Fantasy Baseball

while the forum provides so much time for work diversions, i need a little diversity in my day, which is why fantasy sports are the best invention since sliced bread ….

shit-talking is also essential to fantasy sports (and this board, it seems), so let's get a yahoo! baseball league going for the board …. any takers??

be forewarned, i'm a sabermetrics nerd who much prefers to use 5x5 system like: OBP / SLG / HR / RBI / R … WHIP / ERA / W / Ks / SVs

Environmental think tanks don't get much work these days, so they? And that wasn't really your "girlfriends" UVA shirt, was it?

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
Environmental think tanks don't get much work these days, so they? And that wasn't really your "girlfriends" UVA shirt, was it?

yeah, you seem like a real nose-to-the-grind kinda guy yourself …. and, yes, it was my girlfriend's shirt, why else would i own a UVA shirt?

guess i should have check on this before opening my mouth … looks like they're not signing up leagues yet, probably another week or two ….

oliver perez is this year's johan santana. book it. go bucs!

I'm down for this…always wanted to be in a fantasy league,…

Who do you fantisize about more, Johnny Damon or A-Rod?

Originally posted by Fico:
I'm down for this…always wanted to be in a fantasy league,…

DUH!!!!!

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Originally posted by BookerT:
oliver perez is this year's johan santana. book it. go bucs!

Last year in our league a guy drafted Odalis Perez in the early rounds and I said, "Did you mean to say Oliver Perez?"

He said, "Who's Oliver Perez?"

I said "Nevermind."

I drafted him in the next to last round. And I named my team "Who's Oliver Perez?"

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by BookerT:
oliver perez is this year's johan santana. book it. go bucs!

Last year in our league a guy drafted Odalis Perez in the early rounds and I said, "Did you mean to say Oliver Perez?"

He said, "Who's Oliver Perez?"

I said "Nevermind."

I drafted him in the next to last round. And I named my team "Who's Oliver Perez?"

the fantasy basketball league i'm in right now is called "kobe raped your sister" … we're real classy gents ….

Originally posted by vansmack:

I drafted him in the next to last round. And I named my team "Who's Oliver Perez?"

you drafted Oliver Perez??? isn't he a Pirate? a no-no in fanasy leagues…..

my first pick is David Wells….

i'll play NL only league.

I'm in no doubt. Play AL/NL.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by vansmack:

I drafted him in the next to last round. And I named my team "Who's Oliver Perez?"

you drafted Oliver Perez??? isn't he a Pirate? a no-no in fanasy leagues…..

Perez had a sub 3.00 ERA in over 30 starts, with a greater than 1-1 SO to innings pitched ratio. Only Randy Johnson was better.

Jack Wilson hit .308 and had 201 hits as a shortstop.

Jay Bay hit 26 HRs in his rookie season and he missed the first two months.

Craig Wilson hit 29 HRs, despite having a plummeting batting average in the second half of the season. Oh, and he was catcher eligible.

I don't even need to mention Jason Kendall over the last 6 seasons. He will be missed, (but his paycheck won't be).

Jose Mesa had 43 saves on a sub .500 team.

Anything else about the fantasy value of the Bucs?

Isn't all baseball fantasy? I mean doesn't ones mind tend to wander into fantasy while you're waiting for something to happen down on the field?

And do you know why they have cheerleaders during runny-catchy games? So there's something interesting to see….

I always "fantasized" about a live-action Board softball game…that might be fun…

This will be my 10th year in the Maine league I play in. We play don't play the rotisarie style that suggested at the beginning of this thread. It's more of a point system. We keep six players from year to year, this year I kept Todd Helton, Mike Lowell, Adrian Beltre, Bartolo Colon, Roger Clemens and Danny Kolb. The saddest thing was waiving Larry Walker who I've had the past nine years. I'm hoping to get him back in the draft. As for Oliver Perez, he was protected in our league.

Originally posted by Celeste:
I always "fantasized" about a live-action Board softball game…that might be fun…

I've often fantasized about Celeste, but it had nothing to do with soft balls! :D

oh dear!

aiight, let's do this ….

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/register/joinprivateleague
league id: # 78680
password: keaneissocool

basically my philosophy with running a fantasy league is:

a) get the best representation as possible of a player's value, if the stat category is old and outdated, don't use it.

b) don't have a team full of superstars, that's just boring, you should have to troll the waiver wires for people like cesar izturis and see who's getting called in up in the fall

that said, i made it a total of 14 teams, with a bunch of players on each team, so the talent is diluted …

i threw a bunch of stat categories in there, and most of them can be up for debate … but i really like having holds (gives set-up men real value), OBP, and SLG.

we'll definitely have a live draft, i'll have to change that option when we get the league filled up and we decide on a date/time.

let me know if you have any questions/suggestions