Ottoneu

[metsmarathon]

two questions:

do we need exactly 12 teams in the league to be viable?

mind if i invite two other players who i think might be interested? one is a mets fan, the other a red sox fan.

my other frined, mohawk red flyers, is good for either of the candidate draft dates, but prefers thursday 22 march, as do i.

[Ceetar]

I don't think we need 12, although I don't see any clear indication either way.

Go ahead, invite them. Sell them on 3/22 though.

[metsmarathon]

ok, i've got the red sox fan in, and i've also got a phillies fan. sorry about that. not sure if my mets fan friend is interested yet.

[Ceetar]

Worst comes to worst I'm sure a twitter begging would get us one or two more.


Anyway, anyone want to 'practice' and fill out my other team for me on Saturday 3/10 at like 5?

[Vic Sage]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Vic Sage wrote: sorry, can't make the time commitment this year. BOOOOOOOO. You suck!

mom, is that you?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Forgot we were doing this. I take it there's room for one more?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

duh

[Ceetar]

Ceetar wrote: http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home is the league home page. the password is Hietpas http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hietpjo01.shtml

[bmfc1]

I'm in so long as the draft isn't the 23d or 24th. You threw me with the thread title.

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: I'm in so long as the draft isn't the 23d or 24th. You threw me with the thread title.

I think we're almost settled on 3/22 at 8:30

[Ceetar]

we got any more fence-sitters? we've got 9, so one more to even it out would be nice (although it's not head to head so it don't matter real much, 9 is rather poetic)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

My non-CPF friend says he can't get in the league with the password. What gives?

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My non-CPF friend says he can't get in the league with the password. What gives?

clearly he's not True Sabr.

[Ceetar]

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My non-CPF friend says he can't get in the league with the password. What gives? clearly he's not True Sabr.

Hietpas

I dunno. I didn't change anything and I don't see anywhere I can even change/update the password. It claims there are still 3 spots available.

Tell him to try again and if not let me know his team/account name and I'll email them about it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah he says he went to "join existing league" tab and it told him the password wasn't cromulent.

I invited him from that page, we'll see if it works. Confusing web page for sure.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey he's in "Duda Wright Things"

[Ceetar]

Good.

2 spots left, I suppose we should try to fill them but I'm not sure it matters.

Everyone still good on the 3/22 8:30 pm draft time/date? It's not really something you can miss.

There's some time to work the free agent auction after the draft, but probably not to fill a competitive team.

[bmfc1]

Ceetar--I apologize but I can't participate this year.

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: Ceetar--I apologize but I can't participate this year.

No big deal, maybe you can swipe a team next year if someone drops out.

speaking of which, we have 11. 1 more fills the league..takers? I may post it to twitter and cherry pick a 12th if we don't find one, just for completeness sake.

[TransMonk]

What the heck, I'll give it a go. Worst that can happen is that I come in last, right?

I'll get myself registered over the weekend.

[TransMonk]

I'm in.

Miracle Monks

[TransMonk]

Is this NL only or both leagues?

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Is this NL only or both leagues?

the entire subset of major and minor league players included guys that aren't current (I imagine Andy Pettitte was already in there somewhere for example)

I believe only major league players on the active roster accumulate stats though, but you've got a 40 man roster, and if you want to snag, say Bryce Harper, in the hopes that he'll be good at the end of this year or next year, that's your prerogative. I grabbed Nieuwenhuis in another league for instance.

[TransMonk]

Got it. I'm reading through on all the stuff on Fangraphs and it sounds fun.

The last time I played fantasy baseball was 1991. I was the youngest owner in a keeper league that held a live auction. Back then I would wait for the Sporting News to come out on the weekend that listed all of the stats for all of the teams and then I would look all of my players up and keep their stats by hand each week. The commissioner would release standings every month printed by a service on a dot-matrix printer.

I haven't played since the advent of internet stat compiling. I'm looking forward to it, but am admittedly a bit rusty on the process. I'll brush up and be ready to go on Thursday.

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Got it. I'm reading through on all the stuff on Fangraphs and it sounds fun. The last time I played fantasy baseball was 1991. I was the youngest owner in a keeper league that held a live auction. Back then I would wait for the Sporting News to come out on the weekend that listed all of the stats for all of the teams and then I would look all of my players up and keep their stats by hand each week. The commissioner would release standings every month printed by a service on a dot-matrix printer. I haven't played since the advent of internet stat compiling. I'm looking forward to it, but am admittedly a bit rusty on the process. I'll brush up and be ready to go on Thursday.

This is the first time for roughly all of us I think. (I multi'tasked an auction last week)

[TransMonk]

*avi...I'm losing it today. Seriously.

[Ceetar]

Tomorrow!

The auction draft window is viewable if you want to get a sense for the controls. Anyone got any questions?

[TransMonk]

Very cool. I was just thinking of this today.

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Very cool. I was just thinking of this today.

And I emailed everyone but you, since somehow you managed to buck the system and register without an email address ;-)

any questions?

[Fman99]

Hey is this league NL only or AL/NL?