week 5

[Guest]

so basically i put ichiro back on my bench (can i have 0.5 points since ichiro whiffed twice tonight while jackson just had a normal 0-4?) can i remove jackson from my lineup and replace him with napoli (who was playing catcher, but has been replaced there with victor martinez coming off the DL)

 

the rule about not subbing position players during the week seems pretty dumb to me - after all, how much of an advantage are you really going to gain given the very limited benches - but i'll abide by it.

Jackson scored -0.5 today, too. No need for adjustments

[TruffleShuffle]

oh yeah my bad. i should have double checked that, there's no way that austin jackson makes 4 outs without striking out at least once.

[Quakers]

Yes, in our league the two most effective uses of the bench are

 

1) A bullpen that allows you to have rotate in starting pitchers.

 

2) A place to store rookies and/or day-to-day starters who are not playing well enough to start, but you do not want to expose to the waiver wire.

[NCCubFan]

A third is if your DL is full and you have another injured player you don't want to drop.

 

As far as Bob's question about replacing Napoli with Martinez is concerned, I'm fairly sure that's OK. I know removing a player that gets injured is OK, and I think the opposite (activating a player that's no longer injured) is also fine.

[Guest]

It probably does seem like 274 rules. However, it didn't use to be like that. Rules migrate the longer something is around, because defining every little intricacy becomes required to avoid one team doing something entirely different than the general rule.

 

To the veteran managers here, it probably doesn't seem to lengthy of a list. Most are rules that have been around a long time. Others require being reminded occasionally.

 

The intent of this league is and always has been to be a weekly roster change format. With the exception of switching pitchers out to get 7 starts (which is not something anyone is actually required to actually do all week long, as you can set your 7 starts at the beginning of the week), we allow roster changes for injuries, which is keeping within the spirit of fair play. If we allow any changes at all, then it becomes a daily roster change league which has been voted down time and again. It's not fair to have someone switching out players on off days while your opponent is not.

 

And there are limited reserves. But, one team may not be so glued to that reserve list that they aren't willing to switch out players daily to assure that they don't have any off days for their players. That's typically a common problem in many of the daily roster change leagues I've played in the past. It was meant to be a casual fun league that doesn't require too much of your time beyond the drafts and setting your keepers each year.

 

It took me a little while to get used to when I first joined, but I really enjoy it now. This year and last year, it's become the only fantasy team I manage now. Probably a lack of interest in baseball lately moreso than having the time to manage more teams, but I enjoy the weekly match ups and rivalries created in this one enough to satisfy my desire for fantasy leagues.

 

If you are in other fantasy leagues, that's where I would expect that the rules would become more confusing, as you attempt to recall which rules apply to which league, especially if you play in several and are still fairly new to this one. Once you are accustomed to these rules, they probably will make more sense and we don't make dramatic changes in any given year to create more confusion, typically.

[Guest]

With Stephen Drew dealing with a groin issue and the flu, I've benched him. I slid Peralta over to SS to replace him and promoted Ian Stewart back up from the minors to replace Peralta at 3b. Aaron Harang was dumped to make room for Stewart.

 

It is definitely hard to manage just three reserve spots, especially since one of those and potentially two absolutely need to be starting pitchers to get you 7 starts every week. My DL is still currently full and I'm running out of guys I want to give up when these guys all come off the DL.

[NCCubFan]

I'd be in favor of increasing the number of reserve spots (probably too late to change this year, but we could change for next year). I think three reserve spots was adequate when we were limited to five starting pitchers for the week regardless of the number of starts, but with needing to devote at least one (two for me) reserve spots for extra starting pitchers to ensure seven starts it makes it hard to have spots available for good players who are currently slumping or for prospects who lose minor league eligibility but aren't contributing that much this year.

[abuck1220]

the waiver wire would be complete garbage if we allowed extra reserves. add an extra DL spot before we had an extra reserve spot.

[abuck1220]

truffle, to put it a little more succintly...

 

rosters are to be set on monday. no changes to your offensive lineup or bullpen unless there is an injury/demotion to the minors/promotion to the majors. you can make daily changes to your rotation to ensure you get 7 starts. the end.

 

the rule is also that you cannot pick up FA's to fill out your 7 starts during the week, but apparently we're not abiding by that anymore? i brought it up last week and everyone seemed to agree with me except for brian.

[moochpuppy]

the waiver wire would be complete garbage if we allowed extra reserves. add an extra DL spot before we had an extra reserve spot.

