it's about that time. couple of things.
1. let me know if you got your invites.
2. are we doing keepers?
3. draft time is definitely not set in stone.
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it's about that time. couple of things.
1. let me know if you got your invites.
2. are we doing keepers?
3. draft time is definitely not set in stone.
I'm for keepers
I haven't received an invite but I seem to remember you had problems with this last year when it was through my email. My email is mechrisuk@hotmail.com or you might not want me in this year which would be awkward and I'll slowly retreat from the thread.
In the off chance you do want me in....I kept meaning to bring this up to Torn and you last year about doing two leagues, one a dynasty/keeper league (which obviously would be a long term thing) and the regular one you did last year. Having never been in a dynasty/keeper league the prospect of one does kinda excite me.
I've never done a keeper league, but it could definitely be a lot of fun.
What is keepers?
no worries chris, we still want ya.
virmy, keepers are you can keep x amount of players you draft, or i should say are on your roster at the end of the year.
So who all have we formally banned from playing again?
i dont know who is all banned now.
Two leagues with the same people in?
So the member situation: we have eight people who have either been in the league since it started for the last three years and been reliable, active and good to play with, or proven they are active and fun to play with here and in other Rajah leagues (Chris, basically)
Torn
Christopherson
Atty
Defrost
hithit
Cewsh
Morrison
Matthew
Then we have Dolmeth who was active for about a month before dying and... Virm.
A problem with setting up a keeper/dynasty league is that we don't want to have the final two spots being a revolving door. We'll never be able to fill these spots as their team gets ever increasingly fucked in the ass as time goes on.
Free keeper leagues are unsustainable. Also I won the real league last year in case you guys were wondering.
I will throw my name in the hat to join. I like the fact that you guys actually have regular discussion going on in the forum.
yea. i'd rather have fun than be in a yawnfest with people who rarely post.
Maybe, but I don't think the issue would be that we have no prize, we have all been consistently active over years and don't think that will change. It's those two other spots, but I also don't think virm would change his activity at all if he had a tenner on the line or whatever.
I'd be down with giving you a spot, enjoyed playing with you in the leagues I've been with you in before and I'm sure Cewsh and Christopherson will think the same. Also, I now know that from Halo, despite being from Boston your voice is not horrible like I expected.
Hitty + everyone: I assume we are definitely losing Dolmeth (it is Dolmeth in there currently right?) so there'll be that spot free?
yea
We should definitely get Fro in. He's an active member of the Board Games one and he's good for this sort of thing. Hearty endorsement. :yes:
Hell yeah on Fro from me :yes:.
With your extensive networking of friends on Rajah surely between Torn, hithit and Atty you know someone who is reliable?
im definitely down for fro being in. i know he is active in fantasy, so he has my vote too. so that would give us: me, cewsh, frosty, atty, matthew, morrison, chris, torn, and fro?
so we would still need one more guy.
can someone go see if you can get into the league? what i mean does it show you are already active in the league? or do i need to send invites?
I'm already in. Have the draft countdown and everything.
sweet. then i should just need to invite the new peeps.
I think it's active for me even there wasn't any kind of invite for me to accept, it just seemed to do it automatically.
give vice a team and have torn and i co-run it.
If you guys still need another person, I'll join up.
i think you're in then brian. just pm me your email addy and ill send you an invite.
we got us a full league. anybody got any requests for the rosters? or any ideas/thoughts/changes they want?
I prefer the pitchers split up into RP and P. Thought on that?
I agree with that, whatever it was we had last year.
I'm obviously still in. I have to get my win back from Torn.
ill change the pitchers back. instead of 9 slots though, should we go 7? say have 2 rp and then just 5 pitcher spots?
I'm a fan of the roster that is used in most of the Rajah leagues, which is C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, Util, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P.
I see that you guys go deeper with this one which is fun too, and different, so I'm down. My suggestion would be to take the above and add 1 IF (rather than the 1 corner IF + 1 middle IF you have now), plus add a 4th outfielder (OF). The 6 IF 3 OF setup you have seems pretty uneven to me.
For pitchers.. idk, maybe 8 total to keep in line with the deeper league. I do like having the SP and RP spots if only to prevent someone from having 5+ closers on their team.
I like the way we did it last year but I'm easy oozie on what ever you guys choose.
So much value in the drafts this year from all the way at the top (Trout, Braun, Cabrera) to picking those sleeper beauties. My only problem is I am shaping up to have a busy March (weddings, birthdays, hospital appointments) so I'm hoping none of these unimportant dates disturb my fantasy drafts, you know I gotta keep things in perspective.
i will try to work with everyone for the draft. hoping we can all be present for it this year
i like fros idea for a roster, just have one extra infielder instead of the 2. what is everyone elses thoughts on that?
only thing i don't wanna do is have the lf, cf, rf. wanna keep the outfield as just 3 outfielders.
Yep, sounds good.
