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Hijacking a Yahoo! opened up Here's me assessing my draft options and going for my super secret sleeper pick and the result that follows during the season https://i.imgur.com/C3PcICf.mp4 Dingers, baby! Put your keeper questions, sleeper questions, jeepers and creepers questions. They all go here. If you ask a question, you better put your league settings or else it'll probably get ignored. News/Advice Stolen word for word from Last Year's OP was, "Draft Mookie" genius Razzball - I typically draft using Grey's rankings, and I actually pay money for access to their Stream-O-Nator and HitterTron tools. Grey's daily summary posts are the first thing I read each morning during the season. In my opinion, this is the best fantasy baseball site out there. FantasyAlarm - Ray Flowers gives very good advice and his rankings are typically solid. Can also follow him on Twitter @BaseballGuys, where he is very active during the season. FanGraphs - The site you should all be using for your baseball stats. Lots of good articles as well, and the host of Ottoneu (see below.) Rotoworld - General injury/transaction news geared towards fantasy players. FantasyPros - Fantasy rankings aggregator (Spoeank Note: They are branching out into writing too, some good stuff there). Ottoneu - I started playing Ottoneu last year and I love it. It's 12 team, 40 player MLB/MiLB dynasty with a $400 salary cap. If you are interested in doing a $50 FanGraphs Points startup league, let me know and I might start a goon league with enough interested parties. Pitcher List - Amazing pitcher info, amazing pitcher .gifs. Good Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter (IP note: lmao I have no idea if all of these even still exist, please share any good ones that aren't listed and tell me if I should remove any of these, also if you provide links I will even add that in!) CBS Fantasy Baseball Today ESPN Fantasy Focus (not that dumbfuck Matt Berry anymore) Flags Fly Forever (Baseball Prospectus) Sleeper and the Bust (Fangraphs) MLB.com Fantasy 411 is technically good but I boycott it because they're no Cory Schwartz or Mike Schiano GOOD AND COOL AND FUN STATISTICS YOU SHOULD USE BABIP - Measures good or bad luck. League average is somewhere near .300, but different batting profiles can sustain higher or lower BABIP. Look to a player's career average. Look for high pitcher BABIP and low batter BABIP for sleepers, basically. K-BB% (pitchers)- combines K% and BB%, which are better than K/9 and BB/9 for various reasons, and makes them into one number. LOB% (pitchers) - A high LOB% with a low K% probably means the pitcher got really lucky and may be due for ERA regression. Hard% in conjunction with ISO (hitters) - they have a strong enough correlation, and if someone has a good Hard% but a bad ISO, that could be bad luck (WELINGTON CASTILLO I'M LOOKIN AT YOU) WRC+ (hitters) - easy to sort by to start from to figure out who is really good. It's a decent enough short hand.
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Buxton will give you Acuna’s production at a fraction of the draft cost!
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THIS is the year for Kyle Schwarber, baby! After 20 years it seems like my original home league is finally toast. We tried to keep it interesting and went from a snake draft to auction/keepers format about six or seven years ago, but most of the members don't keep up with it. I was the commish and getting tired of it, asked the group if someone else would take over. Crickets. Oh well.  Still gonna do two leagues I think, a cash league and the TGFBI satellite leagues that Justin Mason is running on Fantrax. Came in 3rd in my satellite last year because my pitching was dreadful (Taillon  ) but what can you do. The Cubs will be hot garbage this season so I'm trying to focus more on fantasy.
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Jan 31, 2020 16:56
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Drafted my first team of the season last night. Love the offense. 12 team h2h 5x5 
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Jan 31, 2020 16:59
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I renewed the Fire and Forget and Dinger leagues. For the former I just renewed everyone's team so please post in the league if you're planning on staying (or if you want to be replaced), I'll probably cut anyone who doesn't reply sometime in the middle of February. The Dinger league I have made with a fresh start, so please let me know if you would like to join. Current settings are 16 teams with 6 players each but that's flexible. For those not familiar with the leagues: Fire and Forget is a Roto league where teams are completely locked immediately after the draft. The Dinger league is a points league where the only stat is dingers and rosters are just UTIL.
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Jan 31, 2020 19:03
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Hell yeah lemme back into that Dinger League, I gotta defend my crown.
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Jan 31, 2020 19:09
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I want to join the dinger league if possible. I’ll send you a message though one of the other 30 leagues we’re in for an invite.
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Jan 31, 2020 19:11
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im back in for dingers, for fire and forget, and the S&r keeper if thats happening again
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Aye Doc posted:im back in for dingers, for fire and forget, and the S&r keeper if thats happening again you should have had auto renewals for the latter two of those so if your e-mail notifications are off check the yahoo page
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Jan 31, 2020 20:28
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Anyone interested in a 20 dollar league so I don't have to go to the dregs of yahoo
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Doltos posted:Anyone interested in a 20 dollar league so I don't have to go to the dregs of yahoo Yes
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IcePhoenix posted:you should have had auto renewals for the latter two of those so if your e-mail notifications are off check the yahoo page ruh roh, definitely didnt get any emails but I'll check on site when I get home
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Jan 31, 2020 20:58
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Also I really can't recommend PitcherList highly enough. I'm a Pateron supporter so I could get into the Discord and them and you goddamn goons are the only people I can stand to talk baseball with.
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IcePhoenix posted:I renewed the Fire and Forget and Dinger leagues. I'm gonna make the fuckin draft this year
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Jan 31, 2020 23:57
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Definitely draft Jacoby Ellsbury in the first 10 picks.
