number of my teams that aren't in the playoffs, games back of 6th:

mathematically eliminated/abandoned: 51 (25.2%)
0-2: 15 (7.4%)
2.5-5: 22 (10.9%)
5.5-7: 14 (6.9%)
7.5-10: 9 (4.4%)

25% of teams already eliminated seems like a lot, but I could definitely be wrong. Did you have a goal of % of teams in playoffs before the season?

> 100 was my realistic goal

i don't think 25% eliminated heading into the final week is a lot at all, but the notion that i'm going to leave so much on the bubble unless i have an enormous week is going to make me lose some sleep if i fall short

Think 25% is pretty low, considering the rate of abandonment has to be pretty high when you're determining how to allocate your time.

This is the point though where I sincerely regret staggering the buyins. 100s is the only level I don't have 50% or more through atm and if that stands as is or gets worse in the final week that's gonna make the playoffs a ****load harder

My biggest mistake that absolutely will not be replicated if there's a round 2

Gonna finish well above .500 but not sure how much ground I gained

Have a league for instance where I won 10-0 this week after winning 10-0 last week to make up 14 games to pull into a tie for 6th but I'm gonna miss the playoffs via tiebreaker. Feels bad looking at **** like that so I'll update the record tonight but not look at playoff teams til tomorrow

Scratch that. Tiebreaker is who did best in the final week

So the 20-0 comeback team is in!

130-53-19

98 in. Will update the spreadsheet later, but here. We. Go

That's awesome! Gl with playoffs.

It's like a week off only having to set 98 lineups.

Good luck!

Technically it's 77 cuz of 21 byes!

Ty

42-28-8, 3-5 on tiebreakers

45-33 total

Brutal brutal brutal Sunday of pitching kept me from 55+ getting through

33% of the original 202 into the semis. $154 per team needed to win the bet

what i've learned so far:

bringing 100s into this was an enormous mistake that i shoulda realized beforehand. competition isn't strong enough that it isn't beatable but strong enough that if your attention per league is as divided as mine was it's incredibly difficult to catch up unless you draft/pick up gin. you're always going to be late to the closers, you're always going to be late to the prospect callups so basically you need to stash early or eat ****

there's some degree of variance for better and worse in my numbers being what they are in terms of the distribution of the teams that have survived but looking at the distribution of standings it's kinda undeniable how difficult it gets once you start at that buyin

that i have 58/149 still alive of the combined 20s and 50s is more than i would have expected, especially with the epic runbad in injury down the stretch but it's clear that if i were to do this again next year (and i'm very seriously considering it) there's no way i can bring in 100s for any reason at all

40-26. Again done in by tiebreakers

I've already turned a profit on my $50 buyins if I lose every single championship and 3rd place game

I've made 75% of my $20 buyins if I lose every single championship and 3rd place game

But because of my lack of success at $100 I'm going to lose this bet without an absolute miracle

I succeeded in theory but I failed in reality

Oh well

Next year it's 300 $50 h2hs

Also **** you starling marte

Offseason project suggestion: write a script for easier lineup setting and waiver grabbing etc

Great thread, this was fun to rail

What's your strategy going to be with respect to starting pitching?

IIRC you didn't draft any SP and streamed/traded for SP with varying degrees of success.

I agree that hitters are less volatile and more important than SP but I think leaving the draft with no SP is a mistake to build a well-rounded team

44-22 final week

finished with $1950 won at 80 $20 leagues for a 21.88% ROI
finished with $4660 won at 69 $50 leagues for a 35.07% ROI
finished with $1860 won at 53 $100 leagues for a -64.91% ROI

finished with $8470 won at 202 leagues for a -18.16% ROI

and that's all she wrote

gg gjge

next yea plan for mass $50 seems solid.

So is there really just a huge increase in skill from $50s to $100s?

I don't think there is, but SRM has a bigger sample size than me

pretty good man! crazy to do that many and it was fun to rail it all year. I look forward to the $50 marathon next year

people are much shrewder with trade value and much quicker to the draw on closer changes and callup pickups

they're not hard leagues by any means if you're not playing very many of them but they require more attention than i was able to allocate

Thanks for sharing the experience.

Nice job SRM, was a good sweat. Definitely seems like a big gap in the buyins. Don't know how you kept track of it all, but way to go!