Fantasy Baseball

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  for some reason i can't select a date for a live draft on yahoo ... has anyone already started a league and know what the problem is?

turns out this was a mozilla issue, i went and did it on IE and it worked fine ... fucking yahoo ...
 
 ISSUE: most of the optimum live draft dates/times are gone ... the latest we can run an evening draft is next wednesday 3/9 at 8:30pm eastern time ... there are no weekend dates left, and no evening times left any time after next week (i think the latest we could get would be 4pm or 5pm)
 
 i'm sure there are going to be problems, but i don't think anyone wants to draft while they're at work, right?  let's do a vote, let me know if this time works for you
 
 Wednesday March 9, 8:30pm EST

[ratioci nation]

you should just pick a time and get it before even less are available, if someone cant make it, well, they arent losing any money

[Guiny]

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
  you should just pick a time and get it before even less are available, if someone cant make it, well, they arent losing any money

For once I agree with you.   :cool:

[keithstg]

Looking forward to it.

[Guiny]

Pokey Reese would be an obvious first round choice, Doug Glanville would be a close second....Just trying to help the people that's been out of it for awhile and needed a quick update.  

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
  you should just pick a time and get it before even less are available, if someone cant make it, well, they arent losing any money

oh, I've already picked the time ... and you're right, I guess a vote is unnecessary, if you can't make it, sorry ... blame mozilla ...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  Pokey Reese would be an obvious first round choice, Doug Glanville would be a close second....Just trying to help the people that's been out of it for awhile and needed a quick update.      

don't forget about otis nixon!

[HoyaSaxa03]

anyone know where i can get a really good, comprehensive "fantasy points" system? i'm running a couple of other leagues and i'm going to try it out in one of them ... i've seen plenty of real simple ones lying around the internet (30 points for win, etc), but i'm looking for one where someone's really done research, run statistical analysis, etc ... i'm sure it's out there somewhere, just haven't found it in my googling ... any ideas?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  i don't think anyone wants to draft while they're at work, right?  

I don't know that I was going to have much of a choice.      
 
 But 5:30 PT is not a bad time to do a draft at the office.

[vansmack]

By the way, after looking at the site, are we really starting 4 outfielders and two DH's (Utility) or has that stuff just not been set yet?

[Guiny]

That wouldnt usually fly in fantasy leagues, but Roto leagues I believe they usually do go with 2 utility players at least.....I think. Maybe not 4 outfielders.

[freddyadu]

Shouldn't we do it closer to opening day?  That way we will know about any position battles or rotation changes.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  By the way, after looking at the site, are we really starting 4 outfielders and two DH's (Utility) or has that stuff just not been set yet?

I haven't set the final numbers, because I didn't know how many teams would be in ... I'm actually kind of (pleasantly) surprised that we have 14 ...
 
 here's my thoughts on the roster topic (and I think i posted this on the first page of this thread):
 
 I don't want teams of superstars ... we should have to have people like cezar izturis on our team ... we should have to scrounge all over the waiver wire and find out that mark kata is having a good week ... we should have to know if a AAA stud is getting called up for a look at the bigs in september ...
 
 Otherwise it just turns into who has the better draft, who gets luckier drafting the superstars who happen to have a better year or don't get injured.
 
 I once played in an NFL league with 1 qb, 1 rb, 2 wr and 1 flex position ... it was the most fucking boring thing i've ever done in my life
 
 I usually just run an NL-only league to fix all these issues, but they're just as easily addressed by having an all-MLB league and expanding roster sizes
 
 OK, rant over ... there are 30 MLB teams and 14 fantasy teams in this league ... that means there are 30 starting infielders at each position in the big leagues, we only need to find the best 14 of those 30, which will mean mostly stars for our starting rosters ... enough bench slots should mean that other starters will be on rosters
 
 there are 90 starting outfielders in MLB, and seeing that outfielders are generally more offensively productive than infielders, i don't think it's a stretch at all to have 56 (14 x 4) of them on our starting rosters ... i wouldn't mind terribly switching it to 3, but i'd prefer 4...
 
 we could also make the utility slots more specified (i.e., "corner infielder" or "middle infielder")
 
 thoughts?

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by freddyadu:
  Shouldn't we do it closer to opening day?  That way we will know about any position battles or rotation changes.

A draft closer to opening day would be fantastic ... unfortunately, i'm late on the trigger, read above ... the only available evening draft times are next week ... we could do it a week before opening day at 2pm EST or something we decided we want to do this during work ...

[vansmack]

Originally posted by freddyadu:
  Shouldn't we do it closer to opening day?  That way we will know about any position battles or rotation changes.

I initially thought the same thing, but with 25 man rosters, it really shouldn't be a problem unless one of your top 3 draft choices get hurt in spring traning.  Then all bets are off.