadline for keeper commitments? I have a potential odd man out situation...

we're not even close. i'll figure it out when i start the new thread in a couple weeks.
deadline was March 19 last year, so expect something close to that.

Thank you Thermo.

for other bookmark-users who forget to check boards on account of all of the bookmarks: new thread