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Title: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 9, 2010, 09:54 PM
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Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on February 10, 2010, 08:44 AM
I'm in!
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on February 10, 2010, 02:35 PM
Signed up... amazingly, as of now I don't have any scheduling conflicts with the 24th.

I've got concert tickets for the 25th though, so if it gets moved, please don't move it there. :)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: King_Maul on February 10, 2010, 04:59 PM
Wow, that was a fast off-season.  I'm a glutton for punishment, so I'm in.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on February 10, 2010, 05:07 PM
Signed up... amazingly, as of now I don't have any scheduling conflicts with the 24th.

I've got concert tickets for the 25th though, so if it gets moved, please don't move it there. :)

I didn't realize that the draft was scheduled for a Wednesday night when I signed up.  I have a dart league I shoot in on Wednesday nights so if we could move it, it would help me out.  If not, I can make other arrangements.  I'll go with the group on this one...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on February 10, 2010, 05:12 PM
Wow, that was a fast off-season.

It's not over yet.  Wrigley's under a foot of snow. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 10, 2010, 09:51 PM
Signed up... amazingly, as of now I don't have any scheduling conflicts with the 24th.

I've got concert tickets for the 25th though, so if it gets moved, please don't move it there. :)

I didn't realize that the draft was scheduled for a Wednesday night when I signed up.  I have a dart league I shoot in on Wednesday nights so if we could move it, it would help me out.  If not, I can make other arrangements.  I'll go with the group on this one...

It's traditionally been on Wednesday night for all leagues.  I was going to go a week later, but I'll be on the road that week.  I can move it to the Tuesday (23rd) if there's no huge objections.  Should only be 8 days prior to the start of the season, so still pretty close.  

I can respect darts as long as you're drinking.  

edit: changed it to Tuesday.  Should note season starts April 4 so that's 12 days prior to the season.  Could we do the Sunday night (28th?)?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on February 11, 2010, 12:06 AM
28th shouldn't be a problem for me. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on February 11, 2010, 11:32 AM
I can respect darts as long as you're drinking.  

Heavily!

edit: changed it to Tuesday.  Should note season starts April 4 so that's 12 days prior to the season.  Could we do the Sunday night (28th?)?

No issue with Tuesday the 23rd or Sunday the 28th.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 11, 2010, 12:00 PM
Ok, 28th seems acceptable to three of us.  Dressel, OCB?  Others? 

Hoping to get 8 teams in the league or more.  Sign up folks, ya gotta start somewhere. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 11, 2010, 12:04 PM
Ok, 28th seems acceptable to three of us.  Dressel, OCB?  Others?  


Yeah man seems okay at the moment.  But if it's Sunday the 28th, can we not do it at 9:30 EST?  8 PM EST or earlier would be better.

Unless y'all want a breakfast draft.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: King_Maul on February 11, 2010, 02:37 PM
I'm fine with it.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 11, 2010, 03:23 PM
Ok, 28th seems acceptable to three of us.  Dressel, OCB?  Others?  


Yeah man seems okay at the moment.  But if it's Sunday the 28th, can we not do it at 9:30 EST?  8 PM EST or earlier would be better.

Unless y'all want a breakfast draft.

8 EST is before we even eat supper and Sunday is family supper kind of day, so that ain't going to fly in my house.  9:30 EST is workable for me. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 11, 2010, 04:47 PM
Fine I'll just draft drowsy at 10 PM so Bug can stuff his face a month from now at whatever time he chooses.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 11, 2010, 04:50 PM
If you weren't such a ***** that so desperately needed his beauty sleep, we wouldn't even be discussing this. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 11, 2010, 04:58 PM
Ha!  :D

I'm up at 5:00 AM to workout before I get to the office for an 8:30 patient.

But for you Bug, I'll draft drowsy.  Your weekly supper is very important to me.

Canadians.



Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on February 11, 2010, 06:06 PM
If it means a drowsy Dressel, I propose drafting at midnight PST.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 11, 2010, 10:28 PM
Ha!  :D

I'm up at 5:00 AM to workout before I get to the office for an 8:30 patient.

But for you Bug, I'll draft drowsy.  Your weekly supper is very important to me.

Canadians.


Get fat, it's more fun than getting out of bed in the morning. 


If you're into drafting drowsy, then I'm in with Rob's suggestion.  I can set the draft for most days during the week and any day other than Sunday or Friday (basketball practice) works for me.  I'm still completely open to the 23rd when we could do it earlier.  I just recall complaints from years previous when we draft too early.  There's also the possibility Scott or others may be involved with getting their kids ready for bed at that time, so it's a consideration too.  And Rob (and others with lives) have noted they'd prefer to not draft on Friday or Saturday night. 

Tuesday 23rd
Thursday 24th
Sunday 28th

8:30 P.M. CST - Dressel Drowsy Time
7:30 P.M. CST - Dressel Cranky Time
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 12, 2010, 05:59 AM
Well most important to me is that Bug's supper-time 6 weeks from now isn't impinged on; not being awake and alert in the AM to perform intraoral surgeries with 3-inch needles, scalpels, and a high speed drill.

Just make sure Bug is well fed, that's the priority.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 12, 2010, 09:41 AM
You neglect to note that I don't get anything from whether you jam a needle into the brain cavity of a patient or not.  That you place your personal fitness above the well being of your patients also is not my issue. 

