metsmarathon

ottoneu football? anyone?

true, but if you don't hit the 1250 minimum innnings, your pitching points drop down to 1, no matter how good htey are.

you don't get any stats if your guys are all riding hte pine!

anything you can do to shut down or close-out the draft? it shows as "in-progress" which puts the kibosh on any waiver-wire auctions.

i blame fakesnukes

dangit! i guess i'll finish off my roster the old-fashioned way.

so... did the draft time out or something...? or does fangraphs hate midnight?

it also appears to be missing a goodly number of starting pitchers. like sonny gray, michael wacha, yordano ventura. i haven't looked to see if the hitters are similarly glitched. but regardless of roster size, it does still only show 150 players with positive value, adjusting only for position and budget. i'm glad i'm not relying on it for anything, that's for damned sure!

you're using a $300 budget instead of hte $400 we have (although some allowance should be made for prospects and the like) regardless, even at $78, he's twice as much as the next highest pitcher. oh, the problem as i can see it, actually, is that even though you've got hte right number of players identified for all the roster slot and what-not, the calculator is still somehow only calculating 150 hitters and 150 pitchers with positive value, for effectively a 25-man roster, (meaning it has too high a floor for the replacement player), and is therefore spreading too much money across too few players. it's also not doing the hr/9, though just looking at hr isn't all that far off. draft friday is fine. i hate to say it, but it's far better to screw over one player than to screw over the whole league. and while it's surely small comfort, lwfs will have an immense advantage in being able to spoil any in-season waiver wire call-ups. i'd love to start up a separate parallel league where we tried the blind auction waiver-wire draft. it seems like a thoroughly interesting experiment to run. but a great way to fuck up an otherwise perfectly good league.

It doesn't do hr/9, and I just use hr, it tells me that kershaw should be priced at almost $130! I mean, it's nice to think Im not overpaying him, but there's no way a full third of a payroll should be tied upon one guy, no matter how good he is. So, what's the plan?

i don't even know what that means, and that calculator is useless for our league.

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: We _could_ do it entirely off line. I could email out say 20 guys on Monday and have everyone submit a blind bid on them and then manually add to teams. But based on the responses of some I'm not sure that sort of regular work seems acceptable to all. Let's not do it this way. I mean, it's roughly the same as doing it all via waivers, just without the time constraints. there's also the potential for corruption, tomfoolery, and the appearance of tomfoolery and corruption. there'd simply be no way to be sure that you ever really truly did have the highest bid on a player before opening any of the emails.

i don't think we can adjust the timescale on the waiver wire auction unless we take it completely offline. this is a very interesting suggestion that i think could work. there are 200 roster spots that need to be filled, and 10 viable auction days (asuming we start on monday 23 march and run until april 2nd, allowing hte final auctions to close before the first official game on april 5th). if each day, we allow teams to nominate two players for the auction, we should be able to get it done in time. it will be a very weird auction, and some teams will surely get screwed and make colossally bad decisions, and some players will go for insanely reduced rates, but it beats the alternative of having one or more thoroughly uncompetitive teaams because of a missed draft. i'd be okay with going forward with this strategy if we can get buy-in from the rest of hte owners, but ovbiously only if the conventional draft option is impossible. obviously, if a guy is unavailable to participate in the auctions the next two weeks, it all falls apart just as badly.

if it makes you feel better, if the draft were tonight, i would've been royally fucked. i'd forgotten to send myself my latest spreadsheet, though i think i recreated the missing bits. but teh biggest issue is that my internet was shit. i was on the draft with my freaking nook. i think my pc likes my network now, but its hard to say... regardless, i was not in good shape for tonight, so it worked out well enough for me so far. but still, boo on the guys who couldn't make the draft. we should dock them salary or something.

