How many FBL leagues are you participating in in 2011?

[Fman99]

I'm doing the same 3 I did last year...

1. The CPF NL only
2. A head to head league, online, that ABNS brought me in on with some of his West coast homies
3. A 14 team money league ($65 entry) with keepers that I've run since 2002. First 14 rounds done via email, the last 14 done live online and in person at the Fman household... This one is my obsession...

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: I'm doing the same 3 I did last year... 1. The CPF NL only 2. A head to head league, online, that ABNS brought me in on with some of his West coast homies 3. A 14 team money league ($65 entry) with keepers that I've run since 2002. First 14 rounds done via email, the last 14 done live online and in person at the Fman household... This one is my obsession...

I've been meaning to step it up and get into a keeper/money/different type league this year, but I never remember to find one.

I've got two other Yahoo leagues this year, one a recurring head-to-head one from..i think livejournal's baseball forum but I could be wrong on where it originated, and another via The Real Dirty Mets Blog peoples.

I'm going to win all three.

[metirish]

The CPF and a league I set up last year with the purpose of getting a friend in to to league, ten of the twelve that participated last year are back which is super cool....it's head to head which I like. I opened up to sixteen teams this year, looking for a few more players in anyone is interested.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: The CPF and a league I set up last year with the purpose of getting a friend in to to league, ten of the twelve that participated last year are back which is super cool....it's head to head which I like. I opened up to sixteen teams this year, looking for a few more players in anyone is interested.

I'd go to four (actually, 4 is Yahoo's limit before I have to go to my Ceetarsnose Yahoo account). Who doesn't need more fantasy baseball?

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: metirish wrote: The CPF and a league I set up last year with the purpose of getting a friend in to to league, ten of the twelve that participated last year are back which is super cool....it's head to head which I like. I opened up to sixteen teams this year, looking for a few more players in anyone is interested. I'd go to four (actually, 4 is Yahoo's limit before I have to go to my Ceetarsnose Yahoo account). Who doesn't need more fantasy baseball?

cool deal man....if you search "conor's fantasy league" you should find it.....

[Ceetar]

You can't search Yahoo for names that i see. unless it's not yahoooooo.

[metirish]

I'll send you the link later, can't access yahoo baseball from work

[willpie]

1. CPF NL-only. 13 teams, no $
2. An ESPN league I just joined this year with an old friend and a bunch of his coworkers. 10 teams, no $
3. A a low-ante Yahoo league I have run for my wife, her brothers and a few friends since 2005 or so. 12 teams $25
4. A really weird H2H league on RotoWire. I'm not actually sure how I got in on this one--some local attorneys have been running it since 2003 or so. This will be my second year. I got off to a great start last year, but nosedived out of the money in August and September. 14 teams, $200, 26-man rosters, auction draft, 9 x 9 stats (HR, RBI, BB, R, Avg, H, SB-CS, K,TB+W+HBP x W, IP, K, L, BB, WHIP, ERA, OPPBA, 2x(Saves-Blown Saves)+Holds)
If last year is any indication, the latter ends up being the most stress and the most fun. I have noticed that I tend to do worse in H2H than in roto, though. Maybe it's just not my game.

[metirish]

I noticed this year that H2H has a H2H with points........how does that work?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The points aren't your category wins?

1. CPF NL-Only (first single-leaguer in a LONG while).
2. 12-team roto (down from 14) with friends, slightly Saber-y categories (6 x 6, with OPS and K/BB as add'l cats, plus QS instead of wins) with online Yahoo! draft, $50 ante, split bounty between reg-season champ, playoff champ and a couple of runners-up. I'm the '90s Atlanta Braves of this league (3 of 5 regular-season championships and two second-place finishes... but only one win ever).

[bmfc1]

I'm in 2 other online leagues but it's the 1st time in 18 years that I'm not in a money league w/a live draft. I co-founded a league that has stayed together for 18 years but I quit for two reasons: it was dull-the owners didn't talk, few responded to trade proposals, and the only time we communicated was at the draft; and the Commissioner (I was the Commissioner for the 1st 6 years) insists on using All-Star Stats. "ASS" is a horrible stats service: the website hasn't changed in 4 years, there is no "app", and it costs $39/team. I'd rather use ESPN (free) or Sportsline ($15) but the Commissioner didn't want to learn a new system. I thought I'd find another league but couldn't. Perhaps I shouldn't have left.

I'd still like to join a "money", mixed, league (not H2H) if anybody knows of one.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I do this and another league exactly like this one (NL teams, no $, yahoo) that includes a few of the surviving members of a group that first did this 20 years ago.

Back then we all got together on a Saturday afternoon and had a rootin-shootin auction draft and it was fun. That first year we divided up the task of counting up stats ourselves every week and conferred by phone and still got the stats out every week! We eventually went to a pay service but the expense took much of the fun out of it (and several of the guys) and it died.

I'd like to do a league with an old-fashioned auction draft with everybody in the same room again, that was always a lot of fun.

[nymr83]

I've really managed to cut it down this year, I've got the CPF league and 10 team NL-only auction keeper league that is going into what i think is it's 10th year with about half the original owners and only one new guy (and he's the first in several years)

[metsmarathon]

i'm in two leagues this year - cpf and a league with some friends from work.

i had been in the mofo keeper league for the past 6 years or so, and won it twice, but decided this year to drop out. i left behind a fantastic team with pujols, votto, pedroia, lester, and a couple candidates for the 5th keeper. i dropped out because i don't participate there at all anymore, i've not been paying enough attention to any of my fantasy leagues lately, and i feel kinda bad holding a perfectly good roster spot in a league i might not play much in.

it kills me to leave that team behind, especially since i never received any of my yahoo league swag.