High(er) stakes fantasy baseball
 

Well, i have been thinking a lot about this, and i need to focus on something other than poker for a bunch of months. I'm actually gonna try this year bc i love baseball, im a balla, and i want a better reason than "I'm a mets fan" to go to some baseball games. SO LETS DO SOME FANTAST BASEBALL!!

I don't want to be commish or hold the money - bc thats responsibility, and i dont want any. I would like a roll call for people willing to do a league for "big" money. I'm thinking between 300-500 would be great. I GUESS if people wanna do 200, thats ok, but we'll see.

My stipulations: 5x5 roto league. NOT HEADS UP FTW!!

Maximum of 14 teams.

So who's in?!

FWIW, im gonna win bc im awesome at it, so have fun battling for 2nd - 14th!!

WHO'S WITH ME?!?!

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Also -

I'm going away for the weekend, so i wont see this thread until sunday night. LETS GET SOME INTEREST.

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Probably in.

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very in

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im in however, i am not sure that i want to do the roto league bc last year we did a roto league which i definitly won, however bugstud did this very cheap trick where towards the end of the year you just pick up 7 pitchers who are pitching that day and throw them and keep doing that over and over, so he picked up a bunch of points in wins and Ks etc, and it was really irritating and i dont want to go through that again. So, I would rather to Heads up.

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im in however, i am not sure that i want to do the roto league bc last year we did a roto league which i definitly won, however bugstud did this very cheap trick where towards the end of the year you just pick up 7 pitchers who are pitching that day and throw them and keep doing that over and over, so he picked up a bunch of points in wins and Ks etc, and it was really irritating and i dont want to go through that again. So, I would rather to Heads up.

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we can discuss this idea.

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im in however, i am not sure that i want to do the roto league bc last year we did a roto league which i definitly won, however bugstud did this very cheap trick where towards the end of the year you just pick up 7 pitchers who are pitching that day and throw them and keep doing that over and over, so he picked up a bunch of points in wins and Ks etc, and it was really irritating and i dont want to go through that again. So, I would rather to Heads up.

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What you're refering to is called streaming starters- which incidentally is why is dislike HU since you can/should do this all year long.

You avoid this in roto by capping the starts for the year at 180 or so (depending on how many P slots you're using). similarly you avoid the reverse (someone runing only relievers all year to win whip/era/svs) by setting a min # of innings required for the ratio categories.

As for the league 500 would be a bit steep for my blood but if it ends up 200-300, I'm in.

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you can implement a maximum innings pitched per season in roto and maximum innings pitched per week in HU.

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i mean whatever, im sure ill draft/make the best trades all year and have the best team because I am the Muhammad Ali of fantasy sports, however all I ask is that someone cant do some cheap [censored] at the end of the year to steal the win from my better team. But whatever, I dont think the point of fantasy is to draft a better team than anyone else and make better trades, not to "stream starters" or whatever. But I'm in regardless.

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i mean whatever, im sure ill draft/make the best trades all year and have the best team because I am the Muhammad Ali of fantasy sports, however all I ask is that someone cant do some cheap [censored] at the end of the year to steal the win from my better team. But whatever, I dont think the point of fantasy is to draft a better team than anyone else and make better trades, not to "stream starters" or whatever. But I'm in regardless.

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I mean no disrespect at all, since the first time it happpened to me in FBB I was miffed too. But this is like the guy in the $20 home game who thinks checkraising or slowplaying is "dirty."

If there was no start limit you disadvantaged yourself by not doing it. If there was a limit and you can see his pace well behind it you can see this coming. Eitehr way it isn't cheap [censored], but rather just another element of the strategy.

And on the flip side, one can lose a league just as fast streaming starters (blowing up their era and whip, while piling up Ks and Ws)

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I'm in for this league.

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FWIW last year there was a max innings thing that Bugstud hadn't reached, which is why he wasn't able to do this all year. I think HU is way better than Roto because it's way more fun to just hate some guy for an entire week. In Roto I feel like it's me vs. the world, in HU it's me vs. 1 guy.

I'm in for this obviously, and think it should be $500.

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im in however, i am not sure that i want to do the roto league bc last year we did a roto league which i definitly won, however bugstud did this very cheap trick where towards the end of the year you just pick up 7 pitchers who are pitching that day and throw them and keep doing that over and over, so he picked up a bunch of points in wins and Ks etc, and it was really irritating and i dont want to go through that again. So, I would rather to Heads up.

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lol lirianodumptradeaments

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Also HU allows for better prop betting.

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im in however, i am not sure that i want to do the roto league bc last year we did a roto league which i definitly won, however bugstud did this very cheap trick where towards the end of the year you just pick up 7 pitchers who are pitching that day and throw them and keep doing that over and over, so he picked up a bunch of points in wins and Ks etc, and it was really irritating and i dont want to go through that again. So, I would rather to Heads up.

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lol lirianodumptradeaments

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lol at me trading Liriano+Andruw Jones for Soriano 2/3rs of the way through the season in my keeper league.

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Also HU allows for better prop betting.

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IN.

IN.

IN.

IN.

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ill be the dead money. ill prob check it like 4 times during the year, but i need something else to randomly check when im bored. count it.

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update - I just got back from a ridiculous weekend in the pononos and im going to sleep.

I will try to hook this up a little later. Who wants to hold the money? and how much?

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i'm in. roto with capped IP is better than HU. HU is great for football, baseball is just perfet for roto though, IMHO.

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The Giants are probably going to be mediocre again, and I'm going to need something else to follow until football season starts again. Despite my dearth of post-90's baseball knowledge, I'm down.

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soooooooooo does anyone wanna take control of this league... bc i dont.

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So is this thing DOA or are we going to do it? I'll hold the money if necessary.

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This is a $500 league, correct? If you are interested at all in participating please pm me. If most of you want to play for less, we'll adjust the buy-in.