Fantasy Baseball

8-10

brilliantboy wrote: »

Exciting? It's excruciating :eek:
I've been just about clinging to Runs, RBI,s and SB's this week but I can see you taking those too by the time all is said and done. Amazingly I've battled back to within 5 in strikeouts and I've got Pineda going tonight...so maybe if Halladay isn't on his game I could sneak that (Although I see you have a whole core of relievers ready for action )

There's about 5 categories that could go either way in 1 day! I think Runs are yours but HR's has been very nip and tuck, that and RBI will be tight. I thought K's was looking good for me up until this morning! Impressive comeback and those relievers you mentioned haven't got too many this week anyway. :eek:

smackbunnybaby

After having an 8-2 lead at one stage, Coeus reeled me in and won 5-3.
It was changing by the minute as AVG was dictating it!
But he hit a rake of HRs on the last day to level up teh HR category that I had been strolling earlier on.

Also Ubaldo Jimenez is an absolute disaster of a pitcher.
Janey mac..he'll K 10 and give up 11....
I can't warn people off him enough next year!!

boccy23

You should keep him.

smackbunnybaby

I discovered this morning that he is NOT on the can't cut list.....hmmm.

Coeus

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

After having an 8-2 lead at one stage, Coeus reeled me in and won 5-3.
It was changing by the minute as AVG was dictating it!
But he hit a rake of HRs on the last day to level up teh HR category that I had been strolling earlier on.

Also Ubaldo Jimenez is an absolute disaster of a pitcher.
Janey mac..he'll K 10 and give up 11....
I can't warn people off him enough next year!!

I gave up on Wins and Ks when I seen you had 3 starters on Sunday so sat Billingsley to hold ERA, I dont fancy starters in Colorado after Garcia gave up 12 runs there earlier in the year. A Jimenez implosion is what I needed to win WHIP and he duely obliged. He cost you ERA and WHIP this week and a matchup victory as my starting pitching wasn't great.

There was nothing in the batting categories this week. You get 1 more hit and you win BA.

A very good matchup, I'd have taken a split of 5 during the week considering how far I was behind in some categories.

boccy23

Still in 4th place and I'm not giving it up. 8-10, Brilliantboy et al be warned.
Won last week 6-4 against Malachyscott. Playing Bit of Red 72 this week and my arch nemisis Prince Fielder. But I will prevail.

smackbunnybaby

Anyone know what INF stands for?

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sports/fantasysports/baseball/scoring/baseball-93.html

Fernando Salas has it for me from last nights game. He threw therefore shouldn't he have at least IP 0.1 not 0.0?
Should I be expecting a hefty ERA appended on soon?

St. Louis
IP H R ER BB K HR WHIP Season ERA
C. Carpenter 8.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 1.30 3.57
A. Rhodes (H, 1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.25 13.50
F. Salas (L, 5-5; BS, 5) 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.94 2.41
J. Motte 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.94 1.76

It's because he didn't record an out?

Coeus

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Anyone know what INF stands for?

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sports/fantasysports/baseball/scoring/baseball-93.html

Fernando Salas has it for me from last nights game. He threw therefore shouldn't he have at least IP 0.1 not 0.0?
Should I be expecting a hefty ERA appended on soon?

St. Louis
IP H R ER BB K HR WHIP Season ERA
C. Carpenter 8.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 1.30 3.57
A. Rhodes (H, 1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.25 13.50
F. Salas (L, 5-5; BS, 5) 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.94 2.41
J. Motte 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.94 1.76

It's because he didn't record an out?

My guess is that INF is infinity. Looks like he gave up a hit which drove in a run without getting an out hence the 0.0 innings. He'll be charged with a hit towards WHIP and a run towards ERA...

8-10

Coeus wrote: »

My guess is that INF is infinity. Looks like he gave up a hit which drove in a run without getting an out hence the 0.0 innings. He'll be charged with a hit towards WHIP and a run towards ERA...

Interesting, I had wondered recently how that is recorded.

bit of red72

Your nemesis went nought for eight last night, Boccy 23.

