General Sports Water Cooler

"adding categories takes away from the fun of the league."

yea, the 1st thing I think of is you caring about having "fun" .

LOL @ that.

awhite came last and made the least amount of moves (not a problem but 11 and last place may mean inactivity) plus I did say last place would be out. Plus he hasn't transferred to this board right? If I have that all right then we only have one opening pending everyone replying back to the email.

Highnmighty has an open invite to any league I'm in because he's hilarious so should be 15 returnees, one opening.

Don't care what the rules are, just get a good enough consensus (doesn't have to be majority just not too much opposition) and we can go forth with those changes.

I would LOVE to play.

I'm active year round and dont care about how much fun it is bob!!

I'm down for the league again despite not having great results. Give me Freaky Tim and I'm good.

Adding 2 stat categories doesn't make anything less fun, obviously. But it really doesn't matter whether it is 5x5 or 6x6. I'm sure we'll make no changes because people hate change.

Just as long as folks stay active, I really don't care the rules to be honest. If we all have to follow it then the "real" skills come to play.

Don't be like the dummies in the hockey and basketball leagues though.

I'm not in the lig, but I would add that Holds are a league-ruining stat.

Middle-relievers as highly valuable assets just make things too absurd and frustrating.

You either stay standard or go full out sabremetric. No in between. None of this Holds BS. Why should you make middle relief pitchers valuable in fantasy baseball if they aren\'t valuable in real life? It\'s equivalent of giving punters 5 points for each kick inside the 20.

By my count, these people have confirmed that they are returning (11):

BobWadeSurvivor
WMTerp12
marylandmike
Terpito
BeadsBees
sugarmag
286
cowboy4eva
The Fox
highnmighty
fearthenoodle

NOT RETURNING: jsh

akwhite8 finished 16th last year.

The other 3 from last year not to post in this thread yet are: afterp, dh2k3 and schmidy.

Based on their posts in this thread, the current waitlist for open spots (in order):

theaman
imaterp1
MJ
RUbaseball
terp80

It's probably way early to start talking about this, but what are thoughts on the draft time? Personally, I have 3 kids, so the later the draft starts, the better. I like it when I can draft w/ them asleep as opposed to having to worry about doing a million other things while trying to draft (or just ignoring them and my wife and therefore pissing everyone off). I know some of you otoh, might dread being up until midnight drafting. Figured we better see where everyone stands on the issue.

Outside of theaman anyone else who posts should probably be focusing on making a league 2. I can let someone know if something changes and I'll check this thread to see who that guy is. I'll send out the league invites soon (within the week, hopefully tonight but I've said that in the past).

And draft preferences is a great discussion to hear your opinions, that's two for the later the better. (i.e 9pm? 10pm?)

Anything after 8:30 works for me.

OBP in place of Avg is fine. Gives some value to walks.