But if you're drowsy and drafting poorly while I'm well fed then I'm not about to complain. 

On top of that I had the dentist from "Marathon Man" as a child so any opportunity to irritate, vex, harass or otherwise inconvenience one of that profession provides me with the utmost satisfaction.   :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 12, 2010, 09:48 AM
You're a professor right?  I'm going to try to get to some of your students and have them fire spitballs as you write on the chalkboard.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on February 12, 2010, 11:37 AM
Well most important to me is that Bug's supper-time 6 weeks from now isn't impinged on; not being awake and alert in the AM to perform intraoral surgeries with 3-inch needles, scalpels, and a high speed drill.

Just make sure Bug is well fed, that's the priority.

The real priorities issue isn't with the patient or the surgery, it's the draft.  Otherwise, you'd just auto-draft and be done with it.   :)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 12, 2010, 12:44 PM
None of the above Rob.   My biggest concern is Bug's suppertime.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 12, 2010, 02:09 PM
None of the above Rob.   My biggest concern is Bug's suppertime.

given where you've finished relative to me of late in any number of fantasy sports I must say I'm surprised by your generosity.   :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on February 12, 2010, 03:55 PM
We're two weeks away from any potential draft and this is already shaping up to be a GREAT season!  Can't wait to see what kind of smack-talk there is once the season starts!
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on February 12, 2010, 06:17 PM
None of the above Rob.   My biggest concern is Bug's suppertime.

given where you've finished relative to me of late in any number of fantasy sports I must say I'm surprised by your generosity.   :-*

Ha!  Let me know when you get to 6 JD championships* so I can cut back on my hospitality  :-*


*In leagues we competed in together (baseball, basketball, football) it's currently 6 championships for Dressel, 4 for Bug.

So like I said, I'll wait for you to finish your din-din.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 13, 2010, 01:58 AM
Not my fault you are scared of the other leagues.  Total wins I believe favors me.   :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on February 26, 2010, 05:53 PM
Still needing three more bodies to sign up...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on February 28, 2010, 06:51 PM
We still on for tonight?  Wasn't sure if we were going to postpone until we had enough teams...

*edit*

I just realized that the dates we've been talking about also correspond to the same days/dates in March.  When I loaded the JD page on Yahoo I realized the draft is set for March 23rd...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 9, 2010, 12:44 PM
Still needing two more bodies...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: ruiner on March 9, 2010, 01:50 PM
Hell no.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 12, 2010, 10:06 AM
I can get 1-2 more people to draft teams with us if we can pick another night other than tuesday.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 13, 2010, 12:57 AM
Kay, so help me out guys.  What night is good for everyone.  I cannot promise we will get exactly what we want, but lemme know.  Sadly I can draft most nights right now.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 13, 2010, 01:05 AM
What's wrong with the night we have right now?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 13, 2010, 04:22 AM
What's wrong with the night we have right now?


Nothing really.  I was just saying that we currently have only 6 teams.  I can get 1 or 2 friends to play, but not on Tuesday nights.

If we need my guys to get to 8 teams, we need another night other than Tuesday.

That's all.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 13, 2010, 10:46 AM
Another idea just came to me.

Can't we open up our custom league to random people joining so we can round out the rest of the league?

I remember seeing that before.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 13, 2010, 01:08 PM
I will look into it.  But I also have no problem with you inviting folks, so a night change is fine by me for the draft. 

I just don't think six teams is enough for the league.  Eight I view as a minimum and think it would be more fun were it 10 teams, but we probably won't get that. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 13, 2010, 02:58 PM
I will look into it.  But I also have no problem with you inviting folks, so a night change is fine by me for the draft.  

I just don't think six teams is enough for the league.  Eight I view as a minimum and think it would be more fun were it 10 teams, but we probably won't get that.  

Okay, maybe I can get two, and aren't we missing like JohnH and Jesse from last year too?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 13, 2010, 03:57 PM
Yeah, they have not signed up yet, so do not know if they are playing. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 15, 2010, 12:00 PM
I was poking around checking and there are lots of draft times currently accessible.  It seems Yahoo dedicates more resources to baseball, go figure. 

What times are suitable for your associates Mr. Dressel and are they suitable for others here.  Conflicts people?  27-30 March I'm not around. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 15, 2010, 12:34 PM
I was poking around checking and there are lots of draft times currently accessible.  It seems Yahoo dedicates more resources to baseball, go figure. 

What times are suitable for your associates Mr. Dressel and are they suitable for others here.  Conflicts people?  27-30 March I'm not around. 

The 1 guy I got that will definitely play (Mike) is available all nights except the Tuesday night we have scheduled - he has a bowling tournament.

If we need him to draft a team, any night but Tuesday is fine.  Let's try to get JohnH and Jesse or some other JDer in the next couple days though.  If need be, we'll move the draft to accomodate Mike.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 15, 2010, 12:37 PM
For the record, I'm still not available the evening of the 25th.  April 2nd is no good for me either.  Concerts both nights.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 15, 2010, 01:21 PM
Failing all else, we can put in a dummy team to auto-draft to get it to 8 teams.  Granted that doesn't have any impact on free agency but at least it thins the pool a little during the draft.  I'll pm Jesse and John.  Nine would be fine too. 

