5 points compared to 1 is a big difference. And RP's can lose games as well. But if nobody else wants to change it that's fine, I just think RP's are more important than they are given credit for.

Wow, we're up to ten teams now. Who are "Green Batters", "Bronx Rams", and "Crocker Galleria"?

cool! let me just say that people who give up in the middle of the season will be shot.

11 teams now -- ONLY ONE SLOT LEFT!

Who are the four newest teams?

I'm Motor City Kitties but I have been signed up for awhile now.

With only seven players with less than a week until the draft, I figured I should extend some invites to fill out our league. The four newest teams are:

- Yao's China Buffet - my brother; previous winner of GBB Fantasy Basketball (initials: BB)
- Crocker Galleria - college buddy; has done well in most leagues I've participated in with him (VJ)
- Green Batters and Bronx Rams - my nephew and his friend; currently playing college baseball; I know they have time. (GB and BR)

I've played in leagues with BB, VJ, and GB and know that they will be full-time participants. I've been assured that BR will be active all year as well.

welcome everyone and stand for your godfather DB and PLAY ALL YEAR!

Cool DB, hopefully they will sign up on this BB at least to chit-chat here in this thread once in a while. It would be nice to get to know these guys we are playing with.

Can we get the draft order done by tonight?

If no one objects, I'll ask SC to:

- Go to http://www.random.org/integers/ which will pick a number from 1 and 10.

- The random number generator will pick a number (let's call this number "n")

- Next, he'll go to http://www.random.org/lists/, stick in our team names in the following order (order on my "Managers" page):

Green Batters
Bronx Rams
Crocker Galleria
Yaos China Buffet
Bedroom Bombers
JL
Motor City Kitties
Blibble
J Geoff
Fightin Phils
Douche Bigelow

- SC will click "Randomize" n number of times. The list after the nth click will generate our draft order.

- SC will post the results (the random number and the random list) by this afternoon.

I'll be sure to invite them to the league.

Douchie has to learn to count up to ELEVEN!!!

Here are the random results:

Fightin Phils #7
Douche Bigelow #8
Blibble #9
Green Batters #11
Crocker Galleries #1
JGeoff #5
Yaos China Buffet #6
Bedroom Bombers #2
Bronx Rams #10
Motor City Kittens #4
JL #3

In the immortal words of BDD, Carry on peeps.

Commissioner's Note
I think SC carried his randomization slightly differently from the way I suggested (I know how to count ), but since both methods are random and unless anybody objects, we will leave SC's results as is.

Sorry, peeps.

I can guarantee the results were totally random.

I've thought about it and I think 1 point is a good landing place. In my opinion, middle relief pitchers get more innings than closers (number of innings per game if not number of games) so they have more opportunities to gain points.

In any case, we had one member wanting 3 points and one member wanting 0 points and a lot of members either not caring or fine with the way it is, so 1 sounds about right.

Crap, the draft is tomorrow already...

9... Crap, how am I supposed to draft Clint Barmes with the 9th pick? *sigh*

Sounds fair to me

Commissioner's Note

One of the rules I forgot to mention (the regular players know this so this more for the newer players):

The total number of pitching starts throughout the season will be limited to 162 games. That's why one of the pitching stat categories is "Games Started" so we can easily keep track of this.

Why we have this rule? Position players are limited to 162 games - so should pitchers. Starts by "relief pitchers" will also count towards this category. You sort of achieve the same goal with an "innings limitation" but we don't like limiting innings.

This is a self-imposed rule. Towards the end of the season, I'll start reminding people when they're getting close to the 162 limit. Once you reach 162 starts, you must bench all your pitchers who are scheduled for starts.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

WTF? Yahoo is showing me picking last, but I thought I was picking 3rd?

And I thought I was picking 5th... those numbers on the list above confuse the hell out of me!

Yeah, I'm confused too... I thought I was ninth but it lists me as 4th

I'm not very happy right now.

JL - You're picking #11. I believe the #3 next to your name was his coding going from a Random Sequence Generator to the Random List Generator.

This is fucked up

Huh - now that I'm reading SC's list, I guess it can be read either way. I guess I know what he meant because he messaged me the list.

I don't see any other way to read it when it says "here are the results", and there's a #3 next to my team.

Commissioner's Note
Since it seems everyone is reading it the way JL, JG and BL are reading the draft list, I'll re-order the draft to the way SC is numbering it. It's all random anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.

Sorry for the confusion guys.

No! I prefer 4th!