...uh...so what do I do?
My neighbor asked me to sign up for fantasy baseball, and I do what everyone asks of me, no limits.
What should I draft? I think there's like 15-20 heads in the league. Pitchers only? Any positions to avoid? Help!
Draft Ryan Howard with your first pick, he's going to have a monster season. If you don't believe me PM Phreak.
A rape package will be sent to your house. Make sure you open it with your mouth....and what do I do if Howard is off the board? :paranoid
lolol
Just draft all Los Doyers...except Jimmy because he's not available
my pitching staff is insane
-cy scherzer
-greinkie aka kershaw's robin
-nikki
-ty ross
-sonny corleone gray
-doug fister sister
then, whenever they get healthy:
-matt king cain....fully restocked, back to his old tricks, throwing low to mid 90's
-the best pitcher in baseball jose fernandez
How many teams in your league? 5?
7 people
1 hater
1 homer
1 jew
I joined my first one...17 teams, weekly head to head.
I got farged by the auto pick...My first pick was King Felix, then Strasburg, and I was in line to draft Wainwright but didn't realize what happened until three picks later....anyway...ended up with Matt Cain, Jake Peavy, Craig Krimbrell, Danny Duffy, Trevor Bauer, and Jason Vargas. Got Alex Cobb as an auto pick and just got Tyson Ross.
C- Saltalamacchia
1b- Joey Votto
2b- Howie Kendrick
3b- Evan Langoria
SS- Alcides Escobar
OF- Joc Pederson
OF- Carlos Beltran
OF- Torii Hunter
UTIL- Nolan Arenado (auto picked instead of Wainwright)
Bench- Desmond Jennings
Bench- James Loney
MDS, please tell me I have a chance? And who the farg is Nolan Arenado???? :boom
(Obviously I haven't been following baseball closely the last few seasons).
He's the Rockies 3B and I wanted to draft him but some slappy stole him before I could.
I did get Jimmmmmaaaay though.
i followed my strategy of the past few years to load up on bats and find pitching as the year goes on. i don't love my team but i did literally zero research so whatever
I have my 10 team keeper league auction tomorrow. Pretty happy with my keepers going into the draft, and their prices...
Kyle Seager $7
Starling Marte $7
George Springer $6
Kole Calhoun $2
Gregory Polanco $2
Johnny Cueto $17
Alex Wood $11
Alex Cobb $9
Andrew Cashner $7
Michael Wacha $7
Michael Pineda $4
Jose Quintana $6
Got $175 to spend and 13 roster spots to fill. In position to draft Trout if I want to. Right now am willing to go up to $65 to do it, but I'll see how the bidding shakes out.
Quote from: hbionic on April 03, 2015, 03:52:56 PM
I joined my first one...17 teams, weekly head to head.
I got farged by the auto pick...My first pick was King Felix, then Strasburg, and I was in line to draft Wainwright but didn't realize what happened until three picks later....anyway...ended up with Matt Cain, Jake Peavy, Craig Krimbrell, Danny Duffy, Trevor Bauer, and Jason Vargas. Got Alex Cobb as an auto pick and just got Tyson Ross.
C- Saltalamacchia
1b- Joey Votto
2b- Howie Kendrick
3b- Evan Langoria
SS- Alcides Escobar
OF- Joc Pederson
OF- Carlos Beltran
OF- Torii Hunter
UTIL- Nolan Arenado (auto picked instead of Wainwright)
Bench- Desmond Jennings
Bench- James Loney
MDS, please tell me I have a chance? And who the farg is Nolan Arenado???? :boom
(Obviously I haven't been following baseball closely the last few seasons).
17 teams?
I have nothing to base it on whether that's good or bad (given the amount of players and teams in MLB)....but I admit its a bit much which waters it down a bit which I assume gives me a better chance of winning...if at all possible. Anyways, it's only $20 to get my feet wet, so why not.
thats not bad for 17 teams.....though when you have that many players and such a watered down FA pool, it becomes super random
10-12 is the ideal # for FB
Weird, one day in, and I'm getting a hard-on for baseball I never knew I had.
Stats, stats, stats, stats, stats, stats!
Yeah I never thought i'd be interested in it, then did it one year with friends and now it's on par with football for me. Soon you'll find yourself reading articles about prospects.
farg me! :boom
Funny part is, because of my baseball card collection growing up...baseball and stats were imbedding in us, or at least me. I used to watch complete baseball games all the time. Mostly Dodgers, but I'd watch some angels, and whatever was broadcasting locally (pre-cable days). That's why personally, I don't care too much about baseball outside the region/state...but I'll remember some off the wall baseball shtein from 20-25 years ago.
Same here - I have about 50k cards from my collecting hey day. They're holed away at my mom's place. But I haven't really bought any since 1996ish.
The baseball card stats aren't what mds and people of his ilk like nowadays though. If they had their way cards would look like farging calculus equations on the back.
I used to like seeing what minor league team they came from...and how many played in Pawtucket.
Yeah same here...minor leagues and then who they were traded for and stuff like that
Quote from: hbionic on April 07, 2015, 02:19:04 PM
I used to like seeing what minor league team they came from...and how many played in Pawtucket.
Mike Greenwell
I know its too early to panic, but my catcher situation sucks ass. Any recommendations? I Have Saltalamacchia.
Any recommendations are much appreciated.
Who else is available?
Way too early to worry- let it shake out a bit
Carlos Ruiz- Phi
Ryan Hanigan- Box
David Ross- ChC
Francisco Cervelli- Pit
Caleb Joseph- Bal
Geovany Soto-CWS
Nick Hundley- Col
Tuffy Gosewisch- Ari
Wilin Rosario- Col
Robinson Chirinos- Tex
Martin Maldonado- Mil
Rene Rivera- TB
Tyler Flowers- CWS
Christian Bethancourt- Atl
A.J. Pierzynski- Atl
Ramon Hernandez- KC
Jose Molina- TB
Yorbit Torrealba- LAA
Corky Miller- Cin
Wil Nieves- SD
Miguel Olivo- LAD
Koyie Hill- Phi
John Buck- Atl
Geral Laird- Ari
Michel Hernandez- Cle
Humberto Quintero- Bos
Guillermo Quiroz- SF
Jeff Mathis- Mia
Justin Knoedler- LAD
(There's more but I stop at Justin Knoedler)
Hundley
Chirinos
Rosario
Flowers
Those are the four best on there. The Rockies will probably platoon or play Rosario in other positions
Not a whole lot of good options. But keep an eye on those and grab the best of the four after a week or two
i realized that fantasy baseball was pretty much the only reason i paid attention to mlb the last 5 years. i'm not playing this year and there's a good chance i don't watch a single second on tv this year. i will go to some to drink though.
It's amazing to me that you love college basketball but hate pro baseball
what do they possibly have to do with each other?
also i don't hate baseball. i just would never spend 3 hours watching it on tv. in person i think it's a great time.
can anybody else not make a move while games are in progress?
ive been trying to get rid of diekman forever and every time i go do it says i cant because hes playing.
I think that happened to me earlier in the year....I remember correctly while the players actual game in going on you can't do anything with him
I think it's like this cause in baseball you can pick up someone and play them the same day...whereas basketball for example if you pick a guy up Tuesday he won't be in your lineup until wed
Correct - if the player is in your lineup and the games are still ongoing you cannot drop. If he is on your bench then you can drop at any time
thats lame
im not trying to drop diekman for tuesday....its all for wednesday. why do i have to wait.
anyway j one of your precious phillies is available so go scoop him up
Quote from: MDS on April 29, 2015, 02:01:25 PM
thats lame
im not trying to drop diekman for tuesday....its all for wednesday. why do i have to wait.
its actually a much better system....i hate basketball and hockey where you cant pick a player up and play him on the same day
I like it being available on same day because sometimes by the time I am able to log on its too late to make any changes.
I picked up Luis Garcia - Diekman can go farg himself with a corn stalk
Thinking of picking up Nathan Karns (Tampa)or Marco Estrada(Toronto) and releasing Dan Duffy (KC).
Thoughts?
What about Ivan nova?
stupid but fun race for the 6 spot between me and 2 dudes i dont know
if i get in, ill win
aaaaaaaaaand if the season ended today, id be in the playoffs
What's the tiebreaker?
