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Hey everybody,
I've been away from this message board for about 6 years. What'd I miss?

Here's some olympic bloopers.
my favorite is the "vault" at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfwM1DWGmsc

4 sounds good to me

I'd say 4-5 keepers is a good number.

Quote from: Slaky+ on February 14, 2008, 10:44:59 AM
I guarantee you the Sim-Meister is just fine. That's one of the toughest SOB's I've never met, right there.

where?

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Quote from: Oleg on February 06, 2008, 11:41:10 PM
If the Roto thing isn't going to be created, I'll happilly join this whale of a league.  Sometimes, it's more about whom one beats than about which game is played.  Or something.

Quote from: EG on February 07, 2008, 09:21:59 AM
I'm in.  Ryan Theriot Rocks.

So we're back to a 20-billion team league now?

Can't you boys take some initiative and start up your fancypants laptop science league on your own?

(And can someone tell Dan not to come crying to us now that everyone thinks your roto league is socially awkward, unpopular and smells like pee?)

the roto league smells like fresh waffles.

hey head to head! don't come crying to me when you lose the championship round in a 5-5 tie, because yahoo says the team with the lower ERA for the week is the winner, even if you destroyed your opponent in the categories you won, and he barley edged you out in the five he won, and only had an era of .02 points lower, and used 1/2 as many innings...don't come crying to me about how you want to be in a roto league then. nuh uh. i won't want to hear it. that's your funeral sucka.

Quote from: EG on January 25, 2008, 11:25:19 AM
All right, I'm in for the roto league:

ROTO
1. Oleg
2. Shooter
3. Tonk
4. EG

5. Dan

Quote from: Shooter on January 24, 2008, 11:25:55 AM
It seems to me like two leagues might be in order, for a couple of reasons. First, 24 is an unwieldy number of teams. Second, some people hate the head-to-head format.

One grand league for all of our fringe little world would be cool, but it seems too difficult to manage. And that's before we even try to schedule a live draft with 24 guys.

Amen.
a 24 team league is too much of a cluster fuck.  2 sister leauges, 2 commishes, and 2 formats seems much more practical. 
and I second the nomination of JD as comish. 

another thought, just to make this more complicated.
I've heard many hardcore fantasy players say that the true manly way to draft is a live auction draft.  is there anyway to do that in cyberspace?

simmer down apex. no need to make it personal.
just for that I'm not allowing you in my emo leauge. 
and for the record, I like to obsess and tweak my fantasy team as much as anyone.   I've played both formats, and there are advantages to both H2H and roto.   But I like that roto scoring places more emphasis on the draft, and rewards the team that did the most over the course of the whole season.  There's less emphasis on the playoffs and on playing matchups.  But it's cool if you like to play H2H.   ok...sheesh.  this is now officially the dorkiest. argument. ever.

ok,
here's my thoughts on this keeper league extravaganza. 
24 teams, no matter how you look at it, is a big ass league.  doesn't mean it can't work, but it's fucking big.  Think about it, you could be in 18th place and be better than 5 other teams. Again, I suggest we consider breaking it up into two sister leagues.  one could be nl only , the other al only.  Or we could just have 2 mixed league but with different settings, because it may be hard to get 24 people to agree on the same format.  for example one could be roto and the other H2H** one could be keeper, one non keeper.  one could be 5x5 the other could have 7x7 with holds or saber metric stats. 
IF it does end up that we have one league, I think the rosters absolutely have to be smaller.  if 25 is the norm, we should make it 20 or 21 man rosters.  less bench and pitching spots.  only one dl slot. and 5 keepers would be too many, there'd be nobody good left in the draft.  it'd have to be 2 or 3 keepers.  the more I think about it... the league is just too fucking big.

if we split it up. here's how i would like to set it up if it were up to me.
traditional 5x5 categories.  25 man rosters
roto scoring. 5 keepers.(determined at the beginning of spring training)  12-16 teams in a league.  (10-12 for NL or AL only, 12 or more for  mixed)

I don't know if JD was trying to nominate me as a comish or if I'm just flattering myself, but if so I would consider it, but would prefer to just play, and maybe be a vice comissioner or special assistant to the commish.

**I personally don't like head to head leagues nearly as much.  the playoffs are too much of an anticlimatic crap shoot, and there is too much randomness involved week to week.  plus it rewards people for tinkering constantly with matchups more than those who draft well. it's more work intensive, and less rewarding.   I could go off on a rant on why roto scoring is the superior format, but I know some people are always going to find it "funner" ( see 'cause, the people that prefer head to head fantasy baseball leagues are the kind of people who use words like funner).   so i'll save my rant.

on a separate note, I've been wanting to organize a little league which is a pitchers only league, and it only counts pitcher's offensive stats. pitchers offense is so neglected in the fantasy world...but not in this leauge.
there would be like 5 teams, say 3 man rosters and the categories would be 5x0, (no pitching stats, just offense). think about the possibilities!   you could win the league with a 180 average and 8 homeruns on the season.  jason marquis could be the 3rd overall pick!
who's in?

since the thread was lost, i'll repost this suggestion. 
since the list is 24(ish) people long, how about two leagues?
maybe one NL only and one AL only, or just two leagues...
i suppose it could be done with 24 teams in one league but we would probably want smaller rosters.  who is the commish anyway?

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Quote from: Corn-fed on September 20, 2007, 01:07:16 PM
My biggest concern with Z is his temperament in high-pressure situations.

Put into Game 1 of a playoff series, he's liable to seize up and overthrow his pitches, and then proceed to thunder around the mound punching himself in the brain.

An eerily/psychotically calm Lilly performance the night before, on the other hand, just might be what it takes to settle Carlos down.

Or not. He is hard to predict, that one.

OR, a loss by Lilly the night before puts even more pressure on Z in game two, leading to a classic Z freakout.

If Carlos can't handle the game one pressure and blows it, we would then have a calm, cool, and collected Lilly going in a must win game two.

The greater concern to me is whether or not Hill just turns to a puddle on the mound in Game 3.

Don't worry they've got Trachsel for long relief...

the operative word being LONG.

The phillies scored phive in the top of the ninth. Game tied 6-6.
In your phace Milwaukee!

thank you for that fork.