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Bragging/Crying about your other leagues

Nymr83 Apr 01 2006 08:09 PM

...and i'll do a little of both to start us off, my 10 team NL-only auction went pretty, i'm sure you'll all hear about it (or skim over it) later in the year, but first my 12-team NL-only auction... i came into the draft with a bad set of keepers (Turnbow for $1 on a $260 budget and nobody else worth mentioning) and a partner who wouldnt let me bid on the guys i wanted, i ended up with this monstrosity: C: Estrada, Ardoin CI: Delgado, Bell, Sanchez MI: Greene, Matsui (for $1), Aurilia OF: P.Wilson, Edmonds, Pierre (at a whopping $44, i always punt steals, well not htis time), McLouth, Sledge UT: Piedra P: Turnbow, Weathers, W.Williams, Cain, Borowski, Schmidt, C.Young, Lidle, Claussen Minors (the only area i'm happy with): Andy LaRoche, Carlos Quentin, and Carlos Gonzalez This team is destined for the bottom of the standings.

metirish Apr 01 2006 08:14 PM

I am in four leagues, the one I am in for money I just traded Jason Schmidt, Aaron Rowen and Juan Peirre for Seo, Delgado and Jose Guillen.

Rotblatt Apr 02 2006 07:47 AM

I missed my draft for a SABRE-oriented league which doesn't value steals at all. I neglected to pre-rank, so Yahoo! took Reyes & Furcal back to back in rounds 3 & 4. Ugly. I can't really complain, though, since it's my own fault. And it's kind of fun doing damage control. I traded in my worst picks for some high-upside youngsters who won starting jobs this spring. I doubt many of them will pan out, but it'll be fun to see how they do. If it were my only league, I'd be pissed, but since I'm also in an NL-only keeper league & a public Yahoo! league where my drafts went pretty well, I'm looking at this one as a challenge.

Nymr83 Apr 02 2006 09:02 AM

metirish wrote: I am in four leagues, the one I am in for money I just traded Jason Schmidt, Aaron Rowen and Juan Peirre for Seo, Delgado and Jose Guillen. i'll assume this is a 10 or 12 team NL-only since all 6 players you mentioned are national leaguers? I hope you have another source of speed.

metirish Apr 02 2006 11:31 AM

No it's an AL/NL league, as for speed I have Reyes, although Tejada is the SS.....

OlerudOwned Apr 02 2006 02:09 PM

I have a team in a league for another Mets board (forgive me, I've been unfaithful). 10 team, H2H. C- Micheal Barrett 1B- Derek Lee/Jason Giambi 2B- Rickie Weeks/Placido Polanco (3B elig) 3B- Hank Blalock SS- Miguel Tejada LF- Johnny Gomes (RF elig)/Curtis Granderson (CF elig) CF- Johnny Damon/Ken Griffey Jr./Willy Tavarez/Joey Gathright RF- Jeff Francoeur SP- Carlos Zambrano/Dontrell Willis/Scott Kazmir/Rodrigo Lopez/Ervin Santana/Jorge Sosa/Freddy Garcia RP-Billy Wagner/Huston Street/Francisco Cordero I figured I could move Damon or Griffey with a low starter to upgrade my pitching

GYC Apr 02 2006 05:04 PM

In the same league as OlerudOwned...: C: Jason Varitek (C) 1B: Carlos Delgado (1B) 2B: Felipe Lopez (2B, SS) 3B: Miguel Cabrera (3B, LF) SS: Jimmy Rollins (SS) LF: Carl Crawford (LF, CF) CF: Torii Hunter (CF) RF: Chad Tracy (1B, RF) UTIL: Adrian Beltre (3B) BN: Aaron Rowand (CF) BN: Nick Swisher (1B, RF) BN: Jose Guillen (RF) BN: Luis Castillo (2B) BN: Javier Valentin (C) SP: Mark Buehrle, Cliff Lee, Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Tom Glavine, Bruce Chen RP: Mariano Rivera, Brad Lidge, Chris Ray, Mike Gonzalez

Zvon Apr 02 2006 05:04 PM

a 6 team h2h league with my brothers and some friends. Many more catagories. C - J. Mauer / M. Barrett 1B - R. Howard 2B - B. Roberts 3B - M. Ensberg / M. Mora SS - J. Reyes / J. Peralta OF - J. Bay / G. Sheffield / G. Sizemore / C.Floyd / J. Francoeur Util - T. Hafner SP - Jo. Santana / D. Willis / J. Smoltz / M. Buehrle / F. Garcia / J. Garland RP - B. Lidge / T. Hoffman / J. Isringhausen I figure Im gonna get 150+ games from Reyes, so Ill probly move Peralta for some insurance at 1b for Howard ( tho I dont think its needed - I expect great numbers from him ). Does anyone else think maybe we should have split the CPF up into 2 leagues?

