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Premature but I figure it was worthy of its own thread:

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League for 2003: ILX mode.

PLEASE READ IF INTERESTED:

I would like to commission this private league. The maximum # of managers is 20 per league so if need be, we may need to start another league based on interest. Last year, sign-ups began on February 21 and continued until April 30.

Unless otherwise preferred, there will most likely be a live draft (as opposed to a predetermined selections).

So far interest has been expressed by:
Yanc3y
felicity
bnw?
Leee
Aaron W
Mr Diamond

Here are the customizable options offered for points settings:
Rotisserie & Fantasy Points Settings:














































Teams in League:4-20
Players per Team:8-30
Maximum Player Acquisitions:None Allowed;
No Maximum;
1-10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40
Maximum Trades:None Allowed;
No Maximum;
1-10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40
Waiver Period:0-7 days
Trade Reject Time:0-7 days
Trade Deadline:None;
July 31, 2002;
August 7, 2002;
August 14, 2002;
August 21, 2002;
August 28, 2002
Players From:All of baseball;
AL only;
NL only
Maximum Games per Position (Non-Pitchers):None;
145, 150, 155, 160, 162, 165, 170, 175, 180
Maximum Innings Pitched per Team:None;
100-2000 (Increments of 50)
Trade Offers Expire in:10 days



Head-to-Head Settings:










































Teams in League:4-20 (even numbers only)
Players per Team:8-30
Maximum Player Acquisitions:None Allowed;
No Maximum;
1-10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40
Maximum Trades:None Allowed;
No Maximum;
1-10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40
Waiver Period:0-7 days
Trade Reject Time:0-7 days
Trade Deadline:None;
July 31, 2002;
August 7, 2002;
August 14, 2002;
August 21, 2002;
August 28, 2002
Players From:All of baseball;
AL only;
NL only
Minimum Innings Pitched per Team (each week):0-10
Trade Offers Expire in:10 days



All League Roster Positions (Min-Max):

































































First Base:0-5
Second Base:0-5
Third Base:0-5
Shortstop:0-5
Catcher:0-5
Middle Infield:0-5
Corner Infield:0-5
Any Infield:0-5
Left Field:0-5
Center Field:0-5
Right Field:0-5
Any Outfield:0-10
Utility (Any Player):0-10
Starting Pitcher:0-10
Relief Pitcher:0-10
Any Pitcher:0-10


Statistical Categories:








Batting:Games Played;
Games Started;
Batting Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Slugging Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
On-Base Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);

On-base + Slugging Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Fielding Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
At Bats;
Runs Scored;
Hits;
Singles;
Doubles;
Triples;
Home Runs;
Runs Batted In;
Sacrifice Hits;
Sacrifice Flys;
Stolen Bases;
Caught Stealing;
Walks;
Intentional Walks;
Strikeouts;
Ground Into Double Play;
Total Bases;
Putouts;
Assists;
Errors
Pitching:Pitching Appearances;
Games Started;
Earned Run Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
WHIP Ratio (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Strikeouts per Nine Innings (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Strikeout to Walk Ratio (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Wins;
Losses;
Complete Games;
Shutouts;
Saves;
Outs;
Hits;
Total Batters Faced;
Runs;
Earned Runs;
Home Runs;
Walks;
Intentional Walks;
Hit Batters;
Strikeouts;
Wild Pitches;
Balks;
Stolen Bases Allowed;
Batters Grounded Into Double Plays;
Save Chances;
Holds;
Total Bases Allowed;
Innings Pitched

Information and rules are available here for your perusal.

So please sign up if interested!

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

count me in! will peruse options, make preferences known when time allows

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

you can count me in and i will kick ass. But i suggest you trim the catergories way down. Thats way too much. In all the other leagues i'm in its basically half those catergories and can make it a lot simpler in regards to drafting and managing your team.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

sign me up! I too am for streamlining. But it has to be all-MLB.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Popshots to thread!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

it will definitely be streamlined down to the more traditional stats(although i am open to considering fielding percentage and errors).

to clarify, i will need your input on what stats to consider and the like. the purpose of posting all the eligible categories is to list the realm of possibilities and narrow it down from there.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

This is going to be grebt.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm down with that shizznit.

I suffer from acute homer-itis in fantasy leagues. I'm liable to pick a third string Cardinals outfielder over an A-Rod.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Heres usually how the leagues I am in are set up.