Looks like me and my opponent are gonna be locked at 7 apiece
this happened last year and it actually went to the 3rd TB.....dont quote me but i think the first one is head to head regular season record
Hmmm damn I was up 9-5 and my team shtein themselves. I'm shocked I was in first bc my team isn't that good
Gotta go see the h2h now
its h2h reg season, then seed. so there cant be a 3rd breaker
its stupid
Looks like the L that Big Game James just took gives me the dub
:(
Number one seed going down again
Well barring a miracle tomorrow I'm done
As an aside its probably better to start the playoffs a week earlier next year. Having it in the final week with guys packing it in or not playing at all sucks
just successfully lobbied my league to replace wins with quality starts
the real title was just won.
This is how my team ended up today. K's for the keepers.
C-Devin Mesoraco $2
1B-Chris Davis $28 (K)
2B-Rougned Odor $6 (K)
3B-Kyle Seager $8 (K)
SS-Xander Beogarts $5 (K)
IF-Corey Seager $6 (K)
OF-Andrew McCutchen $46
OF-George Springer $7 (K)
OF-Kole Calhoun $3 (K)
OF-Joc Pederson $7 (K)
UTIL-Evan Longoria $6
P-Chris Archer $9 (K)
P-Carlos Rodon $6 (K)
P-Aaron Nola $6 (K)
P-Stephen Strasburg $37
P-Drew Smiley $13
P-Jeff Samardjzia $7
P-Jose Quintana $6
P-Michael Pineda $4
P-Jeremey Jefferies $10
Bench-Billy Burns $5
Bench-Brett Lawrie $6
Bench-Michael Conforto $2
Bench-Javier Baez $1 (gonna stash him on the DL and pick someone up)
N/A-Joey Gallo $2 (K)
Overall pretty happy with the team, but left too much money on the table. Didn't end up with guys I thought I would. I'm not big on Longoria or Samardjzia but at those prices it was whatever. Didn't plan on spending that much on Strasburg either, but the elite pitchers were all gone and they all went for big money as well.
Gonna be scouring the waiver wire for saves as I always do.
yo j:
http://m.phillies.mlb.com/news/article/171004544/phillies-gomez-will-get-a-chance-to-be-closer
think i just pulled off an adrian beltre for eduardo nunez trade
am i good or lucky
65-36 in my last six weeks to move from last to 5th
FIRE
meanwhile in the real world ive won 8 straight and am 49-25 in that stretch. ive moved from 11th to 2nd. the guy in first is 43-31.
6 god damn games. thats all i get.
life in the major leagues of FB is hard
im in first place in all my other leagues
i clearly said i was in 2nd place
first > second
forget of this year i might be gm of all time with my moves this season
i accepted that trade because im in last place and why not
i have no idea if itll make me or you better
im not even talkin about that trade...I know why you did it....but look back over the season at my moves and im a farging savant
im not going to do that but i am going to openly root for j to win over you
what up tex!
Lolol
I'll take Theo Ephavas down don't worry
you should both die in real life
lolol
My life ain't ending until the three of us watch an Eagles game together
or the uncle verne sec johnson
That would be fun
We can drink Genesse creams while lil guy nurses an odouls
lol
fishmonger is waxing my ass...he's gonna win it all
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 29, 2016, 11:45:21 PM
forget of this year i might be gm of all time with my moves this season
greatest gm ever getting a gift from me and doing squat with it
i forgot to do my lineup last week and took a zero....so maybe im not that good
just realized me and j have an epic elimination series this week
theres still a penalty for 10th, right?
i think im going to retire from this league. its just stupid...i barely pay attention....the categories are beyond horrendous
i will jump back into nba though
Don't be a Hoyda, lil guy. We know we know...your big league blah blah blah
And yeah Havas is gonna whip me. My team is like the Orioles. No pitching.
you cant have worse pitching than me....about a quarter of my starts each week are from guys i pick off the waiver wire
My guys have been hurt and sucking. I've been working the wire too.
And the offense is inconsistent...I'll blow up one week and then the next hit like .149
yeah my offense is the exact same way...i either win every category huge or i completely implode
id have a playoff spot locked and loaded if i didnt miss my innings two weeks ago because i forgot to put in lineups and lost 15-1
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 07, 2016, 03:47:03 PM
Don't be a Hoyda, lil guy. We know we know...your big league blah blah blah
its not so much as this league's categories are so retarded it makes it so stupid.
