metsmarathon

seo dropping the hammer on day one of the playoffs, after the massive 1-4 upset. five home runs on a monday. DAMN!

holy shit, it's been a precipitous decline these past two weeks...

boooooooo! i understand though. it's fine. one less draft i need to prep for!

so, is this coming back for '22?

i am so ready to be disappointed in myself over many an ill-considered, brash knee-jerk bid.

ooh, yeah, i'm going to likely be unavailable before 8 at the earliest- just got the umms' baseball schedule. but i can plan to do poorly just as well with an autodraft.

i'd prefer if we could push it later than that, even.... but i can adjust, and incur the ire and wrath or my family if need be.

whoopsiedoodle. i accidentally grabbed two teams. let me see if i can drop one... if need be, i can run both. but i'd rather give up the slot. OE: ok, done.

i should be good for the 23rd, or thereabouts. preferably after 8:30, if at all possible, on a weeknight. c'mon, other cpfers, join us!

i always make a point of setting my lineup - especially starting pitchers - for the week, so that at least if i forget to check back in, i'm at least not leaving too many players on the bench. beyond that it's more a matter of managing who's hot, who's not, and who's hurt.

LOL! seriously, this is by far the most interesting league that i'm in. like, in regular roto, as long as you don't hose up your draft too badly, you can make a lot of hay just by having the quickest fingers on the waiver wire. snag the new rookies as they're called up before your opponents have a chance. that can't happen here. you have to play the whole game, balance your entire team. and hell, given the past few years' results, i'm not even all that good at it! (i'm REALLY bad at sticking to my pre-draft strategies, notably) but i love it, and am always trying to figure our how i can be a better manager.

it's $20 to enter, and right now it's the only league i pay for. i'd say that if you're looking for a thing you can spend a few minutes on each week, and let your team run itself while you occasionally check in on it, the league probably isn't for you. rather, if you've played your share of yahoo or espn leagues and are looking for something that rewards you for putting more time and care into it - beyond just lucking into a good draft slot - then it might be a good fit. i think that as much as the game is about getting good plyers, it's really at least as much about getting good value out of your players. the basics are, it's a 12-team league, auction-draft, with rotisserie scoring. this particular league is a SABR-roto 4x4 scoring system, where you get ranked by R, HR, OBP, SLG and SO, ERA, WHIP, HR/9. you have a 40-player roster to deal with, including stashing minor leaguers, and are allotted $400 to field your team. it's also a keeper league, where player salaries automatically increment $2 each year. on top of that, there's a wrinkle of arbitration, where at the end of the season, you get a handful of dollars to assign to plyers on other teams to make their salaries more fair. so for instance, let's say i magically had juan soto this year for $2. now that the season is over, his salary went up to $4 automatically. and since he's really low-salary, many of the other hypothetical owners assigned arbitration dollars to him, so now he's up to $23. that would be a big bump in this example. but he produces maybe $60 or $70 worth of production, so he'd still be dirt cheap in this wonderful fever dream. there are other wrinkles like, if i cut a player midseason, he still counts 50% against my salary cap until someone else picks him up. so, if ou like your fantasy baseball to stimulate your brain and force you to think it out, you'd probably enjoy it. one thing that i really do like, is that it doesn't really reward you for being fast. for instance, in most leagues, players are free agents until someone snaps them up. first come, first served. sucks if you wake up late after some rookie nobody comes in and no-hits the mets. he'd be snapped up before your alarm clock even thinks about beeping. on ottoneu, if someone wanted to add him, they would start an auction for him. and every owner would have 2 days to put in a blind bid for his services. highest bidder gets him. so its as much (perhaps more) about managing your payroll than it is knowing obscure players. its also on fangraphs, so there's plenty of resources available to dive deeper on your players. the time commitment isn't necessarily terrrible, except for the draft. the draft takes a loooong time, especially when there are new teams filling empty rosters. but the longer you stay in it, the better the values get. the initial league draft took two days. not 48 hours, but several hours over two nights. last year was maybe 3 hours, i think...? not sure. but after that, you can probably get by with a few minutes a day to set your lineups, check for injuries and starting pitchers, see how you're doing, maybe peruse the free agent list, and move along. oh yeah. one nice thing about it is that since the rate stats are so important for pitchers, and because you're on the hook for players you drop, there's really no such thing as streaming, which can get real annoying in a LOT of other leagues without transaction limits. so.. if that all sounds terrible, well, sorry! but it sounds like an interesting challenge, please, sign up. we need more mets fans!

join us! you know you want to! it's both fun AND challenging!

i think that was me. i'm pondering...

the only good thing about the lockout is that i have more time to ponder my keepers. (or is that a bad thing...?)

i'm already done!

i think when the league first started, maybe... i think we're also the only league i play in where that matters.

oof. 7pm is tough. later would be better. but i'll make it work either way. maybe i just need to beef up my pre-rankings

yeah, position players can score in any position that they're eligible for. so if you've got a strong outfielder, who happens to be infield-eligible, you can play him there in lieu of some weak-hitting shortstop. not that those things still exist.... pitchers are different. eligibility is meaningless, unlike nearly every other format. if you've got a starter starting, and he gets into a game as a reliever, or after an opener opens for him, that doesn't count. if you've got a reliever, and he gets a spot start, or an opening, he needs to be in your lineup as a starter. it all made more sense before openers became a thing.

yay! signed myself up, and also snagged a team for minimm

hey what happened? i thought i had done enough to keep my team active for this year. but maybe not proactively enough. is there still a spot open and available, or maybe two so i can compete against minimm instead of possibly collaborating with him....

i'll play. and hopefully pay attention to it. i'm so much worse at checking in to yahoo than ottoneu.

went a few times in middle- and high school. not sure if i went in college. always was curious about the loop-de-loop tube. i remember going on the high speed slides and feeling like i was one bad hydroplane away from skipping over the edge. rode the alpine slide a few times. the last time i rode it, i hit an expansion joint in the concrete, bounced somewhat off my cart, scraped up my elbow, knee, hip, and shoulder. nothing terrible, but i can at least say that action park scarred me for life, a few square-inches worth. one of the last times i went, we went with a friend who was not the strongest swimmer. they did the cannonball slide - the one where you drop out of the tube into a pool several feet below. he had to be pulled out by a lifeguard. he was ok, but did get to have "CFS" written on his arm. we reasoned then and there that it meant "Can't Fucking Swim" one day, i'll watch the HBOmax movie about it.

2/3 of my kids liked it. My in laws were ok with it. To quote mmfil “Hamilton was not a hip hop kind of guy”. ummR was the primary dissenter, stating unequivocally, that he does not like singing or dancing I thought it was great, and now want to read the book

7/15 works for me.