Boards Fantasy Baseball (non-keeper) league 2012

Coeus

Since spring training is only around the corner, who is interested in joining a Boards Fantasy Baseball for the upcoming season?

This league will be a non-keeper and will more than likely be head-to-head. Of course suggestions are welcome on rosters sizes and positions, scoring categories etc for the makeup of the league. Feel free to PM me if you dont want to post and I will put up the initial list of players in a few days. Draft wont be until a week or so before the first games in Japan so there is plenty of time to get involved...

GoldFour4

Count me in again for both leagues

BigBadRob83

Yeah count me in lads, psyched for a good league with Irish players.

UCD AFC

Count me in please.

Iang87

yep definitely in. Its surely Hotballs time to shine

namloc1980

Count me in!

Masked Man

Definitely in.

Coeus

Okay guys, this is the list so far...

1. Coeus
2. Malachyscott
3. BigBadRob83
4. UCD AFC
5. Iang87
6. namloc1980
7. Masked Man

I'm going to be away for the next 2 weeks and may not get on the net that much. I'll check in here if I can and post an updated list if we get more players...

Benimar

Count me in please..a newbie, but I'll try to learn quickly :-)

boccy23

Hi all

Busy with "life" this year so will not commit to any additional leagues.
I will run the Keeper league as last year.

WallyWanka

Coeus wrote: »

Okay guys, this is the list so far...

1. Coeus
2. Malachyscott
3. BigBadRob83
4. UCD AFC
5. Iang87
6. namloc1980
7. Masked Man

I'm going to be away for the next 2 weeks and may not get on the net that much. I'll check in here if I can and post an updated list if we get more players...

Yeah lads, count me in. Friend of BigBadRob83, big Red Sox fan.
Been looking for good Irish league to play in

smackbunnybaby

in for both leagues

8-10

In for both too cheers

GoldFour4

Okay so thats 11 so far lads. Keep names coming in, maybe we'll have a larger league this year

bit of red72

I'm in for both. Are we keeping a few players from last year or is it starting from scratch?

UCD AFC

there is a separate keeper league for those who wish to continue with some of last years roster, bit of red

bit of red72

Cheers. I'm up for all leagues either way.

lankythecamel

bit of red72 wrote: »

Cheers. I'm up for all leagues either way.

Count me in

Grahamer666

Wouldn't mind doing this myself. Never done a Fantasy Baseball League so would definitely be a newbie.

I've also been in to Baseball for years. Dodgers supporter.

8-10

Hi guys, we have a new Fantasy Sports forum for all sports:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1535

I have started a thread on the non-keeper league:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056549959

Maybe we can use this thread moving forward and keep this forum to baseball chat only?

Coeus

8-10 wrote: »

Hi guys, we have a new Fantasy Sports forum for all sports:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1535

I have started a thread on the non-keeper league:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056549959

Maybe we can use this thread moving forward and keep this forum to baseball chat only?

Hey 8-10, was a decision made on where the fantasy baseball threads are to be located? I had a look at the fanatsy sports category and it looks to be dominated by fantasy football, I think we could get lost in there. I kinda like have the fanatsy baseball threads here as its easier to keep up. I'm sure the non-fantasy baseball player dont mind too much...I hope

Anyways thanks for posting an updated list. There are now 16 player interested players...

1. Coeus
2. Malachyscott
3. BigBadRob83
4. UCD AFC
5. Iang87
6. namloc1980
7. Masked Man
8. Benimar
9. WallyWanka
10. smackbunnybaby
11. 8-10
12. bit of red72
13. lankythecamel
14. Grahamer666
15. Summerskin
16. gciddy

Entry is still open. We can leave it open for another week or 2 and then decide the makeup of the league(s).

GoldFour4

Coeus wrote: »

Hey 8-10, was a decision made on where the fantasy baseball threads are to be located? I had a look at the fanatsy sports category and it looks to be dominated by fantasy football, I think we could get lost in there. I kinda like have the fanatsy baseball threads here as its easier to keep up. I'm sure the non-fantasy baseball player dont mind too much...I hope

Anyways thanks for posting an updated list. There are now 16 player interested players...

1. Coeus
2. Malachyscott
3. BigBadRob83
4. UCD AFC
5. Iang87
6. namloc1980
7. Masked Man
8. Benimar
9. WallyWanka
10. smackbunnybaby
11. 8-10
12. bit of red72
13. lankythecamel
14. Grahamer666
15. Summerskin
16. gciddy

Entry is still open. We can leave it open for another week or 2 and then decide the makeup of the league(s).

Yeah I strongly oppose having threads in that new forum. I have absolutely no idea how it got approved, such a blatantly backhand way of the fantasy soccer getting the forum it wanted. Any non soccer league that puts its forum there will die out rather quickly. Look at the stupid number of soccer related posts in there already.

Coeus

malachyscott wrote: »

Yeah I strongly oppose having threads in that new forum. I have absolutely no idea how it got approved, such a blatantly backhand way of the fantasy soccer getting the forum it wanted. Any non soccer league that puts its forum there will die out rather quickly. Look at the stupid number of soccer related posts in there already.

