Fantasy Baseball: Anyone interested?

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

Thanks B I appreciate it!!!!

[SportsChick]

I won't know until tomorrow evening if I will be able to participate live or not

[Tenshot13]

I won't be able to make it live, I have to work.  I'm sorry, but 11 am on a Saturday is not a good time for a draft.  One guy's opinion.  So how many people total is that not able to make it live?  I'm not trying to be a dick, but it seems like a few people are going to miss it.

[Brian Fein]

Well no one ever came up with alternatives.  Agree on a better time and I'll move it but your window of options is shrinking.

[mboss]

Well no one ever came up with alternatives.  Agree on a better time and I'll move it but your window of options is shrinking.

All of us have busy lives....but this date and approximate time has been out there for quite some time. I have made my plans for Saturday around this draft date and time. If you can't make it set up your lists...IMO we should not be changing it now.

[Brian Fein]

I agree with this.  I set the league up in February.  Its not a surprise.  We'd need 10+ people to agree to change it now. 

Not sure what would be a better time.  These things always have a few absentees.  Its impossible to get 12 people across the country available at the same time.

[Tenshot13]

I did come up with an alternative...I said Sunday night a while ago and it was dismissed because Sportschick said she probably couldn't make it, and now she might not make this one. 

Don't worry about it.  I don't want to cause any problems.  I'll set my autopicks.  Let's have a fun season.

[Sunstroke]

I had an 8 AM auction draft (3 hour monster) on the morning we set our clocks forward a few weeks ago. I half expected a bunch of folks to miss the draft, and was pleasantly surprised that all 10 people were able to make it.

I don't have any problem with this league's scheduled draft time.

[Brian Fein]

Just read this on ESPN home page:

The first weekly roster lock will occur at 6:10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 28. Leagues will remain locked until Monday, April 16. Leagues drafted during this period will have their rosters locked as-is post-draft. Make sure to draft your players to the positions you want to use them at (including the bench) at the time you acquire them.

So sounds like you will have to set your lineup DURING the draft.  I don't really like this.  For teams with auto-draft, it will put the best player (ie highest drafted) in the starting lineup.  But that means you better not draft any DL players.

Game 1 is April 4th.  Why the need to lock on 3/28?  This makes no sense.

[SportsChick]

Sorry, SportsChick works at Publix and my schedule is pretty much at the mercy of a computer scheduler for Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

[Sunstroke]

Just read this on ESPN home page:

The first weekly roster lock will occur at 6:10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 28. Leagues will remain locked until Monday, April 16.

Gotta admit that the league set-up here has my mind 100% boggled. You created a league with a "weekly roster lock," but then created a league setting that allows for 7 transactions per week. Why would you need a transaction limit when you can't adjust your roster during the week?

I really had no idea about the weekly roster lock...I apparently missed that post.  If I had seen that, I would have made it really easy for the league to get back to an even number of teams, as I would have politely said "thanks, but no thanks."

[SportsChick]

because the first game isn't April 4th - it's the 28thh at 6:10 AM EST time

Seattle at Oakland (Reg. Season)   6:10 AM

[Brian Fein]

Gotta admit that the league set-up here has my mind 100% boggled. You created a league with a "weekly roster lock," but then created a league setting that allows for 7 transactions per week. Why would you need a transaction limit when you can't adjust your roster during the week?

I really had no idea about the weekly roster lock...I apparently missed that post.  If I had seen that, I would have made it really easy for the league to get back to an even number of teams, as I would have politely said "thanks, but no thanks."

You must be kidding me...

I refer to the first 2 or 3 posts of this very effin thread.

^^ you sure?  I did say "weekly lineup changes" - I thought you hated that format...

I prefer, and have much more experience with, daily set leagues, but I don't really "hate" any fantasy sport, especially baseball or football. I even won the only weekly set baseball league I played in last season, a small money ($35) roto league over at RTSports that one of the Uber Wars guys talked me into playing. I liked it enough that I had RTSports hold my $160 winnings so I could take the strategy I used last year and try applying it in one of their $150 leagues. I actually missed the draft in that league last year, came out with an autodrafted squad with 4 guys on IR, 6 2B-eligible players and one closer. I figured out a waiver strategy, stuck to it, and won by such an insane margin (27 pts) that the eventual second place team owner sent a league email to congratulate me on the win...at the beginning of August.

Besides, you know I enjoy battling you in the boxscore, Brian...and AZ too. AZ (and Lil_B) always give me loads of trouble in these TDMMC leagues.

This was not a secret, and you even addressed it directly months ago.

[Brian Fein]

Additionally, we have a 12th owner, but he has not yet accepted the league invitation.  Even though I have sent it 3 times.

[Sunstroke]

I don't have an issue with a weekly roster set in roto leagues, and am even willing to give it a shot in h2h...but the 7 transaction limit is still making me scratch my bean a bit.

Also...my original comment was almost three months ago . You expect me to remember that?

(and the transaction limit was never noted at that time)