2017 Fantasy Baseball League

[PenFoe]

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[SKO]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

It's almost as if this is some sort of fantasized version of real baseball..

[SKO]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

It's almost as if this is some sort of fantasized version of real baseball..

Right, so in that case my second baseman is now Kris Bryant and my shortstop is Paul Goldschmidt, I'm not even pretending defense matters so let's just draft the 9 best bats possible.

[Yeti]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

It's almost as if this is some sort of fantasized version of real baseball..

Right, so in that case my second baseman is now Kris Bryant and my shortstop is Paul Goldschmidt, I'm not even pretending defense matters so let's just draft the 9 best bats possible.

So, if Kris plays an inning at SS, becomes SS available, you won't put him there going forward because you want to be authentic?

[SKO]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

It's almost as if this is some sort of fantasized version of real baseball..

Right, so in that case my second baseman is now Kris Bryant and my shortstop is Paul Goldschmidt, I'm not even pretending defense matters so let's just draft the 9 best bats possible.

So, if Kris plays an inning at SS, becomes SS available, you won't put him there going forward because you want to be authentic?

If your rules allow that, fine, I would, because I'd want to win. I just wouldn't want those rules?

[ChuckD]

I don't play in this league but the fun of fantasy sports is trying to build a team and deal with the exact kind of scarcity of talent that real GMs have to deal with, saying "it's hard to find center fielder who can hit, so lemme have a Kyle Schwarber/Matt Holliday/Giancarlo Stanton outfield" kinda misses the point. Why even have positions then? Just accumulate the 9 best hitters you can find.

It's almost as if this is some sort of fantasized version of real baseball..

Right, so in that case my second baseman is now Kris Bryant and my shortstop is Paul Goldschmidt, I'm not even pretending defense matters so let's just draft the 9 best bats possible.

So, if Kris plays an inning at SS, becomes SS available, you won't put him there going forward because you want to be authentic?

He'd need to play in 10 games at SS (or start in five) to become eligible.

[Shooter]

How many keepers allowed?

[ChuckD]

How many keepers allowed?

23.

[PenFoe]

Okay, draft order set and everyone has been assigned commissioner access.

So either set your keepers in yourself, or post them here and I'll do it.

Let's try to have this done quickly.

[PenFoe]

Okay, draft order set and everyone has been assigned commissioner access.

So either set your keepers in yourself, or post them here and I'll do it.

Let's try to have this done quickly.

I see none of these things are happening.

Perhaps another attempt?

Or should I be looking at what people have marked on CD's spreadsheet? That seems like the worst of the three options.

[PenFoe]

Okay, draft order set and everyone has been assigned commissioner access.

So either set your keepers in yourself, or post them here and I'll do it.

Let's try to have this done quickly.

I see none of these things are happening.

Perhaps another attempt?

Or should I be looking at what people have marked on CD's spreadsheet? That seems like the worst of the three options.

TPD.

Looks like people are using the dumb spreadsheet. It doesn't help you differentiate when guys are in the same round, but I'll just make decisions and people can check.

[Yeti]

Shooter: Specify your 13th round keepers. Jon Gray, Ian Desmond, Edwin Diaz. One has to be an 11th round, one a 12th and one a 13th.
Dolan: Clarify between your 13th round keepers. Kris Bryant and Villar. Specify one for the 12th round and the 13th round
           Also, decide between your 11th rounders: Schwarber and Iglesias. One needs to be the 11th and the 10th.

[Yeti]

Since Pen is angry that Excel doesn't input the keepers into Yahoo, a set of instructions:
If you have keepers that are in the same round, on the Keeper tab, under the "KeeperOverallPick" column, change the draft pick number to the appropriate number.
For example, if you have 2 13th round keepers, and your 13th round pick number is 135, it will show them both as 135. We all know they can't be pick 135, so go to the Draft Order tab, find what # pick your 12th round pick is. If that number is 123, then input that on the Keeper tab (KeeperOverallPick column) next to the guy you want to keep in the 12th round.

If you go back to the draft order tab, they are now showing up in the 12th round.

[PenFoe]

Since Pen is angry that Excel doesn't input the keepers into Yahoo, a set of instructions:
If you have keepers that are in the same round, on the Keeper tab, under the "KeeperOverallPick" column, change the draft pick number to the appropriate number.
For example, if you have 2 13th round keepers, and your 13th round pick number is 135, it will show them both as 135. We all know they can't be pick 135, so go to the Draft Order tab, find what # pick your 12th round pick is. If that number is 123, then input that on the Keeper tab (KeeperOverallPick column) next to the guy you want to keep in the 12th round.

If you go back to the draft order tab, they are now showing up in the 12th round.

No, Pen is angry that I can't use the spreadsheet to input players into Yahoo because any teams will multiple picks in the same round can't/didn't/didn't know to differentiate.

The old way has worked perfectly for all these years, unlike this way.