The Fantasy Baseball War Room is back! I’m not saying the Fantasy Baseball War Room is back, as in, is a butt. So, if Sir Mix-A-Lot is reading, I’m truly sorry for the confusion. Our Fantasy Baseball War Room is one part draft tool, one part fantasy team evaluator, one part fantasy junkie’s s’s and g’s tool, one part holy, two parts smokes, three parts… How many parts is that so far? Cause it’s only really seven parts total. I think there’s one part kill-your-day-with-this-war-room-thing-a-maboob-as-a-pinwheel-spins in there too. Essentially, this helps you practice building a fantasy baseball team.
If you’re unfamiliar with our Fantasy Baseball War Room, it’s a draft tool to help you track where you are at any moment in a draft. It shows you if you have too many steals, homers… Or if your ERA or WHIP are too low. Or too high. Or if your lamb is still rare or should be turned (results vary on lamb). If you’ve already drafted a team, go into the War Room, enter your team and it shows you exactly how stacked/dreadful the team is. If you want to practice mocking for your Razzball Commenter League, do that too. (Fantrax waived $80 fees for us, so go join some Razzball Commenter Leagues!) If you’re in the middle of a draft, you can filter which guys are left that have the most home runs according to my projections. Or the most steals, or the most runs or the most whatever (only applicable if “Whatever” is a category in your league). If you’re in a bind, go into a Warm Room and take a shvitz. Ah…That’s better! There might be some bugs in our Fantasy Baseball War Room, just comment here and we’ll look into fixes. The default projections are mine from the 2018 fantasy baseball rankings. Also, Rudy’s projections are now up! They can be found at my ranking page that I just linked to or here: hitter projections and pitcher projections. There, you’ll see rankings for every conceivable league (OBP, OPS, Holds, etc). Anyway, here’s the step by step instructions on how to use the Fantasy Baseball War Room:
- Sign up. If you get a message that says your email is already in the system and you don’t remember the password, just use a new email or a made-up email. It doesn’t really matter. It says to email us to retrieve your password, but I have to be honest, I’m not retrieving shizz. Repeat, just make a New User and make up a fake email. We’re not emailing you anyway.
- Choose what kind of team you want to draft. How many catchers, outfielders, middle infielders, etc. ESPN and Yahoo are for position eligibility. It doesn’t mean you’re playing there. ESPN is 20 games started; Yahoo is 5 started and 10 games played. So that means ESPN and CBS are the same. Or wherever you play that uses 20 or 10 game eligibility.
- Now as you draft players, click Draft next to their name. If a player is eligible at more than one position, drop down the menu to the position you want them at. If you can’t find a player, search for them at the top. As Jeff Francoeur would say, voila! Or if you’re a Twins fan, Frank Voila!
- Get as close to the Totals as you can.
- Wanna start again? Delete the Team, by scrolling to the right of the player search at the top and a down arrow will appear. Click that, then click the pinwheel under ‘Taken” and delete team or sign out. We got pinwheels! Wanna throw your computer out the window from excitement? Go for it! For those that missed it in the first bullet point, if you forget your password, Create New User and make up a fake email. Do not email me.
- If you get this error page, then your shizz is broke and you need to buy a new computer. But, if you don’t want to buy a new computer, you should clear your cookies and start again. Likely what happened is you’re logged into the app still from an old version. Less likely, you still have the same internet cache from last year and haven’t cleared your cookies once in 12 months. I’m not judging, Cust kayin’.
Hi Grey,
I play with CI and MI. In the war room there isn’t the option to put 0 for 1B 2B SS 3B and P too.
Thanks
Ciwa
@Ciwa:
And ,sorry for the other question, how can i change my league settings if I create them wrong?
@Ciwa: Delete the team
@Ciwa: You don’t play with any 1B 2B SS 3B and P?
@Grey:
No,we played with 2CI and 2MI.
Pitching: 1 closer and 6 SP
How would you rank Hoskins/Pham/Rosario/Acuna for this year. Standard 10 category lg.
@True and Correct: There are rankings all over this site.
@Cram It: where?
@The Great Knoche: Click on Trump’s hair on the right of the page.
@Cram It: right next to the girl that broke the internet. Got it!
@The Great Knoche: I thought it was on the “do these celebrities actually exist?” article
@The Great Knoche:
The girl who broke the internet I dated in high school. Loved hot dogs
@Justin: All I got is Does smoking weed make you more creative and California is on fire-literally!
