[color=red]Draft is Wednesday, March 27 @ 9:00pm EST[/color]Current roster format
Roster size: 25
Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, OFx4, UTIL
Pitching: SPx3, RPx2, Px4
Bench: 4
DL: 1
re-Inaugural season!
2013 GWJ "Champion of the Internet" Fantasy Baseball League
Going to try this again. Last year was rather last minute so hopefully with a few months before Opening Day, there will be enough time for this to plant in your brain and compel you to participate. If we don't get at least 10 teams again this year, I'll probably take the hint that GWJ just hates baseball. [color=red]LEAGUE IS NOW FULL[/color]
League settings (ESPN) will be:
Scoring based on 5 batting categories (avg. / HR / RBI / Runs / SB) and 5 pitching categories (era / WHIP / K's / Saves / wins)
Head 2 Head - 2 teams face off against each other each week. Team that scores more out of the majority of those 10 categories wins the matchup that week.
Top 6 teams make it to the playoffs which will occur the last 5 weeks of the MLB season (week 21-26). 1 week per playoff matchup.
Standard Snake Draft. Link to WhenIsGood for draft scheduling.
Limit of 4 waiver pickups per week. No limit over the course of the season.
Current list of owners:
FSeven
GioClark
Kush15
absurddoctor
ukickmydog
sr_malo
Cronox
CptDomano
jonfentyler
B Dog
shag26
Carlbear95
Wait list
gizmo
EDITS
1-14-2013: Changed league to ESPN, added new owners
1-19-2013: Added new owners
2-8-2013: Created league, created WhenIsGood scheduler, fine tune settings
In
In.
Question: Will rosters lock for the week, or can you make changes throughout the week? I prefer locked, but I don't mind unlocked.
In.
I prefer locked, but I can play just as happily with unlocked.
In. I've always done unlocked.
Count me in. I've never played BB on Yahoo (I'm an ESPN guy).
I'd prefer unlocked rosters, but will go with the will of the people.
Question: How would a roster lock/unlock work? Do you preset rosters for upcoming weeks that are locked by day 1 of that week or is there a window or grace period where changes are allowed between weeks?
Locking for baseball is dumb. It doesn't matter for the offensive players since you essentially keep the same ones in all week anyways, but there's no point to having a deep pitching staff since they will just sit on the bench all week. It's not that hard to figure out on the first day of the week which of your starters will pitch on which day and just put them in in advance. I never look at it every day, just set it up at the beginning of each week.
It also makes head 2 head matchups even more about luck then they already are for a couple reasons. 1) if an injury hits at the beginning of the week, you are out of luck. 2) you have fewer pitchers playing so one bad game or one really good game from a pitcher has more impact than it would otherwise.
My main desire for a weekly roster is as a streaming prevention method. I won't argue whether its a 'legitimate' strategy or not, but I'm not likely to have the time to keep up with anyone who does so.
Locking for baseball is dumb. It doesn't matter for the offensive players since you essentially keep the same ones in all week anyways, but there's no point to having a deep pitching staff since they will just sit on the bench all week. It's not that hard to figure out on the first day of the week which of your starters will pitch on which day and just put them in in advance. I never look at it every day, just set it up at the beginning of each week.
It also makes head 2 head matchups even more about luck then they already are for a couple reasons. 1) if an injury hits at the beginning of the week, you are out of luck. 2) you have fewer pitchers playing so one bad game or one really good game from a pitcher has more impact than it would otherwise.
I tend to believe that locking rosters is for the casual fantasy league, and unlocked rosters are for the more serious ones. So I guess what we have to decide is if this league is a casual league or a hardcore league. I personal have no issues with either league, I only asked originally because I wanted to know what the setting would be. I prefer locked, but it doesn't mean I hate unlocked.
My main desire for a weekly roster is as a streaming prevention method. I won't argue whether its a 'legitimate' strategy or not, but I'm not likely to have the time to keep up with anyone who does so.
Well I don't stream, unless you count putting in bench players... I think the weekly transaction limit pretty much ensures there is no streaming. I've played yahoo fantasy baseball for about 15 years now and never had a problem with it.
My main desire for a weekly roster is as a streaming prevention method.