Nymr83 Apr 02 2006 06:23 PM

no way, shallow leagues are B-O-R-I-N-G.

Zvon Apr 04 2006 05:02 PM

Nymr83 wrote: no way, shallow leagues are B-O-R-I-N-G. You think 9 teams would be shallow? Boring? Not me. According to statistics the ideal league is 12 teams.

Diamond Dad Apr 05 2006 07:56 AM Draft night last nigh!

The best night of the year is Draft Night in my main league, called Rotissaria. The league was founded in 1987 and I've been in since 1989. Back in the stone age when we did stats by hand and faxed them to the commish, who did the standings by hand (once per month). League uses 13 stat categories -- 8 for hitters (.avg/runs/HR/RBI/doubles+triples/Walks-minus-strikeouts/Net steals/errors) and 5 for pitchers (net wins/ERA/WHIP/K/S) The league does not allow free agent acquisitions during the season, so you have to draft backups or wait for the supplemental draft in June. Keepers are allowed 15 picks earlier than drafted the prior year -- but you have to maintain the player on your roster all season -- can't keep players acquired in trades. It's very competitive! 16 owners, and we draft 40 rounds. I had a great first 5 rounds, snagging Pujols (2nd overall), Damon, Rolen, Schilling, and Delgado (yea!). Then things started to fall apart. There had been a run on the best closers early, which I stayed away from figuring I could get a couple of useable closers later. Got Bobby Crosby in the 6th and then took Cliff Floyd (another Met!) but didn't get my closer. (Remember, I'm picking 2nd in the order, so I get 2 picks within 4 overall picks at each corner, then I wait 31 picks for the draft to get back to me). There was then a run on secondary closers while I waited for my 8th round pick. I was left with Foulke in the 8th and then grabbed Zito in the 9th (can't start him in week #1 after his bad outing, but should be a steal by the end of the year). So, after 9 rounds I had two starters (Schilling and Zito), two first basemen, a third baseman, a shortstop, a closer, and two outfielders. Then things got ugly. I needed another closer (we use 3 relievers, one of whom must be a middle man) but everyone was gone by round 10 and I took injured Mike MacDougal, hoping to also get Ambroix Burgos later. I then took a flyer on Rocco Baldelli, who will either be the best pick in the 11th round or a dud. In retrospect, I should have taken a more solid outfield choice. 12-13 swing I took another starter (Jeff Weaver -- just missed out on Kelvim Escobar) and then jumped up way to early and took Fernando Rodney -- hoping to be able to trade him to the owner of Todd Jones. 14-15 got my second baseman (Josh Barfield) and the best available hitter (Frank Thomas), but ultimately I got shut out of several starters I wanted and several outfielders I wanted. I did get some great prospects later in the draft (Ian Stewart, Jon Lester, Phillip Hughes, and Brandon Wood) and some great sleeper pitchers (Gil Meche, Angel Guzman, Rich Hill, Wade Miller) but I'm going to end up starting Juan Encarnacion and Casey Blake in my outfleld. Still, it was 4 hours of pure adrenlin!!! Loved it, as always. Now . . if Baldelli gets healthy . . and if Thomas stays healthy and hits big . . . and Crosby's hand injury isn't serious . . . and Zito bounces back . . . and . . . and . . . .

Nymr83 Apr 05 2006 09:37 AM

Zvon wrote: Nymr83 wrote: no way, shallow leagues are B-O-R-I-N-G. You think 9 teams would be shallow? Boring? Not me. According to statistics the ideal league is 12 teams. 9 teams is mind-bogglingly shallow for a mixed league. 12 is the bear minimum i'd want in a mixed league. i am in a 12 team NL-only league right now that uses the standard 23 starting players, thats depth.

