Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Rules for Keepers

There’s been a lot of talk about keeper rules for the upcoming season (okay, so not really) and rightly so, the rules are still a bit murky and unformed. Here, I’ll try to bring some clarity to the confusion

What’s a keeper?

A keeper is a player from your roster last year who you want to keep on your team for the next season.

How do keepers work?

You select keepers by sending me an email with the players you want to keep

What is the purpose of keepers?

For our league, I want to give people a reason to keep playing even if they don't have a realistic shot at winning this season. Keepers allow players to trade for next year and allows everyone to think of their team as a multi-season investment.

What are the rules for keepers?

I want to make the game fun for everyone involved and so I want to reward players for picking up good, but latent talent, yet at the same time I don't want one team to dominate the league year after year. To this end I came up with this rule last year:

3 keepers can be chosen with any Yahoo O-Rank. These players will be added to your team during the first 3 rounds of the draft. 4 additional keepers can be selected with an O-Rank of 100 or less and would be added to your team for rounds 9 through 12. If you choose not to have keepers, you will receive draft picks in these slots instead.

However, after thinking about it some more, I see that a major weakness of this strategy is that for some players, it is far more advantageous to select no keepers and take the draft picks instead. I want the keepers to have value for everyone, so I have changed the rule to the following:

Each team may keep up to 5 players from their last roster. Each keeper will be added to your new team during the round where they were drafted last season. If they went un-drafted last season, the player will be added as your last pick. If two or more of your keepers were not drafted last season, they will be added as your last picks.

Also, take a look at last year's roster and last year's draft results to start preparing your team for this year's draft.

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Draft Order for 2010

Hello everyone, here is the draft order for the 2010 draft. It will be a snake draft which means that during the first round, it will go in the order below but during the second round, it will be in reverse.

  1. sorbet d'arc-enciel | Mich
  2. Lucky13's | Chase
  3. Soi Disant | Lyndsey
  4. LA Dodgers | Tyler
  5. Charisma | Adam
  6. Mitchell Mudhens | Paul
  7. Seal Beach Dreamers | Mom
  8. Lyin' Co. Reformers | Dad
  9. Team LA | Dean
  10. SD Thunder is BACK | Jon
  11. tropical bakers | Jordan
  12. The Cocos | Grant

Also, please visit your 2009 team to begin thinking about keepers.

Posted by Grant at 9:36 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The 2010 Happier Family League is Here!

Head over to http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/thf to sign up today! As I mentioned in the email, we're hoping to do a Draft party at my parent's house in Doon, IA sometime near Easter. I welcome your suggestions. For those of you who can't make it, I'd love to Skype you in or call you so you can submit your draft picks. Rules about the league are the same as last year, although I may have to switch to Rotisserie scoring if we get an odd number of people. I'm hoping everyone comes back from last year, though, so sign up today! http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/thf
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Monday, September 14, 2009

PowerRanks: Week 22

The Playoffs are different

I don't know how reliable these numbers are anymore as I've added in the playoff numbers. When a team has a bye week, I have to estimate those numbers. So, take these ranks with a bit of salt. But so far, the best team in the playoffs is the SD ThunderCrack. However, since they had a bye week in the first week of the playoffs, those numbers are estimated and come out quite good. Unfortunately for him, it didn't transfer to a good performance this past week against tropical bakers.

So the championship game will be a replay of the 2007 championship game. That time Jordan took the game 6-4. Jordan and Grant were the number 1 and 2 team that year, this year, Grant is number 1 and Jordan ranked 6th, barely edging into the playoffs this season.

Week 23 PowerRanks

Weekly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
2
131.2

Lyin' Co. Reformers
2
1
129.2
 Iger's Tigers
3
5
116.1
 Soi Disant

4
3
113.6
 Charisma
5
10
111.3
 Lucky 13's
6
7
96.7
 tropical bakers
7
11
96.5
 LA Dodgers
8
9
95.4
 Mitchell Mudhens
9
8
94.5
 Seal Beach Dreamers
10
4
77.9
 Team LA
11
6
74.7
 SD ThunderCrack
12
12
62.9
 sorbet d'arc-enciel

Yearly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
1
137.1
 Iger's Tigers
2
2
113.5
 Seal Beach Dreamers
3
4
112.4
 SD ThunderCrack
4
3
108.5
 Lyin' Co. Reformers
5
5
100.2
 Team LA
6
8
96.6
 tropical bakers
7
10
96.5
 Mitchell Mudhens
8
6
94.4
 Soi Disant
9
9
93.2
 LA Dodgers
10
7
90.1
 Lucky 13's
11
11
87.2
 Charisma
12
12
70.4
 sorbet d'arc-enciel
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Keepers

Let's clear up the confusion

I've heard from some of you thinking that we were not doing keepers next season. That is not true. Many of you have told me how much you like having keepers on you team and I think it adds a little more fun into the mix, so be thinking about who you want to keep next year.