@True and Correct: [email protected]
@True and Correct: If they’re pitchers?
Thanks Grey + Rudy!
Grey, which side do you like in these two keeper trade offers I received for $18 Goldy?
$18 Goldy ($11 Devers to free agency bidding) or $21 Freeman and $16 Dozier
$18 Goldy (Devers to FA) or $21 Harper and $16 Dozier
Thanks.
@Duda Want to Build a Snowman?: Bryce
Duda, are you doing RCLs at all this year? Looking to fill a couple spots in the Frequent Commenter League. Let me know if you’d be interested.
@MattTruss: Thanks for the invite Truss – appreciate it! I always want to (never played against people who also follow the religion of Razzball), but admittedly spread thin between my 3 leagues preexisting leagues (and day job lawyering). The leagues are all with people I see pretty regularly who will not hesitate to trash talk to oblivion, so gotta stay at the top of them!
How many leagues do you typically do?
@MattTruss: Not sure if I qualify (lol) but I would not mind joining FCL, if you would have me?
Thanks for the War room Guys, always a good companion to my draft!
Hey Grey,
H2H 12-team cat. keeper (keep12) balanced stats (R,H,HR,RBI,SB,BB,AVG, OPS,XBH / W,CG,SV,K,GIDP,ERA,WHIP,QS)
Need to pick my 12 Keepers, so far have:
1B – Paul Goldschmidt
2B – Brian Dozier
3B – Nolan Arenado
SS – Xander Bogearts
Mi – Trea Turner
CI – Justin Turner
CF – Charlie Blackmon
BN – Christian Yelich
And I need to pick 4 from this list (minimum 3 pitcher, but might lean towards 4):
Andrew McCutchen, Ryan Braun, Sp – Carlos Carrasco, SP – Justin Verlander, BN – James Paxton, SP –Jose Quintana SP – Masahiro Tanaka, SP – Gerrit Cole, SP – Alex Wood
We used to be a 10-team but we are expanding to 12 teams so they will pick their 12 (24 in total) from what is left after all our keepers (ie I won’t have a shot any anyone in that list when it comes time for my 13th pick)
thanks in advance
@Marv: Thanks! Carlos Carrasco, SP – Justin Verlander, BN – James Paxton, SP –Jose Quintana — You Yelich as a bench bat?
@Grey: sorry, that was a mistype, he’ll be my util with Blackmon as my starting CF. thanks for the help bud!
No problem
Best Baseball article of the year came early in 2018.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2018/02/15/mets-manager-has-strong-feelings-on-dry-humping/amp/
@The Great Knoche: Mickey Callaway and Gabe Kapler seem like they could remake Night at the Roxbury
When I sign in, or create new log in, I don’t have the option of picking the format I want to play. Should I call the Geek Squad or have my 3 year old daughter show me how?
@Chris: I don’t know what you mean
@Chris: i am having the same issue
Peraza or Villar for bench depth speed?
@jon:
AVG also a factor but mainly speed
@jon: Per Grey’s projections, which can be found on this site: Peraza .286/30 and Villar….
@Cram It:
Peraza it is!! LOL
@jon: Peraza
So we just took our 14 team league to fantrax. What’s the deal with them not having a compare stats option on their trade page?
Has anyone else notice this? That belongs to fantrax
My league mates are kind of up in arms over it. Its a very trade heavy league and it makes it very hard.
Just trying to wrap my head around this
@Rcl league: I’m not sure
Just thought you’d like to know that I talked to FanTrax and they will be adding stats to the trade screen. Not sure if you’re on Twitter at all, but hitting them up with this feedback on Twitter or emailing them goes a long way. FanTrax is super responsive to feedback. I know it’s hard to get used to with years of dealing with ESPN and Y! feedback/IT departments but these guys want to make their product better for you. If there’s something you don’t like or a feature you don’t see, reach out to them.
Great! Thanks, Truss!
@Grey: There ya go! Email Fantrax to turn War Room into an app, and just sit back and collect the daiquiris!
Gonna push this to see how far it can go and email Fantrax to see if they can fix my cracked bathroom tile…
@Grey: Dear Fantrax, can you please chat online with my wife everyday after work so I can enjoy 15 minutes of peace and quiet when I walk in the door.
