For those of you who cancelled your seasons

[mjl]

What horrible keeper mistakes did you get saved from? I looked back at my AL-only team and I was going to keep Oscar Mercado and Sean Manaea over Kyle Lewis and Zach Plesac. (And Workman over Bassitt but that isn't quite as absurdly bad.)

[Judge Jude]

Mad Max for 44

[Vecmizer]

I would have waived a $3 Kyle Lewis.

[umjewman]

Saved from keeping Folty.

Bonus - we are reverting rosters so I can now keep the Dustin May that I cut.

[revo]

For those who cancelled seasons.....are you happy about it? This has been a very enjoyable season, made even more enjoyable by the return of sports after a 4 month hiatus, despite the occasional covid postponements.

[Gregg]

Fun idea for a thread. We are playing so I have nothing to add. I am enjoying reading it and hope more will contribute.

[mjl]

For those who cancelled seasons.....are you happy about it? This has been a very enjoyable season, made even more enjoyable by the return of sports after a 4 month hiatus, despite the occasional covid postponements.

I don't know really. Watching baseball has been fun, and I would guess that DFS is probably okay, but compared to a normal season I can't imagine that anyone would choose to have additional random injuries that occasionally affect entire teams for weeks at a time. Like, not that my RJEL team has been good or anything, but it's hard to assess whether my team is actually good when Carpenter and DeJong and Flaherty all missed multiple weeks that are theoretically getting made up much later but with fewer innings.

[revo]

I don't know really. Watching baseball has been fun, and I would guess that DFS is probably okay, but compared to a normal season I can't imagine that anyone would choose to have additional random injuries that occasionally affect entire teams for weeks at a time. Like, not that my RJEL team has been good or anything, but it's hard to assess whether my team is actually good when Carpenter and DeJong and Flaherty all missed multiple weeks that are theoretically getting made up much later but with fewer innings.

Yeah, no one likes those injuries, but if your league(s) would have tailored changes to meet these possibilities (i.e. expanded rosters, daily lineup moves, added FAAB runs, etc.) it's made it a lot of fun.

[Ken]

Yeah, no one likes those injuries, but if your league(s) would have tailored changes to meet these possibilities (i.e. expanded rosters, daily lineup moves, added FAAB runs, etc.) it's made it a lot of fun.

Expanded rosters and IL spots, I agree. Daily lineup aren't necessary IMO, it makes it a different game that I'd prepare for differently. And it's also 7x the time commit, something that's not ideal.

[Judge Jude]

we did a 25-man "Parallel Universe" draft in April, while mothballing our Rotisserie League til next spring.

no transactions - play it as it lies, as they say in golf.

10 of my first 12 picks have been disasters for various reasons, and only 5 of my pitchers are currently active (one team is down to 3!).

4 owners drafted but have no interest in how it plays out - not a handicap in a no-transactions league. most of the others had no interest in weekly transactions, particularly given the huge volume of deactivations. so for us, this has been the best of both worlds.

[mjl]

Yeah, no one likes those injuries, but if your league(s) would have tailored changes to meet these possibilities (i.e. expanded rosters, daily lineup moves, added FAAB runs, etc.) it's made it a lot of fun.

Depends on the league parameters. I can't imagine a set of rules that would have made losing Flaherty for a couple weeks in a 10-team NL not crippling. Even in RJEL it's been challenging to work around (and to be fair we didn't really make significant rule changes other than making opt-outs not count against your roster), and if a team like the Yankees or Astros or Dodgers stopped playing for two weeks and you had to replace multiple guys off the waiver wire... I mean, it's possible, I just don't see it being satisfying.

[Ken]

Depends on the league parameters. I can't imagine a set of rules that would have made losing Flaherty for a couple weeks in a 10-team NL not crippling. Even in RJEL it's been challenging to work around (and to be fair we didn't really make significant rule changes other than making opt-outs not count against your roster), and if a team like the Yankees or Astros or Dodgers stopped playing for two weeks and you had to replace multiple guys off the waiver wire... I mean, it's possible, I just don't see it being satisfying.

What makes a season satisfying for you personally? Because I'm enjoying this one quite a bit, but I understand everyone is different in what they are looking for.

For me, no season is perfect, yes there are more injuries this year, but that just means I'm more active in FAAB every week which has been fun.

[The Feral Slasher]

What makes a season satisfying for you personally? Because I'm enjoying this one quite a bit, but I understand everyone is different in what they are looking for.

For me, no season is perfect, yes there are more injuries this year, but that just means I'm more active in FAAB every week which has been fun.

It has been a really frustrating season for me. I had Soto and yordan out with covid related stuff, ohtani implosion and injury, Soroka out for year and I was starting 3 to 4 Phillies when they missed a week or so of games. Giancarlo predictably injured and Glasnow and Buehler starting slow to be generous. my era was over 6 a third of the way thru the season. A short season made that all impossible to come back from. Getting a quick start was very important this year. Other than that it has been great.

edit: long way of saying that the degree of player enjoyment is likely impacted by how their team started and how they have been impacted by injuries, covid, and team performance in the first weeks of the season

[The Feral Slasher]

It has been a really frustrating season for me. I had Soto and yordan out with covid related stuff, ohtani implosion and injury, Soroka out for year and I was starting 3 to 4 Phillies when they missed a week or so of games. Giancarlo predictably injured and Glasnow and Buehler starting slow to be generous. my era was over 6 a third of the way thru the season. A short season made that all impossible to come back from. Getting a quick start was very important this year. Other than that it has been great.

summoning the Mith reverse jink...its my only hope

[Ken]

It has been a really frustrating season for me. I had Soto and yordan out with covid related stuff, ohtani implosion and injury, Soroka out for year and I was starting 3 to 4 Phillies when they missed a week or so of games. Giancarlo predictably injured and Glasnow and Buehler starting slow to be generous. my era was over 6 a third of the way thru the season. A short season made that all impossible to come back from. Getting a quick start was very important this year. Other than that it has been great.

I have almost all those players on one team or another, so I've had the same issues in the general sense, but none are impossible to rebound from, and to be fair, almost every team has had the same issues, so it's not like it's giving us a huge disadvantage to run into those type issues.

I guess if you only have 1 or 2 teams and those teams have a significant number more injuries than others in your league I could see the concern. But then again, that happens to someone every year.