Fahntasy Baseball

[Matthew_S]

Yahoo doesn't seem to be "counting" Sunday's Phillies/Braves game.

What did I tell you about Yahoo? It's Sportsline or nothing, baby.

Pre-draft, with only six players, I am in sixth place

Rank   Team   Batting   Pitching   Total   Dif   Behind
1   LanceLott Knights   33.5   33.5   67.0   67.0   0.0
2   WhiteSide Walls   36.0   29.5   65.5   65.5   1.5
3   Monty Zoomers   32.5   31.0   63.5   63.5   3.5
3   Jere Manders   34.0   29.5   63.5   63.5   3.5
5   PezziMystics   26.5   29.5   56.0   56.0   11.0
6   Dugger Sluggers   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
6   Vinson Van Goghs   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
8   Tally Whackers   19.5   29.5   49.0   49.0   18.0
9   Ford Foundation   33.0   14.0   47.0   47.0   20.0
10   Ande Griffiths   20.5   24.5   45.0   45.0   22.0
11   Whooping Hoffs   20.0   16.0   36.0   36.0   31.0
12   Horsey Flies           15.5   16.0   31.5   31.5   35.5

Our live draft is Saturday in Nashville. It normally takes about 10 hours. It's like Christmas day to me.

We are NL only, and can retain up to 15 players from the previous year. I currently have Cody Ross, Lastings Milledge, Chris Ianetta, Heath Bell, Jon Rauch, and (the cryptkeeper) Jamie Moyer. The best player available (according to my evaluations system anyway,) is Hanley Ramirez. He's worth $19, when the entire 23-player team budget is only $65.

We're using ESPN and so far, no major compaints (right?).  The online auction went pretty smoothly and much more quickly than live auctions I've done.

Are these details true?  15 keepers for a 23 players team (and only $65 bucks total?)

I'm very curious about this league...

[dave from knoxville]

Yahoo doesn't seem to be "counting" Sunday's Phillies/Braves game.

What did I tell you about Yahoo? It's Sportsline or nothing, baby.

Pre-draft, with only six players, I am in sixth place

Rank   Team   Batting   Pitching   Total   Dif   Behind
1   LanceLott Knights   33.5   33.5   67.0   67.0   0.0
2   WhiteSide Walls   36.0   29.5   65.5   65.5   1.5
3   Monty Zoomers   32.5   31.0   63.5   63.5   3.5
3   Jere Manders   34.0   29.5   63.5   63.5   3.5
5   PezziMystics   26.5   29.5   56.0   56.0   11.0
6   Dugger Sluggers   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
6   Vinson Van Goghs   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
8   Tally Whackers   19.5   29.5   49.0   49.0   18.0
9   Ford Foundation   33.0   14.0   47.0   47.0   20.0
10   Ande Griffiths   20.5   24.5   45.0   45.0   22.0
11   Whooping Hoffs   20.0   16.0   36.0   36.0   31.0
12   Horsey Flies           15.5   16.0   31.5   31.5   35.5

Our live draft is Saturday in Nashville. It normally takes about 10 hours. It's like Christmas day to me.

We are NL only, and can retain up to 15 players from the previous year. I currently have Cody Ross, Lastings Milledge, Chris Ianetta, Heath Bell, Jon Rauch, and (the cryptkeeper) Jamie Moyer. The best player available (according to my evaluations system anyway,) is Hanley Ramirez. He's worth $19, when the entire 23-player team budget is only $65.

We're using ESPN and so far, no major compaints (right?).  The online auction went pretty smoothly and much more quickly than live auctions I've done.

Are these details true?  15 keepers for a 23 players team (and only $65 bucks total?)

I'm very curious about this league...

I could talk about it forever! We use the original Rotisserie rules, that require

a) all players from one league

b) 23 players for NL teams

c) $260 total team bankroll (but some of us couldn't swing that every year, being teachers, damn it to hell, so we cut it down to 65 quarters)

The first year, we did it by hand! Took about 6-7 hours each to figure the stats for ONE OTHER TEAM. Then we hired a service that provided weekly summaries. Switched to Internet based service, with instant updating in 2001.

