Who wants to play Fantasy Baseball?

so, did everybody bookmark the page with the teams on it for now? this will make it much easier to find it. having set bookmarks you should be able to go straigt to the page without stopping to log in.

tomorrow i will explain a little about setting draft ranks.
 
for those who haven't figured it out on their own, here are a few tips about ranking players.

after going to the main page that lists all our teams and names, go up to the top and click on options. this will take you a page that has, among other things, the way that scoring is done. the important thing here i think is that pitchers have the potential to score a lot of points. at any rate knowing a little about how scoring is weighted will help when it comes time to organize your draft.

next click on either of the 2 text links that say 'rank players'. then click on the position you want to edit. save 'rounds' till last. If you have any favorite players you want to be sure and get you might want to move them up in ranking. keeping track of moving the numbers around for draft ordering is probably the most difficult and confusing part of all of fantasy sports:D alos keep in mind that nobody with ranking higher than 20 will be drafted by anyone since there are 10 teams in the league and we draft 2 of each position. The exceptiona to this are pitchers & relief pitchers of which there are 50 and 40 drafted respectively.

when you are done with all your positions, then click on rounds. here you will decide in what order to draft what position. this is probably more important than exactly who you get at what position. it is also how you help assure you have the best chances of getting players you really want. put those players positions towards the beginning of your draft if you want your best shot at getting them.

then sit back and wait til the 22nd when you will get an email notice saying your team has been drafted. well actually you could start doing the great art for your teams logo. i will post sizes for those soon if anyone decides to do that. or you could use your avatar or once the draft is done the site has a logo designer that is easy to use.

dam, izzy was the last in and he's already to go. we better watch this guy:D
 
LOL...I've been in fantasy leagues before Ed, and I wanna make sure everything is set and done now because I have finals next week and I don't wanna have to worry about anything. :)

You guys don't have to worry about a thing...just forget I'm even there...;)
 
i was gonna join but its full :( although i might have done badly with my only knowledge of baseball and players coming from the softball simpsons episode (we dont get baseball in england).

next season (late august) we should have a fantasy football (as in soccer) league so i have a chance of doing well, and entering.
 
well, if there are enough others who want to start a second league that could be done. somebody else would have to start it besides me as i have already maxed out the number of leagues i can be on at that site.

so anybody else interested can post here and if there is interest we should start macosx.com2 or press3.com league as well.

btw - size for team logos is 100x100 pixels.
 
I've got a small problem, where do I log in? I get offers all the time to sign up, but I can't see any place to log in...
 
voice, do you still have the original mail they sent confirming you were signed up. that should have a link back to the page.

if not this is how i get to mine when i am at another computer.

www.cbs.sportsline.com

then click on fantasy. either that takes you straight to it or else you then click on baseball. 'log in' is often a very tiny text link from some pages.

actually, try this one

http://members2.fantasy.sportsline.com/
 
waitwaitwaitwait....I was "absent" the last days....is it already time to buy/rank/get players? How? Where? Why?
 
Ulrik - you really have until about the 20th or 21st to do it. i just wanted to give the instructions (scroll back several posts) for ranking your draft in case anybody wants to go ahead and get it out of the way. I am the type who, if i don't do it while i am thinking about it, i will forget and it won't get done.

any questions you have that i didn't answer in the previous post, feel free to ask.

btw - if you want help seeing who is good and all that, almost all the links around the sides of the main page will give you more info.

They have players preranked based upon how they did last year. so if you are happy to trust them and don't have a favorite player or anything, you can leave them as they are. You will still end up with a team.
 
well, draft day is upon us. sometime in the next 6-10 hrs you should be getting an email telling you that the draft has been run and you have a team. you can then go to the site and start doing stuff like adding a logo, set your lineup, offer trades, look for free agents, etc.

the season is till another week away, starting on the 31st i think. details will be on the site.

if you click on the 'fantasy home' link, you can see all the other fantasy sports you can play. you can even get up to 2 more baseball teams if you wish.

good luck to everyone but Phil who appears to need a lot more than luck with the team he intends to draft:p
 
update - the draft has been run and you have your teams. I would like to thank everyone because i got the one player i really wanted - Barry Bonds. along with most of the giants team:D

hey Izzy - do you know what the little yellow flags next to some roster names mean? i know the red ones are for injuries but can't figure the yellow ones out.
 
Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
hey Izzy - do you know what the little yellow flags next to some roster names mean? i know the red ones are for injuries but can't figure the yellow ones out.
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Whoops...sorry it took me so long to reply to this Ed, my brain is still recovering from finals :p

I'm thinking that the little yellow doc icons next to some of the names means that they have updated news bits from the last week or so...makes sense to me, but I'm not for sure that's what it means...

I just saw my lineup and i'm hoping for a good season...although I'm not thrilled that the league is one of those head to head kinds, I like the ones that go by pure stats and points alone...I've never had good luck with these type of leagues...should be an exciting year though :)
 
sorry macguy. now there are 2 of you. maybe you should start another thread and see if anyone else still wants to join. if not, see you at football season:)

izzy - i kinda thought that was what they might be but it didn't seem to match up with the players i checked. of course their site can be really funky about updates at times, especially before a season starts.

everyone ( i know Twyg saw it) might note that we have a message board on the fantasy site as well. I normally don't pay much attention to them but since we already know each other it might be fun to use. It would probably be a better place to trash talk about Phil than on this site where lurkers might make the mistake of taking us seriously:D
 
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