HAHA, Fantrax making marriages work!
@MattTruss:
I emailed them about it and I was told they hope to have it in the future. Wasnt really happy with that answer. Really open ended.
Site is cool and has some cool things, just thought a compare stats option for a trade page should be a very basic tool for every fantasy site.
Thanks for the feed back everyone.
I might email Fantrack to see if they can fix the slow car in the left lane issues.
@MattTruss: exactly, unlike espn/yahoo fantrax you can actually talk to a human about any issue.
hi guys – great war room tool. how do i change the goals i am trying to achieve (if i can). thanks!
@mharrah123: I don’t think you can change goals, sorry
Yall doing that fancy Excel War Room too this year?
@Buck: Someone is working on it. Grey, you can skip this. I’ll answer it the next few days.
@knucks: Haha
@knucks: woo hoo! so happy and relieved! thanks. i await it with breath that is baited.
OMFG war room is back already! This is literally the only thing I want to go into my drafts (lie: I use some other excel shizz I make up).
When do we get the Excel version? Is someone going to step up this year again?
@Peacecoast: Someone is working on it. Grey, you can skip this. I’ll answer it the next few days.
@knucks: Are you doing the Excel War Room?
@knucks: No I’m just watching you answer the question everyday, so I assumed you knew haha
If there is no one doing it, I can handle it. But it won’t be done until early March.
Nah, someone is doing it — Could use someone to put together the tier sheet
@Grey: I can prob work on that one, seems like it’ll take less effort. I’ll work on it over the weekend. I’ll try to have it out to Truss or Jay next week sometime.
Awesome! Thanks, knucks!
@Grey:
\\m// \\m//
Haha
@Grey: Fastest way will be Position Tabs in an Excel file with no stats. Any quibbles?
Sounds fine, don’t put stats in it
@knucks: Aight, so I’ve got the position tabs all set and listed by $ value. Just pulled the Grey’s rankings .csv from over on the Player Rater.
Finished the Catcher tab with the tiers in colors and with a hover over comment of the tier name. Will have this done a lot sooner than I thought. Back to “real” work for now. But it’ll be over to Jay/Truss by Sunday night.
Thanks, knucks!
@Grey: you guys totally hijacked my question thread
Sorry Peacecoast!
@Grey: This was actually an entertaining read! All this talk about *.csv and formatting is….tantalizing. But that excel from last year was the sheet. Glad you guys are doing that again
Haha
@knucks: Knucks – can you please send me a copy too, as it might save some time for me as I do up the Dashboard tab for the excel war room (which uses tiers too)
[email protected]
Thanks!
I hope you still have someone who is doing the excel war room as I find this tool absolutely amazing. I did some of my own tweaking to it to add each lineup and batting order based on Roster Resource so at the end of the auction draft or snake you can quickly pick guys who are going to start or who are in the starting rotation.
@AMolnar: Someone is working on it. Grey, you can skip this. I’ll answer it the next few days.
@knucks: I just snorted
@knucks: You are going to have your patience tested on this one, knucks
@Sweatpants Nation: I have had some serious practice with patience the past 3 weeks during an NFBC draft. I mean jesus, pick between Sogard or Torreyes already!!!! My god. We finally got this one dood to go on Auto and now everyone else is taking their sweet azz time with their 5th Catchers. I dunno that I’ll do another one of these. Can’t wait to attack the RCL though for the first time.
@knucks: ha ha. Sounds like fun.
@knucks: torreyes flys
Anybody care to take a stab at when they think ESPN will be up and running? The “maintenance” has hit two weeks now.
@Coors Canaveral: I recently heard on a Podcast that it will be on Tuesday. But that wasn’t confirmed and they didn’t say where they heard that.
@knucks: Haha
@knucks: This one was a legit fact based response. I just don’t want to give the name of the Pod because they are not very good and its embarrassing that I listen to it. It wasn’t CBS/ESPN or anything, it was industry based and I think they may have been drafting in LABR or some draft like that. But when the guy said it, it was sounding like he was being serious or new about it.
@knucks: *knew*
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but excel war room?
@Old School Brother: I don’t know anything about it, but maybe Knuck will have an answer.
@VinWins: Dying
@Grey: Wait. What? An excel war room. That sounds awesome.
Will someone be doing it?
@Grey: Knucks?