I feel I'll have to be looking elsewhere for such wonderful behaviour. It might have to be Ichiro - I feel he owes me after my masterful Zobrist trade. You definitely got the best of that one!

boccy23

I did alright. But you rolled the dice on Ichiro coming back to what he normally is. But this has been a real down year for him.

GoldFour4

Just gotta love having two yankee hitters on the roster tonight Russell Martin with two home runs, one of them a grnad slam, 6 rbis in total so far.. Then Curtis Granderson hits a grand slam

smackbunnybaby

Losing this week to HotBalls. Unfortunately he has a great chance to hammer me looking at the schedule for Sunday with 3 pitchers to come! Then combine the loss with Judean People Front score and this league is wide open up to third and possibly second if Homers Homers lose by a few to Hemry's team.

8-10

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Then combine the loss with Judean People Front score and this league is wide open up to third

Yeah I've been looking to this week and next for a while now, playing the bottom 2 teams. Had been hoping to put up some good scores. Hurricane didn't help though with Phillies cancelling 2 games yesterday when I had the 2 starters but I'm still only slightly ahead in a couple of categories with a chance of falling behind in a couple. It's going to be a nervous couple of weeks now!

:eek:

Iang87

what a crazy week. My team hit 19HR crazy, felt really bad for the guy i was playing cos his offence had a serious week and only came out with RBI.

So i'm looking at 7-2 win and am delighted cos its gonna give me a ahot at making the playoffs, now can you imagine my surprise when I actually dropped from 6th to 7th with my win. Crazy crazy game

brilliantboy

You snooze you lose! It wouldn't let me add Mike Trout last night (Tuesday night) while the game was on. I woke up today (Wednesday) to find he had been swiped by Henry Le Cheat

Oh well...hopefully I'll have Beltre back soon and make a run at this thing. My team as usual is hitting for high AVG but not producing a lot :mad:

Coeus

brilliantboy wrote: »

You snooze you lose! It wouldn't let me add Mike Trout last night (Tuesday night) while the game was on. I woke up today (Wednesday) to find he had been swiped by Henry Le Cheat

Oh well...hopefully I'll have Beltre back soon and make a run at this thing. My team as usual is hitting for high AVG but not producing a lot :mad:

Yea, once your all players games have started you cannot pickup a player until after 8am. I may need a replacement for Choo if he goes on the DL again so Trout who is swinging a hot bat looked the best pickup.

A couple of times this season I have gone to pickup a player only for him to have been taken. Would love to nab Strasburg now but he got picked up ages ago...

smackbunnybaby

Picked up Trout when he got called up as cover for an injury to Bourjos in LAA.
He saw little game time and wasn't batting well so I dopped him.
Now that Wells and Abreu have gone to pot he has been told that he will see a lot more game time.
Coeus, you picked him up at the right time! You should get some good production between now and end of season, but expect next year from him to really break out when some of those guys have been moved on.
A Speed Merchant with a Bat.
Many people rate him higher than Bryce Harper and has the upside of speed to boot.

8-10

Coeus wrote: »

Would love to nab Strasburg now but he got picked up ages ago...

Yeah as soon as I heard he was going to have some rehab starts I picked him up and swapped him for Bucholz who I already had on the DL. I figured it'd be worth it if he could get some starts in September, and if he didn't he's not taking up a roster place anyway. Both him and Bucholz were unlikely to feature before Sept anyway and looks like Strasburg will be starting next week so pleased with that.

My offense has shut down this week after being pretty damn good last week. That 4th spot is touch and go...

Coeus

8-10 wrote: »

Yeah as soon as I heard he was going to have some rehab starts I picked him up and swapped him for Bucholz who I already had on the DL. I figured it'd be worth it if he could get some starts in September, and if he didn't he's not taking up a roster place anyway. Both him and Bucholz were unlikely to feature before Sept anyway and looks like Strasburg will be starting next week so pleased with that.

