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Posted By: J Geoff
2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/04/14 10:24 PM
It's that time of year again!
Invitations have been sent out to last year's league. If you don't wish to return then please let me know. Also, if you want to play and didn't play last year, I'll put you on a waiting list.
The Draft date is currently set for
Tue Mar 18 7:00pm EDT.
Note: The regular season starts a week early (March 22nd), with a short series in Australia.
2013 Results
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/06/14 07:03 PM
DMC requested earlier than 7 PM ET for the draft so it might be 6:30 PM ET -- please vote on the league page.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/06/14 07:14 PM
Every year we have a self imposed SP limit of 162 starts, and every year people ignore it and the commissioners have to babysit their teams. I was thinking we could try something new. We can set a starting pitching innings limit in the game. We can set it around 1150 innings which equals approximately 162 starts @ 7 innings per start.
Thoughts?
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/07/14 07:01 AM
I wish Plaw was here to evaluate that.
I'll point out that the modern IP records for SPs are hovering around 250 IP/season [
source]... and I know those are EXTREME numbers. 6 SPs x 250 = 1150, so, I don't think 1150 would too many. In fact, that'd be generous. But I'm still not certain if that's a better way to go...
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/07/14 09:53 PM
I'm just trying to think of an alternative to having to keep on eye on every team when July comes around. I'm just using 162 games times 7 innings. 1150 is the closest to that, but it can be set slightly less.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/08/14 07:22 AM
I'm just trying to think of an alternative to having to keep on eye on every team when July comes around.
I should've kept a list from the past few years and just not invited ppl back who've done that more than once.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/09/14 06:12 AM
I'm just trying to think of an alternative to having to keep on eye on every team when July comes around.
I should've kept a list from the past few years and just not invited ppl back who've done that more than once.
We should do it this year. Anyone that goes over the limit due to quiting, doesn't play next year.
Posted By: Lilo
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/09/14 03:00 PM
I'm trying to better understand the issue. If you set the limit to x innings, won't yahoo stop accumulating stats for that position?
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/09/14 04:37 PM
I'm trying to better understand the issue. If you set the limit to x innings, won't yahoo stop accumulating stats for that position?
Yes. That is what I suggested to try. Normally we don't have an innings limit, but instead an 162 game start limit. The game doesn't allow us to automatically limit starts though. Only innings.
Posted By: Lilo
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/09/14 06:22 PM
I'm trying to better understand the issue. If you set the limit to x innings, won't yahoo stop accumulating stats for that position?
Yes. That is what I suggested to try. Normally we don't have an innings limit, but instead an 162 game start limit. The game doesn't allow us to automatically limit starts though. Only innings.
I see said the blind man. Well I don't think the commissioner should have to watch teams but I also don't think people can or should be trusted to abide by a gentleman's/woman's agreement. Every man for himself and God against us all so to speak. I think, if it is really an issue, then an automatic inning limit would be the way to go.
I agree with the innings limit. We have to do something, and I agree that if people quit they don't get invited back next year. I'd rather have less teams than have people quit.
Also, you are all going to lose anyway so does it really matter how you lose?
Let the games begin.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/14/14 08:08 PM
The quitting teams that go over the GS limit are usually the teams at the bottom of the pack anyway. Except me. I
was the bottom of the pack and didn't quit/go over.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/14/14 08:15 PM
Okay, 4 days to go, and I've changed the draft time to 6:30 PM ET
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/17/14 09:24 PM
Below is this year's draft order:
To set the order, I went through the following steps:
1 - I went to
http://www.random.org/, DB's favorite random order generator website
2 - Using "Integer Generator" to pick a number between 1 and 20, I got:
Here are your random numbers: 13
Timestamp: 2014-03-17 21:16:29 UTC
3 - I went to "List Randomizer" and input our list of owners (list from top to bottom per what I saw under "Managers" in Yahoo.)
4 - This list of owners was randomized 13 times to get to a final list which is our draft order:
There were 9 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
BB
GO
JL
LI
JG
TM
DM
NM
YO
Timestamp: 2014-03-17 21:24:00 UTC
You have randomized this list 13 times.
So there you have your draft order.
Any late-comers will be added to the END of the list -- IF it let's me add you!
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/17/14 09:47 PM
As for the innings limit proposal, looking at the settings, I only see "Maximum innings pitched per team" which I would take to mean SP+RP, so this proposal won't work. Even if we calculated 162x9 = 1458, that limits each team to 9 innings/game. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place...?
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/17/14 09:53 PM
As for the innings limit proposal, looking at the settings, I only see "Maximum innings pitched per team" which I would take to mean SP+RP, so this proposal won't work. Even if we calculated 162x9 = 1458, that limits each team to 9 innings/game. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place...?
