What are you guys doing to our consigliere? That's like the 3rd time I've seen him cuss. I don't think he's cussed that much in 2 years.

*Sorry to intrude....gingerly stepping out of this fantatsy thread....

No, no......come back, Beth! My team is playing down there in Baltimore.....You gotta go out and do an anti-rain dance.

Ok...jiggling commencing. But I don't think it's needed. It's beautiful and in the 60's. Hope I rubbed some good luck your way

Jiggling??? (gulp) The hell with baseball!!

Is it really sunny down there? Why was the day game cancelled?

Oooops.....never mind.....they're playing in Boston.

Day game was cancelled??? Didn't realize..yeah I know..I don't follow the Orioles at all. Maybe after a week of seeing nothing but clouds the sight of the sun made everyone faint, so they have to recuperate.

So..does jiggling beat broken fingers?

Ok..just noticed your 2nd post. They are playing in Boston. We've got to stop tripping over each other.

Don't ask me why that question reminded me of an old Soupy Sales joke, but here goes:

A guy takes his girlfriend to a baseball game. They're sitting in the stands, and a foul ball comes flying into her chest and the guy ends up with three broken fingers. :rolleyes:

Let me guess...one is from the ball hitting his hand and 2 were from the girlfriend after he reached for the ball??

GOT TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. IT'S ALL THERE ON THE WEB!
GOT TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. IT'S ALL THERE ON THE WEB!
GOT TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. IT'S ALL THERE ONTHE WEB!

(Just trying to hammer the point home to myself. Looks like a possible SF-LA rainout)

Indeed.

I am TOTALLY screwed today. 3 Dodgers, 1 Giant and the blue & white PS. Thought it was raining only on the East coast? I shouldnt make my roster up at midnight on a Friday night - what WAS I thinking?

Man, I'm gonna have to learn to like the rear-end view from where I am - maybe set up a lawn chair and some lemonade....

BethE -thanks for taking an interest in SC's pain but I have to tell you, if you can jiggle a little anti-rain dance in the west as well, I'll love you forever.

I'm dyin' here.

I saw on my roster Tony Batista made me 3 points. I was like hmmm, that is strange. Then it dawned on me...that game aint freakin' cancelled!! Delayed 6 hours - but not cancelled!

...ok so if they delay Dodgers by 6 hours, they should be done by about dawn???

I'm off to say a few Our Fathers and Hail Mary's. (Or is that a BLOODY MARY that I need right now?)

Hey, I was weekly points leader for ALMOST a whole week

YOU'RE dying?!! The "smart" ones (only me?!!) who picked the Bos/Balt double-header not only lost one of the games... but PEDRO has given up 10 RUNS (and counting), and it's only the 5th freakin' inning!!!! Pedro's ERA went from 0.60 to 5.12 today. WTF?!?!!!!

Don't get me started on the Red Sox!

3 of their best hitters are costing me $16 mil of my team's budget, and they come up with ONE point between them!!?!!

1 pt sure is better than -20!! :p

I guess.....

Pedro sure didn't have his stuff today.

Well technically speaking it was -25, but who is really counting

BDD - always a breath of fresh air.

Holy Crappola!!! I wasnt indoors alot today but then I catch the highlights and whooooaaaa!!! What the hell happened today?

Sportscenter came on and I thought of Hollywood with Yanks and Cirillo and knew he was set.

All in all, looking at total scores, everyone is really in the game. Even Johnny-Come-Lately (BDD) with his "fluid consistency" inching his way up nicely.... I have a feeling it will be getting tight here in the near future.

Nah, the only one in the game here is me. :p Now that I've prsonalized my MSN home page to include the weather report from every MLB city, I won't be hitting any more bumps in the road like I did this week.

Look out below! (and above). :p

What are ya gonna do next? Steal signals?? :p

When do the new market values show up?

Overnight tonight, you'll see them Monday AM...

