Fantasy Baseball 2011

Stanton could be huge though…. but depending on the knowledge of your opponents (you in the LL league?) he may stay undrafted for a couple rounds

What settings?

Then I’d take Rios over Ethier because of the SBs.

and it worked out.

Not to knock, everyone’s income levels are different, but if 10 dollars is your reason for NOT playing fantasy sports (even if you have no experience with the sport) then you’re being a little ridiculous, compared to the amount of time you’ll spend on your team 10 bucks is a steal for the time/value of your entertainment dollar.

My co-Gm and I just spent 40 dollars TALKING about our team over burgers and beers with a mag purchase… but I consider it a fair value for the opportunity to hang with my buddy and talk sports, but with an actual purpose instead of our normal random meandering sportstalk.

Shortstop, if you can get Hanley Ramirez or Tulowitzki, I’d say go for it. It gets pretty grim after those guys.

I’ve not got a clue what I’m doing so I look forward to finishing like my favorite team often does-last.

<- Two Giles One Cust

Total newbie so it could be interesting.

- Make sure you set weekly minimum AB/IP so you don’t have teams that just stock part-time players and pinch hitters. Also have stiff penalties for any player that does not meet the threshold.

-Allow roster moves (add/drops/trades) only a few times a season. It injects strategy into the draft/transactions (having to gauge whether a player will be on a roster throughout a transaction period); it also keeps the league competitive without losing the humor and passivity. Plus there’s a bent appeal to rooting for players to suck but not suck enough to lose their job outright.

- Incorporate one or two screwball suck stat wrinkles (e.g. GIDP and SO for hitters; Wild Pitches and balks for pitchers) into the scoring system. Any more than that and it gets tough trying to find “valuable players”.

I didn’t do that great, but that’s largely my own fault as I didn’t have time to do any serious prep work or mock drafts before our draft. I’m also fairly happy, even though I don’t feel like I did well I still ended up with Lincecum, Votto, and Posey. The problem was those three ate up so much of my budget I couldn’t actually bid on a player for something like six more rounds. By the last few rounds of the draft there was one guy left with $24 and he could pretty much cherry pick whoever he wanted because the rest of us could only bid a max of $1 at that point. I want to be that guy next year.

I would like to do the auction draft again next year but I will definitely do more homework.

but he got taken two picks before I got there.