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Fantasy baseball league

Post by Lane » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:02 pm

I know it's not been very popular in the past but we're at 28 teams now and we've had some turnover.

So, anyone interested in playing a 2017 fantasy league?

I like Yahoo and my usual league is head to head standard 5x5 categories but I'm open to different things.

Please post here if you're interested, would be great to get 10-12 of us.


EDIT: here's a link to join if you want.

5 spots left for a 12 team league!

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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Bumstead » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:12 pm

Are we going to use saves as a category?? :D

If you get enough players I would be interested. Got burnt out on it about 4 years ago and haven't played since. Might be interesting to make a return to the game.

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Post by Lane » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:15 pm

Bumstead wrote:Are we going to use saves as a category?? :D

If you get enough players I would be interested. Got burnt out on it about 4 years ago and haven't played since. Might be interesting to make a return to the game.
Absolutely! Saves, wins, RBI, runs... All the useless stats that make fantasy so fun!


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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Bumstead » Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:28 pm

Right on! Surprised Kyle hasn't jumped upon this opportunity!

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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by allenr » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:24 pm

I play in a fantasy league already. Head to head with value assigned to different stats and we don't use stats like wins saves or RBIs.

I might be enticed if you were short someone but I'm not a huge fang of fantasy using stats that rely too much on players you didn't pick lol.
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by jiminyhopkins » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:24 pm

Do you have a league set up? Can you PM me the link?
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by felipe » Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:04 pm

Haven't done one in years.l.but why not

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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Lane » Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:05 pm

felipe wrote:Haven't done one in years.l.but why not
that's the spirit!

personally there's no amount of baseball in my life that is "too much"
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by jiminyhopkins » Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:08 am

Well, we got 4 teams. Come on guys, its not a big deal. You can take it as seriously as I take this league. Even if Saves are a category!
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by recte44 » Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:15 pm

Of course I'm in

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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Lane » Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:32 pm

Recte makes 5!

Come on in guys, it'll be fun!


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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by allenr » Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:09 pm

I'll still fill in if you're short a man.

Question though. In your head to head, are you assigning points to categories and it's overall points wins, or is it whoever wins the most categories?

It's been a long time since I played 5x5. Our system assigns points to each stat we've chosen, and whoever gets the most points during the week gets the win. So you can suck in one category and it doesn't matter as long as you completely own another category that makes up for the points. It's highly recommended not to take James Shields though - being a bad pitcher is punished harshly in our league (mega negative points for surrendering home runs especially).
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Lane » Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:29 pm

In this setup it's one point per category win, so max of 10 points per week.


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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by allenr » Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:51 pm

Ok, so you need to try and win categories.

Changes drafting strategy significantly.
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Lane » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:47 pm

Yup


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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by jcrmoon42 » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:23 pm

I'm in

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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by njherdfan » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:33 pm

Sure why not?
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Post by Lane » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:55 pm

njherdfan wrote:Sure why not?
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Fat Nige » Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:50 am

I'll have a go, been a few years since I bothered to have a fantasy team. Can't we have it with MBBA players though ?
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Re: Fantasy baseball league?

Post by Ted » Thu Feb 02, 2017 8:50 am

Bobby_Manc wrote:I'll have a go, been a few years since I bothered to have a fantasy team. Can't we have it with MBBA players though ?

This would be awesome. Fantasy league based on fake simulated baseball? Tremedous
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