Yea I was skeptical until I seen highlights of his first rehab start. I knew then he would be back in September but you had already picked him up. It makes sense for the Nats to give him games to get the rustiness out of his arm this season. For fantasy he'll get loads of strikeouts and maybe a win or 2 as I'd say most of his starts will be at home for financial reasons...

brilliantboy

Super...I forgot to un-bench Beltre

And the Albuquerque Isotopes have a ridiculous 9 Saves already this week :eek:

smackbunnybaby

brilliantboy wrote: »

Super...I forgot to un-bench Beltre

And the Albuquerque Isotopes have a ridiculous 9 Saves already this week :eek:

Very tight in the end! A steal could have changed it all up!
By the way, I brushed against the report button there but pressed cancel on my phone browser for your post! Don't think it reported, but if it did... sorry!
This is the last week before the play offs, I am playing Judean Peoples Front, and I am nervous.

boccy23

Hi All

This has been a really enjoyable experience this year and coming into the last regular season week, there are still probably 6 teams in for 3 spots.

So best of luck to all.

On another note, it seems we have 11 of the 12 players who were active on a regular basis and the question then becomes do we want to make a Keeper league?

If so, what number of keepers do people want to look at. From some research 10 seems to be a popular number. Are others on for it and if so, what numbers do you think?

Boccy

Coeus

boccy23 wrote: »

Hi All

This has been a really enjoyable experience this year and coming into the last regular season week, there are still probably 6 teams in for 3 spots.

So best of luck to all.

On another note, it seems we have 11 of the 12 players who were active on a regular basis and the question then becomes do we want to make a Keeper league?

If so, what number of keepers do people want to look at. From some research 10 seems to be a popular number. Are others on for it and if so, what numbers do you think?

Boccy

Hey, I agree its been a great league and still plenty to play for. I would definately be on for making this a keeper.

My thoughts on the number of keepers would be less than 10 as we need to force managers to make tough decisions and drop players that they would like to keep. I would think for a league of this size that 6/7 would be reasonable. If we going down the keeper route we should also consider how long we are allowed keep the keepers. Should the best players be refreshed more often while players picked in later rounds can be kept longer. Should draft picks be conceded for keeping players etc.

Is there a list of commish rules for keeper leagues in Yahoo?

boccy23

No real rules at the moment. I am checking with Yahoo on this but I think all I can do is set which players are kept. After that it is up to us to decide on how long and penalty of rounds etc. I will then keep track of this for subsequent drafts.

smackbunnybaby

Totally up for keeper league.
Learned loads this year!
Not opinions on keeper rules and the like as I don't have any real knowledge.
Happy to go with the best explained option....

brilliantboy

Keeper is definitely OK with me (I'll be keeping a firm grasp on one or two of my rookies). Or maybe we could start over with a new full draft and make it a dynasty league? Or do both! (yes...I'm addicted)

smackbunnybaby

What's the story with the league, has it updated?

GoldFour4

Yeah I'd be in for a keeper league aswell.

8-10

Yep I'm in, definitely want to do this with everyone here again regardless of format.

boccy23

Checked and we can decide when we reactivate the league as to keepers and values. I suppose at this stage it's just a matter of deciding to make it a keeper and how many keepers people prefer.

bit of red72

I'd also be on for a keeper league as well. From what I know - which is little - 6/7 seems to be the number.

Playing and being hammered by Henry/Coeus this week. I think I drew the short straw in the last chance play off saloon!

Coeus

bit of red72 wrote: »

I'd also be on for a keeper league as well. From what I know - which is little - 6/7 seems to be the number.

Playing and being hammered by Henry/Coeus this week. I think I drew the short straw in the last chance play off saloon!

You had alot of good starting pitching overnight which I expected with Hernandez and Lester going so that has brought your pitching stats back. If those guys go again on Sunday which they will if on regular rest then I will struggle in most pitching cat...

brilliantboy

Coeus wrote: »

You had alot of good starting pitching overnight which I expected with Hernandez and Lester going so that has brought your pitching stats back. If those guys go again on Sunday which they will if on regular rest then I will struggle in most pitching cat...