Diamond Dad Apr 05 2006 10:10 AM Depth

I've never been in an NL-only league, but I agree that 9 teams in a mixed league is ridiculous -- it's an all-star team. Stud at every position. Key is to pick the best studs. 9 teams means that your top 5 starters are only 45 pitchers -- that's basically the #1 and #2 starters from each ML team, with several to spare. I like it better when you have to choose between starting Tomo Okha or Ryan Franklin this week, instead of whether to start Tom Glavine or Jason Schmidt

Nymr83 Apr 14 2006 12:33 PM

Fantasy baseball is a funny game sometimes, i drafted a team (in an auction league) that i thought was short on power but full of steals... well i've got 2 steals and 14 homers so far

GYC Apr 17 2006 08:23 PM

GYC wrote: In the same league as OlerudOwned...: C: Jason Varitek (C) 1B: Carlos Delgado (1B) 2B: Felipe Lopez (2B, SS) 3B: Miguel Cabrera (3B, LF) SS: Jimmy Rollins (SS) LF: Carl Crawford (LF, CF) CF: Torii Hunter (CF) RF: Chad Tracy (1B, RF) UTIL: Adrian Beltre (3B) BN: Aaron Rowand (CF) BN: Nick Swisher (1B, RF) BN: Jose Guillen (RF) BN: Luis Castillo (2B) BN: Javier Valentin (C) SP: Mark Buehrle, Cliff Lee, Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Tom Glavine, Bruce Chen RP: Mariano Rivera, Brad Lidge, Chris Ray, Mike Gonzalez Scoring didn't start until Week 2. I won easily. Glavine is looking like the steal of the draft so far. Unless, someone drafted Shelton. But probably not.

OlerudOwned Apr 20 2006 01:54 PM

OlerudOwned wrote: I have a team in a league for another Mets board (forgive me, I've been unfaithful). 10 team, H2H. C- Micheal Barrett 1B- Derek Lee/Jason Giambi 2B- Rickie Weeks/Placido Polanco (3B elig) 3B- Hank Blalock SS- Miguel Tejada LF- Johnny Gomes (RF elig)/Curtis Granderson (CF elig) CF- Johnny Damon/Ken Griffey Jr./Willy Tavarez/Joey Gathright RF- Jeff Francoeur SP- Carlos Zambrano/Dontrell Willis/Scott Kazmir/Rodrigo Lopez/Ervin Santana/Jorge Sosa/Freddy Garcia RP-Billy Wagner/Huston Street/Francisco Cordero I figured I could move Damon or Griffey with a low starter to upgrade my pitching I did wind up moving Griffey during the 1st week of the season, for Josh Beckett. Then Griffey got hurt and the team who aquired him had no DL space left due to a rash of injuries was forced to drop him. I have an empty DL, so the waiver pick up is pending. I'm an asshole.

Nymr83 Apr 20 2006 05:04 PM

what the hell kind of league is shallow enough that dropping griffey is even a choice?

cooby Apr 25 2006 06:20 PM

Beltran, from CBS Sports Fantasy: Center fielder Carlos Beltran is not expected to play for the Mets during their three-game series at San Francisco, and he is to be re-evaluated when the team arrives in Atlanta. "We'll see how it feels Friday and go from there," manager Willie Randolph said. The worst-case scenario would be for the Mets to use him as a pinch hitter, have him get re-injured and then go on the disabled list. Should he not play against the Giants and still go on the disabled list, the move could be made retroactive to April 22. (Updated 04/25/2006). FANTASY ANALYSIS Keep Beltran reserved in all Fantasy leagues until he can officially return and prove his health in consecutive games without any lingering effects of the injury This is the same freakin place that told me to go ahead and keep him active for this coming week, mutter mutter mutter

cooby May 10 2006 09:02 PM

19-54, 0.352 BA, 4 2B, 7 RBI, 10 R, 2 SB, 3 BB 15.5 INN, 14 HA, 5 BBI, 12 K, 6 ER, 3.240 ERA, 1.140 WHIP, 4 W My league stats for tonight; if I had this every night, I'd be in first place... I had an open spot in my roster so I just picked up Phillies new phenom Cole Hamels (they went on and on and on about him on the Phillies broadcast). I hope he doesn't pitch against the Mets next week

smg58 May 10 2006 10:12 PM

He's pitching Friday, and not on the waiver wire in our league just yet. But he's had a great start to the year in the minors (1.04 ERA, 65 K's in 43 innings).

cooby Jun 03 2006 09:36 PM

All these extra inning games are doing a number on my batting average

seawolf17 Jun 11 2006 07:06 AM

You know, as soon as I drop El Duque and Soler, they turn into freaking Cy Young candidates. I'm going to go trade for Steve Trachsel and then drop him.