24/25 are out due to conflicts from boardies.  Is 22nd ok for folks?  27th? 1st?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 15, 2010, 02:09 PM
I don't have specific conflicts on those ones you just threw out, but I'd prefer it not be on a Saturday if at all possible.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: King_Maul on March 15, 2010, 02:12 PM
I'll be ok with any dates you guys pick.  With my new twin arrivals, I'm not sure any night will be good for me.  I'll probably be auto drafting or baby feed (while) drafting.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: JohnH on March 15, 2010, 02:30 PM
I'm in.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on March 15, 2010, 02:52 PM
I'm okay with every night except Wednesdays due to a dart league.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 15, 2010, 04:03 PM
I'm okay with every night except Wednesdays due to a dart league.

Yeah, you're the root of all evil this year. 

Rob, I know weekends generally are not that good for those that still have social lives of normal capacities. 

John as he indicated is in.  I pm'd Jesse as well and he's typically online later, so we should know by tonight. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 15, 2010, 04:19 PM
I'm okay with every night except Wednesdays due to a dart league.

Yeah, you're the root of all evil this year. 

Rob, I know weekends generally are not that good for those that still have social lives of normal capacities. 

John as he indicated is in.  I pm'd Jesse as well and he's typically online later, so we should know by tonight. 

Okay, if Jesse will play, we can leave the draft as is for Tuesday 23rd then.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 15, 2010, 09:48 PM
Jesse is out.  Any other JD'er wanna play ???
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 16, 2010, 01:59 PM
I'll throw a sticky'd post up in Watto's for a day or two to see if we get any hits.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 19, 2010, 12:41 PM
So....

If you guys want to draft Monday 22nd instead of Tuesday 23rd, my friend Mike will play and that will be our 8th team.

Lemme know soon.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 19, 2010, 12:50 PM
Also messaged my friend Chris to see if he can draft Mon or Tue

UPDATE:

Chris says he should be able to for tuesday.  He's JD's "malloc".  If he signs up now for Tuesday, should we still move to Monday to accomodate a 9th team (Mike)?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 19, 2010, 06:06 PM
I am ok with Monday as well.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 19, 2010, 08:10 PM
I don't think I'd have a problem with Monday.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 19, 2010, 08:23 PM
Okay, so we're basically all set then.  Not a peep from Scott much, right?  Looks like we'll have either 8 or 9 teams.

I'd say go ahead and make the switch to Monday.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 20, 2010, 02:25 AM
Draft Time changed to Monday night, March 22nd, 8:30 P.M. Central

Let me know if there are issues.  Yahoo seems to expend a lot more web resources on baseball drafts, so changing doesn't seem too difficult.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 20, 2010, 11:27 AM
Got both of my friends signed up too.

We're set for Monday night with 9 teams unless some objection comes up.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 21, 2010, 01:46 AM
Turns out I can't make it Monday, or Tuesday.  It's my fault so go ahead without me and all.  I'll have to live with the auto-draft.

Crap.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 21, 2010, 03:40 AM
Turns out I can't make it Monday, or Tuesday.  It's my fault so go ahead without me and all.  I'll have to live with the auto-draft.

Crap.

Tell Marin to go to the airport by herself, you better reign her in now because this is getting out of hand.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 21, 2010, 11:45 AM
Actually, she lives back here now... residency is over.  We've got another set of plans for tonight that I can't break that I forgot about, and tomorrow is the best friend's wife's birthday and there are reservations that I'm not going to skip out on.

Oh well.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 21, 2010, 07:14 PM
Do we want to try and move this to Thursday or are we just letting Rob suffer.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on March 21, 2010, 07:20 PM
Thursday works for me if Monday or Tuesday are out...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on March 21, 2010, 07:53 PM
All 3 work for me
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 21, 2010, 08:11 PM
Do we want to try and move this to Thursday or are we just letting Rob suffer.

The 2 guys I recruited are locked in for Monday, we had to move it to that day to sell it to them.  We may be back down to 7 teams if we move it.

Considering we were expecting to draft in 24 hours, we should probably just let Rob pre-rank his players.

Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 21, 2010, 09:57 PM
Do we want to try and move this to Thursday or are we just letting Rob suffer.

Let me suffer.  Thursday is the original day that I said I couldn't do it on because I've got these here concert tickets.

Wednesday is the only day this week that would work for me, but I seriously don't expect any favors whatsoever.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 21, 2010, 10:04 PM
Do we want to try and move this to Thursday or are we just letting Rob suffer.

Let me suffer.  Thursday is the original day that I said I couldn't do it on because I've got these here concert tickets.

Wednesday is the only day this week that would work for me, but I seriously don't expect any favors whatsoever.


I can do Wednesday, but we have this:

I'm okay with every night except Wednesdays due to a dart league.

And 1 of the 2 I recruited can't do wednesday either.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 21, 2010, 10:32 PM
Ugh, that sucks. 

I think I'll leave it at Monday only on the basis of the timing of the request.  Sorry Rob.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 22, 2010, 12:30 AM
Yeah, seriously guys, it's alright.  I'm just busy and that's sort of how it goes.  I'll spend some time tomorrow at work ranking players and hopefully I'll end up with something better than I had last year.

I most definitely don't mean to cause any headaches, and everyone should definitely proceed tomorrow night without me. 

Maybe I'll get lucky.   :)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: ruiner on March 22, 2010, 01:17 AM
If I may, it's only baseball.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 22, 2010, 02:17 AM
You may not.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: ruiner on March 22, 2010, 12:35 PM
Fair enough. 

