Villar has the balls to take a few balls and his OBP skyrockets allowing him to steal 62 bases (OK, the unsustainable hit percentage helped too). Still, will Villar come close to repeating? Power? You want him in the second round or will you pay $30 for him in your auction?
My first fantasy league was a football league I started with my best friend when we were both in college. That was in 1986 and the league still exists today. I began playing fantasy baseball in an NL-only auction keeper league three years later and stayed in that league for about a decade or so. It was a great way to expand my love of sports and deepened my appreciation for football and baseball.Yah Mule wrote:What got each of you interested in fantasy sports?
The Draft Champions Leagues are dominating everything and in checking today we are about 10 leagues ahead of last year's total at this time. We sold out the Platinum and Diamond Drafts this year in record time. We were trying to sell those out a week before the live drafts last year. Auction Championships are on a record pace, but that being said we still have to fill up all of these that have 10, 11, and 12 teams in them. But all of that looks really good.76erfan wrote:With live events just about a month away...can you give us a status update on where we are(lower, higher, about what was projected) on the following overall contests:
Main Events
Live Auctions
Cutline
OLC
DC
It will be a complete overhaul. In fact, they are building this now. With the sale going through in November, there was no way for SportsHub to build our game that quickly along with a new draft room, so STATS agreed to run our games through 2017 as we build out our new site, draft software, Message Boards, and community of games.DOUGHBOYS wrote:When SportsHub takes over the technology, will it be a complete overhaul?
Or will it be a finely (finally) tuning of current NFBC draft rooms and such?
Spring is no Jason Heyward, that's for sure. I like him a lot. We wanted him at 32 in the FSTA Draft, but he was gone at like 19. I think there's 30-20 potential there (he was caught stealing 10 times last year).Edwards Kings wrote:What is your take on Springer this year? Racked up some stats last year in 644 AB...repeatable? 29 HR is not bad at all but are we ever going to see his full power profile given his ground ball tint? The next Jason Heyward?
You've made the decision to not bite on Kershaw/Scherzer/MadBum/Sale/Thor/Kluber. But that is OK, I am going to grab.....? Why?
Some people who will remain namless feel that a walk is so much worse than a strikeout.
OK, the top 30 cornermen are gone by the 10th/11th round. I am ok because I am going to grab...? Moustakas? Castellanos? Joseph?
He's a catcher now. I suppose once he pitches 10 times he would gain eligibility there. If that happens you'd have to put him at one position for the week and get either his pitching or hitting results. But he hasn't pitched yet, so he's a catcher only. You only get his offensive stats right now.Gekko wrote:How is the NFBC handling Christian Bethancourt position eligibility? He's currently eligible at catcher; however reports indicate he may get more time as a RP. It's also not out of the realm of possibility that he accumulates some saves this year given the Padres bullpen. Thanks!
Greg Ambrosius wrote:He's a catcher now. I suppose once he pitches 10 times he would gain eligibility there. If that happens you'd have to put him at one position for the week and get either his pitching or hitting results. But he hasn't pitched yet, so he's a catcher only. You only get his offensive stats right now.Gekko wrote:How is the NFBC handling Christian Bethancourt position eligibility? He's currently eligible at catcher; however reports indicate he may get more time as a RP. It's also not out of the realm of possibility that he accumulates some saves this year given the Padres bullpen. Thanks!
I was a radio and TV major at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and a bunch of guys at the campus radio station played APBA and announced every roll of the dice like Harry Caray. You had 12 guys practicing their play-by-play through the roll of dice. These guys held a draft of the cards and eventually added me to the league. It was a blast. About four years after graduation we found the book by Glenn Waggoner "Rotisserie League Baseball: The Official Handbook" and reunited the league with annual drafts at a southwestern Wisconsin bar. We created baseball and football leagues in 1986 and continued those leagues for almost 20 years.Yah Mule wrote:What got each of you interested in fantasy sports?
