2010 FOFC Hardcore Baseball League! (Draft Finished! Set Lineups!)

[CleBrownsfan]

27.11 Jonathon Niese SP

[Travis]

27.12 - Austin Jackson - CF

[cubboyroy1826]

Very nice pick Travis.

[samifan24]

We're done! Austin Jackson is Mr. (hardly) Irrelevant!

[sterlingice]

I know there were a few bumps and bruises along the way, but, sincerely, thanks everyone for the patience.

League has been "started" so make sure to set your lineup and make any moves you want to make before the season. Remember, season starts Sunday night.


SI

[CleBrownsfan]

I hate my team - it really isn't that good

[sterlingice]

A couple of notes:

1) Not everyone who is going on the DL has been put on the DL yet. If this is like previous seasons, they will by the start of the season but not all teams have made those transactions yet.

2) You will have no one on your roster for today (Thursday). However, if you go to Friday or beyond, your players are there.

SI

[MizzouRah]

Thanks to everyone in this fun fantasy baseball league!

I look forward to beating my brother's butt.. and the rest of you this year!!!

[Ramzavail]

Thanks SI, great job again.

[PackerFanatic]

Thanks a ton SI. I look forward to hopefully doing better than last year

[PackerFanatic]

Damn position eligibility - I somehow didn't get a left-fielder!

[Travis]

heh, you rang PF?

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Great job by SI we should consider making him Comish for life!

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by LastWhiteSoxFanStanding

Great job by SI we should consider making him Comish for life!

+1

[sterlingice]

Eh- this was not my most pleasant moment. But I'm ready to get the season started

SI

[sterlingice]

Season has started

SI

[MizzouRah]

OMG... I totally forgot to set my lineup. What a dumb ass.

I think I'm safe tomorrow since it goes Monday - Sunday, correct?

[sterlingice]

Yeah- they had some fluke little thing where you could set your lineup on Saturday for today's games. I still haven't been able to figure that out.

But you need to set it before midnight tonight for this week!

SI

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Yeah- they had some fluke little thing where you could set your lineup on Saturday for today's games. I still haven't been able to figure that out.

But you need to set it before midnight tonight for this week!

SI

It's done!

[Travis]

Not sure if anybody is looking to deal, but I've updated my trade block in the league. I'm mostly looking for pitchers or an upgrade at catcher and have some middle infielders and outfielders to deal.

If you're interested, let me know. Nobody is really off limits.

[sterlingice]

I've updated my trading block as well. I don't expect too much early on since we just drafted our teams, but who knows

SI

[sterlingice]

Dang it- I haven't done a good job with updates. I try to post the standings at the end of each month. So, here's our mid-May update:

Division 1
1.		Road Kill Cafe	48-28-8	.619	-	8-6-0	5	7
3.		Richmond Rhinocerii	48-29-7	.613	0.5	10-1-3	10	17
4.		Killing Me Smalls	45-34-5	.565	4.5	6-7-1	4	3
5.		Queens Bees	44-33-7	.565	4.5	1-10-3	8	6
9.		Freud's Psychos	35-46-3	.435	15.5	6-8-0	11	12
10.		Hunters	30-44-10	.417	17	7-6-1	7	17
Division 2
2.		Insomniacs	43-35-6	.548	-	9-5-0	12	10
6.		Skipstache	42-35-7	.542	0.5	6-6-2	9	14
7.		Hartford Heroes	41-37-6	.524	2	6-6-2	2	30
8.		Blacksburg Transit	38-37-9	.506	3.5	10-1-3	3	4
11.		CleBrownsFan	30-47-7	.399	12.5	5-9-0	6	7
12.		Troy Trojans	20-59-5	.268	23.5	1-10-3	1	6

First off, everyone except for Troy has made a move as recently as this week. He made one a week or two ago and often doesn't make that many moves so that means everyone's active.

Currently, there are 4 team clusters at the top of each division and at least a couple of different teams have been in the lead. Not only that, but the differences are not so great that if you're in last, a good week or two and you're right back into things. The difficulty comes in with stringing a couple of those together and avoiding the catastrophic weeks.

SI

[MizzouRah]

I keep thinking my team will get their heads out of there arses!!!

Made a couple of moves today..

[sterlingice]

NO!!! You picked up Yuneifi Berroacourt Jr! Well, your team gets what it deserves

Be glad defense doesn't count

SI

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

NO!!! You picked up Yuneifi Berroacourt Jr! Well, your team gets what it deserves

Be glad defense doesn't count

SI

Better than the crew I've had there so far.