Son of Nyuck
@VinWins: lol
@Old School Brother: Unsure. You’ll have to wait for Grey for this one.
How can I help?
@Grey: I’m still waiting Grey… #TimesUp
Damn, you’re tough, OSB
Will the War Room ever be made into an App for purchase? 2019? Would love to see your rankings and info on something where we can track our teams and other teams real time stats.
@The Great Knoche: On Shark Tank they said they’re moving away from apps, rockets are the new app… And social justice….
@Grey: Cust Kayin. I love the war room, but the Rotowire app (BLASPHEMY!) is much better for doing drafts quickly and evaluating your team versus other teams on the fly. (Problem is their rankings and projections suck.)
Would gladly pay $20 for your rankings input into a similar live draft and auction format. Just think of all the daiquiris!
Honestly, apps are expensive to make (from research I’ve done), so not sure it’s gonna be around at any point… Though, I do enjoy frozen cocktails
Whats he best way to set the War Room up if our in a Head to Head Points lLeague?
@Christopher Coriell: Practice putting together a team? Doesn’t count points tho, unfortch
Is someone doing the Excel War Room?
@Grey: Aske knucks. He seems to know
I literally just created the idea of an Excel War Room in my head, there’s no way knucks knows
@Grey: You let it slip in Chapter 27 of Pigeons. Am I the only one reading between the lines there?
Ha! *looks both ways like shifty-eyed dog* Nothing to see here!
@Grey: I’m doing an expel war room but that’s to track all the places I’m not welcome
My bathroom is my Expel War Room
@Grey: dropping bombs like a B-24 bomber
My ass is Enola Gay this morning
@Grey: Mornings usually are Little Boy followed by Fat Man in the War Room aka John aka Little Boys Room
So, I saw Black Panther last night, and it actually held up to the hype…
@Grey: Me too. Ralphs kids called my phone at 3:45 this morning and thank goodness because I got up and destroyed that bathroom. And then went on another bombing run at 7:15. Im going to fast today
Any hoo! I saw Black Panther last night, and it actually held up to the hype…
@Grey: Poop talk should be restricted to one comment.
Black Panther looks good. I like some of the actors in it.
I don’t like superhero movies, was surprisingly great
@Grey: nah fuk dat, storyline didn’t suck?
Nah, I liked it a lot
I emailed Hot Rod, he’s the one that did last year’s. I let you know if and when I hear back from him.
Annnnd, he just got back to me with this: “Thanks, yes I am working on it right now and it should be up on the site within a couple weeks”
Thanks, Truss!
@MattTruss: Haha yea had read this convo a few days ago and this was the basis of my robo-responses.
@Grey: lmao
Corey Seager IS NITBSOHL. After going the rehab route for back (makes sense) and elbow (doesn’t make sense) he’s still not 100% with h his throws yet. Not saying not to draft him but if I was playing a league with deeper benches and drafting now I’d have some Insurance there until he shows he’s 100%.
Geez, he’s way too young to be this banged up still after five months off
@Grey: Its something to watch. It’s too early to pass judgement on him but I don’t like it. He didn’t look himself from August through the World Series. I wonder if all these Dodgers with back issues is because of all the traffic they sit in.
Haha, best theory I’ve heard… I don’t like Seager anyway, so won’t be owning him, but a 23 (?) year old struggling this long to get 100% is worrisome…
@Grey: The elbow is a tricky thing. He should have got it scraped or something. I fucked up my elbow shot putting in high school and after rehabbing it and taking care of it, it still sucks.
But you’re not a professional athlete, his job is to get healthy…And if he still can’t? That’s not good
@Grey: he’s a Kemp
Man, I hope not for his sake, talk about a guy whose candle burned out quick
@Grey: To be fair to Kemp’s stupidity. He had Dave Stewart as his agent. Would you want that guy advising you? Maybe if you wanted to know about tranny hookers and where to find them, but outside of that, I wouldn’t listen to him
Ha, so true… “Have I shown you how I broke a cedar plank with my foot?” “Um, Dave, can we talk about my contract?”
@BJFOHOHL: “Hey matt, when was the last time you got a blowjob from a man with a boob job?”
“Um never”
” Don’t lie kid, everyone does it”
“Know what I say? If it’s got nipples, it’s in play!”
He went to the Richard Pryor school of life
Dave Stewart likely humbled Walt Weiss.