I can trace my fascination with baseball stats back to Babe Ruth. I was reading a book on baseball statistics as a little kid and I still remember my sense of amazement when I found out he was a pitcher before he blew the hitting record book to pieces. I began buying baseball cards in the early 70's and I was constantly arranging players into lineups and holding my own version of mock drafts. Only hitters usually. In my childlike innocence I could somehow sense that pitchers were an undependable breed that were destined to break my heart repeatedly.
I recall reading about the first* fantasy baseball league, formed at a French restaurant called the Rotisserie, in Sports Illustrated and being green with jealousy. I still prefer the term Roto baseball to Fantasy baseball. It wasn't until 1988 that I was able to get into my first league. It was a six team NL Only affair and the commissioner was transparently crooked, but I was hooked.
I had to make do with salary cap games (which are not my thing at all) until I got on the internet. Sandbox and its terrible points system was next. Eventually I would up @ CBS for several years before you guys took me in.
*I'm aware there were antecedents.
So much of Villar's 2016 season screams outlier to me. I'm always concerned about players who post numbers in a season dramatically different than what they had done before. I think he can be a strong source for steals but I am concerned the average and power regresses.Greg Ambrosius wrote: No, I'm not going ALL IN on Villar. There are a lot of other stolen base threats out there. I have no idea how he hit 19 homers, but I don't see it happening again. I'm not sold on him.
Legislation is the BIGGEST threat to season long games. In the next year it's inevitable that we'll have to exempt more states. Heck, check out the wording of the latest Illinois bill. It's downright scary. When you have states like Nebraska asking for $10,000 and a cut of revenue you can just see how something is going to have to give. If we pay that in every state we'll have to reduce the payout percentage for prizes or just exempt a bunch of states.JohnP wrote:Is the legislation stuff a real threat to season long games? Any update?
When you say that 2018 NFBC will be the debut of Sportshub technology - does that mean 2017 NFFC will still be Stats or will that be the new programming?
Fangraphs is projecting the Brewers with 68 wins. Over or under? As a Brewer fan, are you satisfied with what Stearns / Attanasio has done?
LeagueSafe is part of SportsHub Technologies now, so yes we will start using their ewallet system starting with baseball. We still have some work to do to integrate it with our products, but yes that's the plan. We will deposit your winnings into your Player Account and you can then decide how you want payment and if you want to keep it in your account to purchase other products like the baseball post-season contest. It should work similar to what you have with the DFS companies.Deadheadz wrote:.
Will winnings be available in an eWallet immediately after the season ends? Will that money be available to use for the post season contest, assuming there is one?
Regarding the post season contest, are you committed to offering a limited number of entries and a set grand prize amount or will you consider a modest grand prize with the potential of a larger prize if signups exceed expectations?
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It's definitely a donation.76erfan wrote:Are you guys in real trouble next Thursday with the G/T auction? As Greg told me yesterday....is it a donation? Or are you guys coming up with a winning game plan?
Every single one of them was embarrassing.Yah Mule wrote:Thanks for the origin stories, guys. I really enjoyed them. A dozen guys doing Harry Caray impersonations had to be hilarious.
Greg Ambrosius wrote:He's a catcher now. I suppose once he pitches 10 times he would gain eligibility there. If that happens you'd have to put him at one position for the week and get either his pitching or hitting results. But he hasn't pitched yet, so he's a catcher only. You only get his offensive stats right now.Gekko wrote:How is the NFBC handling Christian Bethancourt position eligibility? He's currently eligible at catcher; however reports indicate he may get more time as a RP. It's also not out of the realm of possibility that he accumulates some saves this year given the Padres bullpen. Thanks!
My plan is to get Trout, Betts, Bryant, Altuve, Arenado and Goldschmidt as my core and of course KRod because I love me some KRod.76erfan wrote:Are you guys in real trouble next Thursday with the G/T auction? As Greg told me yesterday....is it a donation? Or are you guys coming up with a winning game plan?