Seattle are using a six man rotation making Felix unlikely to pitch Sunday (unless something happens to the 6th man (one can only hope :rolleyes: )) ...so you're safe there :pac:

Coeus

brilliantboy wrote: »

Seattle are using a six man rotation making Felix unlikely to pitch Sunday (unless something happens to the 6th man (one can only hope :rolleyes: )) ...so you're safe there :pac:

Didn't realise that. Even if ye are blooding young arms I still wouldnt be skimping on Hernandez starts. Pineda will probably be shut down for the season soon like most rookies on non-contending teams in early September...

boccy23

I'm in the playoffs of another 10x10 Head-to-Head league where Complete Gmes and Shut Outs are catagories. Up against CJ Wilson, Cliff Lee and Chris Carpenter. Needless to say with all 3 pitching complete games shutouts, I am getting hammered. Behind 6-10 at the moment and hoping that my offense can somehow pull me through.

Iang87

i'm definitely up for a keeper league

Iang87

could we not put henry in the keeper league and split his team draft style

Coeus

Iang87 wrote: »

could we not put henry in the keeper league and split his team draft style

Ha ha and that from someone who beat me ;-)

If we don't have too many keepers, the talent (mine included) will be redistributed :-)

brilliantboy

Coeus wrote: »

Didn't realise that. Even if ye are blooding young arms I still wouldnt be skimping on Hernandez starts. Pineda will probably be shut down for the season soon like most rookies on non-contending teams in early September...

Well it was a different story last year when he was chasing the Cy Young but I see no reason to pushing Felix any harder than necessary (he's still a young arm himself ) They're at a point in the season when individual performances matter much more than team results (the less wins, the higher the draft pick after all :rolleyes: ), and we already know the type of performances we're going to get from Felix.

Pineda is down to his last start I believe

boccy23

Well scraped into the playoffs. Will probably get hammered by Le Henry now!

Coeus

boccy23 wrote: »

Well scraped into the playoffs. Will probably get hammered by Le Henry now!

I dunno, I think it will be close, it is the playoffs afterall. Should be an exciting week ahead

brilliantboy

Went right down to to the wire at the end, but a good week from boccy's team sealed it.
I'm left rueing what might have been if I had Beltre available all year, but I guess everyone else could say something similar.

Good luck for the playoffs lads

fisgon

You can put me down for keeper league as well - Homer's Homers. Should be a laugh. Can't believe I actually made playoffs this year, first year of fantasy baseball, with minimal baseball knowledge. Didn't even make the draft. Total stroke of auto-draft luck!

smackbunnybaby

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8-10

3 Wins and a 0.00 ERA from 3 starting pitchers so far this week. Where was all of this in the regular season?

boccy23

Coeus wrote: »

I dunno, I think it will be close, it is the playoffs afterall. Should be an exciting week ahead

Well done sir. 6-4. Pitching killed me in the end which it has done for a lot of the seasons mathc ups. My offense carried me and nearly did so again. Best of luck in the Championship game gents.

Coeus

boccy23 wrote: »

Well done sir. 6-4. Pitching killed me in the end which it has done for a lot of the seasons mathc ups. My offense carried me and nearly did so again. Best of luck in the Championship game gents.

Thanks, told you it would be close. Could have been closer if you hadn't left those quality starts on the bench. I left a few behind myself but that was to ensure I held ERA and WHIP. I hope my bats wake up this week

smackbunnybaby

Appalling loss of form from my team this week.
Loads of injuries and fellas being benched for a rest.
Motte has blown 2 saves to balloon my ERA and starters haven't picked up wins!
This match up is over Coeus!

Coeus

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Appalling loss of form from my team this week.
Loads of injuries and fellas being benched for a rest.
Motte has blown 2 saves to balloon my ERA and starters haven't picked up wins!
This match up is over Coeus!

There is still a weeks worth of games to go so I aint counting my chickens.

Having some injuries (Pence) and benchings (both Cabreras on Wednesday) myself but not as bad as you. Alot of my guys have found their bats again and I have alot good pitching matchups this week and over the weekend. I kinda got lucky there.