Hey War, is someone going to knucks the Grey Room?
Knucks is, I believe, emailing War now, Room.
@Cram It: RCL Bots, is working on War Room excel sabotage. Confirmed.
RCL #1 is full again.
Thanks, Vin!
WTF is Yahoo doing listing Rizzo also as a second baseman?
Been like that since middle of last season
And it’s still beyond stupid
Oh yeah, makes no sense
Vargas on the Mets!
Mets just won the World Series, why bother playing out the season?
@Grey: He’ll get hurt before that. Ha ha
Ha, true
Middle of a snow dynasty draft. Missed out at 3B, so will have to pick between Corey’s bro and Eugenio.
Never been a big Seager fan (who is) and it’s an OBP league where Suarez had a .45 lead on him last year, plus he’s 4 years younger and entering his prime. But is boring consistent Kyle still the better choice? Also count TB where Seager was a bit better last year admittedly.
I could see going Eugenio
@Grey: Of course Senzel will be arriving soon. But he apparently played some MI last year which shows they like Eugenios bat/glove. And he himself could shift to an MI spot where he started out. So don’t think PT will be an issue.
Nope
@Grey: If theres any team you don’t have to worry about playing time its the Reds! Or the Padres, A’s, Royals, Chi Sox, Giants, and a bunch of other bad teams…so yeah like half MLB.
Yeah, not a ton of interesting prospects beating down door
Hey Grey do you know when the downloadable War Room will be available?
Week or two, my guess
so the war room is really just to track your team as your draft (real or mock)? Cool!
Can you have more than 1 team at a time? Sometimes you could be involved in 2 or more drafts at same time?
Thanks
How many drafts you doing at once? Haha… I think it only tracks one team at a time
10 team h2h points; Bryant ($10) or Stanton ($47)? $1000 cap
Bryant
I will be spending way too much time on this. Thank you, rudy!
It could just be my computer, but for Peraza it’s not showing a SB number of avg. Also noticed Zobrist is listed as hitting 47 HRs. That’d be great for the Cubs, but I don’t think it’s the projection we’re looking for.
@Jose:
*or average
Fixed
Oops, those are typos, let me fix…
@Grey:
Thanks for the help.
This being my first year doing RCL or ROTO either one, How am I trying to get to 90 saves?
Is that 2 solid closers and then SAGNOF in between streaming starters or am I carrying 3 closers and less SAGNOF. The points leagues I played in were hold leagues as well so closers weren’t as valuable anyway.
I guess just look for value from the rankings to ADP would be the simple answer?
110-120-ish is nice… Figure 2 full-time get you 80, then piecemeal a third…
Sounds like a plan
Thanks
No problem
Altered Carbon? you might hate it. I read the books and loved them. Show is good to but dunno if you are into sci-fi. I like it. Kinda hard to follow, esp if you didn’t read the books. Not thrilled about the lead, they chose to Republican dude running for pres from HoC.
Not usually into sci-fi, but that shows on my list to watch… You know what’s good? Gomarrah on Netflix, it’s subtitled tho
@Grey: aight
Aw, man, that sounds like a mad aight…What’s the matter, Peacecoast?
@Grey: naw man I say aight like a thousand times a day. And I’m a mid 40’s dude with an MD. aight?
Aight!
that way looks kinda gay (but that’s ok my man)
@Peacecoast: aw man now you’re mad
Haha
@Grey: I liked Altered Carbon. Was lost a few times. My brother canceled it after 1 episode, though.
Cougs wants to watch, we prolly will at some point… You should check out Gomarrah (subtitled, tho)
With the humidor news Grey has upped __rounds for their pitchers in his rankings and docked hitters by__ rounds?
Give me some Godley and Skywalker now please drafts!
It was always going to happen
With the humidor news Grey has upped __rounds for their pitchers in his rankings and docked hitters by__ rounds?
Give me some Godley and Skywalker now please drafts!
It was always going to happen
Need some help from our savior, Grey, Fantasy Master Lothario. 5×5 roto, keep up to 11 forever, supplemental draft after keepers declared in order of finish from previous season so everyone has 11 players, then we auction the leftovers. Finished 9th last year so can wait and see how many players and who the top 8 from last season keep if that impacts decision.
No brainers: Goldy, Arenado, Bregman, Schoop, B. Hamilton, Acuna, Bumgarner.