I shall crawl back into my hole until September. 

Carry on.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 22, 2010, 12:50 PM
You may be the only person that has ever listened to me.  Weird. 

Yep, only nerdverse games but we likes 'em. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 23, 2010, 02:13 AM
Wow... not too bad I think given the auto-draft.  Not as bad as I was expecting in any event.

Brent, anyway you'd be willing to give up Zobrist or Longoria?

Given that I didn't really draft the team, I'm open to just about any fair trade offer... and those are two guys I was definitely hoping to end up with.  Apparently I didn't rank Longoria high enough, looks like I could have had him.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 23, 2010, 01:06 PM


Brent, anyway you'd be willing to give up Zobrist or Longoria?


Probably not.  Longoria I couldn't replace at 3B now with anyone realistically that would come close.  Zobrist maybe down the road, but to be honest I drafted him as my SS.  If Reyes ends up being fine then he might be available but until I'm sure of that the answer is no. 

Reyes is where I screwed myself up with the draft.  Taking him meant I had to be sure and cover him off in the draft.  Easy enough, slide Zobrist up there but then I needed a 2B so I grabbed Uggla too who I didn't really want to own.  Add in I don't at this time really love Billy Butler (my intention all along was to wait to get Cuddyer and play him at 1B) and my plan was messed up.  Had I not taken Reyes I wouldn't have needed Uggla and then I'd have grabbed Cuddyer a round earlier and then Liriano in the slot where I took Cuddyer.  Not that I think my pitching is hurting, I just wanted Liriano. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on March 23, 2010, 01:09 PM
No problem.  For the record, next to Berkman, Uggla was the thing I hated most about last year's auto-draft.

That guy killed me.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 23, 2010, 02:09 PM
Yeah, his average is brutal and no steals.  But his power numbers are ok.  I doubt I'll hang on to him if Reyes is able to play. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 23, 2010, 03:51 PM
Yeah, his average is brutal and no steals.  But his power numbers are ok.  I doubt I'll hang on to him if Reyes is able to play. 

Reyes was declared ready to return today.

We'll see if he lasts.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on March 23, 2010, 05:34 PM
Good initial news and I hope for his sake (and mine, of course) he stays healthy.  But thyroid stuff can be tricky, tempermental and scary.  If he sticks for 130+ games I am in great shape infield wise.  If he doesn't, well, I guess Zobrist moves to short and Uggla steps in to 2B. 

Any thoughts on whether Heyward will stick?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 23, 2010, 05:49 PM
Good initial news and I hope for his sake (and mine, of course) he stays healthy.  But thyroid stuff can be tricky, tempermental and scary.  If he sticks for 130+ games I am in great shape infield wise.  If he doesn't, well, I guess Zobrist moves to short and Uggla steps in to 2B. 

Any thoughts on whether Heyward will stick?

It's thought it was HGH that threw the thyroid out of whack.

If it wasn't though, I know that hyperthyroid can go neutral, then go hyper again.  Sometimes even can go hypothyroid for a while.  If his stays good, he's good.  If it keeps going hyper, you either need surgery to take a chunk off the thryoid to decrease the amount of endocrine cells that churn out hormone, or sometimes you can take radioactive iodine that the thyroid will uptake and kill some of the overactive cells.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 26, 2010, 09:11 PM
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Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on March 27, 2010, 02:35 PM
A friend from school asked me to play in a Head to Head league, which is new for me.  We need a couple other teams, if any of you want to play:

link (http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1)

League ID#: 580922
Password: baseball
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 2, 2010, 11:12 PM
Is Roid Rage a member here at JD.  I just wanted to say thanks for trading me Bartlett for Uggla (sort of). Means I can leave Zobrist down at 2B and not have to worry about Uggla's batting average.  I realize Bartlett might not duplicate last year but I'll take a 10th rounder over the 15th rounder any day.  Just in time as Reyes got slid over to the DL (albeit hopefully temporarily).
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 3, 2010, 07:46 AM
Is Roid Rage a member here at JD.  I just wanted to say thanks for trading me Bartlett for Uggla (sort of). Means I can leave Zobrist down at 2B and not have to worry about Uggla's batting average.  I realize Bartlett might not duplicate last year but I'll take a 10th rounder over the 15th rounder any day.  Just in time as Reyes got slid over to the DL (albeit hopefully temporarily).

Mike's not actually at JD, he's a local friend.

I let you have Bartlett.  In 2008 he had 1 HR in 454 AB.  Before that 5 HR in 510 AB.  His 14 HR last year were an anamoly thanks to a doubled HR/FB rate which is not going to happen again.  He'll probably hit .290 with 7 HR and 20 SB on the year with not a lot of RBI's, so you're definitely taking a hit in your power numbers bigtime by not using Uggla instead.

I think, anyhow.

But I'll pass along the thanks this weekend.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 3, 2010, 02:13 PM
Thanks.  Fantasy baseball is like mutual funds - past performance is not a guarantee of future returns.  The draft is a crapshoot and you move on from there.  I never really wanted to use Uggla and he would have been among the first players I dropped anyway, so no foul there.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 4, 2010, 08:48 PM
Let the games begin.

Brent - I had Easter dinner with Mike today and thanked him for you.  He agreed with my assessment on Bartlett about him peaking last year for sure, then he asked if the owner who picked him up was a Canadian.

