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Not sure if I'll get much interaction with this thread but thought I'd give it a try.

Anyone else doing fantasy baseball? I'm in a very fun keeper league. Very active league with lots of trades already even before the draft. I'm enjoying fantasy baseball a lot more than football right now.

We do a +2 format for keepers. You can keep 4 players and it costs you +2 rounds from where they were drafted they year before (draft a guy in the 10th round, it costs you an 8th round pick to keep the next year).

My keepers will probably be:
Luis Castillo 5th round
Pablo Lopez 11th
Nolan Jones 12th
Elly De La Cruz 15th

I just traded away Devin Williams (13th round keeper). Closers are overvalued in this league IMO. Gonna concentrate on other positions and either look for a few sleepers late or just punt saves all together.

Any specific strategies you guys have been successful with?
 

I did fantasy baseball for years and loved it so much more than football. Loved getting mlb.tv every year and watching games from 6-12 every night just because you might have that closer come in during a west coast game.

Unfortunately I haven't played in a while now and our league wasn't a keeper league so I wouldn't be of much help right now.
 

I've never played Fantasy baseball but I'll be here in the Fall begging to give and receive bad advice.
 

Really glad now I traded Devin Williams as he's out for several months to start the year.
 

I need some ideas for a "Sacko" award for our Fantasy Football League. Same group of guys for 32 years, we are all now spread out all over the country but it remains a very engaged group even in the off-season. What's a few good ideas for the worst team each year? We haven't done this but it's time, there must be punishment for sucking.

Go Gophers!!
 


BleedGopher said:
I need some ideas for a "Sacko" award for our Fantasy Football League. Same group of guys for 32 years, we are all now spread out all over the country but it remains a very engaged group even in the off-season. What's a few good ideas for the worst team each year? We haven't done this but it's time, there must be punishment for sucking.

Go Gophers!!
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I had seen recently where a guy had to spend 24 hrs straight at a Waffle House. But for each waffle he ate, he could reduce 1 hr.

Another one is the last place owner has to make a donation or volunteer at a nonprofit.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I had seen recently where a guy had to spend 24 hrs straight at a Waffle House. But for each waffle he ate, he could reduce 1 hr.

Another one is the last place owner has to make a donation or volunteer at a nonprofit.
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Both good ideas. Our group will gravitate towards the the Waffle House one, we had talked about that. And live stream it.

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
Both good ideas. Our group will gravitate towards the the Waffle House one, we had talked about that. And live stream it.

Go Gophers!!
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Same ten (10) guys since 1991 and we've always had the league loser pay next season's Entry Fee for the Super Bowl winner.

Spending 24 hours at a waffle house would be like a free trip to Disney World for half the guys in our league. 🙂
 

BleedGopher said:
I need some ideas for a "Sacko" award for our Fantasy Football League. Same group of guys for 32 years, we are all now spread out all over the country but it remains a very engaged group even in the off-season. What's a few good ideas for the worst team each year? We haven't done this but it's time, there must be punishment for sucking.

Go Gophers!!
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Just search for unique fantasy football punishments. There's tons of good ideas. I like public humiliation like having to do a set at open mike, or dressing up a blow-up doll and taking her out for a nice dinner.
 



BleedGopher said:
I need some ideas for a "Sacko" award for our Fantasy Football League. Same group of guys for 32 years, we are all now spread out all over the country but it remains a very engaged group even in the off-season. What's a few good ideas for the worst team each year? We haven't done this but it's time, there must be punishment for sucking.

Go Gophers!!
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I consulted the Dan Lebatard/Stugotz/Shipping Container for their Grid of Death punishments and here are a few of my favorites, especially given the various locations of your team owners:

* Drink a full jar of pickle juice
* Go to an outdoor festival with multiple port-a-potties. For one hour, inhabit one of the port a potties, with door unlocked, but closed, with pants or shorts around the ankles, while sitting on the toilet seat (you don't have to be butt ass naked, sitting in your underwear). The door cannot be locked at any point within the hour (unless you actually need to use it for its designed purpose).
* Eat an entire DQ (or equivalent) ice cream cake in one sitting, with minimal melt allowed.
* Wear cat's eye contacts to work for an entire day.
* Watch 12 consecutive hours of ______ (Nicolas Cage movies, Teletubbies, Baby Shark, '40s/50s musicals--whatever is most tortuous for the loser)
* Eat a raw onion like an apple
* Wear David Bowie Ziggy Stardust costume as a Halloween costume to work, but a day before actual Halloween
 
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TruthSeeker said:
Fantasy sports shouldn't be about shaming, humiliating, embarrassing people. It's a fun game to play with your buddies and maybe get lucky to win a few bucks.
 