Batting:
Batting Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
runs Scored;
Home Runs;
Hits
Runs Batted In;
Stolen Bases;


Pitching:
Earned Run Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
WHIP Ratio (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Wins;
Saves;
Strikeouts;



― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I was gonna ask if folks wanted to join MY pre-formed Yahoo league of 12 teams - right now, there are a total of 5 current owners, 1 prospective owner (yo Ms. R), and 6 open slots / slackheads that hate responding to e-mails in a timely fashion. The teams are already formed, tho - it's a keeper league that's been running for a couple of years now - so any newbies would be given their pick of players from a pre-existing pool. If you're curious, check out zee rosters, which include the pool of players up for grabs (I'm Ginkgo Balboa - don't ask about the players I dropped / traded last year, lest you want to cry as I did; the current lot of up-for-grabs folks can be found under the UNOWNED TEAMS) & drop me a line.

I think Gygax simply posted ALL the options open to anyone starting a Yahoo! league - lord help ye if you choose to keep track of all those stats. (I was in a head-to-head league like that. 20+ categories - it was hell on melba toast, esp. w/ statistical overlap.) I'd love to participate in 2 (or 10) (or 20) leagues, but I need to eat & sleep & practice safe hygeine, so I'll have to limit myself to just one. Note that I leave myself the option to flake out & change my mind.

Oh, hell, I'm in, too. Please limit trades & roster moves so I don't Cam Bonifay myself.

Please also notice that my request for folks to jump in my league is NOT meant to step on gygax's toes in any way.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Popshots, but I would rather do 1 all-ILX league than 2 leagues.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Understandable, madam. Plus, you can get your boy(s)!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark! Barry Zito! Hooray, you can all take advantage of me by offering me the cutie pitchers.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

felicity,

randy johnson for mark mulder (plus i'll show you where his condo is in the marina)?

i knew where sean estes lived on telegraph hill but he moved.

i swear to god i'm not a stalker but my female bball friends are.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just trying to think of some good b-ball pitchers with character, & Randy was the only bloke I could think of.

Though he gave me indigestion, I hope Rich Garces makes a comeback. He's so snuggly.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to put the "fantasy" into fantasy baseball bigtime.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Let the games begin.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just trying to think of some good b-ball pitchers with character

John Smoltz and Curt Schiling have a lot of character. They're Christian. I like this in a baseball player. They probably don't cheat on their wives as much, if at all. Plus, they are hot. My idea of hot is all about WHIP.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Curt Schilling also plays Everquest. And he's funny. If he & Piazza (& Al Leiter, maybe?) decide to become color commentators after retirement, baseball broadcasting will be saved! (Especially if Piazza works the fancy beards & invites Alf into the booth every so often.)

So, can we, like, draft players now?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to think of Schilling and Johnson as Ernie and Bert.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

stay tuned, draft/sign up should be around ~Feb. 21.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, gygax for organizing!

I guess we can start thinking about team names. I'll have to browse the HACKing MASS ones. Those are funny.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sticking w/ Gingko Balboa (which I wish I thought of last year - I ended the year as K-R@D 3133T H@X0R5 (or something) - 'twas a sad September).

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it's the curse of the Balboa?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It might've been the curse of the Balboni. (Damn it, it's too late for me to try being funny.)

Hey, gygax - have you used Yahoo! before? They have this strange pre-draft ranking setup thing that's a bit of a bear to navigate & organize. (Essentially, you rank the players - pitchers & hitters - 1 to whatever via this wonky Java applet, & then an auto-draft is run once the league commish - gygax, in this case - gives the OK, wherein the players on your list are drafted in order of ranking, pending availability. Yahoo has their own pre-rankings, in case you don't want to bother with trying to rank players yourself.)

It'd probably be a logistical nightmare (given time differences & locales), but having a "live" draft (via IM, or even ILX) would theoretically kick ass, even if it'd make it a bitch to organize the teams ('cause then you'd have to manually make each team).

I'd also like to give Senor Pitchblende some kudos for taking on this monumental undertaking.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

A draft where we take turns manually is urgent and key. Couldn't we just do it on a thread? That way we could take a break and pick up again if someone had to go away for a while.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

What the smart lady said.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

This is going to be great. We're going to be right up there with Jay-Z and Nas and Snake and Snake 2.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

They're Christian

That describes about half of baseball players from what I've gleaned.

I like the idea of 10-12 categories myself. The list Chris posted is pretty standard...

Fielding % could be intriguing though. I've never played with that before.

Live drafting please! It shouldn't be too much of a logistical problem; I don't think any of the U.K. contingent are aboard (?)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah doing it on a thread is cool too as long as we can finish it in like a week :-)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, the caveat is that the draft java applet is very broadband and IE friendly... if you experience troubles (lag, booting, etc.) with yahoo! literati or similar type java applet driven games, the live draft may suck monkeys for ya.

the autodraft which David R. mentions preranks the players via The Sporting News ranking which of course you can override even as drafting commences.

yet i'd venture to say most participants will be usa folx, it shouldn't be too hard to agree on a 6pm-7pm PST / 9pm-10pm EST draft time... i can be flexible, maybe even doing a weekend thing (or during the workday if all of you could pull that off!).

if we want to do it alternatively (IM/ILX), i'm open for anything provided it would be fair, efficient and reasonable.

oh and i should warn everybody that i will be in japan for the last two weeks of april and first week in may and i will not be as computer-bound as i am regularly (don't think i won't still be 0wnz0rXing y'all in the rankings though).

thanks for all of your interest, i'm a big baseball fan (it really is THEE only sport i'm a fan of) and i think it will be fun.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:56 (twenty-three years ago)

of course, draft via ILE thread means more work for me!

awww, you guys are worth it...