Ain't no xfip and war happening here son
Deal with the real stats like RBI and the like
think i got you j
Yeah it's ova
My team folded down the stretch
Hopefully you can win it all now
i would like to say highly unlikely but its more like definitely impossible
Sixth seeds can win!
not this one....like we talked about my staff is worse than yours....altho i have three young studs that i purposely benched today cause they could only farg me if i played them against you who proceeded to go 1 total ER btwn the three of them
on second thought....LETS DO THIS
lol I was hoping for a miracle but it didn't happen
Ah well maybe next year.
Maybe if we had some analytical stats I'd have won. My war and xfip may be better!
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 11, 2016, 11:14:25 PM
Maybe if we had some analytical stats I'd have won. My war and xfip may be better!
waiting for how he is dominating his real league and doesnt have time for us peons
Lolol you know that's coming
He ain't got time for no RBIs!
im in the semis of that league and literally could care less about anything else in the world. i do expect to lose this week so theres that.
the stats we do are: runs-hr-rbi-sb-obp and qs-k-sv-era-whip
its not perfect but its pretty good.
one of our regulars in fantasy baseball cant do it this year if anyone is interested....
so im texting with sunny last night while watching the sixers game and he says to me iceholes here taking the full amount of time in the 24th round.....i didnt really get it but assumed he was talking about the 24 second shot clock and the sixers game....but theres a commerical on som im like huh?
and then it hits me hes complaining about people in our fantasy baseball draft taking the full allotment of time to make a 24th round pick (out of 25 rounds) and i realize that ive completely forgotten about the draft and just missed it
your team sucks
yup...my race is to not finish last
up 8-6 this week tho....and my FA pick ups are already better than anyones whole draft
i havent started a CF in ten days and i think its helped my team
i need you this week J bird
I'm doing well so far...lets see if my collection of stiffs can keep it up
QuoteNo Medals Yet...
Amazingly, Hentz has not earned ANY medals in this league.
Consistency, fool.
need a fantasy baseball player this year if anyone is down
correction you need 2
I want to start a Rona League - I actually like rotisserie better then head to head but I'm down with whatever. I have never wanted to look at box scores more than right now.
What do most people like, rotisserie or head to head?
I'm cool with whatever. Count me in.
matty drunkenly wanting to start a fantasy baseball league after the season started is pretty on brand
Dads been in the same fantasy baseball league for almost 20 years...there was an opening so I got in. Anyone else do fantasy baseball? Best guesses are Todd and maybe Jay. Had #2 overall..took Judge. Trea went #1 overall.
I haven't played one in a couple years. I wanted to get back into one this season but time slipped by too fast.
Next year I'll def be in for one though
I've been doing a keeper league with my buddies from hs for years now. I still don't think I'm very good at it haha. We do daily lineups and transactions, so it's a monster. I have won the league twice, including once before it was a keeper. I also did my first NFBC last year and did alright, did the best ball cutline league and made the first cut in it
It's a daily waiver deal...I'm still trying to figure everything out. For your starting pitchers do you constantly swap your bench pitchers out for other teams starters? For instance I have 4 pitchers on my bench...some of them I don't mind parting with...if say a lesser teams 3/4/5 is starting are you constantly trying to fill that pitching spot to build stats or do you just stick with what you have? For pitchers the 3 stats are walks + hits/inning, era, strikeouts. The other are for saves/holds. I get shteintier pitchers will drop era and whip but they'll add strikeouts.
is it roto or h2h? if h2h its more matchup oriented...like if youre behind in starts its not wrong to be aggressive and catch up with streams or a double starter. if its roto its more about the macro so you wouldnt be doing much of that.
ive been in the same league for 10 years. keepers, fairly competitive. 4 3rd place finishes and last year a 4th. i am the absolute master of pooping my pants in the semifinals. im pretty consistently good just that 1 week my team collapses.
if you do keepers, id recommend walker buehler. might be back late in the year but hes an ace pitcher for cheap in 24 if you can stash
H2h...forgot to add wins/QS as a pitching stat. The projections and scoring grid finally showed up in cbs app so it's starting to make a bit more sense.
