Fantasy Baseball 2013 (Why even bother playing against LL?)

[DrippingGoofball]

OK I got this.

[zoraster]

sorry about that, we didn't change the draft time or anything. it was pretty much just a last second draft my friend and I put together for kicks.

[DrippingGoofball]

I dropped the all-stars and replaced them with glorious losers.

[AGar]

Any updated on when a draft might be?

Also, SPRING TRAINING GAMES START!

I am irrationally excited by this.

[Kmd4390]

Where was the link to join? I have laptop access for about an hour.

[Kmd4390]

Gonna try to get back to the laptop in the next few days...

[Rhinox]

Finally did the survey.

I can probably do any of those times but some times are more convenient than others.

Also, I like 1 win

[zoraster]

Sensfan sent in a selection but he isn't signed up either.

Once again, the group is 10635 the password is abc

we're just going to do a weekend draft. what day/time i'll decide soon and announce ASAP.

[zoraster]

DRAFT TIME

Barring any unforeseen problems, the draft time will be

Sunday March 17th at 4:00pm EST

this is 3 Central, 2 Mountain, 1 Pacific. This had the most availability of any time, with all but two people available. Sadly, mastermind is unavailable.

Please make sure you're there. Playing against autodrafters is not fun, and if you aren't there, then mastermind missing it is all for naught.

PLEASE NOTE: I will be shutting off sign ups Friday, March 1st. If you are not signed up AND IN THE LEAGUE by then, you will NOT be in the league

Yahoo
Group ID: 10635
password: abc

I will generate the draft order on March 2nd.

[DrippingGoofball]

It's in my calendar!

Oooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeeee

[zoraster]

just as an aside, my friends and I are doing another side league. 5 batters only, 140 games played max per player. Draft is at 3:30 eastern (in a couple of hours) so you'll need to sign up ASAP.

86484
pw: abc

[Kublai Khan]

/egosearch

Not a huge baseball fan, but I'll play and do my best to trash talk then fail miserably.

[zoraster]

you don't have to be a baseball fan to be a fantasy baseball fan

[zoraster]

KK: Make sure you sign up for the yahoo league.

group: 10635
pw: abc

[zoraster]

Got a notice from Yahoo about Saves+Holds causing problems with the draft room. They say to remove the category and write to them after the draft. So that's what I'll do. So don't freak out if you don't see SHolds as a category; it'll be there.

[zoraster]

OP updated with team names to players. If you change your team name, please post it in this thread so i can update the OP.

[Kublai Khan]

I'm in now.

In the Otter division.

I've odded your teams. Sorry.

[MonkeyMan576]

Can I /in?

[zoraster]

you most certainly may, monkeyman

yahoo
group: 10635
pw: abc

the divisions will change, don't pay too much attention to them for now. How many divisions we use will be determined by how many teams. I'll assign people to divisions based on historical rivalries, fairness and random chance.

[MonkeyMan576]

done

[zoraster]

12 teams is kind of perfect. It gives us two options:

1. The everyone is in one division format: Everyone plays everyone twice. Top 4 advance, playoffs week 23 and 24.
2. The League/interleague (vs. division) format: two 6 player divisions. Everyone plays within their division 3 times, out of division once. Top 6 advance, playoffs week 22, 23 and 24.

I've always been a fan of the 6 player playoff vs. a 4 or 8 team because it provides incentive to win even when you know you've made the playoffs, but I'm okay either way. I'll ask for people's opinions if we know we have 12 (though feel free to do so now if you want).

If we get a couple more sign ups we'll have to do 2 divisions of 7 which is a lot messier as it leaves 2 games just dangling out there, but that's okay. If we get 4, then we'll have to decide. 8 team leagues in baseball are pretty darn shallow, but 16 team leagues are really deep.

If you're interested, 16 teams probably means 4 divisions of 4, playing in division 3 times, out once for a 6 team playoff... with 16, a 4 team playoff is somewhat iffy)

For what it's worth, if we do get an odd number by Friday, the last person in will have to be removed. I apologize for that.

[AGar]

Don't make me compete with Locke head to head again

It's no fun having my hopes and dreams crushed EVERY SINGLE FANTASY SEASON.

[Kmd4390]

6 playoff teams is better than 4 with 12 teams. I did 4 in a football league and I felt like some very good teams missed out.

[DrippingGoofball]

/egosearch

Not a huge baseball fan, but I'll play and do my best to trash talk then fail miserably.

You and I share the same trash-talk-FAIL profile. You'll have company!

[zoraster]

Draft on Your Phone

For you guys that think there's even a remote chance of not having computer access during the draft (be it work or whatever), you might consider picking up the Draft 2013 (i think it's also known as "Baseball Draft '13" anyway it's by "bignoggins." I think this is distinct from their "Fantasy Baseball" app by them ). It apparently lets to draft live from your device. It's available for Iphone, android and ipad. It works with yahoo and espn. There's a Free and Paid version of the app, so I don't know exactly what's provided in each.

Obviously drafting by phone isn't preferable (hell, I hate to draft without my dual minotaur setup), but the app is out there if you want it.