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Feb 1, 2020 00:31
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Moneyball posted:I'm gonna make the fuckin draft this year I'll believe it when I see it
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Doltos posted:Anyone interested in a 20 dollar league so I don't have to go to the dregs of yahoo start one up!
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I'll be back for Fire and Forget.
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anybody do nfbc? also, do not draft buxton--i legitimately think he has brain damage. all of the concussions, the headaches, the collisions. he has all the symptoms of something neurologically gone wrong. also, do draft luzardo and corey seager.
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Feb 1, 2020 19:40
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Excuse me the thread title clearly states that this is Byron Buxton's Year
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i mean, i get it, and i love the guy, but something is seriously wrong with his head. he suffered multiple migraines after multiple concussions in his career and uhhh that is very much a blinking bright light indicating brain damage. it's sad, and i really hope i'm wrong, but he probably should call it quits. that said, i would be surprised if he gets more than 400pa.
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This is the year Buxton out-produces Trout.abelwingnut posted:
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Feb 1, 2020 20:42
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:Drafted my first team of the season last night. Love the offense. Traded Machado and Ryu for Devers and Bumgarner. Trade season is underway!
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https://prospects365.com/2020/02/02/the-2020-best-shape-of-his-life-log/
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drafted 2 more teams. yahoo 12 team H2H leagues. I know my RP in both is not great but I will figure that out in season when the closer carousel begins. Team 1. Went offense heavy as usual. I loving love this team. C:Will Smith 1b: Paul Goldschmidt 2b: Jonathan Villar 3B: Jose Ramirez SS: Carlos Correa OF: Ronald Acuna / Yordan Alvarez / Giancarlo Stanton UTIL: Luis Robert / Marcell Ozuna BN: Tommy Edman / Dylan Carlson / Avisail Garcia / Kolten Wong SP: Zack Greinke / Zac Gallen / Jesus Luzardo / Carlos Martinez / Jake Odorizzi / AJ Puk RP: Ian Kennedy / Keone Kela / Alex Reyes Team 2: Went pitching heavy for once, not sure how to feel about it. I think it ended up ok. C Will Smith 1B: Matt Olson 2B: Scott Kingery 3B: Anthony Rendon SS: Tim Anderson OF: Yordan Alvarez / George Springer / Luis Robert UTIL: Shohei Otani / Byron Buxton BN: Willie Calhoun / Nick Senzel / Dylan Carlson / Avisail Garcia SP: Gerrit Cole / Zack Greinke / Jesus Luzardo / Carlos Martinez / Sonny Gray / Zack Wheeler / AJ Puk RP: Mark Melancon / Alex Reyes ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 15:59
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Team two seems pretty clearly better than team one imo
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IcePhoenix posted:Team two seems pretty clearly better than team one imo you may be right.
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I think he was making a joke about team 2 having Buxton... Can you show your draft for team 1? I'm curious how you landed Acuna/JoRam/Yordan/Stanton. I haven't looked at ADP's yet this year, so that seems like a very good haul for the first 4 rds.
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I think he was making a joke about team 2 having Buxton... 
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I got my first roto team out of the way. 12 team. C: JT Realmuto 1B: Carlos Santana 2B: Whit Merrifield 3B: Yuli Gurriel SS: Bo Bichette OF: JD Martinez, Yordan Alvarez, Eloy Jimenez UT: Michael Brantley, Edwin Encarnacion BN: Jean Segura, David Peralta SP: Jacob deGrom, Brandon Woodruff, Madison Bumgarner, Shohei Ohtani, Yonny Chirinos, Ross Stripling (?) RP: Kenley Jansen, Keone Kela, Adam Ottavino, Zack Britton, Ryan Pressly One guy was going crazy with pitching and snatching up all the targets I had, so I pieced together what I could. As is customary, I barely dip in to closers and the RP are just for ratios and extra strikeouts until I drop them for new closers. I'm happy with how it turned out. I swore off sluggers who can't make contact. I don't care if their counting stats are a little down, as long as they don't go on 0/30 streaks. Though I took EE because 30+ HR and 90 or so RBI is good for a very late round pick. Could use a little more speed. We'll see. I should call it EZ Riders Moneyball fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:I think he was making a joke about team 2 having Buxton...  
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Feb 4, 2020 22:03
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I respect the balls to take Acuna over Trout
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Feb 4, 2020 22:09
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IcePhoenix posted:I respect the balls to take Acuna over Trout 
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Oh, we're doing the Jonathan Villar thing again this year? Don't get me wrong, his counting stats were great and the average wasn't bad, but I wasn't fooled after 2016 and won't be this time either.
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Moneyball posted:Oh, we're doing the Jonathan Villar thing again this year? you do you fam.
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Goon keeper league question.... 7x7 with OBP, SLG, K/bb, and OBPA added. we get 4 keepers.... I can't decide out of my 5 best options who to drop out. Story Judge Yordan JRam Buehler who do I drop back into the draft pool?
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:Goon keeper league question.... Normally I say throw pitching back but the first 2/3 of JRam’s season was utter dogshit I might lean him.
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jabro posted:Normally I say throw pitching back but the first 2/3 of JRam’s season was utter dogshit I might lean him. yeah that's kinda how I was leaning.
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His utter dogshit was still on pace for 30+ steals. Speed is quite valuable currently. You have a tough pick ahead of you, those are all studs.
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:Goon keeper league question.... I mean this sounds crazy but I would drop Yordan. Story/JRam have too much speed and you can't let a young ace like Buehler go. So for me it's Yordan or Judge and I think Judge has a higher floor. Also if Yordan is DH-only that hurts.
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