Mike's practically a wizard.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 5, 2010, 01:58 PM
Thanks for passing that along to Mike, glad you guys had a nice Easter.  Bartlett or Uggla, temporary measures at best, I hope anyway. 

Awesome assumption that I'm a Canadian, I am impressed.  Of course as a Canadian each year I can barely hope to compete in fantasy baseball.  Please express my wishes to Mike that he as an American was kind and generous to me in the draft by taking only one real closer and one backup.  When Reyes comes back I'll drop one as a gift to him to repay his kindness.   :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on April 14, 2010, 11:42 AM
Well, that was a fun week on the top of the standings...  Now I can start my steady decline into the depths of being a non-factor...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on April 23, 2010, 09:49 PM
So Bronson Arroyo had his start moved up and I wasn't able to react in time to put him in the rotation tonight.  It's a good thing too, because after only 3.0 innings pitched he posted a 24.00 ERA and 3.33 WHIP.  Finally, sitting someone actually worked out in my favor for once!
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 23, 2010, 10:03 PM
I know the feeling.  Qualls put up an 81.00 ERA the other night.   :o
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 26, 2010, 02:26 PM
Is anyone else having issues editing the order of their leagues on Yahoo?  I've tried on different computers and different browsers, but I'm still getting hockey new first and foremost which is kind of a pain. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on April 26, 2010, 03:27 PM
I always just use bookmarks directly to my team pages... at the moment I only have Baseball.

It's not really the answer to your question, but it might solve your problem in a different way.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 29, 2010, 11:04 AM
I say this with as much confidence as someone can who is 47 points behind in the standings and in last place.

April was a horrific fluke for my team and if I'll either win this league, or finish top 3 at a minimum.

Current starting rotation:

Zack Greinke
Dan Haren
Justin Verlander
Jon Lester
Francisco Liriano

The only time I've seen a starting 5 like that is Rob's team that won a couple years back.  Something to the tune of Halladay, Webb, Haren, Duchscherer and someone else that slips my mind at the moment.

On the offensive front.  Slumps and power outages everywhere.  Bay.  Hanley Ramirez. Carlos Lee.  Brandon Phillips.  Combined these guys have 5 homers on the month.  This is not going to last obviously.

Most of my closers do suck however, and they blew up my ERA and WHIP.  Thinking of punting this category, so if any of you who want to compete in saves are interested in Wagner or Hoffman or whoever, make an offer.  With my starting 5, if I don't win W's, K's, WHIP, ERA I'd be shocked.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on April 29, 2010, 11:16 AM
I like 3 of my starters right now in

Carpenter
Sabathia
Garza

Slowey I'm indifferent on and I've been evaluating options and Beckett has been absolutely awful.  Beckett was my #2 and it sucks he's been so bad.    My bullpen has been more than solid though and has picked up a few Ws to make up for how bad Beckett has been.


I regret taking Kinsler at the moment, I looked at all of the HR and SB and pulled the trigger.  Not realizing a sprained ankle was going to keep him out for a month+ ::)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on April 29, 2010, 11:45 AM


The only time I've seen a starting 5 like that is Rob's team that won a couple years back.  Something to the tune of Halladay, Webb, Haren, Duchscherer and someone else that slips my mind at the moment.

Cliff Lee was the other one.  He won 22 games with a 2.54 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP, 170 K's.  Duchscherer I luckily traded at the perfect time... right before he got hurt.

My pitching this year sucks so far.  Peavy and Jackson are dreadful.  Everyone else I have is serviceable at best.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 29, 2010, 11:58 AM
Most of my closers do suck however, and they blew up my ERA and WHIP.  Thinking of punting this category, so if any of you who want to compete in saves are interested in Wagner or Hoffman or whoever, make an offer.  With my starting 5, if I don't win W's, K's, WHIP, ERA I'd be shocked.

I would be.  I think you might get me in K's, but I'll put my guys up against yours for the other categories happily. 

Halladay
Santana
Johnson
Hanson

My relievers will help my ratios more than yours will.  Qualls and Feliz suck, but that's ok.  Rauch has been a surprise too. 

I'd consider my hitters to have underperformed as well.  Zobrist, Reyes, Butler and Holliday have underperformed but I don't see that lasting much longer.  Didn't like seeing Cruz go on DL but such is life.  I'm comfortable with my team. 

Nice of you to rip off your buddy there.  Didn't the stupid Canadian say something about him needing closers?  Nah, couldn't be. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on April 29, 2010, 12:05 PM
It's like Kevin started playing again.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 29, 2010, 12:22 PM
It's like Kevin started playing again.

Wait.  Mike told me that he offered you Verlander first in exchange for Papelbon, and you rejected it.  Then he offered Verlander for Mariano Rivera, and that was rejected.

Is Mike lying?

Because it sounds like you had dibs on Verlander before I did.

And if that's true, then take your Kevin comment back.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 29, 2010, 12:25 PM


Nice of you to rip off your buddy there.  Didn't the stupid Canadian say something about him needing closers?  Nah, couldn't be. 

Mike told me that this was the sequence in which he offered Verlander:

1.  Offered to Rob for Papelbon and Rob rejected it.
2.  Offered to Scott for Mo and Scott rejected it.
3.  Offered to me for Brian Wilson and I took it.