Was Wolfe one of the 2 teams or were there in fact three teams unavailable?

well, bryant went early in the 8th, three picks after i'd selected degrom. i was very tempted to pull the trigger there, but it felt too early. i was hoping he would last until my next pick at the end of the 9th. oh well. i had an interesting draft. i had the 11th pick in a 12-team league, and my first two picks were tulo & cano. i never have a solid middle infield, and didn't quite know what to do with myself. by the middle rounds, i was hunting and pecking throughout my pre-draft rankings, looking for potential values and good fits, and stressed out as the players i wanted disappeared right before my pick. in the late rounds, i think i was a little too focused on picking up future talent that i mightn't be able to keep, and which mightn't play much this year anyways. i have syndergaard and carlos rodon sitting on my bench. they are joined there by a pair of aces recovering from injuries who should help mid-season in jose fernandez (spaztastically selected in the 14th round) and garrett richards (keeper, 23rd round). once the season starts and they hit the DL, i'll be able to back-fill the couple of holes i have. if all goes well, i'll have a juggernaut in the last half with more keepable aces than i can shake a stick at. if, that is, i survive the first half... c d'arnaud (19) 1b abreu (k-10) 2b cano (2) ss tulo (1) 3b alvarez (18) of hamilton (3) of yelich (6) of jd martinez (7) ut zobrist (11) ut baez (13) b pearce(15) b arcia (17) b semien (21) sp scherzer (k-4) sp shields (5) sp degrom (8) sp pineda(16) rp cody allen (9) rp joaquin benoit (12) bp-dl fernandez (14) bp syndergaard (20) bp rodon (22) bp-dl g.richards (k-23)

i have a draft tonight, of a long-time league that recently enacted new keeper rules, in the interest of keeping things interesting. the rules are, essentially: a) up to 3 players may be kept from the preceding year (edited) the first year a keepr is kept, his draft slot is the slot he was drafted in. if a keeper was kept in the prior season, his draft slot will be the average (rounded down) of the prior year's draft position and hte current year's ADP so a player selected in the 10th round last year, will be kept at the 10th round this year. and next year, if he has an ADP in the 2nd round, his draft slot for the following season will be (10+2)/2 = 6th round. c) no player with a draft slot in the first 3 rounds may be kept the following season. so, having made my keeper picks already, and i think i'm happy enough with them... my dilemma becomes... how early do i draft kris bryant and noah syndergaard? with a full 600-at bats, bryant projects to be a 4th round value. with 500 at bats, he's a 10th rounder (assuming his value to be spread evenly thru the year). is it crazy to think of taking him as early as the 10th round? and the other consideration is, the longer i wait on him, the longer i would be able to keep him, as a lower draft slot would take longer to ascend into the 3rd round. but then, how long is too long...? last year, tanaka went in the 9th, and jose abreu went in the 10th round (to me). is it reasonable to think that bryant would go sooner or later? in the same draft, billy hamilton went in the 4th round....!

the proposed draft date works well for my crew.

march 18th, 9pm works for me

so, what are we thinking of for a draft date?

aren't we at the point with a lot of our superheroes where we don't need to do another origin story, and can just get right into the action. especially with spidey. he's a kid who gets bit by a spider and decides to go around fighting crime and stuff. if you really need to set him up, you can take 5 minutes before the title credits come on. or, better yet, TITLE MONTAGE!!!!

if not, it'll make more work for the commish, as he'll have to kick out anyone whose expired team is snapped up by some random dude, as i think happened last year.

Ceetar wrote: I might be interested in TT. Hmm. i've made a tulowitzki-based offer to whet your whistle.

i saw two movies in theaters in 2014. they are ranked below. 1. the LEGO movie 2. planes: fire & rescue

i'm finding htat this year, more than most, i'm really struggling with deciding who to cut and who not to cut. part of it is that i see there are a lot of teams with, potentially, a ton of money to spend, and i've got some players that that money could get spent on. so my chances of redrafting a player at a reduced rate seems slim. it's worked in the past, and for some reason our league seems to have depressed salaries for the top players, but i'm not expecting htat to hold for much longer. so right now, i'm looking, i think, at a stars & scrubs lineup, and a fair number of bench slots to fill for not a lot of money in the draft. my team does look rather stacked, though. i'm happy to entertain trades for some of my more expensive players, of course, but i'm still in win-now mode, perhaps moreso now than ever. if, for instance, you think you might want to own your very own $60 clayton kershaw, and have something truly compelling to offer, i'm a-listening. the same holds true for a $39 future-met troy tulowitzki.