What day ends the week in this league? (When can we start using next week's trades?)

We get 2 new trades on Tuesdays...

Congrats on your sweep. Can't wait to kill your Sox next week. :p

I really don't like this game. I just f*cked up one of my trades.

There should be extra allowances for short series like this (ie. the ability to make more than just two trades).

The rules state you still need to include a Whine Alert. :p

I made my first trade: Figgins (eliminated) for Olerud. Now I'll REALLY be in trouble if the Yanks don't make it! I have all Yanks except for Clemens and Estrada.

10/8 Results

JG 93 299 - Thanks Bernie and Matsui!
SC 51 298 - No more trades left
PL 16 218 - Still has Anaheim pitcher?

Nah, I dumped him this morning for Backe, today's starter for the 'Stros

10/9

JG 110 409
SC 093 391
PL 170 388

10/10

This game isn't that bad..... :p

PL 388 95 483
JG 409 42 451
SC 391 39 430

Tuesday 10/12

PL 483 40 523
JG 451 36 487
SC 430 -5 425
DB 000 00 000

Actually, in this game it's not the worst thing in the world to start after the first round.

The first round is a maximum of only 5 games, so there are fewer points available than in a 7 game series, and if your opponents pick all or mostly players from teams that are eliminated in the first round, given the fact that they can only change 4 of them (assuming that they still have all of their trades available), while you can pick a team of all players who have advanced, it's not such a handicap to start late.

Get in DB. There's still time.

Estrada (36) did well for us yesterday, Plaw. Who'd you replace him with? For lack of anyone better, I picked up Varitek.

I'm extremely confused

Did you get two more trades today?

I didn't.

Supposedly, you get two more trades at 12 noon on Tuesday. So this morning, with one trade left, I figured I'd drop Estrada and Jones, see how much cap room I had left, look at the prices of other outfielders and catchers, and when I get my two more trades, make my moves.

So I drop Estrada, click on something that said something like "drop this guy without replacing him", and that got counted as my one trade that I had left.

Well, I figure I still have two more. One to replace Estrada, and one to replace Jones.

But I still didn't get the other two.

As you said JG, the interface for this game is horrible.

Oh, I'm rushing to get in now... :p

Staying out was the smart move.

DB was always smarter.

The game really sucks.

I will definitely not play next year. I'm not even sure I'm playing this year.

OK...I re-read the rules. It only counts as a trade when you drop a guy. When you replace him it doesn't count as a trade.

So I'm saved. I added Varitek to replace Estrada.

But my original intention, thinking I woul;d have three trades today was to drop both Estrada and Jones, see how much cap room I had to replace them, and possibly drop Backe and replace him with a better strater if I had the room.

Can't do that, though, since I never got my two additonal trades. And I'm still stuck with Anruw Jones.

Who I would replace with Trot Nixon, which would still leave me under the cap and with one trade left.

Grrrr....

I haven't gotten my 2 trades either - don't know WTF is going on w/ this piece of shit.

Anyway - Yes, DB, please join us! It's FUN!

NOW I see 2 trades. :rolleyes: Maybe they meant 12AM?

But WTG Yanks!

10/12 Results

JG 163 650
PL 062 585
SC 060 485

10/13 Results
Well JG, despite our scant 35 point difference and the fact that I can potentially pick up some points tonight with Pujols and Biggio against no one for you, it appears as if you are in the driver's seat.

Here's a quick chart showing the four possible outcomes of the LCS, how many players each of us will want to replace based on that outcome, and the number of trades we will have left to make the desired transactions:

Given the most likely outcome at this point (NY-StL), you will have enough trades left to field a complete roster in the WS, while I will be two players short.

Plus, you will have two trades left over for possible tweaking, if necessary.

The only real chance I have is for the BoSox to some how beat the Yanks :rolleyes: .

The trouble with that scenario, though, is that it will require at least 6 games for them to do it, which gives you four more games of the Yankee hitters to pile up points.

For me to win this thing, I need most, if not all, of the following things to happen:

1) Boston wins next four from Yanks.
2) They hold the Yankee bats totally in check
3) Pedro pitches a great game 6 and Lieber gets racked up.
4) Mariano blows a coupla saves.
5) The Hstn-StL series goes 7 with Houston winning
6) Pujols and Biggio both have a great series
7) Clemens gets bombed in his two starts
8) Backe pitches a good game

Difficult. Not impossible.

Or, if the Yanks take out Boston in the next two, and both games are pitcher's duels and you don't get too many points, and the Hstn-StL series goes 7, and Biggio and Pujols pile up the points, and Backe pitches well and Clemens pitches poorly, and I get lucky in the WS with my short roster.....

I think at this point you should want NY-Bost to go 6 or 7, and StL-Hstn to be over quick. It doesn't make that much of a difference to you who wins, but StL in 5, with Clemens winning the only game for Houston, would be ideal.

As I said before, playing this game with only two trades per week makes it less about picking the right players, and more about picking the players from the right teams; the teams that will win their respective series, and taking the most games to do it.

I also figured out a way we could do an ESPN style salary cap game for the World Series:

1) Post the cap values for all the available World Series players.
2) Pick someone (I'm thinking Don Cardi) to whom we could email or PM our rosters to every day. The roster we send him would have the position, player's name, and cap value.
3) He could then post everyone's rosters the day of the game.
4) I'll be happy to do the scoring, and everyone can be responsible for checking the math for their own team.

Whaddya think?

Y'know what, we could just USE the ESPN game and score our players manually. That'd be infinitely easier than to use the bullshit TSN site. And, anyone who's played all year can play if they wanna.

I'm gonna continue the TSN one as-is. Let's use ESPN for the WS.

Good?

ANYONE else still read this thread? What do y'all think?

I don't like TSN's setup. I'm done with fantasy sports for 2004.

There's no crying in fantasy sports!

Okay, there is - often plenty of it. But I understand. You need time to regroup for next April.

PL 809 44 853
JG 844 00 844
SC 481 -1 480

10/16 results

JG 312 1156
PL 120 0973
SC 344 0824

I'm glad you finally got around to posting that.

I was afraid to look......

10/17 Results

JG 023 1179
PL 039 1012
SC 136 0960

10/18 Results

JG 063 1242
PL 153 1165
SC 041 1001

As I said before.....

For me to win this thing, I need most, if not all, of the following things to happen:

1) Boston wins next four from Yanks. So far, so good
2) They hold the Yankee bats totally in check I'm not complaining
3) Pedro pitches a great game 6 and Lieber gets racked up. Pedro wasn't great, but he was OK
4) Mariano blows a coupla saves. Attaboy, Mo
5) The Hstn-StL series goes 7 with Houston winning Got a good shot here
6) Pujols and Biggio both have a great series Pujols doing fine
7) Clemens gets bombed in his two starts Can't have everything
8) Backe pitches a good game Attaboy Backe

10/19 Results

JG 79 1321
PL 80 1245
SC 30 1031

If the Yanks lose tonight, I'm in trouble. And dammit, Clemens isn't starting! :rolleyes:

10/20 Results

JG 41 1362
PL 64 1309
SC 81 1112

And yes, I am in trouble. :rolleyes: