High(er) stakes fantasy baseball

Pasterbator · #1 02-23-2007, 06:27 PM

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?!?!

Pasterbator · #2 02-23-2007, 06:28 PM

Also -

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

Pudge714 · #3 02-23-2007, 06:35 PM

Probably in.

bugstud · #4 02-23-2007, 06:36 PM

very in

bigj0e03 · #5 02-23-2007, 06:54 PM

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.

Pasterbator · #6 02-23-2007, 07:02 PM

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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.

Shaver67 · #7 02-23-2007, 08:12 PM

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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.

vm1124 · #8 02-23-2007, 08:22 PM

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

bigj0e03 · #9 02-23-2007, 08:27 PM

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.

Shaver67 · #10 02-23-2007, 08:45 PM

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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)