Keep K. Davis and / or Segura? Nobody else really to debate keeping
Tough call, I’d likely go Segura
@Grey: Yeah, I’ve been wavering on both of them. The top couple teams will have to throw a couple quality players back, at least around the level of Segura and Davis, but the people behind me have some bad teams, so they can keep less than me anyways so I won’t get a chance to get those guys. Thanks!
Davis’s downside worries me a bit more than Segura, who feels a bit safer, if a tad more boring
@Grey: Makes sense. I also doubt these rebuilding teams at the bottom will grab Davis before I could take him back if I wanted to anyways, because we’re probably getting 1-2 more quality years from Davis max.
Yeah, totally
Grey, I need you…
Which three of the following would you keep…the number in parentheticals indicates the draft pick I’d have to give up to keep the dude (and K’s is a stat in this roto league):
Kris Bryant (3rd); George Springer (1st…and I have first overall pick); Aaron Judge (24th); Carlos Martinez (23rd); Wilson Contreras (5th); Marcell Ozuna (7th); Javier Baez (5th); Billy Hamilton (6th).
I’m personally thinking Kris Bryant, Aaron Judge and Carlos Martinez. I don’t mind Springer, but not for a 1st round pick. Personally. But thus why I’m asking the Man.
I wish I could get Treat Urner, though.
Sorry, I had to revise something. Carlos Martinez is not a viable keeper. I’d have to give up a 2nd rounder. So fax that jazz. Now my third keeper eats turds.
@Phil Up Your Crevice: Hamilton in 6, then the rest of your draft you don’t worry about speed except for a few guys.
Bryant, Judge, C-Mart
Then Ozuna
@Phil Up Your Crevice: With the first overall pick you essentially have 4 keepers, if you want….gnaw mean? Not sure how many teams but will there likely be someone better than, let’s say, Bryant to snag with your 1st pick?
@FuzzyD: I’d prob keep Judge, Ozuna and Hamilton..then pick up Bryant with first pick…
Just got offered Harper for Severino and Moncada in keeper forever dynasty. I think its too high an asking price even with the unknowns…what do you all think?
I’d take Harper
Keeper league question — as opposed to an excel question:
12 team H2H– Trying to decide on prospects
Please Pick two of the following :
Acuna Round 16
Albies Round 18
Happ Round 19
Moncada Round 22
Moncada, Acuna
@Grey: Thanks for the input. I was thinking of Happ over Moncada, but maybe Moncada potential just too much to ignore. I just don’t want to get Rusney Castillo’d again.
I’d go Moncada, but they’re close
The War Room looks awesome, but I’m afraid there are still a few bugs to work out. Tim Anderson is projected to outperform Tommy Pham, for example.
Did you see the Parra news? Bump Dahl up your draft board (even if the Rockies do give CarGo that one year deal now).
Yeah, saw the Parra news, sounds like he’s gonna be back with a few weeks of the spring to spare…
@Grey: That’s what he claims. Pablo Sandoval missed roughly seven weeks in 2011 after having his removed. Other players have missed around a month, but usually experience a dip in power upon returning.
Yeah, I wouldn’t touch Parra, but maybe he can get back by mid-March
@Big Magoo: Not knowing what got removed I’m going to guess a portion of the stomach?
@BJFOHOHL: He had a hamate bone removed. It doesn’t appear as though the parade of ham bones going in and out of his hands has ever been removed.
@Big Magoo: They probably removed his so he would stop trying to eat his hand
Q: Will there be an excel war room?
A: Yes, I am personally working on it now. Out within a couple weeks…
=end=
Haha, thanks!
Grey,
Do you see any value in doing a tier system all the way through the Top 100? I like how the top 20 are tiered, regardless of position. And I realize that the positions are all tiered, so I guess I could spit-ball the entire list based off of that.
Anyway, thanks for all the mustache.
Nevemind, I don’t think I could do it myself. For example Correa (23) is in the same SS tier as Bogaerts (88).
Okay, thanks!
Hey Grey,
Keepers are due Sunday.
Wondered if you’d give me your take on my keepers in a 12 team H2H 5X5 league(keep 10). So far my sure things are ARENADO, C.SEAGER, B.DOZIER, M.OZUNA, R.ACUNA, M.BUMGARNER
The next 4 are much tougher. I have crazy depth. Wish it was a dynasty.
