Play free fantasy baseball with other FReepers!

Sideshow Bob and Yahoo.com ^ | February 23, 2002 | Sideshow Bob

[Sideshow Bob]

Play free fantasy baseball with other FReepers!

Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball, a free game that gives you the chance to manage your own team of professional baseball players from opening day right through the late season pennant races. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every day, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team.

2002 marks the third season of Freeper Fantasy Baseball. Last year, we switched from a traditional 5x5 roto league to 5x5 weekly head-to-head competition.

Each week your team will square off in a matchup against another manager to see who can compile the best stats across the basic 5x5 roto categories. Each stat category counts as one game, with the win going to the team with the highest total in that category.

So, if in a given week, your team hits more home runs then your opponent's, you would be credited with a victory. But, if your opponent's team ended the week with more saves then your team, you would be charged with a loss. If the two teams end up tied in a given category, each will receive credit for a tied game.

This weekly win-loss total will be added to a cumulative season record, which will be used to determine standings. Since each week is essentially a mini-game vs. another FReeper, this head-to-head scoring format will make it more interesting for all teams, all season long regardless of your position in the standings.

The FReeper League will again feature a live online draft, where each manager selects a squad in real time with other managers. Every manager selects one player per round until their roster is full. The draft order reverses each round, so the manager that starts the first round will end the second, and the manager that ends the first round will start the second.

You'll need a Java-enabled browser in order to participate. Yahoo recommends Netscape or Internet Explorer version 3.0 or higher. If you won't be present for the entire draft, go to your team page and pre-rank players. Your pre-ranked players will be used if you can't make a selection at any time during the live draft. If you choose not to pre-rank, Yahoo's default ratings will be used when you can't make a selection.

Please arrive 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled time listed below as the draft will start promptly and may go rapidly if only a few managers are logged in.

For more information, consult the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Rules.

All you need to play is a Yahoo! ID, so get yours now and step up to the plate. To play go to the Yahoo Fantasy Games Page at:

http://standard.baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

Here are the league details:

League ID#: 20428
Password: jimrob

League ID# and password are required to gain access to Freeper League.

Draft Type: Live
Exact Draft Time: Monday, March 11 at 7:15 PM PT
Maximum Number of Teams: 20
Maximum Players on a Team: 23
Player Universe: All baseball
Maximum Moves: No maximum
Maximum Trades: No maximum
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head League
Waiver Time: 1 day
Last Trade Date: Wednesday, August 28
Trade Reject Time: 0 days
Minimum Innings per Week: 10
Roster Changes: Daily
Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, 5 OF, CI, MI, Util, 5 SP, 4 RP, Bench, 3 DL

If you have any questions, please email me at:

sssbobs@yahoo.com

[Sideshow Bob]

Thanks for bumping and keeping the thread alive while I was away this weekend.

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Hurry, just one spot left!!!

[Sideshow Bob]

Welcome back.

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Hurry, just one spot left!

[Dales]

Not sure, but I think the last slot was just filled by a disruptor type. Yahoo id of "dizzymojo" (mojo is the name of an AFer), chose a team name of "Choose Death".

[MOMinTN]

My husband signed up last night. He is a lurker here. (I hardly ever post myself. I prefer reading everyone else's posts. Everybody else says what I think anyway and says it much better than I) We both love reading on FR. He's at work now but can't wait to get started with the fantasy league. I think his team name is Bigtime Cubs. His name is Dave and he's a really nice guy. I hope y'all have a lot of fun with your league and good luck to you all. PS -- We hope it's OK to join the league if you are only a lurker on FR.

[Sideshow Bob]

Thanks for the heads-up.

He will be booted.

Still one spot left for any "real" FReeper.

[E Rocc]

I'm in as Injun Attack.

-Eric

[Sideshow Bob]

What a politically incorrect name.

Wunnerful.

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OK, the FReeper League is now full for 2002. A big thank you to all those who helped to bump this thread the last few days.

Sorry if you weren't able to get in this year. Please send me a FReep mail or email (sssbobs@yahoo.com) to be included for FReeper Fantasy Football in Fall 2002 or for an invite to FReeper Baseball in 2003.

[Dales]

Absolutely!

[MOMinTN]

Excellent!

[AGreatPer]

"He will be booted"

Good for you. Good find and heads up Dales. Tell mojo to go back to lucy.

Looking forward to the season. Now, "Who's on First".

[NYCVirago]

Earlier in the evening, I changed my team name from "Curse of the Bambino" to the "Fox All-Stars." In an effort to see which freepers signed up, I started looking at the Yahoo IDs listed by each team name, but then it occured to me that not everybody may have a Yahoo ID that's the same as their freeper ID. Anyhow, it leaves me all thoroughly confused. And this got me to thinking -- can we set up a scorecard, consisting of a post either here or at Yahoo, to list which team belongs to which freeper? I'd like to know whom to trash talk when I start moving up in the standings! ;)

One other thing -- is the "A" in your team name a tribute to Olympian Yang Yang (A), not to be confused with Olympian Yang Yang (S)?

[NYCVirago]

One other thing -- thanks for doing this! We're setting up a Yahoo league at work, and I know what a pain this can be!

[Sideshow Bob]

In an effort to see which freepers signed up, I started looking at the Yahoo IDs listed by each team name, but then it occured to me that not everybody may have a Yahoo ID that's the same as their freeper ID...can we set up a scorecard, consisting of a post either here or at Yahoo, to list which team belongs to which freeper? I'd like to know whom to trash talk when I start moving up in the standings!

One other thing -- is the "A" in your team name a tribute to Olympian Yang Yang (A), not to be confused with Olympian Yang Yang (S)?

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Sounds like you just volunteered to set up a FReeper League/FReeper ID cheat sheet. You could post it here or there.

Oh, and the "A" is merely a letter designation that helps me distinguish each team among my other Yahoo baseball teams. For my ESPN teams I use numbers to make that distinction.

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And there is again 1 spot remaining.

Hurry, sign up now!!

[NYCVirago]

Okay, I guess I talked myself into a job! Here's what I've compiled so far:

Fantasy League Names Cheat Sheet

Fox All-Stars: NYCVirago
Sideshow Bobs A: Sideshow Bob
Injun Attack: E Rocc
Throneberry Fields: BluesDuke
Straight Jackets: ABG(anybody but Gore)
Iron City Hitters: Dales (aka Hugh Akston)
Beammeup Scotties: from the Left Coast
Banana Slugs: ozidar

To be added to the list, simply post your info here, or at the Yahoo site.

[Sideshow Bob]

Thanks for your effort NYCV.

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Hurry, still one spot left.

[TheExploited]

I am in as F U Bin Laden

[Sideshow Bob]

OK, the FReeper League is now again full for 2002. A big thank you to all those who helped to bump this thread the last few days.

Sorry if you weren't able to get in this year. Please send me a FReep mail or email (sssbobs@yahoo.com) to be included for FReeper Fantasy Football in Fall 2002 or for an invite to FReeper Baseball in 2003.

[LTCJ]

LTCJ & Son are in with the Hurricane Mudmen

BTW, what is the message on the League site asking if the draft is going to be randomized all about? Randomized in what sense?

[Sideshow Bob]

re: Randomized

The default setting for the league is that you would draft in the order in which you joined the league.

As much as I would like the 1st pick in the draft, it hardly seems fair to the person who joined last.

Yahoo's system allows each league commissioner to override the default setting by randomizing the draft order. I will make that change next weekend.

[LTCJ]

Gotcha. Mighty Big of you, BTW.

'Course, that could screw up my highly tuned draft strategy (as if...)