2006 BWW Fantasy Baseball League: Congrats to Plum, League Champion!- Page 3

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 10:51am

I hope some people are doing some research.

I know my knowledge remains underwhelming.

Updated On: 3/27/06 at 10:51 AM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 10:55am

Bumptastic? That's a new one.

Some of us don't need to do research Pengy :-P

[Plum]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:04am

Research? HA! Who needs this statistical muddle? You can't measure a player's heart, man. *puts Enrique Wilson at number 1*

[liotte]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:07am

I call dibs on Derek Jeter and ARod.

[Plum]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:11am

Hee.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 12:42pm

I called dibs on Darren Lemming.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 1:00pm

I call Peekaboo Street!

what, wrong sport?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 1:11pm

Sorry Liotte, it's pretty difficult to call dibbs on Fantasy Baseball's most highly rated player

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 4:43pm

Well, it's easy to call dibs. What's harder is to get anyone to honor the call.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 5:00pm

I really should do a little research...or just get my brother to pick ones for me!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 10:20am

Jamman, yahoo randomly determines it approximately 30 minutes before the draft starts.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 10:29am

Ship I have to do my rankings...

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 10:31am

I could prevent it from allowing any further owners and set the draft order now if people would prefer that.

[DawnlikesRent]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 1:15pm

Hey, I'm in....sorry I was a little late on getting in. I can't pass up a chance for fantasy baseball though! Go Tigers!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:36pm

joined! YAAAAY!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:45pm

i dont think i can make it to the draft, but the CQTBOO Crushers are gonna WHOOP!

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:49pm

I just changed the settings to allow a maximum of 16 teams. We currently have 15.

Since it's Head to Head we have to have an even number of teams or it won't let us draft. We need one more slot. I am changing the title of the thread to reflect that.

16 is plenty of teams for a casual league.

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 8:52pm

Well, if no one else signs up and we appear to be heading into the draft with an odd number of teams, I guess you should just create a dummy team and let Yahoo auto-draft for it.

The sad thing is that an auto-drafted team would probably win our league.

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 8:54pm

Dummy teams just create a problem and tend to shift the balance unfairly.

The only scenarios that I see fit assuming we don't get one more owner is to ask someone to volunteer to leave or to eliminate the last team that joined.

I don't expect it to be a problem though. I bet we'll get that last owner we need.

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 9:46pm

How do dummy teams shift the balance unfairly?

If you don't get that last owner, I'll bite the bullet and volunteer for elimination.

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 10:17pm

Well, there are 2 trains of thought.

1. You have a team that is completely unmanaged which means that injuries aren't subbed for and players cannot be traded. That automatically creates a set of restrictions that aren't fun.

2. You don't start players at all and let every week be a win for the team playing them. It isn't as problematic, but it's still quite boring, in my personal opinion.

I don't think it's an issue quite yet as I know there are a few more people considering taking a spot in the league. It's likely that the league will be full.
Updated On: 3/29/06 at 10:17 PM

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:27am

Bumariffic.

The draft is tomorrow night!

[Patronus]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 9:13am

Okay, we didn't get that 16th owner, so we did have to eliminate an owner unfortunately.

slimandslam, thank you very much for volunteering to be the "odd man out" so to speak.

We now have 14 owners and I changed the settings so no one else can join.

That is probably an ideal number of owners anyway.

I did go ahead and put all 14 team names in a hat (and yes, I really did use a hat) and had Anji pull them out to come up with the draft order.

It's only 12 hours ahead of the draft, but perhaps it can help.

So...here is tonight's draft order:

1. JLSatUD's Bombers
2. jam_man Uberbirds
3. Plum Ninja Pirates
4. Panda
5. Mooney's Pussy Pies
6. Dawnlikesrent
7. Andre Dawson's Creek (that's me)
8. Caitie's Crazies
9. shayjericho
10. The SmartPenguins
11. the hartford abbasox
12. CQTBOO Crushers
13. L's Wicked Bees
14. timote's Blue Sox

The complete draft order can be seen here:
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/51931/draftresults

For all your newbies to Fantasy ball, this will be a serpentine draft. That means that the draft order reverses from round to round. So, Timote's Blue Sox will have the last pick in the 1st round and the first pick in the 2nd round. AKA...back to back to picks.

If you can't make the draft tonight, that's totally fine. Just PLEASE make sure you pre-rank your players. Yahoo's rankings doesn't take into consideration injuries, etc. So, you could get stuck with a bum.

As always if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to PM or ask here on the thread.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:15am

Yes! I am not last!

Whenever we pick our season tickets for the baseball games I always pick either 12 or 13 for the first round.

So I guess I have to thank Anji!

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:17am

I'll take this one for the team, so to speak.

Have a wonderful time in the league!

P.S. Remember: Prior and Wood, of course, are starting the season on the DL...