You're probably right. I thought it was limited to starting pitchers only, but appears to be all pitchers. That could work too if we limited it to 1450. Losing road teams only pitch 8 innings, and extra inning games would even that out.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/17/14 10:03 PM
Losing road teams only pitch 8 innings, and extra inning games would even that out.
I thought of that, too, but I'd at least make it 1500 just in case -- but I'm still not sure if the whole idea will help. I wish I could go back to last year's stats and see (the "Record Book" won't be available until April 7, apparently.)
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/17/14 10:07 PM
Losing road teams only pitch 8 innings, and extra inning games would even that out.
I thought of that, too, but I'd at least make it 1500 just in case -- but I'm still not sure if the whole idea will help. I wish I could go back to last year's stats and see (the "Record Book" won't be available until April 7, apparently.)
I guess put it on the back burner until maybe next year.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/18/14 11:20 PM
Record-short draft at 50 minutes! Good luck, everyone!
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/18/14 11:32 PM
1/4 of my picks including #1 were picked by the computer due to connections issues. Oh well.
Posted By: Yogi Barrabbas
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/19/14 09:29 AM
I have even heard of over half my roster so happy days
What is the final ruling on pitchers?
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/30/14 06:39 PM
Not gonna change it at this point.
Ok, just don't want you changing it when I'm winning the league
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 03/31/14 04:16 AM
Win *THIS*!
Oh, you can't see what I just did there... damn.....
Posted By: SC
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 04/14/14 03:35 PM
This game sucks!
I didn't realize, at first, that it was a weekly game. D'uh.
Oh well, at least I'm ahead of Yogi.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 04/15/14 07:16 AM
Wrong thread/game
Posted By: SC
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 04/15/14 07:24 AM
D'oh.
Never mind.
Posted By: Yogi Barrabbas
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 04/16/14 09:58 AM
This game sucks!
I didn't realize, at first, that it was a weekly game. D'uh.
Oh well, at least I'm ahead of Yogi.
Everyone is always ahead of me in every game, even when they are in the wrong game
my whole team is on the fucking DL...fuck me.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Penis
Fuck fuck fuck
Are the games started stats right?
They seem really off for a lot of teams
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 05/11/14 12:16 PM
Starting pitching totals as of 5/11/14.
Lilo's Wolfpack 54 +17
4 Time Champions 47 +10
JG Yanks 43 +6
Yao's China Buffet 36 -1
Should b 4x Champion 35 -2
Strawberry Skillahs 45 +8
Bedroom Bombers 45 +8
Yogis Slackers 48 +11
God's Offal 43 +6
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 07/16/14 03:56 AM
All-Star Break Standings
Damn. I was #2 for a while there!
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 08/12/14 10:57 AM
All SP for Strawberry Skillahs have been benched.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/03/14 12:28 PM
Benched Lilo's and Bedroom Bomber's SP. This league is a joke.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/04/14 02:12 AM
Benched Lilo's and Bedroom Bomber's SP. This league is a joke.
I just checked a few days ago and I thought it was okay... wtf??
I don't know about next year at this point -- these baseball seasons are just way too long, and the interest is just way too lacking. Sadly.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/04/14 02:25 AM
...and I just tried posting a short rant on the Yahoo site, and as of yet I don't even see it posted, so I don't know WTF...
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/04/14 06:55 AM
We're just gonna have to do an innings limit, no limit at all, or just not play at all. I'm not babysitting the quitters anymore.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/05/14 09:21 PM
I bench Lilo's pitchers because he's over the limit, and put a them back in his starting lineup. I've had it.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/05/14 09:26 PM
Lilo's roster has been locked.
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/06/14 02:43 AM
Okay, so unless there's a VERY good reason for it, Lilo will not be invited back next year... but, there's always a good reason, right?
(Glad this isn't a $ league! can't image if it was! lol) ...then again, if people had to PAY to play... they might take it more seriously...... hmmmmmm.....
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/06/14 04:53 AM
I would like to think he just doesn't know about or understand the limit despite it being noted here and in the league ad nauseum.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/06/14 06:22 AM
Yogi's pitchers have been benched.
Posted By: Just Lou
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/18/14 08:22 AM
(Glad this isn't a $ league! can't image if it was! lol) ...then again, if people had to PAY to play... they might take it more seriously...... hmmmmmm.....
Will you be banning yourself next season since you went over the limit too? lol
Posted By: J Geoff
Re: 2014 Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball - 09/29/14 03:31 PM
Final Standings
And for the record, the number of SP Game Starts:
JL 162 0
BB 162 0
GO 160 -2
LI 165 +3
DM 153 -9
JG 163 +1
TM 164 +2
NM 164 +2
YO 165 +3