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Option 1 – BI/R = 2 points each. (alt = 2 pts each settings, current = as is settings) Top 20 Bats – 2011 Alt. Curr. Matt Kemp 764.3 580.8 Curtis Granderson 739.3 552.3 Jacoby Ellsbury 709.6 545.1 Ryan Braun 701.4 535.9 José Bautista 688.4 532.9 Miguel Cabrera 673.3 512.8 Prince Fielder 652.1 484.6 Adrián [...]

Possibly doing a roster hole rule-change poll (will know for sure by 05.07.12) Buffing Bats Increasing keeper salary cap Increasing offline draft #2 by one round AWOL GMs / Teams starting DL players who a) have roster moves or b) have DL slots or c) have been absent from the league for X days anything [...]

Have had some strong interest in pursuing this. This will be our next poll up for voting. This is typically done to gain an advantage as bats are undervalued to arms (also a poll coming soon). This has taken place for several seasons, and I am currently guilty of an illegal roster myself. Seeing as [...]

Name AJ Sez #ucg rank diff Paul Maholm 29 6 23 Joe Saunders 22 1 21 Matt Harrison 8 29 21 Yovani Gallardo 12 30 18 Justin Verlander 3 20 17 Roy Halladay 1 14 13 Justin Masterson 23 11 12 Jake Westbrook 14 3 11 Drew Pomeranz 30 19 11 Ivan Nova 16 27 [...]

As some of you may be aware, there is a twitter bot I maintain that parses the Gameday feed from MLB.com. I recently picked this project back up (it did not run at all last year) and have been addressing some old bugs and introducing some new ones. I have it mostly accurate these days. [...]

continuing the analysis for 2011, presenta: Top 20 Bats – 2011 Matt Kemp 580.8 Curtis Granderson 552.3 Jacoby Ellsbury 545.1 Ryan Braun 535.9 José Bautista 532.9 Miguel Cabrera 512.8 Prince Fielder 484.6 Adrián González 471.6 Joey Votto 470.8 Ian Kinsler 464.9 Justin Upton 448.7 Dustin Pedroia 447.7 Robinson Canó 435.3 Albert Pujols 428.9 Alex Gordon [...]

Recent years have seen ERAs dip and a correlating decline in HR, BI and other run-production metrics. As our league monitors 12×12 categories, these real world declines in Major League Baseball have caused a sizable gap between ARMs and BATs scores. We discussed this topic to an extent during the 2011 season, but we were [...]

Hey Mike, In draft #2 I have the first pick right? I read something you posted yesterday that said the people with open spots in their top 5 would pick ahead of me… ==================================================== Tom,Sorry if that was confusing, in draft 2 we fill to 7. If you have a vacancy in that slot, you [...]

There is also a thread on Yahoo covering some keeper Q&A here: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/2012/b1/636/message?msgid=v1/mb/board/b1a80e6c-ef1d-4f1a-b13b-29a932e0a2b6/thread/1330275656078-69c47cd8-58f0-4a78-a965-0d829b083649 Tom asks Anyway, here’s my list: 1. Brett Lawrie 2. Tommy Hanson 3. Cliff Lee 4. Dustin Pedroia 5. Miguel Cabrera 6. Jacoby Ellsbury 7. ____ (blank) Lastly, a question…. Year 2, let’s say I drop Hanson…that frees up slot #2…  Lawrie would [...]

Fill to 12 managers Set draft order and lock league on Yahoo! Get everyone to submit their keeper lists and Yahoo! Live Draft availabilities Start draft #1 on this website Start draft #2 on this website Punch in all teams 7 keepers on Yahoo Yahoo! Live Draft Regular Season Begins!!!