The Fantasy Baseball Thread of 2010

Oh well.

but is a Thursday at noon draft time really the best option?

To FistPumpinLikeChamps. And this year, I am coming for VENGEANCE (or just not being the worst active team).

Email is streetstart@yahoo.com. Let me know if it’s full and maybe we can organize other league.

Once the others have checked in(and 9 out of 14 have), I’m gonna post a link to the league along with the password. It’ll be first come, first serve.

and I picked 18th. I was feeling pretty blue about my chances, but wound up finishing 2nd. So, the league is competitive, but not insanely so.

Hopefully there is an opening, and if there is can you shoot me an email to will2the.nguyen@yahoo.com?

I’ve used the Yahoo leagues for a few years now, but a post on Fantasy Football at KSK pointed out Fleaflicker to me. I switched my football league over to there and was absolutely blown away. These guys are really just amazing, and I’ve switched my baseball league over to there too (as well as having done a hockey league!).

First off, the bad: you can’t drag and drop lineups. And that’s it for the bad.
The good: There’s a lot of stuff here (at least in football & hockey that I assume transfers to baseball as well). First off, since you’re in Yahoo leagues, if you are a keeper league, you can transfer rosters really easily. I was worried about it, and got overactive and had my league switch in January. Turns out it took me about 10 minutes.

There’s also a ton of fantasy stat breakdown, which seems kind of silly, but I promise you is entirely fun. For instance, in football they brokedown each H2H matchup by quarters. 1st was the early games. 2nd was the late games. 3rd was Sun. night and 4th was Monday. No cooler feeling than mounting a 4th quarter “comeback.” I know that’s not how it works, but it’s fun. Additionally, they breakdown player stats amazingly well. You get nice graphs detailing the player per day and plotting them against league best and league average. Also, player ranks (in fantasy points) are by position as well as overall (For example: while searching the waiver wire for a tight end, I can just look at positional rankings as a starting point).

And trades! You can engineer multi-team trades, and you can even trade for draft picks (if you’re playing in a keeper league)! Those are just amazingly awesome to try and pull off.

FInally, the best thing they’ve got going is the best customer service I’ve ever come across. If you email, they’ll get back to you in under a day. I’ve been working with them for the transfer of my league over from Yahoo and they’re just really nice in addition to being open to suggestions and pointing out errors (for instance, since this is their first year of baseball, they didn’t have all the players loaded. They were missing some DHs and I pointed that out. Turns out they were planning on adding them the next day but they were gracious about the perceived error).

So yeah, if you’ve got a Yahoo, CBS, ESPN, or other league, go take a look. I swear by these guys now, and it really did make fantasy way more fun for me and the league.

I’d be willing to set up the league if enough people are interested.

Link is here.
League ID # is 178261
Password is “kingfelix”

At the moment, I’m down for anything except for the week of March 11th-18th, because I’ll be at Spring Training during that time.

The link is . Kinda wonky, yet interesting, categories. Gonna be a 20 team, auction draft. Let’s go Hawks/Mariners!!

Starting tomorrow(?) we’ll have an SBN-wide promotion to get you guys CBS leagues for half-off. I may even be running one and invite competition.

This league:

• is run on ESPN

• has a $50 buy-in

• has weekly head-to-head, points-based scoring, very like typical fantasy football

• pays out money to the playoff champion, and I think 2nd/3rd place

• pays out a weekly pot to the team who scored the most points that week (probably paid in full at the end of the season)

We lost 4 owners from a 12-team keeper league this offseason. A couple of the teams have several definite keepers, however I’m not the commissioner and I’m not sure how he will go about assigning teams to new owners; think there’s 1 new owner already signed up so there may be one open team already spoken for.

Contact me at nick at pixelnix dot com if you’re interested, and will manage your team week in and week out, I’ll e-introduce you to the person running the league.