Ted Lilly: 5 Innings, 0 Hits, 1 Walk, 6 K's, a walk and a run scored
Awesome...hopefully he'll keep it up for the season.
But I see your point...you picked up two guys off the waiver wire that gave you 16K's last week, so it's like you'll be getting 16 k's from them this week too...becuase they did it last week.
I'm saying that when I picked them up I only did so for the purpose of having more pitchers start than Melmart so I could gain ground in either Wins and/or K's. They both were impressive enough to keep rather than drop. It's nothing ground breaking and you guys can get mad at me and other who do this, but it's within the rules set forth at the start of the season. Yes it's unorthodox and may be seen as cheese, but it's within the rules.
Ok I get it...you're the first guy in history to pick up two pitchers you weren't sure you were going to keep and then ended up keeping them.
Never has happened before before you
Same thing, no team has ever improved their strikeout totals with pitchers picked up off the waiver wire...at least, no team before you.
Take a bow Dan...it's your world, we're merely renting it.,
btw, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict you waive Bonificisio(or whatever the his name is) before the season is over.
no offense but you have a personality of a pile of dead leaves, so uptight about everything.Ok I get it...you're the first guy in history to pick up two pitchers you weren't sure you were going to keep and then ended up keeping them.
Never has happened before before you
Same thing, no team has ever improved their strikeout totals with pitchers picked up off the waiver wire...at least, no team before you.
Take a bow Dan...it's your world, we're merely renting it.,
I'm not saying I won't- I use people. I'm a wheeler and dealer. If you ain't producing, there is no room for you in my lineup. I've about had it with Jimmy Rollins so keep your eye on that waiver wire.
Plus, I'll be able to use The Hammer as a MI in a couple days so there will be a log jam at that position. If I have to choose between the Hammer and Rollins, I'm driving Jimmy to the airport
That's my bad.
This season is the reason it won't ever happen again on my watch.
It sucks to try to draft a well-balanced team only to discover that others didn't really do that and will just mill pitchers and make it impossible for you to win at least 2 pitching categories no matter how good your pitching might be.
I just did it for a week. If my starters don't implode this week like last week I probably won't have to do it again. I mean my Cy Young gave up like 20 runs so I was forced in a corner- I wasn't just about to sit back and do nothing about it. It's just playing to win, sometimes you have your hand forced and you have to think outside the box
But here is my big question, if everyone is so sure this strategy can't win, why is it such a big deal?
Dan, may I ask how old you are?
25
dan, may i ask how old you are?
and that post by Whott was only funny because of how long it was and how much venom it had behind it. I mean the guy can't take some good natured ribbing, he takes everything so seriously. IT'S FANTASY BASEBALL. I like talking , and sometimes it doesn't even make sense, but Whott thinks he can convince me with stats and other antidotes that I don't care about. How about Whott lightens up a little bit and has some fun
Because there are only four spots in the playoffs. With 10 people fighting for 4 spots, ridiculous use of the waiver wire could prevent a well-drafted team from making it because they didn't have time to keep up with the waiver-wire Joneses. It disrupts the league completely and rewards those who have too much time on their hands and get lucky on a scrub like the Japanese dude who is so good that you can't even remember his name.
some people just have an iphone and superior talent evaluation skills of foreign born players. True champions are the ones that want it just a little bit more than the next guy.
And how can you say I didn't draft a good team!? Look at my lineup. It's a freakin All Star team full of Hall of Famers such as Manny, Utley and Chipper, and future Hall of Famers like Bonfinicio and Teahan
man there goes the no hitter. Good thing you didn't start him that WHIP would be screwed up now
You call yourself king and people are gonna burn your castle.
It's a Fantasy League from a sports forum, don;t take yourself and others too seriously.
I agree with you that you are only playing within the rules that were set.
I don't care personaly becaue the ERA and WHIP will always blow up in your face. The only dissapointment for me is that there are only 10 teams in this league.
This is particularly true because the standings aren't really affected by whether Team A "wins" a given week or not, but by how many categories each team wins over the course of a season. If I'm not willing (or am unable) to mill the waiver wire and my opponent is, and it costs me two categories, it means that my unwillingness to make 100 transactions a week because of my inability to just sit on Yahoo all day long will cost me two otherwise-winnable categories in those weeks.
For crissakes, I could have drafted a team with no pitchers at all, milled the waiver wire all season, probably won K's and maybe wins in most weeks and will end up beating out teams that drafted quality SPs and good RPs.
Again, when we start this league again in 2010, there will be an innings pitched cap for the season. It won't even be put up for a vote.
you can't possibly be talking to me. I thought this was a league to have fun with so that is what I'm doing. In return Whott and Melmart are giving me statistical breakdowns of the last 10 seasons of fantasy baseball and all other kinds of crap I have no use for. I have a strategy I believe in, and choose to play that way. They are my cards and I can do what I want with them. I just like riling people up that are talking this like it's life and death.
It shouldn't be a big deal because my strategy has proven to not work here, so you are all just taking my money, no big deal.
I probably won't be able to be doing much dumpster diving anyway once summer starts and there are less day games because my office here at work has a tv with MLB extra innings and that's basically all I do all day is watch baseball, but I don't have extra innings at home. That said, I do have a jailbreaked Iphone and am not scared to use it when I see a player I might enjoy inviting to join You Hang It, I Bang It
Funny you say that, cus everyone was having fun till you got here.
I'll still take the 7 points this week. Don't really care how it happened. And I was
still one Carl Pavano start (a player I drafted) away from sweeping everything but saves.
yeah because having fun to you is what I consider boring. Who wants to sit around and just discuss baseball? Notice how in the Yahoo box there is a place to talk smack- that is what I'm doing. What is the point in fantasy sports if you can't talk some trash? I mean how old are you guys? A couple of you are all uptight. I'm the reason there is so much interest in this season so far, you need people like me.
the difference is that I can take it when people talk trash to me and I keep prospective (that it's fantasy), where some of you talk yourselves and fantasy baseball way too seriously and get upset when people rib you. Talk all the trash you want to me, I don't care, it's having fun.
Dude...I was just joking. Get that stick out of your ass and learn to lighten up.
I can see why you guys would want a transaction cap. Most definitely. But since the rules are set the way they are, I'm going to use them to my advantage as much as possible. If it's a cheap way to steal K's then so be it.
Actually, me picking up Kyle Lohse and Ian Snell really helped get the ERA and WHip categories so close. So, no, they my strategy didn't keep me from getting those 2 categories. Brandon Morrow, Carl Pavano, Verlander, and Volquez (all players I drafted) kept me from winning those categories.You ended up winning the K category by 2, but if you notice I pulled Gregg at the last second(because he's been shaky and could just have easily cost me ERA and WHip as he could have tied K), and he ended up getting 2ks which would have tied us, in spite of a the 3 starter advantage you had over me. So all those extra pitchers gave you a 2 K advantage and probably ended up hurting you more in ERA and Whip than you realize.
It's one thing to talk a little smack and another to bash a dude personall.
Your smack to start the season was fun, and kept things entertaining. You're turning into a whiny kid though right now. That isn't any fun.
Dan has certainly livened this league up. Between March 2, 2008 and March 10, 2009, last year's league totaled 11 pages of discussion. We're a week into the 2009 season and we're already to 15 pages. I like that.
I can really get behind a Innings or maybe a Starts cap. Much Much better than waiver wire caps.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote