Week 18

[shnsajax]

4 weeks to go. 1 game separates 4 teams in the West for the last Playoff spot, and 3 teams in the East:

 

Alamo Stealth @ The Eyes of Texas

Mighty D-Block @ Bazingas

Experiencing Turbulence @ Fuzzy Logistics

NC Cubs @ Ron Washington's Dealers

Northside Baseball @ Sock it Thome

Harrys Budcrew @ Kid Rodelo

Tootielicious @ Galesburg Hand Sanitizers

Habitual Linesteppers @ Quakers

[TruffleShuffle]

since i quite clearly am not going to win it all this year and am looking forward to future years... anthony rizzo has 117 PAs and 98 ABs this year. say he ends with this amount... am i reading the rules correctly in thinking that he will have burned an exempt year (because he's gone over 50 PAs) but i will still be able to keep him as a minor league player (because he won't have reached 200 ABs)?

 

also, i think the cutoff of 50 PAs is too low... the limits for pitchers are 5 starts (or about 15% of the amount that an average healthy starter would have during the season) and 10 games pitched total (about 13% of the amount of games that a heavily-used reliever would appear in). 50 PAs is only about 7% of the PAs that a starter at any given position would have during the year. i think 100 PAs would be a better number that is more in line with the exemption cutoffs for starters and relievers.

 

(this is a change i would propose for future offseasons)

 

 

anyway, since my team sucks i will try to remain as competitive by looking to reach 7 starts each week and upgrade at positions that are faltering (there's really no reason for me to have michael bourn on my team, but i'll keep playing him)... but mostly i am going to be keeping an eye on how many exemptions i burn and how many minor league keepers lose that status. kipnis will lose an exempt year and goldschmidt probably will too; rizzo already has... all three of them are some risk to lose minor league keeper status. trout is within three PAs (see my point?) of burning an exemption and teheran, delgado and turner have each started games in the big leagues this year.

[NCCubFan]

since i quite clearly am not going to win it all this year and am looking forward to future years... anthony rizzo has 117 PAs and 98 ABs this year. say he ends with this amount... am i reading the rules correctly in thinking that he will have burned an exempt year (because he's gone over 50 PAs) but i will still be able to keep him as a minor league player (because he won't have reached 200 ABs)?

Yes. You'd be able to carry him on your minor league roster and he will have burned his first exemption; he'd have two exemptions remaining.

[TruffleShuffle]

my youth movement is arriving! kipnis has a hr tonight off josh beckett and paul goldschmidt hit his first big league hr off tim lincecum! =D>

[NCCubFan]

Deven and I both have two pitching starts in the books. His total 48.5 and mine total 1.5.

[moochpuppy]

Deven and I both have two pitching starts in the books. His total 48.5 and mine total 1.5.

 

Your pitching couldn't have done that last week?!? :roll:

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Deven and I both have two pitching starts in the books. His total 48.5 and mine total 1.5.

 

Our offenses are 0.25 apart. Hmm...sounds like last week :lol:

[Quakers]

Two nice starts from Hudson and Romero:)

 

Unfortunately DeLaRosa is going to have a Tommy John surgery:( I need to pick up a replacement.

[moochpuppy]

Picked up Phil Hughes and released Joe Nathan to make room. Placed Ryan Madson in my starting lineup to replace Nathan.

[shnsajax]

I'm feeling pretty good about this week with Navin's 3 starts so far totaling a -75 points.

[TruffleShuffle]

starting to look like i have a dangerously good chance of winning this week... i have a start in hand and a 35 point lead. my offense has been crazy - .400 batting average with 9 HR, 20 RBI and 19 R in just 3 days. kipnis has homered in 4 straight games and has 23 points already.

[moochpuppy]

WTF?!? Raw has gotten 70 points from two starts this week while his offense has only scored 48 points. :banghead:

[NCCubFan]

Infante to the DL, McGehee at 3B.

[TruffleShuffle]

i have a couple of thoughts about the spaz in the chat today.

 

one, it would be nice if adam would be less caustic, since multiple managers have expressed this. but that's been the way is since he joined nsbb and i wouldn't expect it to change. don also wasn't helping the situation in the chat.

 

i do agree with adam that the roster rules and the ambiguity causes a lot of problems. the rules say pretty unambiguously, "The active roster must be set by noon Monday each week and cannot be changed unless there is a benching, demotion to the minors, fantasy trade or injury." that doesn't include things like rainouts or forgetting to add a player on monday before the deadline. to me, it's silly that a league which has been in existence for 10 years or whatever doesn't have a clear rule on this.

