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Shandler's new format - "Rotisserie 500"
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Originally posted by BuckyBuckner View PostWhen you make moves retroactively like that you need to refresh the stats. It's in the Misc section of the commish pages. I did that and it looks like laron's stats for yesterday are correct now.Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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I have a problem. I received this message from my bids:
Your Florida Marvins:
1.rel MRamirez TB: ERROR! player no longer on team -- ignoring bids.
1.prr JSands LAD
2.prr YTorrealba Tex
3.prr MOlivo Sea
I put Ramirez in as my drop and he was on my team when i made the bids otherwise I would have simply put these in an open slot. I believe that I dropped Ramirez yesterday when i noticed that he was still on my team.
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Originally posted by mgwiz22 View PostI have a problem. I received this message from my bids:
Your Florida Marvins:
1.rel MRamirez TB: ERROR! player no longer on team -- ignoring bids.
1.prr JSands LAD
2.prr YTorrealba Tex
3.prr MOlivo Sea
I put Ramirez in as my drop and he was on my team when i made the bids otherwise I would have simply put these in an open slot. I believe that I dropped Ramirez yesterday when i noticed that he was still on my team.
ETA: It looks like you released Manny Sunday before FAAB processed, so when it did go to process FAAB it voided the bids you had entered tied to Manny.Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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When are the bids processed?
Here I is the copy and paste of the bids:
Bid Meister Moves queued for Your Florida Marvins
Replace the following player: By attempting, in this order:
release MRamirez TB 1.) bid 2 on JSands LAD as reserve
2.) bid 1 on YTorrealba Tex as reserve
3.) bid 1 on MOlivo Sea as reserve
This is there for all to see under view the Bid Meister bids.Last edited by mgwiz22; 04-19-2011, 02:34 PM.
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Originally posted by mgwiz22 View PostWhen are the bids processed?Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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Shandler's writeup on his two Roto500 drafts.
Interesting for comparison to ours. First thing that jumped out to me was our overbids went a lot higher, neither of Shandler's leagues went over $100 for a player, we did 4 times, and I'm guessing if we did it again, even more would. Each subsequent draft seems to have higher overbids. Toronto had 3 players over $70, NYC had 6, we had 10, I had 3 by myself.
In retrospect, I also think it's not quite as strategic as he would have you believe with this, "Budgeting decisions involve balancing draft roster value with FAAB availability." Considering I left myself with just $4 in FAAB after the draft and in the subsequent two weeks I won the bidding for all but 1 of the free agents I would have liked to add to my team, I'm concluding that you are far better off to spend big in the draft to obtain the elite talent. There will be easily attainable quality FA's available after the draft to fill any holes or strengthen your bench, plus they present better keeper possibilities. "There is a benefit to filling as many of your 40 slots as possible at the draft because the prices are potentially lower than FAABing." That is distinctly opposite of what I'm observing in our league.
Me:
I guess nominating your 37th-40th-ish best players would either get you a nice player if no one overbids, while preserving your overbid, or increase your chances at a Top 36 player if someone burns an over bid on a 37+ player.
Here's a strategy that I believe wasn't tried...
Let's assume that, worst case scenario, the 36 players that generate auction calls are also the top 36 players. If you were to pass on attempting to roster any of these top players (due to inflated costs), you would end up with a low-priced roster but lesser players.
However, what if you kept tossing players that were borderline elite (i.e. ranked in the high 30s/low 40s) in an effort to draw out auction calls? After all the other owners had exhausted their three buys, there would conceivably be at least three players left from the original top 36. You would be able to roster each of these at $1 above list price, at worst. In fact, for every player outside the top 36 that generates an auction call, that's one more elite player potentially available to you at market value.Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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Originally posted by TopChuckie View PostIn retrospect, I also think it's not quite as strategic as he would have you believe with this, "Budgeting decisions involve balancing draft roster value with FAAB availability." Considering I left myself with just $4 in FAAB after the draft and in the subsequent two weeks I won the bidding for all but 1 of the free agents I would have liked to add to my team, I'm concluding that you are far better off to spend big in the draft to obtain the elite talent. There will be easily attainable quality FA's available after the draft to fill any holes or strengthen your bench, plus they present better keeper possibilities. "There is a benefit to filling as many of your 40 slots as possible at the draft because the prices are potentially lower than FAABing." That is distinctly opposite of what I'm observing in our league.
