Fantasy Baseball 2007 - Details

Not to sound picky, but a couple of thoughts.  
First, on the draft, you may as well make it a live draft.  That way, those who can make it can have a live draft, and those who cannot will have their prerankings and it will, in effect, be an autodraft for them.  

Second, for the H2H league - I was just wondering, why did we decide to do it weekly instead of daily?  I don't really mind but I feel that daily leagues give people more freedom - and to keep the pitcher-streamers out (if that is our goal), we can put a cap on the allowed amount of transactions.  This is the same idea as the draft suggestion - those who want to do it daily can do it daily and those who do not don't have to.

What do ya'll think?

i like live drafts too, but it can be tough to get a time that works for people.  i've found sunday mornings to work pretty good.  i also like daily transactions, but am fine with weekly too. looking forward to both leagues!

Honestly I would prefer a daily league, I wasn't too hot when I had a weekly league.

If you could change me, that would be great, but if not, that is ok.

Hey, appreciate the work. Can't wait to get started.

Definitely appreciate the work.  

I'll just put my 2 cents in about daily vs. weekly.  I played in a weekly H2H last year and there were a couple annoying things.  

First of all, especially with the H2H, if one of your guys gets hurt on Monday or early in the week, it can really screw you over.  Whereas with the daily lineup, you can make the change and put in a back-up.

The other thing is that if someone wants to make changes, but misses the weekly deadline, they are kinda screwed.  Ours was set up so that the weekly deadline was on Monday (thinking that you'd have the weekend and then all day Monday to set your lineup for the next week), but your lineup had to be set Monday at 12 am, so if you didn't change it by Sunday night, you were screwed. This was pretty annoying.

I guess my thinking is that the daily lineup is actually easier, because you can change it when you think about it, it's less frustrating if someone gets hurt, and in all reality, you don't change your lineups all that much.  I also agree with the point above that people tend to stay more active with a daily league.

Thanks for the effort on this mjmarble. Any way I can get switched into the daily league? I don't really have a preference between H2H or roto, but I much prefer daily.

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vr, Xei

Something else to discuss might be additional scoring categories.  Might we want to include OBP and SLG for hitters, for example?  Fielding percentage might be another one.

If so we would probably want to add some more for pitchers to balance things out--maybe holds (so people might want a middle reliever), walks (although it is sort of included in WHIP already), or perhaps innings pitched.

Just throwing out some ideers.

I'm sorry for the delay.  I've been terribly sick this week.  Since everything seems to have sorted itself out here are the details for the two leagues.  Please sign up for the league assigned.

brad, RichYett, and Tribelifer - there are spots for you in the Roto league.  I'm going to shoot for Live Drafts for the last weekend in March to avoid any injury problems.  Right now we have 13 people in the Roto league, but I will most likely drop out leaving commish responsibilities to Thommy.  Not 100% sure on that yet.

Go to this link to sign up for whichever league.

H2H:

League ID: 60678
Password: travis

Roto:

League ID: 60355
Password: grady

Good luck everyone.