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I kiss you! It's peanut-butter jelly time!

(You know, gygax, if you need help re: the league, I'd be more than happy to offer my services, especially since it's lookin' more & more like my wee little league is going frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt.) (And, no, I won't try to Selig your Vincent.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fielding and errors may take a backseat to my lobbying for OBPS measurement: onbase% + slugging% = the TRUE measure of one's ability to produce offensively.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm letting you all know ahead of time that if I can draft Bonds, I'm filling out the rest of my roster with Giants.

Also, I'm a rookie at this, so whatever you guys decide will be ok with me (though where's OBP%? (Already working the Bonds angle, see)).

Ah gygax snuck it in at the last sec, thanks.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Gygax, if you make this league saber-friendly, I really will kiss you! (Note: don't let the threat of a kiss stop you from following your dream.) (Felicity might kiss you, too, though, so keep this in mind.)

I'm all for using OBP & SLG instead of BA & hits. If we could work RARP in as well, that'd be awesome, just so I could go around saying RARP. RARP!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

OBPS is urgent and key.

I KISS YOU

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

David R.
hold the kisses... no RARP available via yahoo! and i'm only as willing to go as SABR as yahoo! allows. WHIP is about as good as it gets at weeding out those particularly lucky pitchers who rely on their infield heavily.

but yeah, OBPS sounds like it's pretty critical (esp. in light of bnw's sluggo-centric style).

ideally i would like a potent hybrid of the traditional Chris V. stats and the more progressive SABR-leanings of David R/felicity/Leee.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely there are other freeware baseball fantasy league computer programs?

Any in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Well "hits" can go. That's meaningless. I like OPS, but I also like having good ol' BA around.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a yahoo! slut, i'd feel most comfortable commishing there.

if y'all want to set up a league elsewhere, i'm game, but not as a commish.

― gygax!, Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i want Jim Thome. go phillies in 2003!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want to continually sound like MY LEAGUE MY LEAGUE MY LEAGUE, but in MY LEAGUE (ahem...sorry), my roomy conspired last year to make the stat categories a bit more reflective of actual player performance & effectiveness while still using Yahoo!, & came up w/ the following configuration:

Batting ---> OBP, SLG, Stolen Bases, Runs, RBI
Pitching --> W, WHIP, Saves, ERA, Ks

Even though I finished 6th, it worked pretty well. Pitchers on crappy teams don't get penalized because their teammates suck. Also, if you took on a guy that got wins, but pitched like ass getting those wins, you were justly penalized. Also, I liked that lip service wasn't paid to paper sluggers like Shea Hillenbrand (who finished @ .280 with 20+ homers and a fair # of ribbies, but only walked 10-15 times all year), while also giving kudos to monster milk-&-cookie guys like Mike Sweeney (whose HR numbers are definitely respectable, but gets the bulk of his sluggo power from doubling 60ish times).

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

yahoo is fine! I was just thinking of Dave's RARP and your fielding and defense! It's so nice of you to offer to be commish. I've never done this before. I'm just excited.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm . . . milk and cookies

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, yeah, one more thing - RARP! RARP! RARP!

(Really, I just mentioned RARP because I like typing / saying it.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

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― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(Oh my goodness. Sorry if that messed up anyone's formatting! I thought it would do the line breaks automatically.)

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

What is that, RJ's swinging-strikeout total from last year?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, that's probably the # of times Neifi Perez struck out in August.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 484 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
Today's offer: Pujols for an iPod.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Mac or PC?

(oh lord my boredom has reached new depths here at work)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i need bullpen help (namely holds and saves).

i'm willing to trade outfielders (wilkerson, grieve, kielty) or starting pitching (radke, k. rogers, tomko, astacio, r. jensen) to get it.

anybody a match?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You're gonna draw out all the heavy bidders with Ben Grieve and Brad Wilkerson on the table! (trash talk has to start sometime, right???)

Opinions on Aubrey Huff and Raul Ibanez, anyone?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

hey i'm not looking for smoltz here. just a little help.

anyway what's wrong with wilkerson?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilkerson's a decent hitter. I had him on my team last year -- brief flashes of getting hot, followed by game after game of 0-fers. He's got an unbelievably low OBS for a lead-off man. He's a Mark Quinn-type -- he's generated more fantasy baseball pundit ink than he has runs.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm hoping that there's still more upside to his game. last year was his first proper season and i think he turned out decent numbers, considering.

that said i still need bullpen help...