[sterlingice]

Or, our favorite: he's an anagram for "Batter Nine, You Sucky"

SI

[MizzouRah]

Fitting for me and my team this year.. I am sucky!

[CleBrownsfan]

Oh I wish we could edit our weekly lineups Monday morning. I never think about changing them Sunday night....

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Oh I wish we could edit our weekly lineups Monday morning. I never think about changing them Sunday night....

I'd be all for the ability to change lineups up until the first game on Monday, kindof like Fantasy Football lineups but Yahoo doesn't do it that way, unfortunately.

SI

[cubboyroy1826]

Yeah I agree you should be able to change them up until the game time.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Oh I wish we could edit our weekly lineups Monday morning. I never think about changing them Sunday night....

I always do that.. Sundays are so busy with soccer and what not, I always forget.

[sterlingice]

Honestly, I do them sometime Saturday because I've been burned too often by the Sunday thing. Usually by then I can figure out who is going to 2-start pitch the next week.

SI

[sterlingice]

Our pitching matchup this week (Rhinos and Killing me Smalls) is just sick:

40.2 IP 2-2 1 Sv 36K 1.99 ERA 1.11 WHIP
and the only point I'm winning is WHIP because here are his stats:
44.2 IP 5-0 5 Sv 46K 0.81 ERA 1.16 WHIP

Just sick.

SI

[PackerFanatic]

Glad to see my pitching turning it around and helping me gain the top spot. Now I just need to see some consistency!

[sterlingice]

That's a good cue for the May update

Trout Division
1.		Killing Me Smalls	63-44-5	.585	-	11-3-0	4	4
3.		Queens Bees	60-42-10	.580	0.5	9-3-2	8	9
4.		Road Kill Cafe	56-46-10	.545	4.5	3-9-2	5	9
6.		Richmond Rhinocerii	55-50-7	.522	7	3-11-0	10	18
10.		Freud's Psychos	49-59-4	.455	14.5	8-5-1	11	14
11.		Hunters	43-56-13	.442	16	5-8-1	7	20
Squid Division
2.		Insomniacs	58-48-6	.545	-	5-9-0	12	11
5.		Skipstache	55-49-8	.527	2	4-9-1	9	17
7.		Blacksburg Transit	52-49-11	.513	3.5	7-5-2	3	4
8.		Hartford Heroes	50-52-10	.491	6	5-7-2	2	33
9.		CleBrownsFan	47-57-8	.455	10	9-4-1	6	10
12.		Troy Trojans	35-71-6	.339	23	9-5-0	1	8

Everyone is still most definitely active with all teams making some sort of move in the last week. As for the standings, I found I could rename them so there's that. If anyone has better name ideas- I'm all for it but I figured this was simple for now.

In the Mollusk Circuit, CleBrownsFan has tightened things up so there are now only 10 games between 1st and 5th. Insomniacs and Skipstache are still 1/2 but Blacksburg has passed Hartford for 3rd. Troy is still in 6th but hoping recent changes to the team help make some noise.

As for the fighting fish, none of the top 4 are in the same place they were just 2 weeks ago. Killing Me Smalls now has a half game lead over Queen Bees. Roadkill Cafe and Richmond have fallen from 1/2 to 3/4 but are still close. Freud's Psychos and Hunters have both inched a little closer but will need a big week or two to jump into that top cluster of teams.

Remember, for the playoffs, the top 6 teams, regardless of division, make the playoffs. However, the top 2 seeds (who get byes) go to the division winners. We might be getting a preview of that this week as #1 Killing Me Smalls is playing #2 Insomniacs.

SI

[MizzouRah]

Basically, I suck.

[Travis]

Plenty of time yet, plenty of time.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Travis

Plenty of time yet, plenty of time.

True... but man o man do I have a lot of catching up to do..

[samifan24]

If anyone is willing to deal pitching and needs a 1B or CI, let me know. I (Hartford Heroes) am willing to move Billy Butler or another bat for pitching.

[CleBrownsfan]

I counted yesterday - I have had 16 players land on the DL.... 5 season ending including Peavy from a few nights ago.

[PackerFanatic]

Goodness...I was doing decent and then got BLASTED last week. Hopefully I can turn it around this week (so far so good!)

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

I counted yesterday - I have had 16 players land on the DL.... 5 season ending including Peavy from a few nights ago.

Holy crap. And to think- you only have 2 Mets

SI

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by samifan24

If anyone is willing to deal pitching and needs a 1B or CI, let me know. I (Hartford Heroes) am willing to move Billy Butler or another bat for pitching.

Pitching from those middle rounds (8~15) seems to not be doing nearly as well as it has done in years past. There definitely seems to be a lack of it as I know I'm having that problem as well.

SI

[sterlingice]

With the moving, I didn't get in the update after the first week of the month so we'll have to settle for the second. BTW- remember no IP limits next week with the All Star Game. However, you do have to get at least 1 IP to win a couple of categories and there's also the IP category to win.

Trout Division
1.		Road Kill Cafe	103-66-13	.602	-	9-5-0	4	10
3.		Queens Bees	94-77-11	.547	10	8-6-0	6	12
4.		Richmond Rhinocerii	92-80-10	.533	12.5	9-5-0	11	24
5.		Killing Me Smalls	93-81-8	.533	12.5	0-13-1	3	8
8.		Freud's Psychos	88-87-7	.503	18	12-2-0	8	19
11.		Hunters	65-99-18	.407	35.5	3-9-2	10	39
Squid Division
2.		Insomniacs	99-74-9	.569	-	6-8-0	9	14
6.		Hartford Heroes	89-81-12	.522	8.5	13-0-1	1	42
7.		Skipstache	86-84-12	.505	11.5	2-12-0	7	21
9.		Blacksburg Transit	81-83-18	.495	13.5	9-3-2	2	4
10.		CleBrownsFan	80-93-9	.464	19	5-9-0	5	14
12.		Troy Trojans	54-119-9	.321	45	5-9-0	12	10

Killing Me Smalls had an absolutely brutal week and has dropped from 1st in the Trout to 4th. He's still in 5th of 6 places for the playoffs, but that's a far cry from being in 1st last month. Speaking of which, that now belongs to Road Kill cafe who over the past month has gotten an 11-0 record with a sub 1.5 ERA from CC Sabathia and Mat Latos, a bit of an odd couple pairing. Queen Bees and Richmond Rhinocerii have stayed where they are at 2 and 3 in the Trout. Freud's Psychos have some work to do but they're not very far out of a playoff berth and are winning 10-4 this week. Hunters have had good to great pitching but the hitting just hasn't been there and they're pretty far back.

Insomniacs continue to be the class of the Squid division and have widened their lead. In fact, both division leaders are quite comfortable at the moment, tho who knows how long that will last. Hartford has climbed from a little ways back into the pack for the other playoff spot from this division. However, Skipstache is only 3 games back and looks to just be going through a little bit of a hitting slump (except Holliday). Blacksburg Transit looks like they might have fallen inactive as they haven't made a move in a month and has 4 players on the DL in his starting lineup. For the record, everyone else has made moves recently and are active. CleBrownsFan is still well within striking distance but injuries keep stacking up. I think he might be cursed. Finally, well, Troy- he's had a couple of nice Cardinals bright spots in Rasmus and Garcia but it's hard to overcome the horrible first halves from Texeira, Hill, Upton, and Sandoval.

Still 2 months to jockey for playoff position and trades are due by August 1.

SI

[MizzouRah]

Have I ever said, "I SUCK"?

Texeira will NEVER be drafted by me again!!!

[Travis]

Wow, just checking back on the draft to see what I should have done better and where I did well and it's pretty easy to say that this may have been my worst draft ever.

16 of my 27 picks aren't on my team anymore (and only 1 of those has been moved in a trade). Of the other 15, 8 have found homes with other teams in our league (though I'd argue that only around 4-5 have been worth starting).

Of the 16 still on my roster 3 have spent significant time on the IR and in my rather impatient approach to finding replacements I've certainly made a few mistakes on the waiver wire.

That said, I've still got my fingers crossed as I should get Tulo back some time next week. With Aramis Ramirez (hopefully) figuring out his stroke, if I can get the offensive side of the equation going, I'm just hoping I haven't dug too deep of a hole to get out of before our regular season ends.

[Danny]

This week and last are not being kind to me. I'm a little disappointed yahoo made the short week a full week as opposed to making it one longer week.

[PackerFanatic]

Yeah I was surprised by that myself - a longer week would have been nicer.

Still trucking a lot - just hoping my guys stay healthy and keep on performing. Pavano has been a nice surprise (I don't expect it to last, heh)

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

The short week killed me too. I had a real good run going then I got chopped to pieces by Mizzourah's buzzsaw and am still reeling this week. My once vaunted pitching staff has had its first slump of the year. Hopefully, they get it turned around.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

With the trade deadline rapidly approaching, we have yet to have a true blockbuster deal. With that in mind, I am putting Prince Fielder on the market. As the esteemed general manager Cosmo Kramer might say, "All interesting offers considered."