2k22 All Free Agent Team

[joncarlos]

Has anyone gotten their team started yet? Interesting development this year as Yahoo has switched to FAAB instead of first-come, first-serve. It seems to run every night and you can bid $0. Wonder how this will impact our free agent adventures.

(For those who didn't play last year, the idea is basically to join a standard free Yahoo league, put a bunch of truly awful players on your draft list, and then build a team completely from free agents. We had some owners win their leagues last year... here's the thread: http://forum.rotojunkiefix.com/showt...e-Agent-League )

I've got my team started, will list them in the next post. It would appear that my team finished 4th last year.

[joncarlos]

Here's what I have to start. Saves are going to be tough, but it's early. I might have too many stashes but I want to wait and see how far away the prospects are.

C - Francisco Mejia
1B -Mark Canha
2B - Kolten Wong
3B - Renato Nunez
SS - Nick Ahmed
OF - Choo, Justin Upto, Kyle Tucker
UT - Nick Solak (2B/3B in Yahoo), Brandon Lowe (1B/2B/OF in Yahoo)
Bench - Jo Adell, Puig, Brett Gardner

SP - Andrew Heaney, Garrett Richards, Jose Urquidy, Josh James, Yonny Chirinos, Mitch Keller, Michael Kopech
RP - Hunter Harvey, Jose Alvarado, Aaron Bummer

[swampdragon]

thanks for the reminder

time to grab that team of wretchedness to start - then swap them all

[madducks]

Private Yahoo leagues still have the option to use waiver only instead of the new FAAB/waiver hybrid. But, i think Yahoo is trying to curb excessive streaming in their public and pro leagues. I was in a pro league that had a team make over 700 moves last year! The guy finished 10th so it obviously doesn't work. But, it was annoying to always have a large percentage of the top free agents not immediately available until they passed through the 2 day waiver period.

[TranaGreg]

yeah, thanks, I was thinking about this yesterday ... need to get my team set up ...

[TranaGreg]

well, not sure if this team will ever take the field but here's what I'm starting with; I loaded up on SP, we'll see who gets off to a decent start ...

C - C Kelly
1B - J Votto
2B - J Schoop
SS - D Swanson
3B - S Castro
OF - T Grisham, K Calhoun, D Santana
UT - J Dyson, T Hernandez

SP - G Marquez, G Richards, C Smith, J Musgrove, J James, L Weaver, L McCullers, J Gray
RP - D Hudson, T Buttrey, J Alvarado, D Betances, S Barlow

[BuckyBuckner]

I drafted my team. I must've messed up my rankings because my team drafted Carlos Santana, Choo and Foltynewicz. I figure they are close enough to waiver wire fodder that I'm gonna leave them on my team. Well, maybe not Santana but it's close enough. I still have two more scrubs that I was unable to replace on the first go around.

Here's my team

C - Narvaez
1B/3B - Santana, Walker, CJ Cron, Diaz
2B/SS - Galvis, C Hernandez, Castro
OF - Choo, Renfroe, Gardner, Adell

SP - Folty, Kopech, Keller, Richards, DeSclafani, Matz, Jon Gray

[TranaGreg]

I drafted my team. I must've messed up my rankings because my team drafted Carlos Santana, Choo and Foltynewicz. I figure they are close enough to waiver wire fodder that I'm gonna leave them on my team. Well, maybe not Santana but it's close enough. I still have two more scrubs that I was unable to replace on the first go around.

Here's my team

C - Narvaez
1B/3B - Santana, Walker, CJ Cron, Diaz
2B/SS - Galvis, C Hernandez, Castro
OF - Choo, Renfroe, Gardner, Adell

SP - Folty, Kopech, Keller, Richards, DeSclafani, Matz, Jon Gray

you realize if you win we'll have to put an * beside your name on the trophy

[BuckyBuckner]

you realize if you win we'll have to put an * beside your name on the trophy

Yeah, I can live with that. I've already won it before.

[TranaGreg]

Yeah, I can live with that. I've already won* it before.

fixed.

[BuckyBuckner]

fixed.

Ouch. My previous title is legit! LEGIT!!!!

[nullnor]

oh man, i guess i'll do this again this year. i did terrible last year. the game has just changed with all the home runs. i have one real team this year and again i went pitching as i think it's much harder to find now.

but the way things are now, it seems much harder.

[nullnor]

Lovelady is still my first pick. hehe...Quackenbush is good too.

what screwed me last year was i did it at the last minute and missed the game in japan. and the season started early. so i couldn't build a team since you could only make 6 moves a week and i missed the H2H playoffs. took me 4 weeks to just make a team.

i don't like FAAB. i like seeing people making moves and don't like having to wait until the next day to see people making action. i log on and want to see who did what that day, that moment.

the way it is now, there's no action during the day. there's no reason to check the league until the next day.

[joncarlos]

Possibly relevant:

https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/building-a-team-after-pick-300/

[virgonomic]

Got in on this to cure boredom. WW looked very thin outside of Dee Gordon, Stripling and Givens/Harvey.