We are 12 teams; 9 teams have the original owners from 24 years ago. 7 owners have attended every minute of every draft. I am one of those proud owners.

[jbissell]

I could talk about it forever! We use the original Rotisserie rules, that require

a) all players from one league

b) 23 players for NL teams

c) $260 total team bankroll (but some of us couldn't swing that every year, being teachers, damn it to hell, so we cut it down to 65 quarters)

The first year, we did it by hand! Took about 6-7 hours each to figure the stats for ONE OTHER TEAM. Then we hired a service that provided weekly summaries. Switched to Internet based service, with instant updating in 2001.

We are 12 teams; 9 teams have the original owners from 24 years ago. 7 owners have attended every minute of every draft. I am one of those proud owners.

Man, I'm so jealous of your league.  The longest I could get any of my friends to commit to something like that was 2 seasons.

[Gilly]

Yeah, that's pretty awesome. My keeper league has been together for 8 years missing one original because he couldn't play anymore since he took a job with the Red Sox. Every year I think we're going to lose somebody and it's all going to fall apart but we're still going strong.

[ben]

Yahoo doesn't seem to be "counting" Sunday's Phillies/Braves game.

What did I tell you about Yahoo? It's Sportsline or nothing, baby.

Pre-draft, with only six players, I am in sixth place

Rank   Team   Batting   Pitching   Total   Dif   Behind
1   LanceLott Knights   33.5   33.5   67.0   67.0   0.0
2   WhiteSide Walls   36.0   29.5   65.5   65.5   1.5
3   Monty Zoomers   32.5   31.0   63.5   63.5   3.5
3   Jere Manders   34.0   29.5   63.5   63.5   3.5
5   PezziMystics   26.5   29.5   56.0   56.0   11.0
6   Dugger Sluggers   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
6   Vinson Van Goghs   20.5   29.5   50.0   50.0   17.0
8   Tally Whackers   19.5   29.5   49.0   49.0   18.0
9   Ford Foundation   33.0   14.0   47.0   47.0   20.0
10   Ande Griffiths   20.5   24.5   45.0   45.0   22.0
11   Whooping Hoffs   20.0   16.0   36.0   36.0   31.0
12   Horsey Flies           15.5   16.0   31.5   31.5   35.5

Our live draft is Saturday in Nashville. It normally takes about 10 hours. It's like Christmas day to me.

We are NL only, and can retain up to 15 players from the previous year. I currently have Cody Ross, Lastings Milledge, Chris Ianetta, Heath Bell, Jon Rauch, and (the cryptkeeper) Jamie Moyer. The best player available (according to my evaluations system anyway,) is Hanley Ramirez. He's worth $19, when the entire 23-player team budget is only $65.

I have Lastings Milledge too, from the auction league - I have only seen him play maybe one televised games over the past couple years, do you think he is going to turn it around?  My team stinks, and I need help.

[dave from knoxville]

I only kept Lastings because I had him for a quarter (with a 23-man team max of $65), so if he steals 10 bases, that's a bargain.

I have a team now; I fired out on all cylinders on draft day, taking 5 of the first 8 auctioned players (Alfonso Soriano, Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Francisco Rodriguez, and Brandon Webb.) Now Webb's on the DL, and worse, his coach has given him an enthusiastic vote of confidence.

