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who cares who pitches, the fact is I'm going to hand you one of the worst losses in fantasy baseball history
Lester? The same Lester who got roughed up just last night? Does Boston have a three or four-man rotation? Cus that is the only way Lester is playing this weekend.
who cares who pitches, the fact is I'm going to hand you one of the worst losses in fantasy baseball history
Seriously, Carmona, Baker, Haren, and Lee the best staff in this league?
for those keeping score at home, I just overtook Melmart in OBP closing a 100 point gap in less than 24 hours
That scrub Matt Garza just got my team another win. Oh, and Brandon McCarthy, too. You got two starts this weekend? You can only hope to tie me. And I still got Peavy, Lince and Wainwright starting this weekend. You are not going to steal wins from me, Haren or not. I would be surprised if you won a single pitching category.
What stat tracker are you looking at? I just refreshed mine and the score is still 8-1, with your only category being steals.
again, you are underestimating my skills
Did we ever agree on a transaction limit for sure?
I ask because it seems that Thunder Dan, in an effort to back up his ridiculous talking, is overhauling his entire pitching staff so that he has three pitchers going each of the next three days.
Why the do we have a draft if managers are allowed to play Musical Rotations every week? Imagine the tactics timvp used in the playoffs last year that most of us loathed, and then imagine dealing with that EVERY WEEK. He has made something like a dozen transactions, meaning he would already be more than 1/4 of the way through the 40 transaction limit that was proposed, before week 1 is even done. Ridiculous!
As a result, I may very well lose this week by sheer roster tweaking on his part. And I am fine with that, as long as it doesn't happen every week. People like me who actually drafted a pitching staff can't be playing roster overhaul with our pitchers.
. Haha I'm GM of the year. Can't chat right now I'm busy scouting the indians in c-town. How is Galaraga looking today?
Dominating the Rangers, but Rangers got 1 on the board with an rbi single by Blalock in the 6th.
If I wasn't on an iPhone I would post a picture of greg Norman at the 1996 Masters
-GM of the year
That was a horrible trade for you and everyone in this league not named A-train.
One great closer who plays for a winning team can win or tie the saves category for you on any given week. Now you've assured yourself of losing that category every week.
It's hard enough to win in this league when your team is compe ive in all 10 categories...good luck pulling it off only being compe ive in 9 of them
Last edited by whottt; 04-10-2009 at 02:52 PM.
I'm doing the same thing that he's doing, and I think I drafted a pretty damn good pitching staff. If we were going to have a transaction limit, it should have been announced before the season started.
You are replacing 2-3 of your pitchers every.single.day?
I know it should have been announced, so if we didn't formally agree then so be it. But I still think its bull even just for the playoffs, much less for the entire season. It really makes this whole thing much more work and much less fun, and partially negates the draft.
But if we didn't agree, then I will muddle through it for the rest of the season. I won't like it though, and I am fairly sure I am not alone.
Hahaha. It's within the rules of the game Melmart. A good GM (like me) takes the rules and uses them to his or her advantage. I was talking about doing this for about 2 weeks now and you are just now figuring out what I meant when I said I don't care about drafting
Pitching. I was trying to catch you in wins, and I still probably will, but I could catch you in alll the pitching categories now! My lineup of heroes are starting to show why kids have their posters on their walls, and your zeros are starting to show why nobody knows who they are when they walk in the mall!
Yeah, I do have 2 spots on my roster dedicated to rotating SP in and out Daily. It's a strategy that'll blow up in your face with ERA and Whip. I'm only doing it this week since I'm so far back in ERA and only want to catch Whottt in K's. I don't see how having a strategy and following through on it makes the league any worse.
she is just complaining because she hears the footsteps and doesn't want me closing in on wins or K's. It's a gamble, if I didn't do it yesterday I probably would be very close with ERA, but having done that gained me 12 strikeouts
Concerning the transactions: There hasn't been much discussion on doing it in the regualar season. I think timvp is the only one who has suggested that and he was suggesting a set number of moves for the entire season.
However,
limiting the transactions during the post season was something that was pretty much ageed upon at the end of last season and has been on the table for more than 2 seasons(by myself). We just haven't gotten around to agreeing on how to do it yet but we were pretty much agreement that we were going to do something by the time the post season roles around, and I think it's something the majority of the owners in the league already support.
