Well ya, for the time being at least. But DFS seems like a really risky thing to be pouring money into right now. How many states have already declared DFS illegal?

Why haven't DK and FD drifted into month long or season long pools?

Good news:
https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy

But yet their DFS operation looks like they spent 5% on that too.

ESPN's fantasy interface is sooooooo much better and more user-friendly than Yahoo's for research, that's why I keep all my leagues there

That's an interesting question.

"Ryan Braun said he will not be 100% at start of spring camp after back surgery but hopes to be there by opening day."

A little bit worrisome, liked him where he was going but this may pump the brakes for me

FYI .. I am in FL and Yahoo is saying I can not join a Yahoo Pro League because I am in a restricted state. It's not readily apparent which other states are on the no go list.

So thanks FD/DK for that one..

Is Manny Machado the #4 pick if he has SS elig? Feels like he should be.

depends on the league size and format.

In a vacuum, no way.

using steamer it looks like Stanton Rizzo Donaldson and Cabrera are all ahead of him in 5x5.

SS is actually deeper this year than in years past, 2B as well. The positional adjustment for SS this year should is not very large over the other positions for a standard league format (5OF, MI, CI).

In a 12 team league with a MI slot, a total of 36 SS+2B will likely be drafted, maybe a few more for bench slots.

Using Steamer alone the 18th ranked SS is Ketel Marte. Around there you also have at 17 - Alcides Escobar [5/67/48/19/0.269], Not exactly a wasteland. Because steals are getting more scarce, SS position has a lot of value towards the end where you can scoop up guys like Marte and Escobar who can steal 20 bags and not obliterate you in AVG/OBP

the 18th ranked 2B is Neil Walker [18/65/61/3/0.258]. Around him you have guys like Schoop, BPhillips, Panik. Not exactly horrible either.

The 60th ranked OF is Ender Inciarte [8/64/47/22/0.273]. This is discounting anyone using their UTIL slot for an OF, which most people likely will (that and 1B). So you are looking at a slightly worse player than Ender Inciarte's projections to be the last OF off the board. And if you compare that with Alcides Escobar / Ketel Marte, there is virtually no difference. This means that there is no reason to "pay up" by inflating a SS value to account for some notion of positional scarcity.

It feels like a lot of people are doing that this year with Carlos Correa. Steamer projects him to hit 22/20, and if you compare that to other steamer projections he should be drafted in the late 2nd round. In order for to justify taking him in the late first round, you would have to project him to be closer to 25/30. The only reason I can think as to why people are drafting him so high is because of his enormous upside and hype.

$100 ypro league needs 3 spots drafting at 6 pm pst if you're feelin frisky

In one Yahoo league where I was co-commissioner of, I can no longer see the league when I went to renew it. I can see my other Yahoo league. Has anyone seen stuff like this happen?

i'd join it if i wasn't already in it

My man

Which one are you?

Do you have last years link bookmarked?
If not, go to one of your other leagues then in the header click on "Baseball '16" and it *should* list all leagues you are in now, and ones you were in last year that havent renewed yet.
If that doesnt work, then yahoo just has it in for you I guess.

ha it turned out the commish could only activate it, not the co commish. thanks though

I'm looking for some help with a rule improvement. The folks in this league are adamant about discouraging streaming SPs (it's a h2h league). I'd be curious to see how people tackle this issue. My thoughts:

1. Have a rule where once picked up, a SP must remain on the roster for 7 full days before he can be dropped (current rule, I think this is very tedious with no ways to automate this)
2. have a X pickups allowed/week rule like 4 (my preferred but they are revolting)
3. have a low-ish moves limit and no other restrictions with the rationale being this forces managers to ration and prioritize their pickups

thoughts would be greatly appreciated

#2 seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

Do you have a starts/week limit? That might work too. Caveat I don't do H2H so I may have no idea what I'm talking about

"Industry" mock results if anyone is interested. Standard rosters with 2C
http://www.couchmanagers.com/mock_dr...draftnum=36939

Moves limit each week is a very good option to have and stop streaming
Max IP or Max Starts each week (still sets up streaming to be abused on last day if they're smart, but yeah)
Having to keep a SP on a roster for 7 days is stupid and hard to keep track of, plus you could still stream with that theoretically depending on sizes of bench and such

at first glance, rotoman draft one of the worst ever

nvm, its not as bad as i made it out to be.

A few things you can do.
1) #2 above is the simplest, and 4 adds is a good number imo.

2) Set a limit for starts per week. Also create some form of "punishment" for people who dont pay attention and go over. yahoo doesnt track this, so its up to teh league members. Ive been doing this in 2 leagues for 5 years now, and in total Ive only had guys go over the weekly limit in like 3 instances.

3) Use FAAB, w/ continuous waivers, and dont allow adds on saturday. (The commish can select which days to run waivers on) This makes it very difficult to load up on sunday streamer pitchers. Used in conjunction with the first 2 options, it basically eliminates excess streaming. You can still "stream" a couple times per week, but everyone is on the same footing, and everyone knows exactly where they stand each day of the weekly matchup.
No more "Surprise! I just picked up 5 SP at 11:59 PM saturday night and now I own you in K's and W's"

you could also add a negative counting stat. I kind of like the idea of using BB, but you could also use L.

You could increase the quality of pitching further by changing K to K/9 (and also using BB), but use a minimum IP limit.

Another options would be to increase roster size so there is less streamable talent available on the WW (i don't like this idea, i think GOOD streaming should be rewarded)

thanks guys. some good ideas. The guys in the league are very old fashioned so my preferred answer is to keep it as simple as possible.

In that sense 4 moves/week seems perfect. The negative stats/punishing them for starting too many seems interesting. not sure what works best in that regard though since the absolute #s of BB and L are fairly low per week so it's going to be a luckboxy stat i think.

I like the starts/week limit too. What seems like a reasonable starts limit per week for a 12 team 8 bench spot (2 SPs, 3 Ps) league? I wouldn't want to be too restrictive and just punish abusers so like 15 maybe? I'm hoping there's a setting on Yahoo that has max starts limits but I don't see one. If not what would be a reasonable max innings?

max innings is abusable because all starts count for the day that you go over. Example, if there is a max IP of 80, and someone has 79 IP on Saturday, they could start as many pitchers as they wanted Sunday and get all those stats, even if they go upwards of 90, 100, 110IP.

Max starts is something you would have to manually enforce.