Here's my team

Vinson Van Goghs    Loading ...  Schedule · Matchups · Yesterday · Last 7 Days · Last 14 Days · YTD Stats
Active Batters   MLB   4/14   4/15   4/16   4/17   4/18   4/19   4/20   Salary   Contract   Own %   Start %   Status   Pos
Castro, Ramon A. C NYM   A      SD   SD   MIL   MIL   MIL      .25   A   1   1      
Iannetta, Chris C COL    A      @CHC      @LA   @LA   @LA   @ARI   .25   B   96   82      
Gonzalez, Adrian 1B SD    A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   9.75   A   99   95      
Uribe, Juan 2B SF   A      @LA   @LA   ARI   ARI   ARI      .25   A   1   0      
Dobbs, Greg 3B PHI   A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   .25   A   1   0      
Ramirez, Hanley SS FLA    A   @ATL   @ATL   @ATL   @WAS   @WAS   @WAS   @PIT   10.75   A   100   95      
Renteria, Edgar SS SF    A      @LA   @LA   ARI   ARI   ARI      2.00   A   41   18      
Feliz, Pedro 3B PHI    A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   .75   A   9   4      
Hinske, Eric RF PIT   A      HOU   HOU   ATL   ATL   ATL   FLA   .25   A   3   1      
Johnson, Reed CF CHC   A      COL   STL   STL   STL   STL      .75   A   2   1      
Milledge, Lastings CF WAS    A      PHI   PHI   FLA   FLA   FLA   ATL   1.00   O   58   18      
Ross, Cody CF FLA    A   @ATL   @ATL   @ATL   @WAS   @WAS   @WAS   @PIT   1.50   B   20   5      
Soriano, Alfonso LF CHC    A      COL   STL   STL   STL   STL      10.50   A   100   98      
Hall, Bill 3B MIL   A   CIN   CIN      @NYM   @NYM   @NYM      1.00   A   11   4      
Active Pitchers   MLB   4/14   4/15   4/16   4/17   4/18   4/19   4/20   Salary   Contract   Own %   Start %   Status   Pos
Bell, Heath RP SD    A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   .25   B   78   65      
Martis, Shairon SP WAS    A      PHI   PHI   FLA   FLA   FLA   ATL   2.50   A   4   1      
McDonald, James RP LA    A      SF   SF   COL   COL   COL      .25   A   12   4      
Moyer, Jamie SP PHI   A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   2.50   B   37   29      
Owings, Micah SP CIN    A   @MIL   @MIL      @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   .25   A   28   8      
Rauch, Jon RP ARI   A   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   .25   O   6   4      
Rodriguez, Francisco J. RP NYM    A      SD   SD   MIL   MIL   MIL      10.50   A   97   96      
Wade, Cory RP LA   A      SF   SF   COL   COL   COL      1.00   A   2   1      
Webb, Brandon SP ARI    DL   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   9.50   A   76   21      

I bet that formatting's going to suck.

Here's the best team, probably.

Hernandez, Ramon C CIN    A   @MIL   @MIL      @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   2.25   A   55   40      
McCann, Brian C ATL    A   FLA   FLA   FLA   @PIT   @PIT   @PIT   @WAS   5.75   A   100   95      
Clark, Tony 1B ARI   A   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   .25   A   1   0      
Utley, Chase 2B PHI    A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   9.25   O   100   98      
Stewart, Ian 3B COL    A      @CHC      @LA   @LA   @LA   @ARI   2.50   B   54   17      
Reyes, Jose B. SS NYM    A      SD   SD   MIL   MIL   MIL      10.50   A   100   98      
Tulowitzki, Troy SS COL    A      @CHC      @LA   @LA   @LA   @ARI   .50   O   99   94      
Glaus, Troy 3B STL    DL   @ARI   @ARI   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC      .25   A   10   1      
Braun, Ryan J. LF MIL   A   CIN   CIN      @NYM   @NYM   @NYM      2.50   O   100   98      
Cameron, Mike CF MIL    A   CIN   CIN      @NYM   @NYM   @NYM      3.00   B   49   29      
Gerut, Jody CF SD   A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   1.00   A   6   2      
Giles, Brian RF SD    A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   2.75   A   31   11      
Ludwick, Ryan RF STL    A   @ARI   @ARI   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC      1.00   B   99   97      
Moss, Brandon LF PIT   A      HOU   HOU   ATL   ATL   ATL   FLA   .25   A   3   1      
Active Pitchers   MLB   4/14   4/15   4/16   4/17   4/18   4/19   4/20   Salary   Contract   Own %   Start %   Status   Pos
Bush, Dave SP MIL    A   CIN   CIN      @NYM   @NYM   @NYM      3.00   A   30   9      
Jimenez, Ubaldo SP COL   A      @CHC      @LA   @LA   @LA   @ARI   .50   B   94   85      
Lilly, Ted SP CHC    A      COL   STL   STL   STL   STL      2.00   O   96   89      
Motte, Jason RP STL    A   @ARI   @ARI   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC   @CHC      3.00   A   51   25      
Myers, Brett SP PHI    A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   2.50   B   96   71      
Park, Chan Ho SP PHI    A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   .25   A   9   4      
Rodriguez, Wandy SP HOU    A      @PIT   @PIT   CIN   CIN   CIN   CIN   1.00   B   69   35      
Scherzer, Max SP ARI    DL   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   2.50   B   68   36      
Valverde, Jose RP HOU    A      @PIT   @PIT   CIN   CIN   CIN   CIN   8.25   B   93   86      

