Fantasy Baseball

[vansmack]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  here's my thoughts on the roster topic (and I think i posted this on the first page of this thread):

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention then.  I was pretty sure I wasn't participating.  I'll go back and read the whole thread a little more closely.
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
 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.

It's going to come down to that anyway, save for the "bonehead panic trade" in the first few months, which is inevitable.

[Guiny]

Is there a trade deadline. I think there should be. As for the drafting closer, I wouldnt be against it, but the 8:30 pm eastern time is to good of a time. I can't do this at work. But I'm only one person so.......

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  Is there a trade deadline. I think there should be. As for the drafting closer, I wouldnt be against it, but the 8:30 pm eastern time is to good of a time. I can't do this at work. But I'm only one person so.......

yes, there is, look in the settings ... let's come to a decision on roster sizes ... more thoughts anyone?

[freddyadu]

23-25 - all players active.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by freddyadu:
  23-25 - all players active.

Does that mean no DL?

[BookerT]

i think we should have:
 c
 1b
 2b
 3b
 ss
 of x5
 1b/3b
 2b/ss
 ut
 8 or 9 pitcher slots
 
 i wouldn't mind having up to a 2 person bench and up to 2 dl slots.
 
 it's looking unlikely i'll be able to participate in the live draft on wednesday, but i've already pre-ranked 200 players and will do maybe 200 more and am confident i will emerge with the best team. so there.

[Guiny]

I think:
 
 c
 1b
 2b
 3b
 ss
 Of X 4
 Util
 Util
 
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Rp
 Rp
 
 With 7 bench backups on the bench.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  I think:
 
 c
 1b
 2b
 3b
 ss
 Of X 4
 Util
 Util
 
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Sp
 Rp
 Rp
 
 With 7 bench backups on the bench.

I'm a purist, so I would only have 3 OF and one DH, but I know I'm in the minority so this is fine, except, I would change the pitching to:
 
 SP
 SP
 RP
 RP
 P
 P
 P
 
 so that I have the choice of starting more closers or starters (not to mention my love of the middle releivers) and am not locked into 5 SPs, depending on whether or not I'm looking for saves or wins, etc.

[freddyadu]

Originally posted by BookerT:
  i think we should have:
 c
 1b
 2b
 3b
 ss
 of x5
 1b/3b
 2b/ss
 ut
 8 or 9 pitcher slots
 
 i wouldn't mind having up to a 2 person bench and up to 2 dl slots.
 

I like this...the later rounds are always the most fun.  I think in yahoo fb there were DL slots or maybe have a DL slot but once the guy comes back from the DL you must decide between keeping the DL or the replacement.

[Guiny]

I do actually like Vansmack's pitching idea. It makes it more strategical to figure out if your going for saves or wins one week to the next.

[HoyaSaxa03]

you guys are nutz if you don't think we should have a good amount of bench slots .... i like the format we have right now:
 
 c
 1b
 2b
 SS
 3b
 of
 of
 of
 of
 util (any pos.)
 util (any pos.)
 
 p
 p
 p
 p
 p
 rp
 rp
 
 7 bench slots
 2 DL slots
 
 you're going to want plenty of bench slots to move SPs in and out, slumping hitters who you want to keep but don't want to start, etc ... remember we set our rosters daily, not weekly

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 
 SP
 SP
 RP
 RP
 P
 P
 P
 
 so that I have the choice of starting more closers or starters (not to mention my love of the middle releivers) and am not locked into 5 SPs, depending on whether or not I'm looking for saves or wins, etc.

smackie ... issues with this include relief pitchers who count in yahoo as SP/RP, which means people cheat and put middle relievers in SP slots ... when you have it like this it won't be too big of a problem, but last year i had a
 
 SP
 SP
 SP
 SP
 SP
 RP
 RP
 RP
 
 league and it wreaked HAVOC ... the good middle relievers who were designated SP/RP were suddenly worth tons ... it really fucked things up ...
 
 not sure it would happen with your setup, but i'd rather just stick to 5 "P" and 2 "RP"

[BookerT]

remember we set our rosters daily, not weekly

is there going to be a games limit per position? or are we just continuously cycling players in and out. i realize that most days everyone plays, but there are lots of mondays and thursdays where that's not the case.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by BookerT:
   

remember we set our rosters daily, not weekly

is there going to be a games limit per position? or are we just continuously cycling players in and out. i realize that most days everyone plays, but there are lots of mondays and thursdays where that's not the case. [/b]

yes, 162 games per position, you can't just cycle in and out every day and get 180 games from 3B or something ... all the league settings are  here

[vansmack]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  not sure it would happen with your setup, but i'd rather just stick to 5 "P" and 2 "RP"

There's no difference between 5 P's and two SP's and 3 Ps for what I was trying to accomplish, which was giving some value to middle relievers.  With 5 SP slots and 2 RP slots as was suggested, you would almost never use a middle releiver (who never starts) because their is no stat for him (unless we add holds).  
 
 In other leagues, we use two SP's, 2 RPs and 3 P's because people got in to the practice of burning up their innings before the trade deadline, then trade their quality SP's for hitters.  Then they would use their last 150 innings with all closers/setup men.  To quell this practice, we required that two of those spots be SP's so that they couldn't have 7 closers/set-up guys.  But you're right, with the SP/RP of a lot of pitchers, it wasn't as effective as we had hoped.
 
 And for the record, the burning up innings approach has never produced a winner in our league, but giving somebody a #1 or #2 starter for hitters at the deadline has aided more than a few teams to victory.