[The Jewish Cunthead]

Yahoo is starting back up on 2/15. I know we don't need to secure a live draft day but it's always fun checking out the rankings or any other tweaks they've added.

[Lucky]

Yeah, TSN is starting then too. That appears to be the day. I'm guessing TSN will release their Draft Kit about the same time.

By the way, I'm currently very content with the $15 I spent to join TSN's site. Found myself a new set or prospect rankings. Lots of good rankings and great reports. An awesome news updating service. I can set multiple lists to watch different players so I think I'm just going to use TSN to watch all my teams for any news. Pitching probables and matchups. And great articles.

I participated in my first ever Mock Draft this afternoon. Kind of fun because I did things I never do. Didn't draft a SP until the 6th round. Ended up with A-Rod, Manny, Hanley, BJ Ryan, and McCann in the 1st 5 and then got Halladay, Peavy, Young, and Cain from the 6th-10th. Don't think I'll work that way for real but it was fun to play around with drafting approach. Think I'll do it some more.

A Player Analyzer that I think will come in handy come draft time.

I'm guessing this will work as a Stat Tracker too so its basically the $10 you'd spend at Yahoo. Something says Customized Real Time Stats.

AWESOME! STAT SPLITS!

I'm very happy with my investment.

[Lucky]

Incidently, I can't believe how lame it will be that I'm going to spend all night Valentine's Day sitting at a computer going crazy over the start of Fantasy Baseball the next day. I need a woman.

[Pun]

Lucky, is that $15 a month, or a one time fee?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

luckylopez said:

Ended up with A-Rod, Manny, Hanley, BJ Ryan, and McCann in the 1st 5 and then got Halladay, Peavy, Young, and Cain from the 6th-10th.

Wow I wouldn't think Halladay would last until the 6th. Was this the league tills was talking about?

[Lucky]

Yeah, it was just a bad group of folks. I guess you take that chance with mock draft and annonymous users.

Pun, it was $15 for a year. The price breakdown goes $5 a month, $20 a year. If you get a year's subscription of the magazine (60 issues) you can get a year to the website for $15. Since I was planning on subscribing anyway after letting my subscription run out a few months back I just decided to spend the extra money for the site.

fantasysource.sportingnews.com/baseball/promo.html

So I actually spent $35. But I was spending that $20 on the magazine anyway.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Aaaaand here's the obligatory "you spend all that to finish in 2nd?" question ;D

[Lucky]

THIS YEAR I WIN A LEAGUE!

Not necessarily this league. I just want to FINALLY win one of the 47 leagues I join. In fact, I think I'll start a league with a bunch of stupid people just so I can win it. Maybe a league of girls who don't watch baseball.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

luckylopez said:

In fact, I think I'll start a league with a bunch of stupid people just so I can win it.

That worked for me two years ago but AA had to ruin it last year.

[Lucky]

Yeah, you were making a real nice run at 3rd there until AA got in the way. Bastard really robbed you.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

If I had gotten any kind of consistency from Johnson and/or Willis, I would have won.

[Batman]

luckylopez said:

Maybe a league of girls who don't watch baseball.

GET SOME, LUCKY!

[Lucky]

Hey, baby. Wanna make my league a REAL fantasy league?

Wanna look at my splits? I stayed up all night calculating them.

So, whatca' doing after the draft? Wanna meet in person?

[Attitude Adjuster]

Hey! I do lurk around here sometimes!

And once it becomes spring, I'll start smack talking about repeating. Doesn't it kill you guys that you get beat by someone who plans for this maybe two weeks in advance?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

It really doesn't bother me... you're almost 50 and you could use the dough.

[Lucky]

We're happy at Yahoo, right? Killing time so I signed up a league at Fox Sports. Seems to be the same basic thing except I see two potential advantanges. (1) We can break the league into divisions if we'd like, although I don't know if we'd like to. I'm considering this idea for the usual 20 team league over at OO though. (2) I think it gives live scoring and results free, as opposed to the fee Yahoo charges.

I don't know. I tossed it together. Check it out if you like. If we don't want it might recycle it for another league.

msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/baseball/
League Name OO Keeper
League Password onslaught
League ID 25137

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I like it. It looks a lot, I dunno, cleaner than Yahoo? And call me crazy but I like the idea of divisions.

[Pun]

Fuck! I got stuck in Solly's division???

Seriously, I like this one. Are the live results and stats free all season, because Yahoo has the same thing for free the first two weeks. Then they start charging.

[Pun]

The message board at Fox Sports supports HTML, too. That is going to be interesting for the guys like Solly and me who know some HTML code.

[Mikey]

admin said:

Fuck! I got stuck in Solly's division???

Fuck! I got stuck in Lucky's division???

I LOVE the division idea though. And I like the look of FOX's layout. EXALT!

[Lucky]

I have no idea if the stats are free all season. But the writeup of the league when I was signing up seemed to say they were. My guess is Fox is trying to lure over users from the popular Yahoo leagues by offering the most coveted option that they charge for. But I'm not sure. I'm tempted to force a quick draft just so we can see the league in full affect. Or at least as much as we can before the season starts.

Ohh, 4 guys. That means I can play with the divisions now.

[Lucky]

Huh, how about that. I didn't think the division thing would be as exciting as it appears to me.

Let me to do things first? 1) I got to check it out on my Mac to make sure it runs fine. I notice a lot of popups and fancy stuff and sometimes my decade old computer has coniptions with that.

2) Mind if we write this league off as a dummy league? I want to do a quick draft just to get a feel for what the roster, matchups, standings, all that look like. I figure the 4 of us (or anyone else who sneaks in) can play around and make sure we like it before we make the full move.

Then as long as we like it and everyone's good I'll just start a new league for real.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

It supports HTML? Sweet. How do the divisions work? Are there wild cards or do the top 6 advance to the playoffs regardless of division? My only request is to keep the Mets fans and Phillies fan in the same division.

[Lucky]

Commish Settings has a Playoff Settings: "Equal Number of Teams from each division: Yes/No" question. So I figure we can make a call on that one.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Great... another thing to vote on ;D