Nymr83 Jun 11 2006 12:37 PM

i've had basically that kind of year myself

cooby Aug 08 2006 10:26 AM

Anybody else have a team at CBS Sportsline? I can't get on that website today at all http://www.sportsline.com/fantasy

cooby Aug 15 2006 06:30 PM

Ouch my aching ERA...

cooby Mar 21 2007 07:35 PM

My husband and I have started a league where we work. It's slowly filling up but we should have the 10 we need by our draft. We've been doing some recruiting in the meantime, and have some people thinking about it. His assistant Chris, is so cute... Today she said to me, "I don't know much about baseball, but I'm learning...I already know two pitchers!" Now, the way she said it would be like if somebody else said "I know two pitchers' names" But in her case, she actually does know two pitchers; she went to high school with both Mike Mussina and Eric Milton

cooby Mar 27 2007 07:42 PM

Guess Donner's gotta go...

cooby Apr 04 2007 07:53 PM

I need to figure out a way to weasel Beltran away from Mike

Nymr83 Apr 04 2007 10:09 PM

we had the auction in my keeper league, heres my team (10 team nl only) C (2)- Barajas, Miller 1B- Fielder 2B- Phillips 3B- Ramirez SS- Everett CI- Ensberg MI- Hardy OF (5)- Berkman, Bay, Cameron, Hart, Scott UT- Kouzmanoff P (9)- Reyes, Sheets, Lilly, Cook, Davis, K.Wells, W.Williams, Valverde, Lidge Bench- Saltalamachia, Logan, C.Gonzalez, S.Hairston, M.Gonzalez, Humber i like my hitting, i'm sure it looks weak to anyone who is used to shallow skill-less leagues but for a 10-team NL-only its good. i could use better starting pitching and their age worries me too, none of those middle of the road guys are going to breakout and join Sheets as aces. i like to stock my bench with prospects, it is a keeper league after all. i also took gonzalez in case wickman loses his job and logan for cheap steals if i need those.

metirish Apr 05 2007 07:28 AM

For an NL only team that's pretty good,and your pitching isn't terrible by any means,hell if Lilly and Wells keep giving you good starts like they did this week then it's all good. What about Lidge...fantasy owners don't know what to do with him.

Nymr83 Apr 05 2007 11:03 AM

he was one of my 8 keepers actually, the guy is a mess but at $16 ($260 budget) i couldnt just let him go. i was upset not to get dan wheeler (he went for like $6 which is too much for a non-closer reliever) to back him up

cooby Apr 08 2007 06:51 PM

While checking my lineup today, I found out that one of my players (Tim Salmon) is retired. Why would they even list him during the draft? Boy, do I feel like a schmuck.

Nymr83 Apr 08 2007 07:23 PM

my guess would be he retired with a contract in place and.or didn;'t officially file retirement papers by the time the website built their database for the year....why would you want Salmon anyway?

cooby Apr 08 2007 07:27 PM

I nabbed him very late in our draft, figuring he would make a good utility player to start out with until I had time to tend to my team. I had him on reserve all week anyway, so either way I lost, but geez. My husband got a good laugh out of it anyway...

A Boy Named Seo Apr 09 2007 10:38 AM

That's pretty funny, girl. BTW- If you have Darryl Kile in your rotation, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.

Nymr83 Apr 09 2007 11:13 AM

LOL

cooby Apr 09 2007 03:34 PM

I oughta check, they probably have him available, sheesh.

cooby Jun 14 2007 07:19 PM

One of my guys, and I wonder why I am plummeting toward last place: Craig Monroe struck out five times Thursday, matching a major league record for a nine-inning game. (Updated 06/14/2007).

Nymr83 Jul 26 2007 01:35 PM

I'm pretty dead in this league, but my $$$ league is doing ok. I'm in 4th place right now, 11 points behind the leader. the top 5 teams have all traded away keepers to the bottom 5 teams for top players so all the top teams look stacked. I'm now the not-so-proud-owner of Tom Glavine, who i received for a useless (to me) Kevin Kouzmanoff. Phillips and Hart have been great keeper decisions but 2 of my other keepers from last year, Bay and Lidge, have kicked my ass. Lidge has since been dealt along with Berkman to bring back Penny, O.Hudson, and Rowand. anyone else want to keep us updated on their teams? Coobie?

metsmarathon Jul 26 2007 01:39 PM

in one of my many many other leagues, i'm trading mark teixeira and jason bay for albert pujols and brian mccann.

Nymr83 Jul 26 2007 01:44 PM

who is mccann replacing in your lineup and who goes into bay's spot? that looks like a good trade unless you're benching a good catcher (V-Mart, Mauer)

metsmarathon Jul 26 2007 01:46 PM

mccann either replaces jason bay directly in my util spot, or mike napoli gets dropped for the best available free agent hitter. also, its a keeper league, and bay, once a keeper of mine, is more replaceable than a mccann, i think.