OK so I see today it is going to be my turn. I am at -10 and I believe we are not in the second inning - that will teach me to talk trash to The Don

OK the rookie needs a bit of help here. I understand that tomorrow new values will be assigned to the players. It sounds from recent posts that some can go up somewhat dramatically and not be very predicitable. My question is currently one of my players is off tomorrow. If I switch him tonight with someone else, and I have only .4 below the cap there is a good chance if his value goes up that I cannot bring him back tomorrow (for Tuesday) is that correct ? What happens if say enough of my players go up to over $50M and say I am at 51M and then I need to make a move - is it that I will need to drop say a player of 3M value and pick up a player of 2M value to be within the 50M mark?

Having not gone through this value change yet, I am thinking of just taking the hit tomorrow and keeping who I have until I see and understand how it all plays out.

Any info or thoughts on this would be appreciated.

In the spirit of fair competition and friendship among board members, I'll help you out (that is if you'll take info from a guy close to last place!)

First of all, the most important number on your team screen is the Locked (LKD) Value of your team. This is the number that needs to be below 50. Currently, the Market (MRK) Value of my team is 51.3. That number doesn't matter (and is actually better, generally, if it is over 50).

In any case, here's a few scenarios that could happen to you. From the info you provided, it sounds to me like your team is valued at 49.6 (including the player that you say is off tomorrow but could possibly go up).

Scenario 1: You keep the player that isn't playing tomorrow

- In case his value goes up, you're lucky you kept him since you now have him at less than market price.

- If his value goes down, press the "Renegotiate Values" button, and his locked value (along with other players with down values) will be decreased meaning you have more points to spend. Note that the "Renegotiate Values" button only works in your favor (i.e. if a players value went up, the locked value WILL NOT go up to the higher market value.)

Scenario 2: You drop the player and pick up someone else who is playing tomorrow. For simplicity sake, let's just say that even after replacing him and pressing the "Renegotiate Value" button on Monday, your team value is still 49.6.

- If the dropped player's value goes up by greater than .4, then you cannot pick him up unless you make another value dropping move at another position.

- If the dropped player's value goes up by less than .4 or his value goes down, then you can make the switch back to that original player and still be below 50.

Hopefully, that all made sense. Just remember, the key is the Locked Value of your team (you can almost ignore the Market Value of your team.) In the example you gave, even if your market value is at 51, your locked value should still be below 50. Therefore, if you drop someone with a Locked Value of $3, then you have an extra $3 to spend.

However, if you drop a player whose locked value is lower than his market value, (for example, you have Sosa locked at $6 and his market value is $6.6 and you decide to drop him for some reason), then once you release him, you can only pick him up again if you have $6.6 of availability. That's why it's very important to keep players that you have that are "cheap" (locked in at lower than market value even if they are not playing on certain days.

Player values only increase or decrease by these amounts, as meantioned in a previous post:

-3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3

I have three players that aren't playing tomorrow, so I don't lose them at the price I'm paying. Of course, they're price could go down, and I'd have lost potential points. But I'll take the rist - I can't possibly do any worse, right?

DS - you are a good and fair man. I would not have helped any of the rest of you out -ha, just kidding.

Seriously thanks for the info it is very helpful. I think I was somewhat close in my understanding of it, but this was really good. Of course I still will probably make all the wrong moves - only now I won't have any excuse.

Thanks again for the info.

Are you kidding me? Or are you still feeling cocky from the now passed 70 point day? You are the bologna in the Undertaker/Hollywood sandwich.

Ah well, better than being the after dinner mint like the rest of us....

But at least I am ahead of JGeoff!!!

Just an on-purpose extended view of your behind, LDV!

I think this is probably the worst week I've ever had in the years I've played this game. But it's okay - I start slow, and end up w/ most everyone else looking at my behind!

Watch out guys...Greg Prior goes today. I'm expecting another 70, and a move back into first

Oh man, I'm losing to a guy who thinks Prior's first name is Greg! Just kidding plawrence! His first name is Mark, by the way (unless his middle name is Greg, and if you know that, the rest of us is really screwed!)

Man, did you guys see how much values went up on some players. I think I'm literally stuck with my current team for the rest of this week, because the values went up so much.