 

Adding one more reserve spot is not going to make the waiver wire garbage.

[Guest]

I'd much rather add an extra DL spot than an extra reserve spot.

[shnsajax]

I'd much rather add an extra DL spot than an extra reserve spot.

 

I would agree with this, though I am fine with 3 reserve spots too. Its a little tough to manage but thats the way it was designed too.

[moochpuppy]

I'd much rather add an extra DL spot than an extra reserve spot.

 

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

[Guest]

fundamentally, I'm not sure why the DL is limited at all. If you've got six guys from your team on the DL at once, you should be able to DL them and put temp replacements in play.

[abuck1220]

the waiver wire would be complete garbage if we allowed extra reserves. add an extra DL spot before we had an extra reserve spot.

 

Adding one more reserve spot is not going to make the waiver wire garbage.

 

yes it will. take the top 16 available free agents out of the free agent pool and it will obviously be a worse selection of players.

[TruffleShuffle]

fundamentally, I'm not sure why the DL is limited at all. If you've got six guys from your team on the DL at once, you should be able to DL them and put temp replacements in play.

 

i agree with this... plus if a marginal player is hurt on a team which has its DL full, they will likely have to drop that player, just so he can be picked up and DL'ed by another team in the league that doesn't have injury problems.

[Guest]

truffle, to put it a little more succintly...

 

rosters are to be set on monday. no changes to your offensive lineup or bullpen unless there is an injury/demotion to the minors/promotion to the majors. you can make daily changes to your rotation to ensure you get 7 starts. the end.

 

the rule is also that you cannot pick up FA's to fill out your 7 starts during the week, but apparently we're not abiding by that anymore? i brought it up last week and everyone seemed to agree with me except for brian.

 

My apologies for not being succinct enough. :D And everyone went against me on the adding of pitchers to get 7 starts? I don't seem to recall a vote or no one actually siding with me. I really don't care either way. I always get my 7 starts because I'm diligent that way. And I now have a laptop with an air card, so I have internet EVERYWHERE now.

[Guest]

I said the letter of the existing rule is what Adam said, but that the spirit was in line with Brian.

[moochpuppy]

the waiver wire would be complete garbage if we allowed extra reserves. add an extra DL spot before we had an extra reserve spot.

 

Adding one more reserve spot is not going to make the waiver wire garbage.

 

yes it will. take the top 16 available free agents out of the free agent pool and it will obviously be a worse selection of players.

 

Worse and garbage are two different things. Obviously it would be worse but certainly good enough to still work with. Try a 16-team league same as this one with 8 bench spots and 4 DL spots. Talk about a garbage waiver wire!! It makes it fun though to find that diamond in the rough.

[Guest]

the waiver wire would be complete garbage if we allowed extra reserves. add an extra DL spot before we had an extra reserve spot.

 

Adding one more reserve spot is not going to make the waiver wire garbage.

 

yes it will. take the top 16 available free agents out of the free agent pool and it will obviously be a worse selection of players.

 

Worse and garbage are two different things. Obviously it would be worse but certainly good enough to still work with. Try a 16-team league same as this one with 8 bench spots and 4 DL spots. Talk about a garbage waiver wire!! It makes it fun though to find that diamond in the rough.

 

With 8 bench spots, do you still have to look for diamonds in the rough? Isn't that enough of a bench to make sure you aren't weak at any position on any day?

[moochpuppy]

 

With 8 bench spots, do you still have to look for diamonds in the rough? Isn't that enough of a bench to make sure you aren't weak at any position on any day?

 

Normally yes but this season there seems to be more injuries early so there has been more activity on the wire to find the hot hand especially at positions like 2B, 3B and SS.

[TruffleShuffle]

julio teheran is being called up for a spot start for the braves, and since i'm going to have an extra start available (due to the blue jays being jerks and moving up kyle drabek's start) i have moved up teheran and put newly-acquired brian matusz on the DL.

[abuck1220]

interested to hear what the rest of the league has to say about that trade.

[Quakers]

Hundley went on the DL, so I picked up Molina.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

interested to hear what the rest of the league has to say about that trade.

 

Well, it's the MVP of Fantasy in a points system for several upper-mid range prospects with upside. Matusz is ok, but he's not the best starter on his Orioles staff.

 

I would say Tim wins this trade hands down, though Halladay may cost half the cap to keep.