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Post by rOB g on Aug 8, 2005 18:42:49 GMT -5
No, That was very clear. Thank for explaining in such detail. Now I understand. Theres always gonna be some short of loophole but a person would have design their entire stategy arround getting in that loophole and it would never work. I am very happy with this. God Bless the Commish and the united states of america
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Post by abisai on Aug 8, 2005 21:29:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I think I said to much. I kind of like the rule and thought on it like this: converting to reliever with 19 starts should not give enough Wins or Ks to unbalance the reliever role any more than an elite middle reliever. However, a closer of 19 games could have 15 saves and unbalance the starting pitcher role. That was the logic for guys with 20 games pitched but fewer than 20 starts being construed as relievers. Anyhow, this is all speculative and a bridge hoped to never having to cross. I like to toss stuff up against the wall sometimes to see what sticks though. I like to rework the rules every year. Nothing really makes a tangible difference, which I really like for consistancy, but it does help to streamline things for simplicity, clarity, and firmer grounds for preventing dirty dealings. The present league membership allows me to feel most comfortable with exploring these rules for the day that comes when league membership includes people less understanding and appreciative of the efforts I have taken for a league I basically put together from a notebook mad long ago. I am amazed the shit works so closely to those original rules too.
Anyhow, thanks for playing. God bless America.
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Post by LORD BOOTH on Aug 14, 2005 11:52:32 GMT -5
;Dnote to commish:i would like my trophy to be colored gold and sent to me packed with those little s shaped styrofome peices and toped bith buble-wrap.thank you.
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Post by abisai on Aug 14, 2005 22:49:14 GMT -5
Note to the league, there is no trophy awarded for second place.
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Post by abisai on Aug 20, 2005 15:44:01 GMT -5
Curt Schilling has exactly 20 relief appearances to date. This qualifies him as a RP for this season. He has 3 starts to date and despite a planned return to the rotation has no chance at all of claiming 20 starts, so will not qualify as a SP.
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Post by Rob G on Aug 21, 2005 23:44:42 GMT -5
WOW, thats like the exact scenario to conjure up the rules you set in place. See rules are important. Everyone remember this when you see my all new FANTASY FOOTBALL RULES ENCYCLOPEDIA.
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Post by abisai on Aug 30, 2005 1:54:11 GMT -5
...for the inevitable guy who started 10 games and relieved 10 others... Kerry Wood in 2005 in this man. 10 games started, 11 games relieved. That is 21 games played. Not enough starts to qualify as SP but enough games played to register RP. Look at it this way: in terms of IP a slob with this predicament is more congruent with a relief pitcher's IP and so this keeps ERA and WHIP balances more in order. Likewise, Wins and Ks would be more in line with a reliever. Leaving only saves, which an assclown like this could never rack up enough to warrant a debate. The only advantage I can see in a predicament like this one is using the player in place of someone injured/worse or something to better ERA/WHIP by reducing the impact of the player position. Both scenarios are less impactful if the player is eligible only as RP. Kerry Wood finishes with 3 wins and no saves. K are nice for a reliever, but not unbalanced. IP were 66.0 which is on par for a reliever. So, depending on the fate of Marlins reliever Guillermo Mota I reserve the right to submit Kerry Wood in my final lineup as a RP.
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Post by abisai on Aug 30, 2005 1:58:52 GMT -5
Curt Schilling's stats this season are attrocious. He does retain eligibility as a reliever. The only advantage he will bring is a slightly high number of wins, but nothing unbalanced. His ability to make the final roster on a team with five RP with more saves than him is truly amazing. Almost as amazing as Danny Graves WHIP (over 2). ;D
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Post by abisai on Sept 7, 2005 17:17:00 GMT -5
Fuck the bullshit. Next year's rules will be 20 games to start at a position. Pitchers will need to relieve or start 20 games to be eligible. I envision someone like Roy Halladay pitching 19 games (like this year), getting hurt, and pitching a couple relief appearances at the end of the year. Anything I rule can be exploited, but making the 20 game plateau hold seems fair enough for pitchers. It is easy for true relievers to get that many anyway.
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Post by abisai on Sept 12, 2005 0:55:07 GMT -5
FYI
Octavio Dotel and Eric Gagne both failed to play in 20 games this season.
The Giants have played 142 games. Barry Bonds would have to play in every one from here on out in order to play 20 games. If they even play all 20 games to completion this season (sometimes rainouts are not made up if it does not effect either team's playoff contentions). With the team effectively out of playoff contention you would assume that if Bonds makes any appearances the team will limit his exposure to injury and ask him to at the least takes days of rest and at most play at 80%. That should do enough to keep the Barry Bonds franchise alive for the team and his marketing, which should roll over into a heavily hyped 2006 season. But for 2005, a total waste of everyone's time.
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Post by abisai on Sept 12, 2005 0:58:18 GMT -5
No word on the fates of Marquis Grissom or Brett Boone. Time to retire???
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Post by abisai on Sept 20, 2005 1:31:32 GMT -5
Barry Bonds would have to play in every one from here on out in order to play 20 games. With 13 Giants games on the schedule and six games played, Bonds has apparently been eliminated from eligibility for the 2005 fantasy baseball season. I know a great aw shucks to the entire league. I don't know why I monitor this other than the fact the guy was traded with no hopes of amassing anything other than these meager stats.
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Post by abisai on Sept 23, 2005 0:19:23 GMT -5
OK stooges, resistance is futile. You must submit your final lineups to me, the COMMISH, at some point in the coming weeks. I will attack you all with e-mails after the season ends. E-mails you can avoid by letting me know your lineups sooner rather than later. If you intend to make Yahoo your final lineup, that is ideal. Just do two things if that is the case. First, let me know that is your intention. Second, make your changes before the season ends because Yahoo freezes the lineups with the end of the regular season. Everyone should also remember they have crappy players on Mr T's Crip Walkers on Yahoo. SO don't forget about the baseball league and give some thought to how you will submit your lineup and what that lineup will actually be like. Until then, you can enjoy the article I created on Wikipedia for the infamous Jeff Zimmerman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Zimmerman
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Post by abisai on Oct 6, 2005 23:12:54 GMT -5
The stats are tabulated. There are no surprises to be found in the total rankings. I will release the complete file after the regular season awards and announced so that I can include that all in my traditional formatting.
There were several good records set this season: Most AB: BUCKLEY 2005 Most SB: PAPO 2005 Fewest Hits Allowed by Pitchers: BUCKLEY 2005 Best WHIP : BUCKLEY 2005
And some bad records too: Fewest SB: GAULT 2005 Worst Batting AVG: PULTZ 2005 Worst ERA: GAULT 2005
Thanks for another fun season and I hope I can convince everyone to keep playing my fantasy baseball league. One of the days there might even be a trophy. Someone has to beat me first though. ;D
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Post by Rob G on Oct 7, 2005 4:31:03 GMT -5
I'm only playing again if there is a trophy and its your head on the pike
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