Why? Because the FA pool is so deep that most of the time you can get the guys you want for under $5. And here's the important thing:
Unlike our "normal" leagues, you never run out of FAAB
You can just keep taking shots at people, and if it doesn't work out, you can drop them and get your money back. This is one of the things that attracted me to Roto500 - it's a fun idea.
I only drafted guys like a $17 Jason Bartlett at the end of the auction because I had cash left over, having used my toppers on 3 relatively cheap players. But if I didn't have cash left, I would have been happy to FAAB him for 3 bucks. Ron says:
Leaving the draft with a near-$500 roster gives zero flexibility for FAAB and forces the owner to start making early decisions on players and potentially aggressive cuts
True, cutting Jason Bartlett after 2 weeks IS aggressive. But so what? There are other fish in the sea because it's a 12-team mixed league.
Ron also says:
So we could take it another step forward. It might be interesting to allow unlimited bidding but reduce the cap to $400. That would truly force owners to approach the draft more tactically. Now who would be the most likely targets for auction calls? It would have to be only undervalued players, wouldn't it?
Let's ignore the unlimited auction part for a second and think about just cutting the cap to $400 and not changing anything else. I don't think cutting the cap to $400 would make the undervalued players get nominated. I do think it would make them more valuable in the 'draft' part. For example, the top "value" picks on my board were guys like $12 Cole Hamels, $12 Tommy Hanson, $11 Jay Bruce, $1 Cameron Maybin, etc. You'd probably see those guys going in the first 3-4 rounds and NOT getting called for auction. But you'd still see Pujols going for $80+. If you give a guy a shot at Pujols in a shallow league, he's going to take it.
If you made it an unlimited auction, that would just be a whole different animal. The only players NOT getting called out would be the guys who were OVERpriced. It would be a very different type of "draft" - not necessarily bad, but not the same thing at all.
It's definitely a good idea to look for ways to tweak things. I'm just not sure anyone knows the answers yet.
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maybe this has been covered already, but what's the proper way to cut players? I tried to add a couple players as releases (or the site called them "conditional releases") but they didn't get released. I was able to do it through the set lineup page; is that what we're supposed to do?
- MikeIn the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.
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Originally posted by mjl View Postmaybe this has been covered already, but what's the proper way to cut players? I tried to add a couple players as releases (or the site called them "conditional releases") but they didn't get released. I was able to do it through the set lineup page; is that what we're supposed to do?
- MikeSome people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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Originally posted by joncarlos View PostRight. And don't forget, this is an experiment for Ron as well. They may want to tweak some of the rules based on how things play out during the year.
Personally I think TC is right, one week of waivers at their real salary and then they have no minimum. I think that would be fair. But maybe OnRoto can set it up to honor the rules as they were written.
BuckyBuckner: prr EMeek Pit 1
BuckyBuckner: sal EMeek Pit 4
Your Florida Marvins: prr YMolina StL 1
Your Florida Marvins: sal YMolina StL 7Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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When you're looking at free agents, they have a 'salary' column. Most guys are listed as $0. Molina was listed as $7. If you check Jason Bartlett you'll see it say $17 right now.
I actually thought the way it worked was fine. But if you didn't have room for a $7 Molina that would be a problem.
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Originally posted by joncarlos View PostWhen you're looking at free agents, they have a 'salary' column. Most guys are listed as $0. Molina was listed as $7. If you check Jason Bartlett you'll see it say $17 right now.
I actually thought the way it worked was fine. But if you didn't have room for a $7 Molina that would be a problem.Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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Originally posted by Hawks Nest View PostStill can't set lineup after free agent acquisitions. TC or BB here is this weeks lineup:
Torrealba
Ramon Hernandez
Votto
C. Lee
Betemit
Andrus
F. Sanchez
Izturis
Bourn
Quentin
Damon
Bay
Boesch
Wells
Pitchers are already set!
ThanksSome people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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