2012 Fantasy Baseball For Stakes And The Troops

[blugill]

No problem Scott!
It's all good!
I'll get my entry fee into you very quickly!

Hello everyone. My name is Jacob and I am Jarrod's friend that will be participating in the fantasy baseball league. I wanted to introduce myself and tell you guys that its a priviledge to be able to play fantasy baseball with you all. I wish everyone the best of luck and I hope to get to know you all as the season progresses.

[JenksAnejo]

Welcome Jake! Glad to have you, prepare for 2nd place!

[Mattso3000]

Originally Posted by JenksAnejo

Welcome Jake! Glad to have you, prepare for 2nd place!

Whoa, not so fast. I haven't even won yet...

Welcome to Jacob as well

[blugill]

Welcome, I'd like to lay claim to last right now if I could.
Baseball is not my strong fantasy sport at all, it ranks right there with hockey for me in terms of player knowledge. Now the NFL on the other hand!!!!

[shilala]

Welcome, Jake!!! Glad to have you on board.

[JenksAnejo]

Scott I've never played Head to Head scoring before can you explain to me how it works? Do you get 1 point for winning the stat against your opponent? Say like I have 7 HR's vs 5 HR's do I get 1 point for winning the HR category? There's 20 possible points for the week?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by JenksAnejo

Scott I've never played Head to Head scoring before can you explain to me how it works? Do you get 1 point for winning the stat against your opponent? Say like I have 7 HR's vs 5 HR's do I get 1 point for winning the HR category? There's 20 possible points for the week?

Yup.
I think there's 20 possible points, it's dictated by how many categories we have, and I forget how many I made. The season scores by W/L/T, so weekly wins against a team don't really factor much unless you get to tie-breakers at playoff time.
If you can stay above .500, you're in good shape. .560 usually wins top seed in the playoffs, it's that tight.
Factor that stuff in your strategy, because if you go for all 20 points every week, you generally lose miserably. Target 10 categories and build a strong team around those, then do what you can with the other 10.
Some weeks your matchups will yield 18 points, but that's thin. If you haven't built around categories, the next week you'll end up winning 2.

[JenksAnejo]

Awesome I appreciate it brother!

[blugill]

My strategy will be to let Yahoo draft for me

Originally Posted by blugill

My strategy will be to let Yahoo draft for me

I've won a couple leagues using that strategy.....but I think I will try and make the live draft this time around. After playing fantasy sports for nearly 20 years, it all comes down to injuries and waiver pick ups! The season isn't won or lost on draft day

[Mattso3000]

Originally Posted by thecatch83

I've won a couple leagues using that strategy.....but I think I will try and make the live draft this time around. After playing fantasy sports for nearly 20 years, it all comes down to injuries and waiver pick ups! The season isn't won or lost on draft day

So true. I'm the king of over-thinking things and mismanaging my team into the ground after a good draft. So much fun to draft, though.

[blugill]

A question, with the staggered opening day games, when does the fantasy week start and end in a head to head league?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by blugill

A question, with the staggered opening day games, when does the fantasy week start and end in a head to head league?

It will start on opening day and end on Sunday.
The league week runs Monday-Sunday. If it's shortened for whatever reason (like the All-Star break or opening week) it doesn't matter.

[blugill]

Thanks Scott!
I've just never tried a competitive baseball league before.
Forgive the newbie questions

[shilala]

Ask as many questions as you need to, Andy. It's really pretty easy, but the more you know, the more fun it is.
Make sure to root around at Yahoo, too. When you go to the main (league page), check the link to scoring and settings up top on the right. That's basically all the "rules". If not rules, it kinda tells you how this all works. If there are any terms or categories you don't fully understand, please ask. Someone will certainly help.
After the draft, you'll need to know how to pick up free agents from waivers. You can see that stuff by going to the "Players" tab on the league page. It's really very simple.
You'll also need to learn how to set up your team for the week. Some days you'll have guys that don't play. You'll want to put your bench guys in for those guys.
You can set your line-ups for 5 or 6 days ahead. The system won't tell when you're pitchers will be starting until like 3 days before their start. That's because no one knows what the rotation will look like in four or five days, all they could do is guess.
Once you get the hang of it, it only takes a cup of coffee to check your team, and you really only have to check it every few days unless you're super hard-core or really enjoy it.
I enjoy it. And I'm super hard-core.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by shilala

Ask as many questions as you need to, Andy. It's really pretty easy, but the more you know, the more fun it is.
Make sure to root around at Yahoo, too. When you go to the main (league page), check the link to scoring and settings up top on the right. That's basically all the "rules". If not rules, it kinda tells you how this all works. If there are any terms or categories you don't fully understand, please ask. Someone will certainly help.
After the draft, you'll need to know how to pick up free agents from waivers. You can see that stuff by going to the "Players" tab on the league page. It's really very simple.
You'll also need to learn how to set up your team for the week. Some days you'll have guys that don't play. You'll want to put your bench guys in for those guys.
You can set your line-ups for 5 or 6 days ahead. The system won't tell when you're pitchers will be starting until like 3 days before their start. That's because no one knows what the rotation will look like in four or five days, all they could do is guess.
Once you get the hang of it, it only takes a cup of coffee to check your team, and you really only have to check it every few days unless you're super hard-core or really enjoy it.
I enjoy it. And I'm super hard-core.

Because I'm too lazy to look it up, do we set our lineups daily or weekly? FTR, I despise daily lineups.

Also, there's still two people not signed up yet...

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Because I'm too lazy to look it up, do we set our lineups daily or weekly? FTR, I despise daily lineups.

Also, there's still two people not signed up yet...

You can set your line-ups a week ahead. That won't help with starting pitchers because teams only release starting pitcher info three days out.
There's a minimum number of innings (40) a team has to pitch or they forfeit their wins for the week. I always wondered if that means you'd lose all the stats from your pitchers, and it does not. It's just W's.
A guy could use all closer and middle relief and keep their era and whip down, win saves, and be in real good shape for the week if he didn't even pitch a starter, so I always wondered why that rule is even in place. But it is.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by shilala

There's a minimum number of innings (40) a team has to pitch or they forfeit their wins for the week. I always wondered if that means you'd lose all the stats from your pitchers, and it does not. It's just W's.

Well, now that we know that Scott is a lying sack of crap, consider it lesson learned. I think he just deceived us all so he can get a leg up right out of the gate.

[mkarnold1]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Well, now that we know that Scott is a lying sack of crap, consider it lesson learned. I think he just deceived us all so he can get a leg up right out of the gate.

+1 @#$%