I feel like I am close.

[jbissell]

If your league counts great plays in the outfield, Reed Johnson is a bargin.

[nec13]

Here's my team

Vinson Van Goghs    Loading ...  Schedule · Matchups · Yesterday · Last 7 Days · Last 14 Days · YTD Stats
Active Batters   MLB   4/14   4/15   4/16   4/17   4/18   4/19   4/20   Salary   Contract   Own %   Start %   Status   Pos
Castro, Ramon A. C NYM   A      SD   SD   MIL   MIL   MIL      .25   A   1   1      
Iannetta, Chris C COL    A      @CHC      @LA   @LA   @LA   @ARI   .25   B   96   82      
Gonzalez, Adrian 1B SD    A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   9.75   A   99   95      
Uribe, Juan 2B SF   A      @LA   @LA   ARI   ARI   ARI      .25   A   1   0      
Dobbs, Greg 3B PHI   A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   .25   A   1   0      
Ramirez, Hanley SS FLA    A   @ATL   @ATL   @ATL   @WAS   @WAS   @WAS   @PIT   10.75   A   100   95      
Renteria, Edgar SS SF    A      @LA   @LA   ARI   ARI   ARI      2.00   A   41   18      
Feliz, Pedro 3B PHI    A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   .75   A   9   4      
Hinske, Eric RF PIT   A      HOU   HOU   ATL   ATL   ATL   FLA   .25   A   3   1      
Johnson, Reed CF CHC   A      COL   STL   STL   STL   STL      .75   A   2   1      
Milledge, Lastings CF WAS    A      PHI   PHI   FLA   FLA   FLA   ATL   1.00   O   58   18      
Ross, Cody CF FLA    A   @ATL   @ATL   @ATL   @WAS   @WAS   @WAS   @PIT   1.50   B   20   5      
Soriano, Alfonso LF CHC    A      COL   STL   STL   STL   STL      10.50   A   100   98      
Hall, Bill 3B MIL   A   CIN   CIN      @NYM   @NYM   @NYM      1.00   A   11   4      
Active Pitchers   MLB   4/14   4/15   4/16   4/17   4/18   4/19   4/20   Salary   Contract   Own %   Start %   Status   Pos
Bell, Heath RP SD    A      @NYM   @NYM   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   @PHI   .25   B   78   65      
Martis, Shairon SP WAS    A      PHI   PHI   FLA   FLA   FLA   ATL   2.50   A   4   1      
McDonald, James RP LA    A      SF   SF   COL   COL   COL      .25   A   12   4      
Moyer, Jamie SP PHI   A      @WAS   @WAS   SD   SD   SD   SD   2.50   B   37   29      
Owings, Micah SP CIN    A   @MIL   @MIL      @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   @HOU   .25   A   28   8      
Rauch, Jon RP ARI   A   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   .25   O   6   4      
Rodriguez, Francisco J. RP NYM    A      SD   SD   MIL   MIL   MIL      10.50   A   97   96      
Wade, Cory RP LA   A      SF   SF   COL   COL   COL      1.00   A   2   1      
Webb, Brandon SP ARI    DL   STL   STL      @SF   @SF   @SF   COL   9.50   A   76   21      