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take a flier on him. Tremendous upside!" -- Every Baseball Weekly since 2000.

Not criticizing you here, Mark. I've just gotten fed up with baseball "journos," aside from Jayson Stark, who's a dream.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

and yancey was the only one who didn't laugh (out loud) at my #1 pick....

well, not that i heard anyway.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

wait, i think i heard something...


....


?


....

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

snicker

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

guffaw

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i hope, i really do, i get the last laugh here.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

chortle

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

snort

i hope you do too, gygax.

snicker

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

you're all bastard people, i hate you and i hate your ass faces.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

love my ass face, gygax! pleeeeease?????

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

hushyou, i'm gonna go home and bite my pillow.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Feces?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

What's that in reference to?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

x

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

REMINDER:

for you early birds (as i will be a late riser tomorrow)

quantrill
millar
pujols

are all OFF-LIMITS. Please do not attempt to engage these players in any negotiations. Everything will be fixed tomorrow.

Thanks for your patience and understanding,
The Commish.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

You took Aurillia as your first draft choice? Man you are such a homer. . .

― F. Ordonez-Prior, Friday, 28 March 2003 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

hehehehehe...

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

O Perez has been put on waivers, is he off limits too?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

hmmm, it says o. pezez was put on waivers but then he's listed on the roster of the ML's.

Its time to re-hire Billy Martin and put my world right.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Bud Selig, where are you when we finally need you??

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I think ol'Bud has been embedded into the Mueller Lites.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

there is some weird shit going on here... let me try my magic again.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

to clarify: odalis perez and david bell should be on my team.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Reminder: Opening game is on Sunday night, so I'm guessing our rosters have to be set by Sunday at noon? Is that right, g?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah! 48 hours to baseball!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm considering calling in sick on Monday to fully bask in my lameness.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It's weird, my "Edit Lineup" page doesn't appear to have been updated, even though my add/drop page is current. This lag may be what's keeping Perez and Bell off your team, gygax.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Leee: Just go to "My Team," make your changes via the dialog boxes and then hit the "Submit Changes" box. That's it. You should be set. Don't mess around with "Edit Lineup."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(make sure you're viewing your team's lineup on the current day, too, leee. have a poke around that menu to see what i mean.)

lawrence are you serious about spivey for guardado?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 29 March 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

lee what yancey said.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 29 March 2003 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

FYI ILXers... You can change yr lineup up until the game starts.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean once the season starts you can't change your lineup?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

mark p: actually the trade would be Guardado for Gonzalez. I know nothing about fantasy baseball but here's my thinking on the trade- I have two great relievers in Smoltz and Guardado (it's my only team strength) and am currently starting an outfielder who hit .235 last year.

I'd move Baez into the other reliever spot (I'm gambling that he's going to turn out to be very good as the Indians no.1 reliever- he's a good pitcher).

I'd like some opinions from people on this trade (if mark p actually accepts it). Even if mark doesn't go for it, what are some of the pros and cons?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

you can change your lineup as often as you want...

EXCEPT when your players are playing a game (real-time)...

and once you've committed a player to a position (and their game starts), you can't play another player in that position.

stats are updated midnight PST.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Given my #1 reliever being Mike Dejean, Guardado looks quite sexy to me.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The everyday can be sexy.

Holy crap, Durazo didn't get the starting job at 1B? And when can Kim qualify as a starter? The Diamondbacks on my team have forsaken me.

Let's get ready to rumble. I am excited for the "reality" baseball league to start, too!

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I dreamt fantasy baseball last night.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(What Gygax said about changing lineups... sorry my post wasn't very clear. I SUXXORS.)

ESPN has a countdown to opening day banner!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The season starts tomorrow and I have no first baseman, no closer, and no offense.

Hmph! Stats are for losers. :P

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

All the ace relievers are on a concentrated number of teams -- it's like playing with a league-ful of Steinbrennahs!

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 30 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, I don't know if this has been answered yet, but are there statistical differences between just plain P and SP/RP?

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 30 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

well, not really, it's to prevent teams from starting more than 5 starters (SP/P) or 5 relievers (RP/P)... that's all.

allow me to elaborate on something i said earlier:

you can change your lineup as often as you want...
EXCEPT when your players are playing a game (real-time)...

and once you've committed a player to a position (and their game starts), you can't play another player in that position until the next day

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

We have soundly trounced Snake and Snake 2 so let's close the books on Spring Training and pick this up here:

ILX Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League 2003 -- Part 2 . . .

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)


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