2010 CPF NL Only Fantasy Baseball Anyone?

[nymr83]

in a 12 team league i'd say you need one guy you can count on for saves and probably want a couple of guys who may get saves at some point this year. particularly useful are guys like Marmol and Lidge before they became closers because you knew that not only were they next in line but they'd strike out 90+ batters for you and not be useless until then.

[Vic Sage]

i'm going to have to check out before 9pm, so i hope it goes quickly. But i have a question: if i have to go to auto=draft at some point, will it know to only pick NLers? Or will i be completely screwed?

[Vic Sage]

also, whats this about a $1000 waiver budget? How does that work?

[Fman99]

Yeah, there will be an NL-only player pool, so even auto-drafting will choose eligible players. No guarantee that they'll be good, or healthy, just eligible.

The bidding bucks works like this -- you get $1000 in play money to use all season. If you want a player that is on waivers (i.e., just added to Yahoo from the minors, or recently cut by another team), you bid as much of your money as you think the player is worth. It's blind bidding -- so you won't know if or how much any one else has bid for the same guy. At the end of the waiver period the highest bid gets the player.

The bidding bucks can also be used as part of a trade I believe.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

How is draft order determined?

[nymr83]

largest bribe to fman by 7pm gets [crossout:33cdro9h]the first pick[/crossout:33cdro9h] Pujols

[metirish]

Per regs

The draft order will be randomly determined approximately 30 minutes before the draft begins.

[nymr83]

i pick 1st! i have 22 minutes to talk myself out of pujols!

[Fman99]

Draft took just under two hours... I am happy with my team. A little thin on the last few hitters, and definitely weak on the back end of my rotation. Still like my chances.

Pooed My HunterPence
Round Pick Player Position
1. (4) Ryan Braun OF
2. (21) Jimmy Rollins SS
3. (28) Josh Johnson SP
4. (45) Hunter Pence OF
5. (52) Lance Berkman 1B
6. (69) Ryan Dempster SP
7. (76) Chad Qualls RP
8. (93) Ryan Theriot SS
9. (100) Hiroki Kuroda SP
10. (117) Colby Rasmus OF
11. (124) Chase Headley 3B,OF
12. (141) Dexter Fowler OF
13. (148) Chris Young SP
14. (165) Luis Castillo 2B
15. (172) Jonathon Niese SP
16. (189) Carlos Ruiz C
17. (196) Jaime Garc�a RP
18. (213) Matt Lindstrom RP
19. (220) Pedro Feliz 3B
20. (237) Juan Guti�rrez RP
21. (244) Blake DeWitt 3B
22. (261) Will Venable OF
23. (268) Sean West SP
24. (285) Dan Meyer RP
25. (292) David Eckstein 2B

[metirish]

It was a lot of fun , I like my team , not a lot of steals but plenty of home runs, no big stud pitcher but a few two types and saves....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Let's Go Mets! (and, uh, Reds). I like my team but I haven't played in 20 years. I think Vic Sage took all the guys I thought I should have taken, he's my favorite

C Barajas
1B Votto
2B Lopez
SS Reyes
3B Jones
OF Bay
OF Beltran
OF Francoeur

The ex-Met benchwarmers
OF Church
IF Matsui
UT Mora

On the bump

P Pelfrey
P Ollie
P Correria
P Cook
P Bailey
P A. Chapman
P Cordero
P Masset
P Rhodes

All-Asia Scrub Patrol:
1B Ishikawa
P Igarashi
P Yabu
INF E. Velez
P Coffey

[nymr83]

I'm reasonably happy with my team though there were a few key guys in rounds 10-20 that i really wanted and thought would fall to me but didnt.

Hitters- Olivo, Pujols, Hairston, Escobar, Reynolds, Glaus, Bourn, Soriano, Hawpe, Heyward, Smith
Pitchers- Carpenter, Cain, Webb, Hoffman, Capps, Richard, Blanton, Padilla, Penny
bench- Looper, Marshall, Myers, Nieve, Vazquez

I goofed on Vazquez seeing the name and forgetting the injury, that cost me the chance to grab Lindstrom or Morales both of whom should get some saves this year and almost made it to my next pick

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Let's Go Mets! (and, uh, Reds). I like my team but I haven't played in 20 years.

It must have been a bit unnerving to use a computer as apposed to what you used twenty years ago, a pen and paper and an abacus?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The draft was easy (and fun!) back then. We got beer and all gathered together for an auction-style draft. It was calculating the weekly stats by hand which was the pain in the ass.

[Ceetar]

Was out celebrating last night and didn't get to the draft. I've always had good luck with prerankings..but Iguess NL field is so slim..

ouch..eww...I've got Tatis, Sheffield, and Delgado. *shudder*

Oh, and Pedro and Dukes also, of the NA guys.

[metirish]

Yeah I saw you getting stiffed with those guys , although when you auto picked Delgado you were getting props in the chat section. We had a good turn out for the draft which I think made it fun. I think it would suck if only a few were able to make it.

[Ceetar]

Draft can be fun. They take too long sometimes though, can be a pain if you're in a lot.

Rookie mistake on my part I guess, not realizing how slim pickings would be. Still wish it wouldn't have some NAs so high.

[Vic Sage]

i had to autodraft the last 7 rounds and got totally screwed over by that freakin machine. MIKE JACOBS! JEFF WEAVER! for feck's sake!

Lunchpail, i wish i shared your confidence in my draft.

[metsmarathon]

i do not feel good about my team. not one bit.

[Valadius]

Me neither. Lunchables kept grabbing everyone I wanted.

[Fman99]

I love my team... most of my hitters are solid even for a mixed league and I have some real upside at the ass end of my rotation. I'm a little worried about my batting average but I've got solid numbers coming otherwise.

Having done NL only before I prefer it, it's WAY harder than your 12 team mixed league vanilla league.

[metirish]

I proposed a Howard for Pujols trade with Nymr, haven't heard back yet.

[nymr83]

metirish wrote: I proposed a Howard for Pujols trade with Nymr, haven't heard back yet.

I rejected it. The site should have emailed you?

[metirish]

Of course you did , I was only following up on the ridiculous articles that appeared last week regarding the Phillies brass having internal talks regarding such a move.