Why change it so dramatically? It's been fine for years now. The standard ESPN set up with the infield, extra corner, extra MI, five outfielders and one util pretty much works perfectly, and the yahoo set up Fro has described is wank in comparison. Too shallow for a 10 team league. If you do that then you need bigger benches (which the yahoo leagues have) and then you don't actually play half your team. The only changes I would suggest in our league is moving to five outfielders and one UTIL rather than 4 and 2, and to change however many SP/RP are set in our league back to what it was last year which I believe is the ESPN standard amount. Arbitrarily cutting and adding rosters spots like switching the MI and corner spots to one infield spot makes no sense.
has baseball started yet
I wish
baseball is so cool
Torn, dont be afraid to make changes, thats why you have lm power too
Torn makes some great points. I didn't realize that that was basically the Yahoo system, which is fucking miserable.
i am in favor for anything that gives me an advantage.
totally in favor of the rule to have the first person to named matthew to say OKAY will get the first 5 picks of the draft
OKAY
OKAY will get the first 5 picks of the draft
I legally changed my name to Matthew. I WIN
objection
i motherfuckin object
someone veto this rule or let me amend it because this is bullshit
Your lack of punctuation has finally become your downfall.
I draft Matthew for bat boy.
what lack of punctuation
ive decided to leave the rosters as is. wont be any changes to them, well at least for the offensive players.
do you guys like the way i have the pitching set up? or do you want it changed?
ESPN standard is 9 pitchers, we've had 9 pitching slots the entire time, I don't see the reason to change. I'd suggest we either have all as any pitcher or two as RP.
we had the 9 last year, and 2 of them were rp, so thats what i will change it back to.
no changes
2pac
Yep, same offense, 9 pitchers, 2 RP. The ideal way. :yes:
We've played with these settings for years, no reason to change now.
live drafts are now active on espn!
WOOOO
So when are we doing ours? As usual, I can't do it before 8PM EST unless is on a weekend.
We need everyones input on that. Im open to most times now that im on first shift(after this 2 week stinton 3rd).
i think i'll be working morning shifts at work, so i should be able to do it any day we come up with. i'll be able to tell closer to the actual date, since my schedule doesn't get done that far in advance.
A weekend seems to usually be the best option for everyone, Sunday evening has always been popular (although not too late due to work on Monday for me and timezones etc), 6 or 7 ET?
Sundays at any time or weeknights after about 7 EST work best for me.
A Sunday at 7 sounds pretty ideal for everyone.
works for me
Sunday 24th?
As of right now that works for me. Can you change that torn? I just got home from work and am going to bed shortly.
sunday the 24th no longer works for me. doing my money league draft that night. can we do it the week prior?
Wife's birthday is the 21st and the wedding I was talking about is today so I'm golden just about anytime really.
I should be okay with that. And will have a proper drafting computer. Far younger and more powerful. And it won't crash and make me RAGE about getting Corey Hart
Any Sunday is fine by me
Sunday the 17th is fine as long as it's earlier in the day. Later that night I will likely be out drinking as it is St. Patrick's Day.
Would 5/6 ET be alright?
Also are we going to have hitty randomly generate the draft order again like we did for the football league? That was good.
:yes: Random is a good plan. The football draft worked like a dream this year.
Ill draw names out of a hat again.
i transcend time and drafts
Draft time is SET at 5 ET Sunday 17th
hitty lets get these names drawn :hyper:
and the order of the draft is:
1: torn
2: morrison
3: matthew
4: cewsh
5: hithit
6: defrost
7 :atty
8: brain m
9: fro
10: christopherson
I can live with that. I love that everyone in this year is a proven really good player.
Except me, perpetual last place finisher that I am. :(
Cheers hitty
Can we trade picks?
yea we can. i added that as a see what happens kind of thing. if you guys want it gone, say the word and ill remove it.
i was actually gonna offer you my first and third for your first and sixth rounders.
I love my spot, but will be on autopick now that I have to work that day. Sucks, but I'm tweaking my autopick strategy so it doesn't keep drafting catchers and pitchers. From the seven spot, I think I'm fairly safe on auto for the one player everyone knows I want. ;)
Well sure we know but 7 seems a bit high for Brian Wilson.
:lol:
Brian Wilson :rofl:
I hate Virm for that but, still, it made me laugh far too much too be hate.
I say we all agree as a group to draft every worthwhile Tigers player in the first round and then bench them all year.
Well you figure Cabrera goes one or two. At six Verlander is getting drafted mostly out of spite. So it is up to someone in between to pick Fielder and we're all set.
8 would make it impossible for the brits
good.
You've had weeks to speak out about this. The time is set.
dont you dare
ohhhhhhhhhhhh torn laying down the lawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
also i'm sorry this is coming so late after it being set. i was promoted once our new restaurant opened and have been putting in 60+ hour weeks since mid february. admittedly haven't been doing much else but working and didn't keep up with what was going on with this.
We can push it back an hour if it helps as no one spoke up about having a problem with 6 ET but we certainly aren't switching it back a week after others in the thread earlier said they couldn't do that date.