I guess they maybe got the thread cos the the fantasy american football got a dedicated subforum. That was needed to help organise all the boards leagues that were run last year and to be fair it is well organised.

I think we'll have 3 leagues (2 keeper and 1 non-keeper) this year so that will be 3 league threads, that shouldn't clog up this baseball forum too much. We can keep all league related talk within their respective threads.

BigBadRob83

Hey guys,

Any idea what kind of league this is going to be and what website we'll be using, and who commish is?
If needed, I could set up a poll for it as I had done something pretty similar for the Keeper League 2.0 (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056550937 - still open to new owners) and got everyone to vote to decide scoring, rosters, trades, etc.

Coeus

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Hey guys,

Any idea what kind of league this is going to be and what website we'll be using, and who commish is?
If needed, I could set up a poll for it as I had done something pretty similar for the Keeper League 2.0 (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056550937 - still open to new owners) and got everyone to vote to decide scoring, rosters, trades, etc.

Think it will be a head-to-head, 5x5 categorys with daily roster changes, similar to the settings we had in the boards.ie league last year. There will be a few new players so its best to keep it simple although if there is greater than 12 player it might be best to up it to a 6x6...

Since I started the thread I was going to commish it, if I do I would prefer to play in Yahoo. Have you set up your league yet? I was think of creating it in the 2 week of March and hold the draft in the few days before the games in Japan...

BigBadRob83

Coeus wrote: »

Think it will be a head-to-head, 5x5 categorys with daily roster changes, similar to the settings we had in the boards.ie league last year. There will be a few new players so its best to keep it simple although if there is greater than 12 player it might be best to up it to a 6x6...

Since I started the thread I was going to commish it, if I do I would prefer to play in Yahoo. Have you set up your league yet? I was think of creating it in the 2 week of March and hold the draft in the few days before the games in Japan...

Sounds good to me, although would wonder if everyone would be up for daily roster changes, especially in H2H can be big swing as usually guy who is more active on pitching changes can win the week. Would be able to do it most weeks myself but everyone in league might not be.

Have set up the Keeper League 2.0, doing it on ESPN, looks like it's going to be roto based on votes so far so will be good to have something different here.
Can still change everything up until draft day thankfully, so have set it up so everyone can get ready beforehand.

Coeus

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Sounds good to me, although would wonder if everyone would be up for daily roster changes, especially in H2H can be big swing as usually guy who is more active on pitching changes can win the week. Would be able to do it most weeks myself but everyone in league might not be.

Have set up the Keeper League 2.0, doing it on ESPN, looks like it's going to be roto based on votes so far so will be good to have something different here.
Can still change everything up until draft day thankfully, so have set it up so everyone can get ready beforehand.

With daily roster changes you can set the lineups days (even weeks) in advance so you dont have to active daily. Having daily roster changes is good in H2H as it allows you to make changes to turn a matchup around. There will a max on player adds a week (4 is the default) so people have to think about who they bring in. I must get the default rules for Yahoo H2H leagues and post them...

BigBadRob83

Coeus wrote: »

With daily roster changes you can set the lineups days (even weeks) in advance so you dont have to active daily. Having daily roster changes is good in H2H as it allows you to make changes to turn a matchup around. There will a max on player adds a week (4 is the default) so people have to think about who they bring in. I must get the default rules for Yahoo H2H leagues and post them...

That sounds pretty good, sorry had misunderstood the first time, thought it would be madness dropping and adding pitchers every night.
Was in league few years ago where guys would get 30-40 starts a week in pitching through pure activity and zero strategy, was pretty annoying.

Coeus

Okay these are the default settings for a Yahoo H2H 5x5 league.

Season Type: Full
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time:
Max Teams:
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Player Universe: All baseball
New Players Become Available: As soon as Yahoo! adds them
Max Acquisitions for Entire Season: No maximum
Max Trades for Entire Season No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: August 19, 2012
Allow Draft Pick Trades: No
Waiver Time: 2 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: League Votes
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Acquisitions per Week: 6
Min Innings Pitched: 7
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Today
Start Scoring on: Week 1 (Mar 28)
Playoffs: Week 23, 24 and 25 (6 teams)
Note: Week 25 runs 10 days from Sep 24 to Oct 3
Playoff Reseeding: No
Lock Eliminated Teams: No
Divisions: No
Make League Publicly Viewable: No
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Batting Average (AVG)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)

Draft Time and number of teams are to be decided although the draft will take place before March 28th. Any comments or suggestions on the above are welcome.

Iang87

draft on the previous sunday maybe

Coeus

Iang87 wrote: »

draft on the previous sunday maybe

Sunday 25th is good for me. Just got to make sure it dont clash with the live drafts for the keeper leagues if thats to be the date.

BigBadRob83

Am open on the draft date at the moment, might be worth putting up a poll closer to the time to see what suits people so we get as many as possible in the live draft?

Coeus

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Am open on the draft date at the moment, might be worth putting up a poll closer to the time to see what suits people so we get as many as possible in the live draft?