I didn't rip anyone off, I just accepted the offer.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on April 29, 2010, 12:29 PM
I was just joking around.  Talk to Brent if you want something taken back.

I'd have done that trade but I'm short on closers.  Verlander has sucked so far this year too, so giving up Papelbon for him seemed like a very bad idea.





Anyone interested in Grady Sizemore?  He's on the block.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on April 29, 2010, 12:53 PM
Tis true...but I will say the drop off from Paplebon and Rivera to Wilson is pretty steep.  I could have countered with one of my lesser relievers but didn't really want Verlander...enjoy
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 29, 2010, 02:08 PM


Nice of you to rip off your buddy there.  Didn't the stupid Canadian say something about him needing closers?  Nah, couldn't be. 

Mike told me that this was the sequence in which he offered Verlander:

1.  Offered to Rob for Papelbon and Rob rejected it.
2.  Offered to Scott for Mo and Scott rejected it.
3.  Offered to me for Brian Wilson and I took it.

I didn't rip anyone off, I just accepted the offer.

Dude, I'm just teasing.  But if someone offered me Verlander for my 11th round pick, I probably would have jumped as well.  Verlander started very slow last year as well, was on waivers for over a week at least so I think your pick up is astute.  Then Verlander came out of the April/May doldrums and pitched like he did two years prior.  Mike clearly left himself short of closers as I indicated previously:

Please express my wishes to Mike that he as an American was kind and generous to me in the draft by taking only one real closer and one backup.

He made a trade for what he needed.  If I'd really had a problem with the trade, I would have vetoed and I did no such thing.  Realistically looking at his staff, he probably should have done exactly what you said you may do - punted the category since he didn't draft that well in that category.  His starters are maybe not the best but there's a ton of potential there.  He got stronger in the CL category by picking up Wilson (someone I hoped to get in the draft) but realistically he's now only sitting on K-Rod and Wilson, he still won't compete in the category. 

As for Papelbon or Rivera (or in my case the whopping one save Broxton), I'd have said no as well.  Aardsma might have been a different story. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on April 29, 2010, 02:46 PM
Tis true...but I will say the drop off from Paplebon and Rivera to Wilson is pretty steep. 

I guess somewhat.  There's a tad of a dropoff, but it's not as steep as you'd think.

2009:

Rivera:     3 W   44 SV   72 K   1.76 ERA   0.90 WHIP
Papelbon: 1 W   38 SV   76 K   1.85 ERA   1.15 WHIP
Wilson:    5 W   38 SV   83 K   2.74 ERA   1.20 WHIP
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on April 29, 2010, 03:55 PM
I'll agree in most perspectives with that.  Wilson was actually who I was hoping to fall to my pick in round 11 (the pitching round in our draft, with six relievers and three starters taken) as I'd have taken him before Aardsma for sure.  Honestly at that point I was hoping to Wilson in round 11 and Aardsma in 12 but that run killed that hope. 

Still, I think the value of a Rivera or Papelbon playing for what should be perennially winning teams in the Yankees/BoSox holds a good chunk more weight than Wilson playing in San Francisco.  Those two would be "guaranteed" saves versus some risk with a Wilson type (or Aardsma) who lacks the same type of history.  That perceived value (I would apply the same to Broxton based on his ratios and K/inning rate) would prevent me from making that trade for any of those three unless I was punting a category (saves).  Aardsma, Wilson, K-Rod, Marmol, Fuentes - yes. 
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on April 30, 2010, 11:27 AM
Sizemore and Escobar for a short stop? 

Anyone?
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on May 1, 2010, 10:04 AM
How does waiver priority work?

Twice people have dropped pitchers that I want and twice I've put claims on them and twice I haven't gotten them.

Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on May 1, 2010, 01:03 PM
How does waiver priority work?

Twice people have dropped pitchers that I want and twice I've put claims on them and twice I haven't gotten them.



Click on the league page at Y! and you'll see in the 3rd column under "waiver" there's a number next to your team somewhere between 1 and 9.

Those are the priority your team has to get a free agent on waivers.  1 is the highest priority (you definitely get your player) and 9 is last.

Every time a player is added that was on waivers, the priority number changes.  At the start of the season, the priority is set based on where you drafted.  If you drafted first, you got priority 9.  Drafted 2nd, priority 8.  Right on down to the person who drafted last gets priority 1. 


So whenever a player is added to a team that was on waivers, you move up 1 space in the priority list, and the team that added the player gets reset to 9 priority.  Then when you get a guy on waivers, you get reset to 9 priority and everyone moves up 1 space.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on May 1, 2010, 01:10 PM
You dropped yourself to last in the priority list when you grabbed Vernon Wells.  So anytime anyone with a lower waiver number (= higher priority ranking) goes for someone you go for, you'll lose.  So if you're at 9 and the person with the number 1 priority goes for the same person you'll lose.  But the same will happen if it's just you and the persone with #8 (or anything in between if you're at 9), then the #8 takes priority over the #9.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on May 1, 2010, 07:41 PM
That was how I thought it worked, but I forgot that Wells was a waiver pick up and thought that maybe regular free agent pick ups affected the waiver order too.

Thanks for the info.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on May 27, 2010, 08:35 PM
I say this with as much confidence as someone can who is 47 points behind in the standings and in last place.

April was a horrific fluke for my team and if I'll either win this league, or finish top 3 at a minimum.

Current starting rotation:

Zack Greinke
Dan Haren
Justin Verlander
Jon Lester
Francisco Liriano

The only time I've seen a starting 5 like that is Rob's team that won a couple years back.  Something to the tune of Halladay, Webb, Haren, Duchscherer and someone else that slips my mind at the moment.

On the offensive front.  Slumps and power outages everywhere.  Bay.  Hanley Ramirez. Carlos Lee.  Brandon Phillips.  Combined these guys have 5 homers on the month.  This is not going to last obviously.

Most of my closers do suck however, and they blew up my ERA and WHIP.  Thinking of punting this category, so if any of you who want to compete in saves are interested in Wagner or Hoffman or whoever, make an offer.  With my starting 5, if I don't win W's, K's, WHIP, ERA I'd be shocked.

1 month later...

At this moment, in first place by 6 points.  That's a 53 point swing.

The sick thing is, I still think my team is underperforming dramatically.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on May 27, 2010, 11:42 PM
Meh, whatever.  It's cool you moved up and all, but my O is slumping something fierce and Halladay has pitched poorly in his last two and the Braves let Hanson pitch with the flu.  My team is underperforming as well and I'm typically not near the top this early in the season.  Enjoy it while it lasts  :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on May 28, 2010, 06:29 AM
Meh, whatever.  It's cool you moved up and all, but my O is slumping something fierce and Halladay has pitched poorly in his last two and the Braves let Hanson pitch with the flu.  My team is underperforming as well and I'm typically not near the top this early in the season.  Enjoy it while it lasts  :-*

I actually expected that your offense would cool off, it's not as good as your pitching.  I also didn't expect a 30+ year old Halladay to continue pitching like Tim Lincecum, so his last few starts have not surprised me.  There has been a lot of jockeying for 1st place in this league so far, probably 5 teams have been in 1st in the past 2 weeks or so.  And I don't think I'm going to stay there every single day straight to the end.  Just sayin' I made up 55 points in a hurry and I think I'll be on top when it's all said and done*


*barring major injury
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on May 28, 2010, 03:55 PM
Yeah, the injury thing can kill anyone.

I know Halladay is getting older, but Lincecum never came back around to me, so whatta ya gonna do?  I still think he's good for 20 W and 175K. 

My offense hinges on what Zobrist and Reyes end up doing, which prior to this week wasn't much.  If Zobrist goes 20/20 and Reyes puts up 35 steals, I'm happy.  I knew I was never going to win in HR because I didn't get any of the big bats so I conceded that from the start (well, Longoria maybe hits 30).  Holliday's been attrocious and Cruz has been hurt, but both should be very productive and likely top 10 OF by the end of the year.  Butler is a low level 1B but look where I got him relative to the rest.  I'm another OF and flex away from where I want to be.  All things in time.  At least it won't be as boring as last year ;)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on May 30, 2010, 01:30 AM

I actually expected that your offense would cool off, it's not as good as your pitching.  I also didn't expect a 30+ year old Halladay to continue pitching like Tim Lincecum, so his last few starts have not surprised me.  


Halladay is totally over the hill (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=AhydwBi71aKSvNDoS6MdrSoRvLYF?gid=300529128)  :P
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on May 30, 2010, 07:18 AM

I actually expected that your offense would cool off, it's not as good as your pitching.  I also didn't expect a 30+ year old Halladay to continue pitching like Tim Lincecum, so his last few starts have not surprised me.  


Halladay is totally over the hill (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=AhydwBi71aKSvNDoS6MdrSoRvLYF?gid=300529128)  :P

I'm thrilled.  I had him starting in my money league, and it's a points based league.  I got points for the following:


11 K's
1 Win
1 Complete Game
1 No Hitter
1 Perfect Game
1 Shutout

In all, he got me about 1/2 a week's worth of points and I knocked off the undefeated 7-0 team.

I never said Halladay is over the hill, I just didn't expect him to pitch like a 26 year old all season, especiallly with the amount of complete game 125 pitch outings he's had over the last 5 years.


Don't make me unleash Strasburg on you.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on July 6, 2010, 10:55 AM
I turned my team over to Norman Osborn to take me to the finish line.  No mercy will be shown.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on July 6, 2010, 11:59 AM
Odd, spiderman is running mine.  Funny coincidence that, hope it works out for ya.  :-*
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on July 23, 2010, 01:39 AM
I've been pretty bummed about my pitching this year... but today they combined for 23 shut out innings.

I'm impressed for the first time in 3 months.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on August 9, 2010, 11:15 PM
Power surge lately from my team, the BA and lack of R and SBs will probably do me in the end
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on August 9, 2010, 11:56 PM
Must be nice... just when I thought my team might come around a little, I'm without Utley, Morneau, and Pena.   :-\
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on August 10, 2010, 09:48 AM
Must be nice... just when I thought my team might come around a little, I'm without Utley, Morneau, and Pena.   :-\

I feel your pain.  I have no Pedroia, Ordonez or Howard, however I'm quite pleased that I've moved into a solid second with only 8 weeks to go...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Rob on August 13, 2010, 02:21 AM
Here's another fun one... I have 6 starting pitchers.

They are ALL starting tomorrow.