 

there are a number of possibilities. one is to just allow transactions at any time - adding/subtracting players to your roster, changes within one's roster, etc. i actually like that you can only do adds/drops on monday, but if someone is traveling or unable to get online during the sunday/monday transition, the rules (as they are now) really penalize that.

 

another possibility is to allow changes within your roster at any time, so that position players can be swapped out for any reason, but rules stay the same for adds/drops.

 

another is to add more caveats to the rule about active rosters... you can swap out players if there's a rainout, a guy is called up, you have an empty spot on your roster that you can fill, etc. right now, say you are only going to be able to get six starts, you start one young pitcher against the padres, then bring up another guy guy from the minors to pitch at petco later in the week... that seems like you're manipulating the rules. same if you have a guy on your bench for his start at coors, forget (or "forget") to start him, then pick up another guy to start him at petco. i don't know that adding more caveats is the solution because there will always be new things that crop up.

 

personally, i think we the path of least resistance is to just make the rules that you can add whoever you want whenever you want, except for guys who were drafted or signed since the last draft (leonys martin, etc). yes, people who are more attentive to the league will have a marginal advantage, but really, subbing out a player or two who's not playing on a thursday is not going to make a difference most weeks, especially since our benches are short.

[abuck1220]

the last thing we need is more caveats. the rule should be "get your 7 starts however you want." if you want to keep the caveats for position players, fine. though i'd be fine with just allowing daily lineup changes for position players and pitchers.

 

the simpler the rules, the better. that means less [expletive] that i have to pay attention to and less people throwing fits when it's pointed out they are breaking rules.

[abuck1220]

also, getting pretty sick of the phrase "spirit of the rules." it's just a crutch for people to fall back on when they don't want to follow the existing rules. instead of abiding by a vague, meaningless term that everyone interprets differently how about we just make actual rules like every other fantasy league in the universe.

[NCCubFan]

also, getting pretty sick of the phrase "spirit of the rules." it's just a crutch for people to fall back on when they don't want to follow the existing rules. instead of abiding by a vague, meaningless term that everyone interprets differently how about we just make actual rules like every other fantasy league in the universe.

Funny, since it was YOU that used the "spirit of the rules" argument to get your way with adding Sheets to the DL a couple years ago when he clearly wasn't eligible according to the stated rules (the fact that he was a bust is completely irrelevant to this discussion). You DO NOT have the right to bitch when others use the same argument that YOU YOURSELF have used in the past. Grow up!

[abuck1220]

you're even painfully boring when you're arguing.

[abuck1220]

i love how every time this happens it turns into a discussion as to how i'm a giant [expletive].

 

someone breaks a rule.

 

i say, "hey, that's against the rules."

 

you say, "YOU'RE RUINING THE LEAGUE I'M GOING TO QUIT I'M SO SICK OF DEALING WITH YOU YOU'RE DESTROYING MY LIFE."

 

oh, and robert brings up ben sheets.

 

i wish you guys could see how ridiculous this sounds.

[NCCubFan]

oh, and robert brings up ben sheets.

You stop bitching every damn time somebody else uses the "spirit of the rules" argument after you used it yourself to unfairly get your way and I'll stop bringing up you-know-who.

[Guest]

Face it, Adam. You suck and life and there really shouldn't be any reason for the rest of us to have to get pulled into your misery.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Not this again...

 

:banghead:

[Guest]

Everyone: please respond to the polls here. Let me know if there are options that need to be added or additional rules questions we should determine before we head into the offseason.

[abuck1220]

oh, and robert brings up ben sheets.

You stop bitching every damn time somebody else uses the "spirit of the rules" argument after you used it yourself to unfairly get your way and I'll stop bringing up you-know-who.

 

just to clarify...because you think i "broke" the rules with sheets, everyone else should be able to break the rules. my sheets incident opened a pandora's box of rule-breaking that cannot be undone. or is it just people can break the rules against me only due to what has come to be known as the sheets incident of 2009?

 

i just want to get your argument clear so its full stupidity is as obvious as possible.

[abuck1220]

Face it, Adam. You suck and life and there really shouldn't be any reason for the rest of us to have to get pulled into your misery.

 

but i'm [expletive] awesome at fantasy baseball.

 

also, not so sure the guy who cuts up his blockbuster card in the store is in any position to be telling me i suck at life.