Yea, its best to put a poll up to find the best time to suit all. I'm going to create the league over the weekend and start getting the invites out. I'll know more on the invitation process once I create the league so watch this space...

bit of red72

The two keeper league drafts are on March 26 and 30 so the 25th works there. 25th is Fine for me. Cheers for setting this up Coeus.

Coeus

I have created the non-keeper keague and just sent out the league details to the player list above. League settings have changed slightly as I have added a draft date and max teams (of 16). I set draft date of March 27th to avoid the keeper league drafts for now but this can be changed later on to a date and time that suits as many player as possible.

Season Type: Full
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: March 27th
Max Teams: 16
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Player Universe: All baseball
New Players Become Available: As soon as Yahoo! adds them
Max Acquisitions for Entire Season: No maximum
Max Trades for Entire Season No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: August 19, 2012
Allow Draft Pick Trades: No
Waiver Time: 2 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: League Votes
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Acquisitions per Week: 6
Min Innings Pitched: 7
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Today
Start Scoring on: Week 1 (Mar 28)
Playoffs: Week 23, 24 and 25 (6 teams)
Note: Week 25 runs 10 days from Sep 24 to Oct 3
Playoff Reseeding: No
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
Divisions: No
Make League Publicly Viewable: No
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Batting Average (AVG)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)

Coeus

Hey guys, I'm seeing 12 teams registered for the league. Currently there is a schedule in place for everyone to play each other twice (22 week season) followed by a 3 week postseason.

I have set up a poll so we can decide on a draft date and time. I'll leave it open for the week and see what we come up with...
http://www.doodle.com/83ec9m8ezcv33dgq

To give an indication of how long a draft might take, I just completed a 12 man draft where all players were present. It took just over 90 minutes...

BigBadRob83

Come on guys, only 6 responses so far to the draft poll.
Get your votes in so we can have a draft that gets most amount of people in.

Coeus

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Come on guys, only 6 responses so far to the draft poll.
Get your votes in so we can have a draft that gets most amount of people in.

Yea, at the moment 2 times suits all 6 who have voted, thats Thurs 22/3 @ 10 pm and Mon 26/3 @ 10 pm. If it stays like this I'll set the draft for the latter as its closest to the start of the season...

Iang87

sorry about that lads thought I had voted in that poll already. done now

mikemac1

Can I join the non-keeper league?

Coeus

mikemac1 wrote: »

Can I join the non-keeper league?

At the moment the max teams set to 12 and those places have been filled. Its going to be a head-to-head league so an even number of teams is needed for the league.

Somebody else PM'd me wanting in so he still wants to play then sure you can join. I'll PM him now. Otherwise we'll need to recruit from here.

Draft is provisionally set for March 26th @10 PM so there is plenty of time.

BigBadRob83

mikemac1 wrote: »

Can I join the non-keeper league?

Hey Mike, if the non-keeper ends up being full we have room in the first-year keeper league if you're interested.

You get any good ideas on team to support?

padraig_f

I'd like to play as well. I've only watched one baseball game before (game 7 of last year's World Series), but was planning to watch more this year. I'll suck, but thought it would help me get into the game.

mikemac1

Well now we have even numbers

Can me and padraig join so?

Coeus

mikemac1 wrote: »

Well now we have even numbers

Can me and padraig join so?

Sure ye guys can join. League details are on their way...

BigBadRob83

mikemac1 wrote: »

Well now we have even numbers

Can me and padraig join so?

Nice one, the more the merrier lads

BigBadRob83

Is someone still left to sign-up lads? ONly see 13 in the league at the moment.

Coeus - just wondering for the Head-to-Head scoring is it "H2H Each" (if you win a week 6 categories to 4 you're record is 6-4) or "H2H Most" (if you win a week 6 categories to 4 you're record is 1-0)?

Cheers

Coeus

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

Coeus - just wondering for the Head-to-Head scoring is it "H2H Each" (if you win a week 6 categories to 4 you're record is 6-4) or "H2H Most" (if you win a week 6 categories to 4 you're record is 1-0)?

Cheers

Its normal head-to-head which from the above is H2H each. Yahoo uses different terms as 'H2H Most' is called 'Head-toHead one win' in Yahoo. All the league types are explained here.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sports/fantasysports/baseball/rules/brules-07.html

I prefer this type of head-to-head league as even if your having a bad week you can still get some points...

BigBadRob83

Coeus wrote: »

Its normal head-to-head which from the above is H2H each. Yahoo uses different terms as 'H2H Most' is called 'Head-toHead one win' in Yahoo. All the league types are explained here.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sports/fantasysports/baseball/rules/brules-07.html

I prefer this type of head-to-head league as even if your having a bad week you can still get some points...

Thanks man. Yeah it's much better than the 'one-win' type, just wanted to check before finalising my draft board. Not that it will make massive impact

summerskin

i can't seem to find the league, what's the ID on yahoo?

EDIT: Found it and joined.

Coeus

summerskin wrote: »

i can't seem to find the league, what's the ID on yahoo?

EDIT: Found it and joined.

The league is not Public so it wont be searchable.

I see 14 teams signed up now...