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TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:40 pm

OK folks its almost time for pitchers and catchers to report so I set up the league. PM me with your Yahoo handle & and I'll send you the info to sign up. We're going back to daily lineups this year, and at the moment I have it set for head to head, although I could be persuaded to go with rotosserie too.

League Name: [TR] Congressional Hearing
Season Type: Full
Draft Type: Live Draft
Draft Time: Wed Mar 19 10:00pm CDT [ Add to My Calendar ]
Max Teams: 10
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Player Universe: All baseball
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: August 17, 2008
Waiver Time: 2 days
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: Commissioner
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Acquisitions per Week: No maximum
Min Innings Pitched: 7
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow
Start Scoring on: Week 1
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL
Stat Categories: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:44 pm

w00t!

Maybe I can end my string of runners-up and actually win one.

edit: I'm in!
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:30 pm

until I figure out how to sticky threads in phpbb3, I'm going to keep bumping this
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:21 pm

Should be fun :)

Do you have any idea on how long the draft will last?

Also, what happens is 2 or 3 people don't show up for the draft, do they just get auto picked?
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:42 pm

I'll join if it's rotosserie. Head to head is just too depressing.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:47 pm

themattman wrote:
Do you have any idea on how long the draft will last?

Also, what happens is 2 or 3 people don't show up for the draft, do they just get auto picked?

The draft will take an hour or so. If you don't show Yahoo will autopick for you based on its rankings unless you set different rankings. In my experience drafts go quicker if more managers are live. Even though we all know that Yahoo will auto-pick the highest-rated remaining player it always waits until the last second to do so. Draft slots are usually 90 seconds long; it's the rare day that I take 45 seconds to pull the trigger.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:33 am

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Draft slots are usually 90 seconds long; it's the rare day that I take 45 seconds to pull the trigger.

Same here, the couple times I could actually make the draft. It's at a good time this year, I should be able to do it. It's also alot of fun to watch idchafee curse Kevin because they're drafting from the same list. ;)
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:36 am

Kevin wrote:
I'll join if it's rotosserie. Head to head is just too depressing.


I'm open to either system. All I'm set on is daily roster moves. Any thoughts?
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:45 pm

I'm partial to head to head myself... but Rotiserrie was fun too.. One thing I don't like too much about rotisserie though is that it's hard to catch up to the leaders if you fall behind.. Head to Head you aren't out of it until the playoffs...
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:46 pm

Rotisserie is OK, but I really like head-to-head, as to me it seems like it's easier for a manager to dig himself out of a hole, because stats don't aggregate.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:02 pm

i'd like to join if there's still a spot open
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:16 pm

Yay, my favorite time of year. Now it's time to make sure my team isnt horrible.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:00 am

2 slots left
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:52 am

i'm signed up. looks like there'll be some stiff competition. thanks for letting me join!
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:06 pm

How locked-in are we to that draft date/time? I ask because, the middle of the week, at 11 EDT is a bit tough for me (with getting up before 6 for work and all).

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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:19 am

Hey any openings left? if so, I am game.....I am guessing this is a non salary league where everyone just takes the best player next (according to the position that is next) is this correct? Time slot is fine with me, if I can't make it, auto draft isn't always the worse if you can make good smart moves. Sign me up!!!!
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:22 am

Right, no salary cap so nobody is stuck with So Taguchi (unless they want to be, and then they're just throwing the league). Looks like there's still 2 slots, budman007, just send a PM to idchafee.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:42 am

Turkina wrote:
How locked-in are we to that draft date/time? I ask because, the middle of the week, at 11 EDT is a bit tough for me (with getting up before 6 for work and all).

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I'm not married to it, but I think a weekday evening draft would the easiest for people to make and Y! doesn't have oodles of weekday evenings available.

I'll look at times.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:52 pm

An hour earlier some weekday night would be OK, but Wed and Thurs nights, 9pm CDT is the earliest I can be on. But no matter who it is, the draft time taht the *most* people can make would be the best.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:36 am

According to Yahoo, draft day is "is 8 days, 10 hours, and 24 minutes from now", so mark your calendars!

Hopefully by then we'll have a good feel for who's going to be on the DL opening day and who will be ready to go.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:18 pm

TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW NITE! Who's going to be there live? I should be, with any luck.
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:37 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW NITE! Who's going to be there live? I should be, with any luck.


I plan to be there
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:49 pm

I am ready.

I have a few questions though:

Is there a special applet or some sort of "draft page" to show you who has been drafted and when it is your turn?
Is your TOP 25 really relevant? Can you pick people in whatever order you choose?
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:30 pm

themattman wrote:
I am ready.

I have a few questions though:

Is there a special applet or some sort of "draft page" to show you who has been drafted and when it is your turn?
Is your TOP 25 really relevant? Can you pick people in whatever order you choose?

Yahoo has a Java applet that shows the whole draft process. It works well. The "Top 25" thing is all about you rating/ranking players differently than Yahoo's default rankings so that if you spent draft night passed out on the couch Yahoo would pick your team according to your rankings instead of Yahoo's.
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Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:30 pm

30 minutes to go!

themattman wrote:
Is there a special applet or some sort of "draft page" to show you who has been drafted and when it is your turn?


Yeah, there's a java applet. its pretty sweet.

themattman wrote:
Is your TOP 25 really relevant? Can you pick people in whatever order you choose?


Y! only uses the top 25 if you're not at the live draft.
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Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:33 pm

heh, that reminds me, need to install Java.
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Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:38 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
heh, that reminds me, need to install Java.


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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:27 pm

i totally won the draft. :D

edit: hey, how are stats accumulated for the Japan game on the 26th? Are they added to the rest of week 1?
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:11 pm

Sorry I couldn't make.. decided to go out for an impromptu night with the missus :D

But good luck everyone, and I hope that I can beat the crap out of all of you :D
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Re: TR Fantasy Baseball 2008

Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:23 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
i totally won the draft. :D

edit: hey, how are stats accumulated for the Japan game on the 26th? Are they added to the rest of week 1?


You do have a pretty scary pitching staff....
I believe Week 1 is from March 26th - April 6. The way I count it, its possible (though unlikely I suppose) that Dice-K could pitch 3 games in that span (in 3 different countries).

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