Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Sign Ups

[Berzerker]

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

[Guynemer]

In

[The Emperor Fabulous]

In

And I said last year that I'd commish a Daily League, and I'm still willing.

[snoopy369]

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.

[Berzerker]

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

[Fistandantilus]

Count me in for a weekly league.

I'd also like to join the aution league if there is enough interest.

[Berzerker]

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.

[snoopy369]

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.

[OzzyKP]

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?

[snoopy369]

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.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'll do weekly and auction.

[OzzyKP]

Time/effort, an hour a week or more (more effort = more success).

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.

[snoopy369]

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).

[SlowwHand]

I'll do a weekly, if there's room.

[OzzyKP]

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).

I think I could handle that. Thanks.

Sign me up.

Whichever league is easier/less time intensive.