if there are no transactions limits then as long as youre down late in the week yea go for it and stack starters to try and catch up
most leagues have some kind of limit to protect extreme streaming
No transaction limits and that's good advice and makes the most sense. Guess I'll figure this all out as I go along. 12 team league here's what I'm working with:
C - Alejandro Kirk
1B - CJ Cron
2B - Tommy Edman
3B - Nolan Arenado
SS - Dansby Swanson
OF - Aaron Judge
OF - MJ Melendez (also Catcher eligible)
OF - Michael Harris (only NL East player)
DH - Rowdy Tellez
DH - Jonathan India
Bench: Cody Bellinger/Jurickson Profar (might drop)
Injured: Mitch Haniger
SP - Corbin Burnes
SP - Lance Lynn
SP - Alex Cobb
SP - Lucas Giolito
SP - Freddy Peralta
RP - Emmanuel Chase
RP - Felix Bautista
Bench pitchers:
Corey Kluber
Michael Wacha
Roansy Contreras
Daniel Bard
Inured Pitchers:
Carlos Rodon
Tony Gonsolin
Won this shtein ($950). Had some good pickups along the way (Gunnar Henderson, Masataka Yoshida)...few others I can't remember. Fantasy baseball is a lot of work but I'm in again for next season.
Speaking of which - I won the fantasy league and think I should be getting a payout from that no?
Drafts Wednesday the 27th. Got 2nd pick again. H2H league...assuming acuna goes 1 leaning Betts with my pick.
Posting lineup due to superstition that I did last season and won. Wound up going with Witt Jr.
Bieber is now out for the season in need of TJ surgery. Lots of SP out now. People are starting to blame the pitch clock. To me it's more like ACL's athletes are just bigger/stronger/faster
C: Alvarez
1B: Naylor
2B: Altuve
SS: Witt Jr
3B: Ke'bryan Hayes
OF: Trout
OF: Suzuki
OF: Nolan Jones
OF: Kwan
OF: Conforto
SS: Swanson
C: Naylor
SP: Luis Castillo
SP: Logan Webb
SP: Chris Sale
SP: Frankie Montas
SP: Dane Dunning
SP: Michael Wacha
SP: Garrett Whitlock
SP: Reynaldo Lopez
RP: Edwin Diaz
RP: Andres Munoz
Stashes:
Verlander
Bradish
Jordan Montgomery
TJ Friedl
Had Eury Perez but he's getting tj surgery
Yeah I had Bieber in one of my NFBC teams as a later pick, looked like he was gonna be a great one early on but now nope. Sigh.
My yahoo league I do with my friends, I kept Acuna, Ohtani, and Tatis among some others and only had $40 to draft with. A true stars and scrubs strategy this year lol.
Was kicking myself for not taking Bieber in the 7th round (Save/holds league so went with Edwin Diaz who would be fine if the Mets weren't such an abomination). He went pick 78 in our league which is H2H categories. Hindsight and all but he looked dominant early on.
This is pretty nuts
https://twitter.com/YankeeWRLD/status/1776651039938068575
It's the push for velocity and spin rate that's causing elbows to explode
Finished 2nd this year in the season standings which is second largest payout ($500). H2h cats league lost 5-4-1 so half a point because a tie I'd move onto the finals because head to head I swept the guy I was playing during the season. Had a 5 run lead going into Sunday, his team hit 4hr's and went up in the runs category 36 to 35. All I needed was one damn run to tie and not one player on my team crossed the plate. Motherfarger. Anyway I'm still into fantasy football but if I had to only chose one I'd stick with baseball.
Posting lineup due to superstition that I did last season and finished 2nd. Picked 2nd 3rd straight year wound up going with Witt Jr (again)
C: Contreras
1B: Steer (hurt) Toglia
2B: Altuve
SS: Witt Jr
3B: Westburg
OF: Chourio
OF: Michael Harris
OF: Luis Robert Jr
DH: Kwan
DH: Swanson
SP: Skubal
SP: Gausman
SP: Lugo
SP: Robbie Ray
SP: Merrill Kelly
SP: Baz
SP: Manaea
SP: Darvish
SP: Kirby
RP: Hader
RP: Bautista