L.CAIN
N.MAZARA
M.CONFORTO
M.CABRERA
J.SMOAK
AJ POLLOCK
J.PAXTON
A.CHAPMAN
MCCULLERS
G.COLE
K.GILES
F.RIVERO
D.SALAZAR
J.TAILLON
Z.GODLEY
What do you think?
Pollock, Mazara, Aroldis, Paxton
My 2 cents. You need a 1bm so either Miggy or Smoak, throw one back and see what’s in your draft. You have a floor and upside outfielder already so depending on how you feel I wouldn’t take both Cain and Pollack, maybe one of them and Mazara and Conforto for their upside probably Mazara as Conforto is hurt, Salazar is already hurt, so go with Grey’s rankings for another SP, and Chapman if you want a closer. You will have a chance to get a couple of your guys back plus whoever other guys threw back.
not sure if i’ve seen it on this site but does anyone know how to calculate rounds to dollars? my league is moving to a keeper league where the round the player was selected at becomes their price. I want to be able to figure out surplus value by translating their round to an auction dollar maount
You mean this? Auction Values: https://razzball.com/playerrater-preseason-espnmlb12/
@Grey: not quite. Im looking for what a 5th round pick would be worth, say on average $15, and then the value the player i have is at, say $20, to give me a $5 surplus. i just dont know how much each round is worth money wise to compare those auction values to.
Just look at where a fifth rounder is on my top 500, and what his price is… My auction values https://razzball.com/top-500-for-2018-fantasy-baseball/ are meted out at a 68/32 hitter/pitcher percentage
Hi Grey,
Head to head, 16 team, keep 6. My current keeps are Freeman, Bogaerts, Yelich, Machado, Sale and O. Herrera. I was offered C. Seager and D Gordon for Sale and Bogaerts. Make the deal or hold? Thanks in advance.
Sounds decent for you
12 team 6×6 roto with QS and OPS. Can keep 10 guys. Was offered $29 Dee Gordon for my $7 Devers. U like this? Could really use the speed…. here’s the rest of my keepers. Thanks Grey!
Freeman $26
Arenado $40
Correa $24
Springer $22
Devers $7
Ray $7
Castillo $3
Bell $4
Khris $14
Knebel $6
Hold
@Grey:
Ok he offered $29 Dee + $5 auction bucks for my Knebel ($6) + Josh Bell ($4). U like that one better?
That would free up room for me to keep $5 Taillon or $2 Giolito. Either of those keepers sound good?
Thanks!
Yeah, that’s better… Taillon
Grey how much more if any would you put on drafting bats vs. SP’s in a 6×5 league? The extra cat is OPS and we count net wins vs. whip. 12 teams two at each position, 15 bats and 10 pitchers.
The SP’s have K’s and ERA but the wins and net wins are hard to figure, so it’s 6 cats for the hitters, 4 for SP’s and 1 basically for closers.
2. Are you coming out this week with your pairings post, the one where you draft a guy then take this guy with him?
We have OPS rankings: https://razzball.com/playerrater-preseason-espnmlb12-6X6OPS
I wouldn’t really change much tho, boost power guys about a round, maybe… 2. Yeah, maybe mid-week
16 team dynasty. active rosters are max 28, prospect list max 7. roto. i won this last year but some draft picks (last year was 1st year) weren’t looking good at this point. we’ll do a prospect draft then later a regular online one which is really just preseason waivers. stats are a lot
hitters: 5×5 stuff minus AVG with these added: slugging, OBP, OPS, hits, total bases, steals %
pitchers: 5×5 stuff plus holds, K/BB, K/9 (can’t do K% in yahoo), QS, net saves. 1750 max innings.
