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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.

smg58 wrote: I'd say three hours if we work quickly, especially in the late rounds when the talent pool will be so thin that it will be one big crap shoot. I've never been in this deep of a draft, so I don't have much advice to give. Maybe towards the end look for matching halves of a platoon -- the righthanded half will generally only have value to whomever takes the lefthanded half (unless it's somebody like Jonny Gomes, who'll produce well in the AB's he gets). I also wouldn't worry about your bench. If you need to fill a spot due to an injured player, most likely nobody will begrudge you picking up the guy who takes his place. There may be exceptions, though. For example, I'd expect that Alex Cora will only have value to the person who drafts Reyes (and that's assuming Reyes misses Opening Day), but if you grab Beltran you may not be able to wait till the end of the draft to grab Pagan. It shouldn't take anywhere near 3 hours. Generally the time limit is 90 seconds per pick, but half of the people drafting will be ready to go within 5-7 seconds of coming on the clock. And the others will get mocked (by me at least) for taking the full time, given that this league is not for money and all.... I'd figure on being done by 9 PM EST. As for hints, I throw this out there -- ESPN MLB depth charts, per team, will help you figure out who the starters are for every NL team as well as the top 5 candidates for the rotation and their top relievers. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/depth?team=ari Pull down menu on the right to select the other NL teams. I copied those out onto a single spreadsheet and use it to find those guys late who will get a lot of at bats. In a single league it's important to maximize those guys who are going to play, even if they are .240 scrubs, because much of the stats (especially hitting) are counting stats and those runs/HRs/RBIs/steals add up. Relievers will be around late, though in a 12 team NL only league you may want to seek out at least one closer with a track record.

Don't forget! Drafting this Thursday at 7:30 PM EST. Should be fun.....

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Read the book when I heard that my pal Marty was making it into a film. Thought the book was pretty routine stuff -- albiet in a genre of reading (airport paperback) that I'd normally avoid anyway.

You're all welcome. IP limit is now 1450. I've been a commish for my other league using Yahoo since 2002 so it's pretty intuitive for me. And a league where no money (prizes or entry fees) changes hands is all the easier for me, not having to shake down a bunch of deadbeats for their transaction dues.

I am open to changing it.... what's a better number?

Nymr83 wrote: at least up the bench size from 3 to 5, this makes having the next useful player less a matter of being the first to click the waiver wire when player X gets named a starter and more a matter of planning. I can do that. I think we should also try using the free agent blind bidding for waivers, which is a new Yahoo feature this year, instead of the generic "first come first served" method.

That's a full house, kids. Nice and good luck to everyone.

What's wrong is that part time players suck ass. Even with the pared down rosters, look at it like this: 16 NL teams x 8 positions = 128 position players 11 fantasy teams x 11 hitters per team (8 position players plus 1 extra IF, OF and UTIL) = 121 hitters Letting the seven worst hitters in the NL off the hook is not exactly making it easy.

Agreed. 16 NL teams = 48 starting outfielders, 32 middle infielders and 32 corner infielders. 11 owners at 5 OFs = 55 OFs, 33 2B/SS and 33 1B/3B. Too many slots. So I will change it to 4 OFs and one extra infielder (CI or MI) per active team. Still also a Util spot. This should be a bit easier to field a full squad. Also the draft is now scheduled for Thursday, March 25th at 7:30 PM.

metirish wrote: I'm flexible, how long would the draft take...more or less like. Assuming it moves at a brisk pace, I'd guess in the neighborhood of 90 minutes.

Sorry, Vic. The earliest I could do it that day is 9:30 as that is my son's birthday. What about Thursday the 25th? Anyone object?

OK, trying again. How about Monday the 22nd? OE: The 24th is my son's birthday, not available for me.

Hope no one minds, I had to push the draft date back a week as I am on work travel the week of 15-19 March. If anyone can't draft on Tues March 23rd at 7:30 PM please let me know so I can set a new date/time.

Ten owners, bad ass. I probably shouldn't give out one of my better NL only secrets, but ESPN has MLB depth charts where they project every team's starting lineup. It can help to find guys to fill that last few spots.

willpie wrote: Last year was my first time doing NL-only, but IIRC, Yahoo defaulted to letting you keep the guy if he's already on your team, but you can't trade him or pick him back up if you drop him. This is correct. You can continue to get stats from that player but if you cut him he disappears from the pool of eligible players.

Glad to see the league picking up more people. I like 10 teams for NL-only... last year I was in a 12 team NL only and literally every full time starter (and more guys that weren't even) was in an active lineup.

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I am in... really, you can do an NL only league with as few as 8 owners but 10-12 works best. I can set up a league at Yahoo if anyone else wants in. Thoughts?

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Watched it with the kids on the big TV tonight, enjoyable family fare. Fboy loved it, Fgirl lost interest as I'd expect a youngin like herself to do.

Played in three money leagues this year, all had entry fees of between $30 and $50. One of them (a 10 team league) I stunk, finished 5-8 and missed the playoffs. Too many dumb draft choices. The second one (a 12 team league) I finished 11-3, won a $96 prize for being the high scorer in weeks 1-16, and can win another $48 for the 3rd place prize if Adrian Peterson scores less than 25 pts tonight. The third one (a 14 team keeper league) I dominated -- finished 10-4 and plowed through the playoffs winning the finals 166-106 going into tonight. In this league, also, the guy just has A.P. left but I don't think he's scoring 60 tonight. First prize in this one is $210. Nice little haul for the Fman this year.

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