Spurs Talk Fantasy Baseball 09

[FromWayDowntown]

Have 8 players, but need 4 more. For those who are interested in filling out those spots, here's the information:

For those who do, the league is in Yahoo and the particulars for signing up are:

League ID#: 111457
League Name: Spurs Talk Smackdown
Password: vincecarter

Draft is 3/26/09 at 7:00 p.m. -- subject to changes if necessary.

$25 entry fee.

[Thunder Dan]

do you have me down?

who do I send the $$$$ to?

[FromWayDowntown]

do you have me down?

who do I send the $$$$ to?

You Hang I Bang?

I got you.

[timvp]

Thanks for setting it up once again, FWD

PM me to move this to the Spurs forum if you don't get the needed signups in the next few days.

[ATRAIN]

Thanks for setting it up once again, FWD

PM me to move this to the Spurs forum if you don't get the needed signups in the next few days.

Your going down just like your Dominican team lmao!!!

[FromWayDowntown]

Thanks for setting it up once again, FWD

PM me to move this to the Spurs forum if you don't get the needed signups in the next few days.

Will do.

Should we get a mini forum for our Dorky McDork business.

[Melmart1]

Has florige signed up? I know he wanted to.

[florige]

I want to join too. PM me where the money is supposed to be sent if there are any spots left. Thanks.

[florige]

Has florige signed up? I know he wanted to.

Thanks Melly.

[FromWayDowntown]

Still need at least 1 and as many as 3 more players. Once we have all 10 or 12 (hopefully today) I'll set a draft order.

[timvp]

I put it in the Spurs forum. Hopefully we can get to 12.

[Thunder Dan]

Say my team puts it all together and wins, do I get one of those little trophies?

[timvp]

Say my team puts it all together and wins, do I get one of those little trophies?

Yessir.

[FromWayDowntown]

No more bites yet. Still need 1 to make 10 or 3 to make 12. Not sure if it will work with just 9.

[TheTruth]

I went ahead and signed up. I also sent a message to my 2 dynasty leagues asking if anyone was interested in playing. Should be able to find 2 out of that group.

[slayermin]

No more bites yet. Still need 1 to make 10 or 3 to make 12. Not sure if it will work with just 9.

In head to head leagues, you have to have an even amount of teams. If you don't have an even number, yahoo will delay your draft and either autodraft your teams or make you reschedule your draft.

[FromWayDowntown]

In the hope of getting a draft order out and moving the ball along, I've closed the league at 10 teams. If anyone would like to keep the registration open for another day or so, let me know -- this will, of course, limit the time available with the draft order (or will require pushing back the draft date and time from its currently scheduled 3/26/09 at 7:00 p.m. CST.)

As a concession to the reduction in teams, I've unilaterally made 2 significant changes to the complexion of the league:

1. only 4 of the 10 teams will make the playoffs, which will occur in weeks 24 and 25 (presumably, the last 2 weeks of the MLB regular season)

2. I've added offensive positions for a corner infielder and a middle infielder, increased the number of pitchers for each team from 8 to 10, and expanded the benches from 9 to 10. In a 12 team league last year, there were 312 players on rosters (not counting injured players). Those changes will result in there being 310 players on rosters (not counting injured players).

If anyone has a problem with either of those decisions, let me know. Otherwise, I'll publish a draft order by tomorrow afternoon in anticipation of a Thursday evening draft.

[slayermin]

Are there going to be limits on transactions?

[Thunder Dan]

any chance of making the draft like 30 minutes earlier, or an hour later

[FromWayDowntown]

Are there going to be limits on transactions?

Haven't heard much from the gang about that issue.

It seems to me that the easiest compromise is to put no limit on transactions in-season, but to limit transactions, if any, to no more than 3-5 per week during the playoffs.

[FromWayDowntown]

any chance of making the draft like 30 minutes earlier, or an hour later

I have reset the draft time for 8:30, for the moment. It does appear that we have some more flexibility -- I would have no quarrel if the group thought we should push the draft date back. If, however, tomorrow night is good for most people, I'd say we keep it and proceed from there.

[Thunder Dan]

I have reset the draft time for 8:30, for the moment. It does appear that we have some more flexibility -- I would have no quarrel if the group thought we should push the draft date back. If, however, tomorrow night is good for most people, I'd say we keep it and proceed from there.

9:30 would be perfect for me (I'm on East Coast time) so 8:30 Central

[FromWayDowntown]

Yeah, the time is now set for 8:30 central on Thursday night.

[FromWayDowntown]

Alright, with 10 teams in the league and a draft scheduled for tomorrow, I used an online random number generator to come up with the draft order. The particulars are as follows:

Here is your sequence:

8
6
3
5
2
10
4
7
1
9

Timestamp: 2009-03-25 20:46:57 UTC

http://www.random.org/sequences/?min...t=html&rnd=new

I assigned each team a number corresponding to the position in the "standings" windown that I see on my screen. Those positions are as follows:

1-You Hang I Bang
2-alamo's terror squad
3-EricB whatever...
4-ThemBoogieKnights
5-Screwballs3
6-Each Hit
7-Atrain's Army
8-Bashers
9-DominicanRepublicans
10-A Fraud's Roiders

Putting the two lists together, the draft order is as follows:

8 -- Bashers
6 -- Each Hit
3 -- EricB whatever...
5 -- Screwballs3
2 -- alamo's terror squad
10 -- A Fraud's Roiders
4 -- ThemBoogieKnights
7 -- Atrain's Army
1 -- You Hang I Bang
9 -- DominicanRepublicans

The rounds will serpentine, so each odd numbered round will have picks made in this order while each even numbered round will have picks made in the reverse of this order.

Let me know if there are any problems.

-FWD

[timvp]

I'm willing to trade my 10th and 11th pick overall for a pick in the top three and a third rounder.