Fantasy Baseball 2010
 

Is up at Yahoo (seems a bit early this year)

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

Hi Moonax :wave:

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah shit, ridiculously early this year. I try to never draft earlier than like 2 weeks before the season. So many spring injuries.</font>

Hello Mackrem.

I suppose the advantage is that leagues can be set up and the draft date set for later. The biggest problem who are all in for it now, but who then piss off before the start of the season, miss the draft and then you have a dead team or two screwing up the league.

I am assuming Hero will be running the main H2H league this year.

There are a number of new things in the Yahoo leagues such as Acquisition budgets, Auction drafts, Head-to-Head One-Win and Head-to-Head Points league types. I don't know if people would be interested in something like a roto league, or a salary cap/budget league.

<font color=goldenrod>I've always wondered how I'd fare in a cap league.</font>

I'd be happy to set up a 'different' league - ie cap, roto etc, assuming that there were enough people interested, and if people were to give some preferences.

I'm in for the main league or whatever really.

I look forward to defending my title in Hero's league.

But yeah, another type of league along with the normal ones could be interesting. Never done one besides H2H but I'd be interested in a different type along with the main one.

I sent out emails to everyone who was in my league last year.

Busch
Supreme
Hero
Dragon
Spilchuk
CNM
MVP
Rick
Hanso

2 spots open. Holla if you wanna play.

The advantage with a roto league is that it doesn't matter if you have odd numbers which is good. I'll set something up unless other people want satisfy their inner Bud Selig/Bettman fantasies and commish it.

I tried baseball last year, dont really watch it but understand how it works. I did decent I think for not knowing any players.

Anyways in short if you guys need one more manager to fill out the league let me know, I may not know much about baseball but I assure you the team wont be dead.

I'm playing in Wadding's league as usual, but I'm down to join one of the other ones too, especially a roto or cap league.

I'm tempted, Wadding, but I don't know if I can really deal w/ another league this year.

Set up the league. couple of open spots to replace those that weren't active. I'm all for making chnages if others are up yo it. But the main thing was to set something up and then go from there...

Hero, do you want me to whip that candy ass in two leagues? ;)

I'd like to play but I always feel stupid when I play fantasy baseball

I'd like to be part of the TPWW league this season.

I miss the signup here every year. I've got the time on my hands to do extra leagues this year, so count me in.

I'd be interested in any leagues if someone has openings. PM me.

Edit: Excellent 600th post.

Does a Roto league with an auction draft appeal? It doesn't look like Yahoo has a salary cap facility.

I want in..someone send me something..

I've set up a salary cap roto league. I am happy to run it as a novices league for people who want to have some fun. Nothing too serious or hardcore - since a number of people say they want to play but aren't too sure. Kind of AAA fantasy baseball :) PM me if you want to play and I'll send you the login details. The only proviso is try to be active :)

I would like back in if THAT WOULD BE AGREEABLE

If you remember I basically shat on everyone when I played

Baseball Furries gonna dominate

Im gonna beat the pine tar out of everyone in both leagues.

Just a heads up about the auction draft. For those who haven't done it before.

It is worth doing one of the mock drafts to get some practice.

In the draft you have a budget of $260 to spend on your roster.

In turn each person nominates a player, it can be any player they like - so if you want to nominate say Christian Guzman as the first player then fine, or if you want to nominate Albert Pujols, that is also fine. Once a player has been nominated 30 seconds of bidding starts. In the final 10 seconds the clock resets to 10 after every bid, once the clock runs down on the final bid the player is then sold to the team with the highest bid.

Your bids are limited by the fact that Yahoo will not allow you to go bust. So for example if you have a 20 man roster, and 260 dollars, the most you will be allowed to bid is $241 - ie so you have $19 to spend on the rest of your roster. So you need to manage your budget carefully and not spunk all your cash on one guy.

The draft seems to take a little bit longer than a normal draft, also, unlike in a traditional draft, you can't wander off and have a cup of tea in case someone nominates a player who you want for drafting.

<font color=goldenrod>I'm looking forward to trying that.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Okay...I just did an Auction Mock Draft. I strongly recommend everybody does mocks first to get used to the do's and don't do's of drafting...cause some of the people in this were retarded and clearly panicked. Pujols went off the board first at a lofty $45 (makes sense, figured that would set the tone)...then Hanley went next at the same price (I guess I can see that). Ryan Howard then soon went for like $50 from somebody who clearly didn't know what they were doing. A-Rod went for like $40 and then David Wright (who I love) got nominated and people panicked and Wright went for like $45...come on. Made Pujols and Hanley look like bargains.

Also, if you aren't going to make it to the draft........autopick can and will fuck you over royally and spend way more than it should on mediocre guys. This will allow the people actually drafting to sit back and get amazing bargains. Hope to see most of the people turn up for the draft, should be really fun.</font>

Just noticed that both leagues are drafting on the same day within a half an hour of each other, which probably isn't going to work..

I'll play any and all leagues.

<font color=goldenrod>lol holy fuck. I JUST got the e-mail with my mock draft results now. I ditched the draft after I had picked my first 9 or so players as everyone else was leaving so I didn't see the point in sticking around. I had quit it like 2 hours ago...so overall the draft was like 3 hours. Pretty crazy.

Fun though...I managed to put together a pretty damn good offense.</font>

I can move the date of ours forward by a week if that makes it easier. Is everyone happy drafting 3 weeks before the start of the season? (14th March)

Big Vito - if you look on the main page for the league it predicts the draft will last 5 and half hours :o

doing a mock draft now

In my experience with Auction drafts, I always sit back and let the big names go for the big bucks and then craft my roster when everyone else is sitting back pinching pennies.
I usually never spend money on pitching outside of a Top Tier Starter. Should be interesting.

Moonie, you old horse, link me up. I'd like to try a cap league.

Sent. That is a bit odd because I used the 'send email invite' feature Yahoo has to various people. Did you not get it? Did anyone get the email invite thing?

I'm 100% sure my teams will suck

<font color=goldenrod>I'm good to have it pushed back to any weekend day really, except for the 27th</font>

I'll move it back a week. I am not sure if people want to be doing two drafts over a weekend - especially if they last up to 5 hours.

I've moved it back a week to the 14th March. Is that ok with everyone? Is the time ok? Not too late, not too early?

Its good for me, Ill sign up when I get home. Now a disclaimer, I am not as knowledgeable about baseball as I am with hockey. Though I will do my best.

Yeah I did a mock auction draft and it was lonnnng