Not sure what "streaming" is? I just did my first fantasy baseball league last year, but I'd be interested in joining up
absurddoctor wrote:My main desire for a weekly roster is as a streaming prevention method.
Not sure what "streaming" is? I just did my first fantasy baseball league last year, but I'd be interested in joining up :D
Streaming is when you essentially don't have permanent starting pitchers. You add and drop them every day depending on which ones are starting that day. This virtually guarantees 2 wins in the 5 pitching categories (wins, strikeouts) simply by sheer volume, while giving up on 2 others (era, whip). Most of the time streamers have a bunch of closers too so that they take that 3rd pitching category. They then can focus their early draft picks on pure offense because they don't bother with elite starters.
But like I said earlier, with a weekly transaction limit, this is not really a feasible strategy. I've never been in a league in 15 years where a streamer won.
Oh, moving someone from the bench to the starting position would qualify as a transaction? *light comes on*
I like this and fully support unlocked rosters!
*EDIT*
Question, if you pick up a player, and then place him into your starting lineup, is this two transactions?
No, moving people from the bench to starters is not a transaction, just picking up someone from the waivers and cutting someone.
Kush15 wrote:Oh, moving someone from the bench to the starting position would qualify as a transaction? *light comes on*
I like this and fully support unlocked rosters!
*EDIT*
Question, if you pick up a player, and then place him into your starting lineup, is this two transactions?No, moving people from the bench to starters is not a transaction, just picking up someone from the waivers and cutting someone.
Got ya. Then I would vote making it between 4 or 5 per week.
Oh, moving someone from the bench to the starting position would qualify as a transaction? *light comes on*
I like this and fully support unlocked rosters!
*EDIT*
Question, if you pick up a player, and then place him into your starting lineup, is this two transactions?
*EDIT 2*
I was in a work league with Shag26 (who is also interested in joining the GWJ league if you need players) last year and we had a 10 start limit for the week. The loophole was that if you used 9 thru Saturday, you could jam 5 SPs to start on Sunday and they would count. If you maxed out 10 on Saturday, your Sunday pitching wouldn't count. What made it worse was people would also drop their closers and get guys with RP/SP eligibility to max out at 7 starts on Sundays. We drafted Kimbrel and grabbed Rodney during Week 1, so there was no way we were dropping our closers. We also had 3 bench spots, so if you dropped an average closer, no one was grabbing it, so you could drop your closers on Friday/Saturday and pick them up by Monday/Tuesday for the next week. We couldn't drop our closers, since they would be grabbed almost instantly.
Granted, we also drafted Myers because he had SP/RP eligibility, so we had 3 closers every week until he was traded. Although we took advantage of 1 loophole, the above loophole was rediculous.
Limiting the number of pickups to 4 or 5 does control "streamers" so I wouldn't have an issue with doing that. Four is perfect, IMO. It's enough to compensate for injuries and prospects/hot waiver claims.
I had skimmed over the transaction limit, which takes care of my main reason for preferring a weekly roster. My lesser reason for preferring it still based on my likely limited chances to update my roster throughout the week, but that isn't anything that I can't live with.
I'm in, don't really mind about the format.
Seven filled, three to go...
Very nice.
I'm in. On a side note, when will MLB TV be available to buy for the 2013 season?
Seven filled, three to go...
Very nice.
Oh, I was actually signing up with my post. I just had the question about streaming. I'm definitely in.
sr_malo wrote:Seven filled, three to go...
Very nice.
Oh, I was actually signing up with my post. I just had the question about streaming. I'm definitely in.
Make that eight nine. I love it when a league comes together.
I'm in. Took a three-year break from fantasy baseball, but I'm ready to jump back in. (Especially since the Mets are going to stink again this year and this will give me a reason to watch a lot of baseball.)
Anyone have any issues if I create the league with ESPN instead of Yahoo?
I have not used either, but if one has better mobile management, I'd pick that one.
FSeven wrote:Anyone have any issues if I create the league with ESPN instead of Yahoo?
I have not used either, but if one has better mobile management, I'd pick that one.
Yahoo's is pretty decent. I'm not yet familiar with ESPN's, but have no objections to having to change that.
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