roster:
C zunino (was streaming him and others for a while, ended on good chair if duck duck goose)
1B swiggy
2B jose ram (3B)
3B longo
SS semien
MI solarte party (2B/3B/SS)
CI r-zimm
LF mancini (1B)
CF kiermaier
RF mookie
OF jew don (RF)
OF brocktune (LF/RF)
util hanram
util d.travis
BN mcmahon (could be moved down of course), bader (same, we have 2 NA slots in addition to prospect list during season, but cannot add new players other than trades to prosepect lists, can send down guys though if they were called up earlier), mini donkey, d.fisher (LF/RF)
SP (5 starters with 1 P slot): wood, cueto, grin and lamet, hamels, morton, peacock, rodon the monster, mccarthy
RP (5 slots) kimbrel, knebel, rivero, neris, morrow, yates (hells yeah this had to be my best drafted RP league last year)
prospect list: i.diaz MIA, c.stewart, meadows, a.reyes (has to be called up very soon into season), k.lewis, collins, fedde
have to drop at least 4 guys from active roster. mcmahon/bader could be sent down. easy drops are yates (although i’d be all closer no holds guys, but that seems like an easy thing to trade out of), mini donkey, mccarthy, but who’s the 4th? only useful SP in FA for online draft would be maeda/richards, but i doubt with pick 16 (even if i drop somebody) i’d get either.
2. also (probably more for ralph only) i draft 16th in odd prospect rounds, 1st in evens; who’s best guys to drop from that (i’ll later find all the available names from your top 100 prospects)
@Mobin Can’t Hack It: have max DL slots for yahoo (5)
1. Fisher or Bader, see what happens in the spring 2. I don’t follow
@Grey: 2 is probably easily answered by listing who’s available in ralph’s top prospect 100 vs my guys. i’ll get around to that one. trying to trade from my list of closers (gotta be best bullpen in the league, for saves anyway) for some mix of SS/MI (whether prospect or active) or holds guys. possibly closer for holds guy + prospect draft grade pick upgrade.
@Mobin Can’t Hack It: imagine how much better that team would be if:
1. i took freeman over swiggy last year (damn over trusting current last year’s OPS rater over long term value)
2. stanton over cueto (SP run, already had a RF mookie, if i didn’t grab cueto there there was a huge dropoff for SP #1 by my next pick). clearly even with hamels falling off getting wood/morton/peacock was a big deal.
Damn!
@Grey: of course IF i had gone stanton over cueto i would’ve have grabbed jd mart at his discounted price later, i certainly wouldn’t have needed 3 RF’ers. rather than cueto i probably would’ve had one of these as my ace SP last year exiting draft: carrasco or carmart (yikes that looks worse now, trusted the QS rater). also went cueto when strasburg was around (injury risk)
@Mobin Can’t Hack It: wait, i had that wrong, if i take stanton, then i go carrasco (i miss brocktune at that pick) but could’ve gotten b.hamilton where i got jd mart
so it’d be
1B freeman (not miggy)
OF stanton (not jd mart)
SP #1, carrasco or carmart (not cueto)
speed OF: b.hamilton (not brocktune)
ugggg, learning hurts.
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For those people browsing here on Saturday night, I’m excited about this year’s excel war room…**coming soon**
Last year I added live ranking based on custom league scoring…this is back again for 2018.
*New for 2018*: addressing some feature requests from last year, tonight I just added sort columns to rank hitters by projected OPB, SLG, and OPS. This should give an edge in those leagues.
All featuring data (translating to rankings) that is live-updated from the steamer data here on Razz…
Still need to update the dashboard tab, and fix formatting glitches that crop up every year with the annual updates, before Version 1 gets published. Stay tuned!
@Hot Rod: Thanks!
Thanks, Hot Rod!
Any chance a future version and rankings can accomodate 20-team leagues?
Not this year
@Rich: actually, yes – I made this work so that the Excel war room can handle up to 25 teams.
Most of the functionality was there before except the key rankings section on the War Room tab, so with that fixed in my soon to be released 2018 version, it looks to be is okay for up to 25 now.
HosPadre
About time
Hosmer to padres. Puts Myers in the outfield.. does his rank move?
Will go over tomorrow
Just emailed Jay the Tiers spreadsheet a min ago.
Had a few questions about some of the names in the top 500 vs. the rankings write-ups that you might want to check out before you post it. I tried to update some of the stuff you’ve updated after yesterday’s moves. And figure everyone using this sheet can just update as guys sign/get traded or whatever. Maybe I’ll update it in a few weeks with any changes you make. Catch up tomorrow about it.
Thanks, Knucks! I’ll take a look at it
@Grey:
I’ve got a rudimentary version with most of the functionality from last year’s spreadsheet. The dashboard sheet could easily be swapped out for a more aesthetic one.
Happy to share if put into contact with the others (would rather not post my email publicly)
We have someone doing it, will be up on Monday
When/if will it be downloadable?