Author Topic: what service do you guys use for Fantasy Baseball? (Read 1872 times)

shoeshineboy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2010, 12:21:36 pm »

CBS Sportsline

PatsNats28 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 10, 2010, 01:10:49 pm »

Quote from: shoeshineboy on February 10, 2010, 12:21:36 pm

CBS Sportsline

dont u have to pay for CBS?

NatsNut · « **Reply #27 on:** February 10, 2010, 11:05:35 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on February 07, 2010, 02:46:04 pm

CB$ $port$line (ye$, $till working on a keyboarl) w/o the letter between r & t & c & e).

hee hee. Join the club. I'm missing my exclamation point and my 'at' sign. I have to google them and copy and paste.

NatsNut · « **Reply #28 on:** February 10, 2010, 11:12:01 pm »

I've also toyed with the idea of fantasy baseball so I'll pay a little more attention to the rest of the teams/players, but baseball already has me hunched over my computer too much in the summertime.

Are any of these suggestions good for beginners who don't necessarily want to obsess any more than they already do?

Nathan · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2010, 11:16:32 pm »

For the !, press and hold the alt key, type 33, and release the alt key. The ASCII code for @ is 64. Here is a full list:

http://www.asciitable.com/

NatsNut · « **Reply #30 on:** February 10, 2010, 11:34:16 pm »

Thanks. My '3' button is out too! LOL

CJames0569 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 11, 2010, 10:32:52 am »

I've played fantasy baseball (and football) for the past 5 years through Yahoo with a bunch of college friends. Our league is pretty competitive and I mangaed to win it last year. My only knock on Yahoo is that "stat tracker" aka live updates costs a one time fee of $10, no so bad for 162 games of baseball but pointless for football.

I also meant to join the WNFF league but didn't get to it in time.

Galah · « **Reply #32 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:47:01 pm »

I use the free variant at mlb.com, it was pretty easy to figger out, you can set up multiple teams and didn't need to manage it on a daily basis since you get your team set for a Sunday to Saturday series of games with a roster that's fixed (good for me since sometimes I pay attention and sometimes I don't)

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2010, 03:24:47 pm »

sounds like there could be a few WNFF leagues. I've only done very deep, AL roto leagues in the past, but would like to try a similar one for the NL. deep leagues force you to know the benches and minors.

HTT · « **Reply #34 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:04:24 pm »

My main league is a 12 team NL-only auction league. Roto 4x4 with 25 man rosters.
After the draft, hitting is hard to come by. Pitchers can usually be found.

I really like the deep league, but finding that 5th OF or 2nd C is difficult.

NatsNut · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:02:05 pm »

Galah, thanks, yours sounded reasonable so I went ahead and signed up for mlb free one. This will be my first time.

shoeshineboy · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2010, 10:03:46 pm »

Quote from: PatsNats09 on February 10, 2010, 01:10:49 pm

dont u have to pay for CBS?

Yeah, but we factor that into the cost of the league. Don't know if it is laziness or not by the commish, but it has worked well for years and has some nice features.

Grandstander · « **Reply #37 on:** February 12, 2010, 12:30:07 am »

Quote from: CJames0569 on February 11, 2010, 10:32:52 am

My only knock on Yahoo is that "stat tracker" aka live updates costs a one time fee of $10, no so bad for 162 games of baseball but pointless for football.

There's a way around that. If you have Firefox, you can download the Addon Greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748. Then download this script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5143 for it and you've got free stats.

My main league is on ESPN. It gives me no problems so I like it. Usually end up with a few pick up leagues on Yahoo though, so it's nice to get the live stats.

sportsfan882 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 12, 2010, 10:08:22 am »

yahoo's stat tracker for fantasy football was free this past season. i hope it is the same for baseball.

PANatsFan · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2010, 10:10:12 am »

only an ASSCLOWN would assume that.

Nathan · « **Reply #40 on:** February 12, 2010, 10:43:05 am »

When do they usually start?

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #41 on:** February 12, 2010, 11:11:07 am »

Quote from: HTT on February 11, 2010, 07:04:24 pm

My main league is a 12 team NL-only auction league. Roto 4x4 with 25 man rosters.
After the draft, hitting is hard to come by. Pitchers can usually be found.

I really like the deep league, but finding that 5th OF or 2nd C is difficult.

that is exactly like my AL league, except by going 12 teams deep in the AL, you have to scramble even harder. I've heard of 13 team NL leagues.

We also throw in a 2 round farm draft. You are allowed to keep 3 farm boys up until they lose rookies eligibility. Last year, my "farm" was Andrus, G Beckham, and Reimold, and the year before I had Ellsbury at the start of the year. Farm boys get assigned $10 when activated. I would love to this in an NL league because the NL has had so many of the best prospects in recent years.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #42 on:** February 12, 2010, 12:30:53 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on February 12, 2010, 11:11:07 am

that is exactly like my AL league, except by going 12 teams deep in the AL, you have to scramble even harder. I've heard of 13 team NL leagues.

We also throw in a 2 round farm draft. You are allowed to keep 3 farm boys up until they lose rookies eligibility. Last year, my "farm" was Andrus, G Beckham, and Reimold, and the year before I had Ellsbury at the start of the year. Farm boys get assigned $10 when activated. I would love to this in an NL league because the NL has had so many of the best prospects in recent years.

NL is almost easier becuase so many guys at least get to pinch hit- I've had al only leagues where a couple of positions were just straight 0s most games.

imref · « **Reply #43 on:** February 15, 2010, 04:53:14 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on February 07, 2010, 02:46:04 pm

CB$ $port$line (ye$, $till working on a keyboarl) w/o the letter between r & t & c & e).

Ditto - I played leagues in ESPN, Yahoo and CBS last year, CBS was far better.

imref · « **Reply #44 on:** February 15, 2010, 04:55:52 pm »

Quote from: Grandstander on February 12, 2010, 12:30:07 am

There's a way around that. If you have Firefox, you can download the Addon Greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748. Then download this script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5143 for it and you've got free stats.

My main league is on ESPN. It gives me no problems so I like it. Usually end up with a few pick up leagues on Yahoo though, so it's nice to get the live stats.

We switched from CBS to ESPN two years ago, the league software crashed about a week after the season started, wiping out all stats/transactions/etc across all leagues it was a major F-up on their part, apparently they didn't realize the software couldn't scale. They ended up refunding everyone's money, and giving out a free pass to the football league. After that experience we went back to CBS and haven't looked back.

tomterp · « **Reply #45 on:** February 15, 2010, 05:01:27 pm »

Quote from: imref on February 15, 2010, 04:55:52 pm

We switched from CBS to ESPN two years ago, the league software crashed about a week after the season started, wiping out all stats/transactions/etc across all leagues it was a major F-up on their part, apparently they didn't realize the software couldn't scale. They ended up refunding everyone's money, and giving out a free pass to the football league. After that experience we went back to CBS and haven't looked back.

The WNFF league played ESPN last season, there was no money required.