You have a lot of good position players, Dave. I think Dobbs, Hinske, and Ross are good "under the radar" type players. Aside from Webb and K-Rod, the pitching seems to be a bit suspect, though.

[yesno]

Jiminy Christmas, my team stinks.  I'm fine with losing games because of normal suckiness:  I deliberately chose lots of Rockies, which is not really a winning strategy.  But my pitching roster can't hit the minimum number of innings half the time.  Oh well.  Next year, I'm playing for keeps.

I asked a friend to sign up and he basically put his team on autopilot on Scratchbomb's league.  Naturally, his team kicks ass.

[scratchbomb]

Jiminy Christmas, my team stinks.  I'm fine with losing games because of normal suckiness:  I deliberately chose lots of Rockies, which is not really a winning strategy.  But my pitching roster can't hit the minimum number of innings half the time.  Oh well.  Next year, I'm playing for keeps.

I asked a friend to sign up and he basically put his team on autopilot on Scratchbomb's league.  Naturally, his team kicks ass.

That's always the way. Like the guy who gets dragged to the track and hits a trifecta or something.*

*know nothing about horse racing

[dave from knoxville]

Jiminy Christmas, my team stinks.  I'm fine with losing games because of normal suckiness:  I deliberately chose lots of Rockies, which is not really a winning strategy.  But my pitching roster can't hit the minimum number of innings half the time.  Oh well.  Next year, I'm playing for keeps.

I asked a friend to sign up and he basically put his team on autopilot on Scratchbomb's league.  Naturally, his team kicks ass.

That's always the way. Like the guy who gets dragged to the track and hits a trifecta or something.*

*know nothing about horse racing

My team sucks, too, and sadly, it's mostly due just to Jamie Moyer and Micah Owings.

[scratchbomb]

Jiminy Christmas, my team stinks.  I'm fine with losing games because of normal suckiness:  I deliberately chose lots of Rockies, which is not really a winning strategy.  But my pitching roster can't hit the minimum number of innings half the time.  Oh well.  Next year, I'm playing for keeps.

I asked a friend to sign up and he basically put his team on autopilot on Scratchbomb's league.  Naturally, his team kicks ass.

That's always the way. Like the guy who gets dragged to the track and hits a trifecta or something.*

*know nothing about horse racing

My team sucks, too, and sadly, it's mostly due just to Jamie Moyer and Micah Owings.

I'm surprised Owings is struggling. Wonder how long before they turn him into an outfielder, a la Rick Ankiel.

[Matthew_S]

Anyone up for a hockey league?

I figure I don't need to bother setting up a new thread unless anyone actually is!

Feel free to PM.

[Dan B]

 I won my fantasy baseball league's season! WFMU record fair here I come.

[dave from knoxville]

Anybody up for a league with a fairly small time commitment? I need owners, and outside of ranking your players initially for the computerized draft, and checking periodically to see if you have anyone that's injured, it will not take scads of your time. Here's the note I sent to my (expired) league members.

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I am conducting a low-maintenance, classic Rotisserie scoring, all NL, draft from sorted list. I need 11 other teams. If you are interested, please send me your email as soon as possible. The draft will be generated next Saturday morning, but I leave town for a week Tuesday night, so need to set this up before then. Let's at least pretend to keep some form of this thing going; if you really want to go low-workload, you can just use ESPN's suggested rankings. Let me know as soon as you can; would love to maintain some sort of relationship with you guys for as long as possible.

If you want in, send your primary email address to me at

gaughin@comcast.net

Your pal,

dave


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