Here are the rules:

  • You may have up to 3 keepers o-ranked (Yahoo's ranking) 1-99. These players will be drafted in the first 3 rounds. You may choose to take the draft picks instead of the keeper.
  • You may also retain 5 more keepers o-ranked 100+. These will be drafted in order in rounds 10-14. Again, you may take draft picks or a combination of draft picks and keepers for this round.
  • You must submit your keepers 2 weeks prior to the start of the draft
  • There will then be a 3 day window to change your keepers after seeing everyone elses.
  • You may begin trading players (any players, not just keepers) from your 2009 roster after the conclusion of the playoffs. They may be traded for other players or draft positions. (i.e. you can trade Player A for the other team's 4th round pick.)
  • If you want to keep the player you drafted, you must add him to your keepers.
  • Your roster will consist of only your keepers 2 weeks from the start of the draft.

I know this may be a bit confusing, so let me know if you have questions. Just post them in the comment section below. This is a FIRST DRAFT of the rules, and the aim is to level the playing field enough so that everyone, regardless of interest or ability will be able to have fun. Please let me know any thoughts you have.

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PowerRanks: Week 21

Here come the playoffs!

After a hard fought battle, the top 6 places are spoken for: The Cocos, SD ThunderCrack, Seal Beach Dreamers, Lyin' Co. Reformers, Team LA and tropcial bakers are all in the mix for the crown. Who will wear the cufflinks this offseason?

In addition to the top six spots, I'd like to bestow a couple awards, so look for that coming up. For now, here are the final regular season PowerRanks.

Week 21 PowerRanks

Weekly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
1
160.5

Iger's Tigers
2
4
136.0
 Lyin' Co. Reformers
3
11
135.1
 Charisma

4
3
117.8
 Team LA
5
9
110.1
 Soi Disant
6
5
99.0
 SD ThunderCrack
7
8
96.1
 tropical bakers
8
2
92.3
 Seal Beach Dreamers
9
10
80.7
 Mitchell Mudhens
10
7
80.6
 Lucky 13's
11
6
46.9
 LA Dodgers
12
12
44.7
 sorbet d'arc-enciel

Yearly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
1
157.9
 Iger's Tigers
2
2
116.8
 Seal Beach Dreamers
3
3
116.7
 Lyin' Co. Reformers
4
4
109.5
 SD ThunderCrack
5
5
107.0
 Team LA
6
6
103.1
 Soi Disant
7
7
95.3
 Lucky 13's
8
8
92.2
 tropical bakers
9
9
84.5
 LA Dodgers
10
10
5.1
 Mitchell Mudhens
11
11
70.3
 Charisma
12
12
65.6
 sorbet d'arc-enciel
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Monday, August 24, 2009

PowerRanks: Week 20

One week left until the playoffs! The Yearly PowerRank seems to have stabilized somewhat, no one moved a place at all. The big playoff race is on for the last playoff spot. Both the LA Dodgers and tropical bakers have .500 records and whoever wins this week will win the final playoff spot barring a total collapse of both and a huge surge by one of the teams behind them. The tropical bakers are playing Charisma this week while the LA Dodgers draw the SD ThunderCrack.

It is also interesting to note at this time who the 2nd half movers are. The Cocos lead the pack improving on their first half by 39.7 points of PR+. Other teams that have huge gains in the second half are the Lucky 13's (25.1), Charisma (22.3), and the LA Dodgers (12.5). Other teams have dropped off in the second half led by last season's runners up with -41.8 point difference over the course of the second half. Other teams that have fared worse during the second half are reigning champion Team LA (-27.9), Lyin' Co. Reformers (-18.8), and the Soi Disant (-17.2).

Week 20 PowerRanks

Weekly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
2
157.9

Iger's Tigers
2
5
145.4
 Seal Beach Dreamers
3
9
120.6
 Team LA

4
3
113.5
 Lyin' Co. Reformers
5
1
104.9
 SD ThunderCrack
6
4
99.9
 LA Dodgers
7
7
92.4
 Lucky 13's
8
10
91.1
 tropical bakers
9
12
86.8
 Soi Disant
10
11
77.1
 Mitchell Mudhens
11
6
59.6
 Charisma
12
8
50.8
 sorbet d'arc-enciel

Yearly Rankings
Rank Last Week PR+ Team
1
1
157.2
 Iger's Tigers
2
2
120.0
 Seal Beach Dreamers
3
3
115.1
 Lyin' Co. Reformers
4
4
110.1
 SD ThunderCrack
5
5
104.8
 Team LA
6
6
101.0
 Soi Disant
7
7
94.4
 Lucky 13's
8
8
91.8
 tropical bakers
9
9
86.7
 LA Dodgers
10
10
82.4
 Mitchell Mudhens
11
11
70.0
 Charisma
12
12
66.7
 sorbet d'arc-enciel
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