Alright folks, enough lollygagging around. Leagues on Yahoo have already been activated, and at least a few of the leagues that I am involved in are looking for participants. The SDMB Big League (max 20 teams) is currently at 10 teams (who’s in charge of that - Wilson?). I also run an auction league that currently only has 8 teams (16 max).
I’m not nearly as excited for fantasy baseball this year than in previous seasons. But then in previous seasons I have not recently gotten married and been attempting to get a house ready to put on the market. So if an underprepared Munch is any motivation to get involved since your chances of not being dead last are greatly increased, then so be it.
(Seriously - if you’re interested in a semi-competitive intro to a fantasy baseball auction league, PM me for sign-up info. It’s regular 5x5, except I’ve swapped out AVG for OBP.)
Yes, I’m the one who started back up the SDMB big league. Life’s been crazy recently, so I haven’t started a thread on it, but I did reactivate the league and invited everyone back. Hopefully this weekend I’ll get time to do the work I want to do to start up another thread on that league, which I think is in it’s ninth or tenth year.
Munch, I tried to rejoin your auction league a while back, but the invitation you sent didn’t work? I can’t try again right now since the site is blocked from work.
Yeah, it turns out my invite method was totally and completely wrong. I used one person’s “slot” to invite about 20 different people to join. I sent you a PM with login info.
I’m actually more looking forward to fantasy baseball this year because of the new schedule with interleague games throughout the season. I think it will require a bit more attention to lineup setting throughout the year.
Got the invite for the Big League over the weekend but hadn’t had a free minute to deal with it until now. I’m back in again. Odds are good I’ll be autodrafting at least the arly rounds, since I’m working on the west coast Mon-Thu every week now, and we often don’t get done by 5:30 pm PST. Guess I need to do more prep, but then I say that every year.
Just joined up for the best fantasy sport and league of the year; I’m irrationally happy about it. Now, to think about how best (or least-worst) to ask the following question: “Dear, I know it’s our honeymoon, but would you mind if I took three or four hours and did a live fantasy draft?”
Hey everyone. I have a question I was hoping I could get your opinions on.
I started a keeper league last year which, for a variety of reasons, ended up with only 4 players even pretending to be active at the end of the year. It’s an NL only league, so that’s not a huge issue, but the four of us who played last year want to keep playing and try to find new members to join the leauge (which, hey, if you are interested shoot me a PM). My question is, what should I do about keepers in this situation? With, hopefully, more new members than returning member letting the returning members get their keeper picks seems less than fair to the new guys. But taking them away from the returning members feels like I am penalizing the people who actually stuck around.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?
In case it matters here are the keeper rules
*Each team may keep up to 4 players each year.
*The maximum consecutive years a player may be kept is set at 3
*Players are kept at a cost of 1 round above the round in which they were selected when they were drafted.
*No Keepers are forced. You may keep no one at all if you like, or only 1, 2 or 3 players rather than all 4.
*Undrafted Free Agents are not eligible for keeper status
*keeper rates stay with a player and not an owner, players traded for may be kept at the same rate that they were previously being kept.
Since the NL has lost a team, I would just do a redraft. I doubt there are many Astros on anyone’s keeper list, but with only 4 teams returning, I’d start fresh.
Are you assigning the orphaned teams to new owners or putting all of those players into the free agent pool? If the latter, I agree with dalej42 - just redraft. If the former, they’ve already got their teams ready to go and can keep or not as they wish.
In the AL-only keeper league I run, we originally did not force keepers, but we do now. Once players’ keepability started expiring, it was more beneficial for some managers not to keep anyone and get the un-keepable players returning to the free agent pool before anyone else could get into the draft. Just something to think about.
I was going to mention that Winno - but they do keepers based only on where they were drafted, so there’s not the opportunity to game the system like [del]I[/del] some unsavory managers did.
So the auction league is at a decent level this time around - we’re at 9, with a 10th invite request sent out this morning. I have a friend that missed the deadline last year - so at least 11 teams should be good. Of course, I’d love to have it at at least 12 so that we don’t have to doctor the roster spots and auction dollars so much this year.
You can kind of get away with autodrafting in the big league (though not recommended) - just as long as you’ve done a very extensive job of predrafting. (A tip: If you’re the type who wants a good catcher and will reach for one, then rank a few quite a bit higher than normal, then completely eliminate every single other catcher on the board by putting them in your do not draft list. Getting a bunch of catchers is usually Yahoo’s way of punishing autodrafters.)
However, even one autodrafter will really screw up an auction.