Basically anyone who has played someone using that strategy in the post season is pretty much against it already.
There hasn't ever been any discussion about doing it in the regular season...but quite a few of the owners, including myself, slayer, A-train, FWDT and Melmart were on record as wanting limits in the post season....and this is going back to the end of last season.
In fact I was explicity told that we would do something about it this season and the only reason we haven't yet is that we haven't gotten input from all the owners yet.
I don't think you guys would want FWDT to just ins ute a rule like that in the post season without letting you have any input, and so basically we've been waiting for everyone to get together to see what we can hammer out and that's the only reason we don't know what the exact rule on the post season limits is yet.
But you can check any of the fantasy threads in this forum, including this one and see owners mentioning post season limits and FWDT saying we just don't know what it is yet.
So get these pitching staffs ready, you've got about 6 months to do it
And I am ready to have this discussion anytime anyone else is.
I've been ready to have this discussiion for 3 years now since my pitching staff got ass ed in the first round of the playoffs the first year of this league and all the owners that weren't involved in a pitching turnover picked up my all my pitchers.
That strategy is not going to win the league anyway...you might make it to the second round, although timvp didn't the first year he tried it and probably wouldn't have last year if I had played that game, I just didn't do it last year.
What's the point? I mean even if you beat the guy doing it your pitching staff is decimated and your likely next round opponent feeds off that decimation to improve his own staff....eventually it becomes impossible to field a compe ive pitching staff even turning it over every night...and I'm talking in wins and k's as well.
But the thing is...that strategy benefits the other owners who play the person doing it last. The first person who has to play them gets ed for the rest of the playoffs...even if they advance.
Last edited by whottt; 04-11-2009 at 01:35 PM.
I have a problem with any rule being ins uted after the season already started. Even if it is just for the playoffs. I don't care how much you guys talked about it in the off season.
So I guess I'll go on record with my opinion. There should never be a transaction limit in fantasy baseball.
ah , I'm on mandy's computer.
I like the rules the way they are, they are allowing me to close the gap in K's and steal a pitching category. It's strategy bc I'm gambling away ERA for Ks
I still think there should be a limit on transactions for the playoffs. If there isn't one implemented for the regular season, I'm cool with that.
Nobody said anything about implementing a rule in the middle of the season, so calm yourselves down. I simply asked if we had agreed. If we hadn't, then that's fine, as I already stated. I think most owners won't employ this tactic so I will only have to deal with it a couple of times when I play Dan or Truth. I don't like it, but I will deal with it.
I've tried to start this discussion on several occasions -- most of them before the season started, and got sparse interest from anyone (other than maybe whottt) in proposing anything specific.
I've offered several solutions that made sense to me -- a hard cap on transactions in season; a hard cap on transactions during the post-season; hard use limits (games by position and innings for pitchers). But there's been nothing to resemble real consensus on what specifically should be done.
I'm not going to unilaterally impose a limit; without consensus, leaving things uncapped makes more sense to me.
With that said, it strikes me as a bogus argument against something like a post-season cap to say "well, I drafted a team anticipating unlimited transactions." Clearly, no player that would be likely to be valuable to a playoff team is going to be churned through the waiver wire after about 2 or 3 weeks. Thus, if we were to decide right now that there will be a cap come the post-season -- something that I absolutely agree with, because I think it's absolute nonsense to protect one owner's interest in turning over a staff every day when another owner drafted well enough to make such turn over unthinkable (if you drafted a good pitching staff, for instance, you're not going to go dropping useful pitchers every day just to run up numbers in the counting categories). That actually rewards the owner who had a ty draft, which makes no sense to me.
I'm going to put 2 questions to the ownership and ask that everyone vote on each of the questions:
1. Should there be a limit on transactions during the post-season in 2009? Yes or No.
2. Regardless of your answer to question #1, if there is a limit, what should it be:
a. no more than 1-5 transactions per week
b. no more than 5-10 transactions per week
c. no more than 10-15 transactions per week
d. an inning limit for the team
e. no limit
Majority rules.
E, no limit
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