I only have 5 slots I can use.  I've never run into that one before...
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on September 15, 2010, 10:54 PM
Holy Crap...big night for the old squad tonight, at this writing 6 Dongs and 19 RBI, too bad my pitching fell on its face
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on October 3, 2010, 07:22 PM
According to Stattracker, Brent nutted out a championship in the last half hour of the afternoon...of course, nothing is official until tomorrow...this smacks of Ichiro hitting a homerun in the bottom of the 9th inning ::)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Scott on October 4, 2010, 08:29 AM
It does indeed look like Brent pulled it out, far as I could tell there was a late shift in BA that propelled Bug to the championship, Congrats!

Take away May and I think I could have been right there as well, injuries really took their toll for me early on...oh well
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on October 4, 2010, 10:01 AM
Whew!

I can finally comment on my team.  First, I'm absolutely amazed that I managed to hang on with the way my team played over the last part of the year.  Over the last two weeks they just died on the R/HR/RBI front and all I could do was watch Dressel climb.  I had really solid positioning in runs and RBIs and still couldn't hang on to those points. 

All that said that was perhaps the strangest roster I've ever owned and while I'm a fan of how my OF ended up, the rest of it was pretty damn iffy.  Longoria gassed it over the last month, Reyes never really hit IR but was out for weeks on end several times; Zobrist was a huge bust and my 1B was more solid than I'd expected.  Still wish I'd picked up Bautista during that week Scott let go of him, I'd have had a lot more breathing room.  Didn't need Nelson Cruz's three stints on the DL though. 

I so mismanaged the games played aspect on the hitting side.  I had so many games left to play beyond just the catcher position that I simply threw away stats.  The counter to that was that I mostly managed my pitching about as well as I could.  I saved enough innings to exploit Yahoo's counting every inning on the final day so actually got in about 22 extra innings and finally lucked into three Ws to give me a point on that one.  I never should have needed to do that if the ******* Atlanta Braves would have given any run support to Tommy Hanson.  He started 30 times, had an ERA under 3.50 and ended up with only 10 wins.  That's BS support from Atlanta right there.  Didn't need to lose both Santana and Johnson at the start of September either.  And let's talk about Broxton ******** the bed?  Wow. 

I know everyone has their share of injuries so my comments are only in general relating to my team but that will probably go down as the scrappiest team I'll ever win with.  Somehow two people managed to drop their batting average at the last possible moment giving me that half point win.  With a tie I think the HR category is the tie break, so Dressel would have had it.  Art imitates life, spidey takes out Norman Osborne on the last day.   ;)
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: I Am Sith on October 4, 2010, 10:12 AM
Congrats Brent!
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Dressel Rebel on October 4, 2010, 10:21 AM
I saved enough innings to exploit Yahoo's counting every inning on the final day so actually got in about 22 extra innings and finally lucked into three Ws to give me a point on that one. 


Congrats Brent.

I did not even know this rule.  Yesterday AM I didn't think there was any possible way for you to win.  Then I saw that you started all those starting pitchers with only 4 IPs remaining, yet got to use 20 additional innings.  That gave you the point you needed to win.  Crazy stuff.  1,300 innings limit my ass.



  With a tie I think the HR category is the tie break, so Dressel would have had it.  Art imitates life, spidey takes out Norman Osborne on the last day.   ;)

Actually there is no tie breaker in rotisserie baseball at Y!  2 people can be named co-champion.  Going into yesterday I thought that was my worst case scenario.


This stupid game has been making me crazy lately.  I've been spending way too much time analyzing this stuff.  So, I'm taking a long break from fantasy sports until further notice.  I'm going to drop out of basketball and won't be playing unless you guys really really need the extra team.  I'll pay minimal attention to the NFL situation.  Other than that, I need a break from this stuff for a while.  I don't think I'll be playing baseball next year.

Congrats again.
Title: Re: Jedidefender Fantasy Baseball 2010
Post by: Morgbug on October 4, 2010, 11:07 AM

Congrats Brent.

I did not even know this rule.  Yesterday AM I didn't think there was any possible way for you to win.  Then I saw that you started all those starting pitchers with only 4 IPs remaining, yet got to use 20 additional innings.  That gave you the point you needed to win.  Crazy stuff.  1,300 innings limit my ass.

Oh.  I thought everyone knew of that rule in one form or another.  I'll explain because it pertains to many sports in different ways (obviously fantasy football the way we play it does not), at least in rotisserie leagues.  I honestly thought everyone was aware of that but I'll make sure people do now.

Basically yahoo systems have a glitch and they admit as much if you read through the tedious rules.  In the example of this baseball league I used it to exceed the innings cap.  That's probably the most extreme example and I needed those three wins to do it so without the exception to the rule, you would have won.  Another way to look at it and this applies to most leagues is when you have multiple players at a position:
baseball - outfielders
hockey - defensemen
basketball - flex/utility

In each of these cases all you have to have left for the last day of the season is a single game at the position and then all of the games played at that position will count.  In baseball you only need a single OF game left for the last day to have all of your OF stats count; in hockey you only need a single game at defense (or center, lw, rw) to have all stats at that position count; basketball a single game at utility to have both count the way our league is set up.  Baseball and pitching is by far the most extreme example as you only need 0.1 innings remaining for the last day to have ALL of the stats for ALL of the innings count.  Theoretically with three P and two SP plus two RP slots you could end up gaining 45+ innings of stats if all five starters pitched nine innings. 

I feel bad about winning that way now because I though people were aware of it :-\

I'd really rather have you stay and continue to play, especially in baseball and basketball.