Nymr83 Jul 26 2007 02:19 PM

most definitely, McCann is a guy to have in keeper leagues, Bay at this point really isn't.

metirish Sep 17 2007 08:41 PM

I'm in the championship game in this league. Yahoo Public 105327 (ID# 105327) http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/105327

metsmarathon Sep 21 2007 01:33 PM

nice. i'm battling for my second championship in three years in my mofo keeper league. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b2/2739

metirish Oct 01 2007 07:03 AM

I won that league above, I'm proud as punch as it's the first I have ever won, did four leagues this year, tow on yahoo , won one and finished second to last in our league, played two on CBS and lost in the championship matchup in one and didn't make the playoffs in the other.

Nymr83 Oct 01 2007 08:52 AM

4th in my money league, tied for 3rd if Josh Fogg gets a W today (he's not on my team but it would take a half point away from the guy ahead of me)

metsmarathon Oct 01 2007 09:40 AM

and i win as well, on a tie-breaker. yay, me.

Fman99 Oct 22 2007 02:29 PM

Won a keeper league I started up in 2002. My first win, after blowing the lead on the last day of '02. First prize was $510. Having Wright, Beltran and John Maine, among others, helped my cause.

metsmarathon Mar 17 2008 11:16 AM

heading into year four of the mofo fantasy baseball league (which i've won twice) i had to choose five keepers of the following: brandon webb john lackey travis hafner chone figgins albert pujols nick markakis curtis granderson brian mccann rushed for a decision, i selected webb, lackey, pujols, markakis, and granderson, and immediately cursed myself for leaving hafner unprotected. i had also, in the finals last season, absentmindedly dropped carlos guillen to try for a quick boost in stolen bases for the win. i didn't get the stolen bases i had hoped for, but won anyway, on a tiebreaker. in the first round of the draft, i was sweating bullets, hoping to correct both mistakes. happily, i was able to do exactly that. i forget when mccann was taken, but it was fairly later in the draft, i think, and figgins wasn't taken for a while - conditions i dont expect would've been duplicated for either granderson or markakis - so i think it turned out as well as possible. as for the rest of my team, i have no idea who i ended up with - i can't really check on these things from work anymore. but seven rounds in, i was pretty happy.

cooby Apr 16 2008 07:03 PM

Friggin Thome

willpie Apr 17 2008 09:59 AM

I'm currently getting freakin' schooled in my first H2H league. Sad, sad state of affairs. It's a 20-team league with a bunch of people some of whom claim not even to know much about baseball and they're rocking my world weekly. Everyone on my team is hurt or cold (except Bill Hall, who seems to be cooling off). Not good times.

willpie Oct 14 2008 08:36 AM

So it turns out I suck at fantasy football. I'm 1-5 right now, after squeaking out a victory this week. Taking Tom Brady with my first round pick was bad luck, but 1-5 doesn't come down to just a QB. I'm consistently lousy. This is my first year playing fantasy football, but I figured I know a bit about football, I have a decent sense of how fantasy sports work, and how hard can it be? Oops. Also, in my baseball H2H league, I juuuuust made the playoffs and ended up 11th out of 20 teams after a very strong end of the season. I'm beginning to hate H2H in all its forms.

cooby Oct 14 2008 12:57 PM

Knock on big wood, but I am 6-0.

Nymr83 Oct 14 2008 12:59 PM

i hate H2H. i'm not doing football at all this year (except for a pick 'em)

Vic Sage Oct 16 2008 03:46 PM

i won a H2H baseball league, which was some consolation for sucking in the Cranepool league this year. But i agree, 83... i hate H2H. I dont do football, but i'm planning on doing basketball again this year. My boy David Lee is about to have a breakout year, baby!

metsmarathon Oct 07 2009 08:43 AM Re: Bragging/Crying about your other leagues

for the third year out of five, i have won the mofo fantasy baseball keeper league. i seem to win every other year. sadly, in prior years, i never received any of my chamionship booty. the first year, i had no address info on my yahoo profile. the next season i updated my address, but finished in teh bottom of the league. when i won in the third year of the league, i had recently moved, but never updated my address. last year i finished dead last. this year, i finished again in first. but now i've got a correct address. i can't wait to get either my bobblehead or t-shirt loot. halfway through the season, i was in 10th place out of 12 teams. i rocketed back into 2nd place for the playoffs, and carried that through to take the title. all while carrying brandon webb on the DL since the dawn of the season. i've only got one stud on my roster in pujols and maybe javy vazquez. the rest of my team looks kindof like a bobby valentine outfield. i'm in great shape to suck next year, continuing a rather intriguing trend.