Thursday, March 18, 2010

ROTISSERIE - IT'S NOT JUST FOR KENNY ROGERS ANYMORE: All twelve league owners from last year's A League With Thrown Baseballs II have opted to return, but in the interests of increased competition and bonhomie we've decided to expand it anyway to include up to 16 teams in our 5x5, head to head format. Details are as follows:
Draft: ESPN, live, Thursday April 1, 2010, 9pm EDT
Format: Weekly head-to-head matchups, one point for win in each category.
Scoring Categories: 5x5 -- OBP, HR, RBI, R, SB // W, K, SV, ERA, WHIP. Owners must have a minimum 5 GS weekly to qualify for points.
Please let us know if you're interested and we will arbitrarily decide who we can accommodate.

Previous champions: Dan Fienberg (2008), J. Bowman (2009).

15 comments:

  1. Dan Suitor1:47 AM

    I love to give it a whirl, but I already competed valiantly in the ALOTT5MA Fantasy Football league this past season. I wouldn't want to deprive someone else the chance to play in a league with you guys, so if there's room I'd love to get in, but not at someone elses expense.

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  2. Fred App8:15 AM

    I wish I could join you, but I haven't been in a Rotisserie League in about six years, and can't tell you anymore whether the Colorado Rockies' third-string shortstop is a better base-stealer than the Chicago Cubs' fifth outfielder, so I'm afraid I'd be as awful as ... well, as I am in my NCAA tournament pool this year.

    But I did appreciate the reference to Kenny Rogers' restaurant, which reminds me of a certain Seinfeld episode. And in a world where the generic term "fantasy baseball league" predominates, I also appreciate the shout out to the original fantasy league.

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  3. ChinMusic8:56 AM

    My bracket was busted by 3:00 yesterday, so I'm ready to move on to the next thing.  If there is a spot, I'd love to try my hand throwing baseballs with you guys/gals.

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  4. Andrew9:55 AM

    If there's a slot for me, I'm in -- even if the league's season lasts longer than the Mets decide to give competing a shot. 

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  5. That's three.  Room for one more, and we can't do an odd number here.

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  6. isaac_spaceman11:31 AM

    I've always thought it would be too hard to do a fantasy baseball team, but now that I see the stats you use -- some of them I won't even acknowledge as a matter of principle. 

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  7. Fred App12:08 PM

    My first Rotisserie League team, I was so proud that I snagged Nolan Ryan (shows you how long ago that was) because I thought he'd help me clinch the strikeout category. Alas, my fellow owners quickly pointed out that there was no strikeout category in our league.

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  8. There are leagues which only use OBP, SLG, HR and SB for offensive categories.

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  9. ChinMusic12:58 PM

    <span>We could use jersey numbers and miles traveled during the season and it wouldn't matter so long as we all knew ahead of time.  Traditional stats, which admittedly are not a great indicator of success in actual baseball games, work well as the measuring sticks in fantasy baseball because they are widely reported, easy to understand and predictable enough so as to impart some strategy to the game.  Also, counting stats (generally the traditional stats) work better than rate stats (generally the newer stats) for fantasy baseball purposes because there are no minimum plate appearances in a week/month/season.</span>

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  10. isaac_spaceman3:10 PM

    I agree completely, but I just wouldn't want to undertake an extracurricular activity that made me care about wins, ERA, RBI, etc.

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  11. Dan Suitor3:57 PM

    I'm as big a stat dork as anyone out there (just take a look at the simple spreadsheet I made for the ALOTT5MA FFB league), and I still love fantasy baseball. It gives you the chance to use all those big mean numbers that all those sportwriters keep complaining about to beat your less enlightened friends. You can use advanced stats like WPA or FIP to identify undervalued players, or simpler ones like GB/FB or BABIP to get a reading on a player's luck or the causation behind their sudden rise or drop in production.

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  12. Okay, so we have three in.  Is there a fourth?

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  13. ChinMusic12:38 PM

    Looks like we would be stuck with an uneven number.  I will back out to even things back up. 

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  14. no, I'll resolicit.

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  15. Chris9:25 AM

    Think I've only posted once or twice but love the site and I too am a fantasy geek and would like to play if you still have the spot.

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