You guys are sick.
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But they're all good fun for 11 of the 12 guys.
 

TruthSeeker said:
Fantasy sports shouldn't be about shaming, humiliating, embarrassing people. It's a fun game to play with your buddies and maybe get lucky to win a few bucks.
 
You guys are sick.
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glad we dont have guys like this in our league. lame.
 



Way too early FF talk, but Atlanta’s stacking up the offensive weapons for Kirk to play with-young holdovers Bijan Robinson, Drake London and Kyle Pitts being joined by Darnell Mooney and Rondale Moore. All these guys have come into the league with considerable acclaim and been hampered by poor quarterback play-stands to reason that 1 or 2 will break out.
 

TruthSeeker said:
Fantasy sports shouldn't be about shaming, humiliating, embarrassing people. It's a fun game to play with your buddies and maybe get lucky to win a few bucks.
 
You guys are sick.
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My buddies must be much different than your buddies. It’s more about the trash talk and banter than it is about winning a few bucks. Controlled public humiliation will take it to the appropriate next level.

Go Gophers!!
 

So far my fantasy team hasn't been hurt too much with the injuries. Just Luis Robert but I'm pretty deep at OF.

De La Cruz is such a fantasy stud. If he can find a way to cut down on the strikeouts a bit, look out.
 

Does anyone else play fantasy baseball? Do you guys use wins, quality starts, or something else for pitching stats?

My starting pitchers have been great so far but I can't get any wins. Kutter Crawford has allowed 1 run in 4 starts, but has no win to show for it.

I really like quality appearances but I'm not sure yahoo even has that as an option.

pitcherlist.com

It's Time to Move On from the Quality Start | Pitcher List

Could the quality APPEARANCE replace quality starts?
pitcherlist.com pitcherlist.com
 

I'm looking for some sympathy here. What a crazy fantasy baseball season. Still a lot of top players having terrible seasons. Matt Olson continues to suck for me. He hit 54 HRs last year, is now on pace for 22 this year. Elly was insane but now he can't hit and is no longer stealing bases.

My team started off this week well Monday with 3 HR and 9 RBI while my opponent had only 2 hitters playing. Then yesterday his team comes back with 6 HR and 19 RBI in one day!

The good news is the league is still so wide open. The difference between 2nd place and 10th place is still only 10 games.
 


BleedGopher said:
I need some ideas for a "Sacko" award for our Fantasy Football League. Same group of guys for 32 years, we are all now spread out all over the country but it remains a very engaged group even in the off-season. What's a few good ideas for the worst team each year? We haven't done this but it's time, there must be punishment for sucking.

Go Gophers!!
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I like the one I saw that the loser has to buy their own ticket for, and go solo to a WNBA game. And no cocktails allowed before or during the game.
 

Unregistered User said:
I like the one I saw that the loser has to buy their own ticket for, and go solo to a WNBA game. And no cocktails allowed before or during the game.
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I saw one recently where the group went golfing and the loser had to caddy for the winner. They had him wear a replica Masters caddie jumpsuit.
 

Not exactly "fantasy sports talk" but I'm finally going to try one of the "Survivor Pool" contests this season for NFL; I'm doing the Circa Survivor one.

Seems "so easy", just pick one winner each week, regardless of spread. Crazy stat, they said yesterday that each of the last two years, 72-73% of the pool was OUT by the end of Week 3. That's just crazy.

I like the data-driven analytical nature of it; Expected Value, Conditional Expected Value, Future Value, etc. Expectations are low but what the hell, give it a try

Anyone else ever done a Survivor Pool, on any level?
 

Ogee Ogilthorpe said:
Not exactly "fantasy sports talk" but I'm finally going to try one of the "Survivor Pool" contests this season for NFL; I'm doing the Circa Survivor one.

Seems "so easy", just pick one winner each week, regardless of spread. Crazy stat, they said yesterday that each of the last two years, 72-73% of the pool was OUT by the end of Week 3. That's just crazy.

I like the data-driven analytical nature of it; Expected Value, Conditional Expected Value, Future Value, etc. Expectations are low but what the hell, give it a try

Anyone else ever done a Survivor Pool, on any level?
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I was in a pretty involved fantasy football league where we can't submit lineups or make moves until we submitted a survivor pick for the week and participated in a pick'em game each week. I don't think I ever had to worry about the Survivor part of that challenge past week 5. After a short hiatus, the league is back up and running this year. Haven't even started trying to figure out week 1 yet.
 

