2008 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball League

[seaver41]

Starting up a Yahoo Fantasy League.

Post here if you're interested.

Here are the settings from the other league I set up. Let me know if you like them and I'll use them for ours.

[Fuck Mike Brown]

I'm in. When would we draft. And also, maybe if we only have 6 people we should put more players on our teams

[Josh]

I think there's a little too much players per position. One per 1b,2b,ss,3b is good...and trade review should be league votes and have a reject trade time of 0, so trades go through right away...also not a big fan of waivers...tell me what ya think seaver

[seaver41]

I prefer Commissioner. Since I'd be the Commish and check it regulary, it'll get done quicker. I forget what Waivers are. Is it when you pick up a guy you have to wait a day before he goes on your roster?

Reds, you can only have 30 players max on your team. Fewer teams would only mean you have a better free agent selection.

[Josh]

w/e, for post draft players make it free agent rules or something like that instead of waivers

[Fish Troll]

Think I'll be interested in this one. I'll try to stay active in this league just like I promise with the other 15 leagues I join out there.

[Josh]

Also, just make it the standard 5x5 (runs, hr's, rbi's, sb's, ba...wins, k's, saves, era and whip)

[seaver41]

How are these settings?

[Josh]

Way too many positionts...just do a c,1b,2b,3b,ss, 3 of, 1 utility, 4 bench(hitters), 3 sp, 2 rp and 4 bench(pitchers), and 2 dl

[diehardmetsfan]

C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, UTL, UTL, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P.....6 benches for each

[seaver41]

admin said:

Way too many positionts...just do a c,1b,2b,3b,ss, 3 of, 1 utility, 4 bench(hitters), 3 sp, 2 rp and 4 bench(pitchers), and 2 dl

You can't do separate benches for pitchers and hitters.

I also prefer to do all 3 OF positions. If I just had 3 OF, people would load it with power hitting LFs.

[Josh]

Whatever, your commish..will you do the other things though?

[seaver41]

Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Player Universe: All baseball
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 0
Trade End Date: No trade deadline
Waiver Time: No waivers
Can't Cut List Provider: None
Trade Review: Commissioner
Post Draft Players: Free Agents
Max Acquisitions per Week: No maximum
Min Innings Pitched: 7
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow
Start Scoring on: Week 1
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL
Stat Categories: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP

I think I'll drop 1 BN for 1 P. I might run it but I want you guys to have some voice in this. This is for everyone who wants to join, not just me.

[baseball101]

I'd like to join. What's the link? I'm a big fan of fantasy baseball and I've always preferred private leagues over public ones.

[Marlins]

I prefer the standard 5x5 (R, HR, RBI, RBI, SB, W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP). It makes the most sense. That way, not only is hitting and pitching equally important (since they each have 5 categories), but you don't have to go out of your way analyzing which player to get-since all those stats could be easily viewed on each players page.

Also, the minimum innings pitched should be around 20-25. The reason for that is because otherwise-a manager could just draft a bunch of closers and win the categories of saves (obviously), ERA and WHIP (since closers usually have lower ERA's and WHIP's than starters). Anyhow, even if a person doesn't get a bunch of closers, he could only have to use his best starter every week (since all he needs is 7IP), and that would be totally stupid because the point of having a bunch of pitchers is to use them.

As for positions, it should be like this: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, Util--SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P,--BN,BN, BN, BN, BN, DL... CI, MI and OF are unneeded.

And I almost forgot to mention...there should be waivers for at least 1 day--that's the point of the waiver priorities. If someone has to pick last, he should at least get the benefit of getting first pick at whoever is left on waivers. On that topic, post-draft players should go on waivers for at least a day...otherwise, if a good or mediocre player gets undrafted (mainly that would happen because people feel rushed while drafting)-having a "race" to the undrafted players is stupid. The point of waivers is so that people don't have to be sitting at their computers 24/7 waiting for a good player to be dropped. If 2 people want a player that gets dropped-whoever has the higher waiver priority should get it. Obviously there's a saying: "first come first serve"-but a person shouldn't have to miss out just because he's not online all day.

Other than that (lol), I see everything perfectly fine.