Fahntasy Baseball

[scratchbomb]

Hello, fake baseballers. You should get an email notice about this, but I've moved the live online date from 3/16 to Sunday, 3/22 at 4:30 (Eastern). A couple of people told me the original date/time was troublesome, so I think this should allow more people to participate. If this new date/time is a problem, reply here or email and we'll see what we can do (we = me).

[jbissell]

Sunday night that would be better, but I can just pre-rank guys if I need to.

[yesno]

I pre-ranked a bunch of people (none of whom that great), but is it possible to jack up your draft?  By say, not drafting a second baseman, etc?  Or does the Yahoo Computer stop you from this?

[scratchbomb]

I pre-ranked a bunch of people (none of whom that great), but is it possible to jack up your draft?  By say, not drafting a second baseman, etc?  Or does the Yahoo Computer stop you from this?

From what I understand, if you don't draft live, the computer will pick whoever's next on your list, regardless of your team's positional needs.

[yesno]

But if I draft live, will it allow me to screw things up?  Trust me, I need to worry about this.  I am prone to end up drafting like 15 catchers or something.

[jbissell]

I pre-ranked a bunch of people (none of whom that great), but is it possible to jack up your draft?  By say, not drafting a second baseman, etc?  Or does the Yahoo Computer stop you from this?

From what I understand, if you don't draft live, the computer will pick whoever's next on your list, regardless of your team's positional needs.

While it generally does pick whoever is next on your list, I do believe it takes into account positional needs.  I've had a few auto-drafts where I had a lot of players listed above RP but it drafted the RP ahead of higher-ranked players at other positions to fulfill the roster requirements.  You're definitely always better off doing the live draft if possible.

[scratchbomb]

But if I draft live, will it allow me to screw things up?  Trust me, I need to worry about this.  I am prone to end up drafting like 15 catchers or something.

That's liable to happen to anybody. I always wind up getting like one too many of one position out of panic or oversight during the draft.

I wouldn't sweat it too much; you can always drop guys later and pick up free agents, or work out a trade with somebody who'd in the same boat as you.

[mrCoffea]

if the expos don't exist, baseball doesn't exist

[ben]

i'm disappointed i missed out on this.  if i started a secondary/junior/american league would anyone be interested?  i am a fan of baseball and have not played fantasy baseball before, but when i played fantasy hockey it was fun.

[scratchbomb]

i'm disappointed i missed out on this.  if i started a secondary/junior/american league would anyone be interested?  i am a fan of baseball and have not played fantasy baseball before, but when i played fantasy hockey it was fun.

ben: I had someone drop out, so I have another slot if you're interested. see page one and follow the instrux.

[ben]

i'm disappointed i missed out on this.  if i started a secondary/junior/american league would anyone be interested?  i am a fan of baseball and have not played fantasy baseball before, but when i played fantasy hockey it was fun.

ben: I had someone drop out, so I have another slot if you're interested. see page one and follow the instrux.

thanks, i registered my team! 

[scratchbomb]

Thanks to everybody who joined and drafted. Not much to do between now and the start of the season (4/6), but let me know if have any questions.

[nec13]

I completely forgot that the draft was tonight. It looks like I got a good team from the auto-draft.

[yesno]

I didn't get a great team, but I did get a team of players I wanted.  We'll see!

[Matthew_S]

Is there enough interest here for another league??

I'm curious to try out ESPN's live auction draft format -- anybody (else) interested?