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I figured we might as well start the sign up thread
I'll play 2 leagues if we have 2 and I can commish one
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And I said last year that I'd commish a Daily League, and I'm still willing.
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2 ... one daily and one weekly?
Also, do we want to do one of them as an auction league (or a third auction league like last year, though it's more fun if it's with the full complement of people)? That worked pretty well, and this year we could (similarly to how we did in hockey) use ESPN's draft tool to actually draft (instead of just doing it in chat, which is slower).
I'd volunteer to commish the auction league, but I'm happy to help organize it, or just participate, with someone else commishing it as well. It works fine with either daily or weekly leagues, I'd think.
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
we can do a weekly and daily, if Jag doesn't want to commish the weekly I'll do it and EmpFab can do the daily.
Rather unusual, we have as many commish's as managers
Count me in for a weekly league.
I'd also like to join the aution league if there is enough interest.
is the auction league the same as the other other leagues wrt yahoo's 4 team limit? I'd play it if I dont have to use a 2nd yahoo login. I did that one year and didn't like having to login and logout all the time.
Yahoo doesn't support auction directly, so we'd either have to do it somewhere else (ESPN) and keep it there, or do it somewhere else (ESPN) and import it to Yahoo (more likely). It certainly would count toward the limit if we did it that way.
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
So... I'm somewhat interested, what all is involved? Draft players here in the thread, enter them on some site (Yahoo, ESPN, etc?) and then the page just counts all the runs, strikes, HR's and such automatically? How much time/effort is required after the initial draft?
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When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
The thread draft is as you say; a post a day give or take for a month. Time/effort, an hour a week or more (more effort = more success).
The auction draft is like 2-3 hours on a saturday/sunday/whatever and then an hour a week.
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
I'll do weekly and auction.
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Do you mean for the draft or during the season? What am I putting the effort towards? What would I actually do? I've never done any fantasy sport before.Originally Posted by snoopy369
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
During the draft, a half hour a day probably if you do any research. You could just take the best player available by some list somewhere; that takes less time of course.
After the draft, an hour a week fixing your lineups (taking out injured or underperforming players, adding new players to replace them, adjusting for bad matchups, etc.) Figuring out 'underperforuming' versus 'adding new players' can take a lot of time if you want to put it in, but can take less if you just do it quickly.
Fantasy Sports timeline:
1. Draft a team. Research who is good at which positions, who is better than the 'standard thinking' places them, determine a strategy (focus on pitchers, focus on hitters, focus evenly, focus on power categories, focus on nonpower categories, focus on saves, etc.), then do the draft.
2. Field a team. Field a noninjured player at every position.
3. Improve the team. Players will lose starting jobs, and gain them; they will lose playing time, and gain it; they will perform better/worse than you expected. Replace poor performers with good performers from the waiver wire (unclaimed players). Replace underperforming starters with better bench players.
An hour a week (and maybe less, depends on your injuries) is enough to not get people pissed at you for ruining the league.Anything above that will improve your performance up to a point (say, an hour a day or so).
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
I'll do a weekly, if there's room.
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He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
I think I could handle that. Thanks.During the draft, a half hour a day probably if you do any research. You could just take the best player available by some list somewhere; that takes less time of course.
After the draft, an hour a week fixing your lineups (taking out injured or underperforming players, adding new players to replace them, adjusting for bad matchups, etc.) Figuring out 'underperforuming' versus 'adding new players' can take a lot of time if you want to put it in, but can take less if you just do it quickly.
Fantasy Sports timeline:
1. Draft a team. Research who is good at which positions, who is better than the 'standard thinking' places them, determine a strategy (focus on pitchers, focus on hitters, focus evenly, focus on power categories, focus on nonpower categories, focus on saves, etc.), then do the draft.
2. Field a team. Field a noninjured player at every position.
3. Improve the team. Players will lose starting jobs, and gain them; they will lose playing time, and gain it; they will perform better/worse than you expected. Replace poor performers with good performers from the waiver wire (unclaimed players). Replace underperforming starters with better bench players.
An hour a week (and maybe less, depends on your injuries) is enough to not get people pissed at you for ruining the league.
Sign me up.
Whichever league is easier/less time intensive.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
It looks like interest in a daily league will be minimal this year.
I'll start a separate thread; hopefully it'll reach at least 8.
Unless the auction league will be daily?
"I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
^ The Poly equivalent of:
"I hope you can see this 'cause I'm [flipping you off] as hard as I can" - Ignignokt the Mooninite
The auction league can be the daily league - I'm happy either way (as the weekly league, as the daily league, or as a third league). As long as it has at least 8 or so people in it (to be a reasonably deep league), if possible. (I'd actually prefer 10, unless we're limiting it to one league, as 8 is a bit too shallow in a full league for the full league to be used; the #17 player at any given position is still about average for his position in the full MLB, and that player would be on waivers, which is a bit high.)
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
Do we even know what players will be allowed to participate, or is it kind of a take your chances deal right now?
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Ooh - me at first (even though I'm right-handed and our captain prefers a sinister at first, but damn, I can catch), and Rich as pitcher.
Oh, well if this isn't a Leeds Softball League fantasy game then I can't play - I don't know enough about MLB to pick anyone half-decent.
Oh, you're sure to do better than I am doing at hockey...
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
Hell, I won the NFL fantasy league a couple of seasons ago, then didn't change my team for the playoffs and got stuffed.
I do baseball to kill time until American football starts. Play. I'll make you feel good about yourself.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Duke, are you signing up for a league?
Ozzy, play the weekly league, it takes far less time
I'll start the weekly league sign up thread, and if Jag wants to commish I wont stand in his way
Sounds good to me.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
glad to see ya back Sloww
No, I don't have the time to do any research into players.
On an entirely unrelated topic, I'm currently installing Civ IV....
now get bts
Is there a thread for the auction league?
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yes, the daily league thread started by empfab
where in the hell is everyone? Do you guys who played Jag's league last year have a list of people from the league?
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