Ogee Ogilthorpe said:
Not exactly "fantasy sports talk" but I'm finally going to try one of the "Survivor Pool" contests this season for NFL; I'm doing the Circa Survivor one.

Seems "so easy", just pick one winner each week, regardless of spread. Crazy stat, they said yesterday that each of the last two years, 72-73% of the pool was OUT by the end of Week 3. That's just crazy.

I like the data-driven analytical nature of it; Expected Value, Conditional Expected Value, Future Value, etc. Expectations are low but what the hell, give it a try

Anyone else ever done a Survivor Pool, on any level?
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Super fun, only downside is, like you said it can be over fast. General rule is a larger group means more “risk” early on and saving your strong teams for later, for obvious reasons.
 

Ogee Ogilthorpe said:
Not exactly "fantasy sports talk" but I'm finally going to try one of the "Survivor Pool" contests this season for NFL; I'm doing the Circa Survivor one.

Seems "so easy", just pick one winner each week, regardless of spread. Crazy stat, they said yesterday that each of the last two years, 72-73% of the pool was OUT by the end of Week 3. That's just crazy.

I like the data-driven analytical nature of it; Expected Value, Conditional Expected Value, Future Value, etc. Expectations are low but what the hell, give it a try

Anyone else ever done a Survivor Pool, on any level?
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Paul Charchian developed a Fantasy Football version called a Guillotine League that he just sold to Matthew Berry and Rotoworld.

You start with 19 teams and an Auction-style Draft to establish every Owner's original roster. After each week, the team in the League with the lowest points total is bounced.

Once a team is bounced, all of their players are put on Waivers and all of the remaining teams can bid on them using their allotted Free Agent Budget.

I've been in a $100.00 Entry Fee Guillotine League for three (3) years and it's easily the most challenging version of Fantasy Football compared to other traditional league formats.
 

Slim Tubby said:
Paul Charchian developed a Fantasy Football version called a Guillotine League that he just sold to Matthew Berry and Rotoworld.

You start with 19 teams and an Auction-style Draft to establish every Owner's original roster. After each week, the team in the League with the lowest points total is bounced.

Once a team is bounced, all of their players are put on Waivers and all of the remaining teams can bid on them using their allotted Free Agent Budget.

I've been in a $100.00 Entry Fee Guillotine League for three (3) years and it's easily the most challenging version of Fantasy Football compared to other traditional league formats.
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I've heard of this but have never played. Do you have a free agent budget for each week (resets after each week) or is it one large budget that has to last the entire season?
 

Slim Tubby said:
Paul Charchian developed a Fantasy Football version called a Guillotine League that he just sold to Matthew Berry and Rotoworld.

You start with 19 teams and an Auction-style Draft to establish every Owner's original roster. After each week, the team in the League with the lowest points total is bounced.

Once a team is bounced, all of their players are put on Waivers and all of the remaining teams can bid on them using their allotted Free Agent Budget.

I've been in a $100.00 Entry Fee Guillotine League for three (3) years and it's easily the most challenging version of Fantasy Football compared to other traditional league formats.
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Are you in this league with random people or do you know them? I don't think most of my friends who play fantasy would be up for this but I would definitely give it a shot someday.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I've heard of this but have never played. Do you have a free agent budget for each week (resets after each week) or is it one large budget that has to last the entire season?
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In my league, you get $200.00 to use for Auction bidding on players to create your original 15-man roster. Then each team gets a $200.00 FA budget that has to last for the entire season.

Some teams spend nearly all of their FA money early in an effort to enhance their weak original roster. Other teams hang on to their FA money until Week 7 or 8 hoping they stay alive and have less bidding competition for players.

There are so many different strategies to use. I spent most of my money early the first two (2) years that I played and never made it to Week 9 in either.

Last year, I finished 2nd by holding on to most of my FA money until half the teams were bounced and most of the remaining teams didn't have enough FA money left to outbid me on the new players being added to the Waivers.
 

Slim Tubby said:
In my league, you get $200.00 to use for Auction bidding on players to create your original 15-man roster. Then each team gets a $200.00 FA budget that has to last for the entire season.

Some teams spend nearly all of their FA money early in an effort to enhance their weak original roster. Other teams hang on to their FA money until Week 7 or 8 hoping they stay alive and have less bidding competition for players.

There are so many different strategies to use. I spent most of my money early the first two (2) years that I played and never made it to Week 9 in either.

Last year, I finished 2nd by holding on to most of my FA money until half the teams were bounced and most of the remaining teams didn't have enough FA money left to outbid me on the new players being added to the Waivers.
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Seems really fun, will have to give it a try
 


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