ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BASEBALL?

I will now advance slowly toward the concept of dropping a player and picking a new one any time. Going to look at the yahoo site one more time to see if it tells how to do that, other than putting a player on waiver and waiting for someone to want the player, or somehow trading (an advanced idea for me at this time).

So the Tuesday game is the first to pay attention to? OK.
What happened to the season starting on the 24th? Ah, so, it's still the 24th here, yes.
What's ET? Boston time? Time in Tokyo?

So my roster has to be set on the 24th?

Tues, 3/25, 6 am ET: Boston vs Oakland in Japan.
Wed, 3/26, 6 am ET: Boston vs Oakland in Japan.
Sun, 3/30, 8 pm ET: Atlanta @ Washington
Mon, 3/31: Evereyone else

where do I find the scoring categories that we'll be using?

R, 2B, HR, RBI, SB, CS, BB, K, AVG, IP, W, CG, SHO, SV, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP, BSV

The areas where you are scored (it's a head to head league and we round-robin it, so one week you play me, another week you play RJB, etc. Once you've played everyone, it cycles through again. I think we get 3 or 4 cycles by the time the season ends):

Batting: Runs (R), Doubles (2B), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Caught Stealing (CS -- this is a negative stat; you want it to be low), Bases on Balls (BB -- also called walks), Strikeouts (K -- another negative stat), Average (AVG)

Pitching: Innings Pitched (IP), Wins (W), Complete Games (CG), Shutouts (SHO), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K -- here, it's a positive stat), Holds (HLD -- or, did the middle reliever hold the lead?), Earned Run Average (ERA -- a negative stat), Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP -- another negative stat. If Ks are low and ERA is high, WHIP is also going to be higher), Blown Saves (BSV -- if there is no hold, a blown save usually goes with that. Of course this is a negative stat).

Osso, if ya leave a spot on yer roster for just such a thing, the painful feeling soon goes away, eh George? :wink:
RH

You can have up to five.
Five?
Five.

You have two slots designated "SP". These require a player
designated "SP". You have three slots designated "P". These require a
player designated "SP" or "RP".

ossobuco wrote:

So the Tuesday game is the first to pay attention to? OK.
What happened to the season starting on the 24th? Ah, so, it's still the 24th here, yes.
What's ET? Boston time? Time in Tokyo?

So my roster has to be set on the 24th?

Tues, 3/25, 6 am ET: Boston vs Oakland in Japan.
Wed, 3/26, 6 am ET: Boston vs Oakland in Japan.
Sun, 3/30, 8 pm ET: Atlanta @ Washington
Mon, 3/31: Evereyone else

The season does not start on the 24th, at least I don't think it does -- I or whoever else said that, probably misspoke.

You only need to care about the 25th and 26th if you have any players on either Boston or Oakland. Right now your only applicable player is Pitcher Joe Blanton (Oakland). Then you have nothing to worry about until 3/30 which is an Atlanta game (you have Pitcher John Smoltz). Even then you only care if either of these gentlemen is actually starting.

The ET stands for Eastern Time. And yes, those games are being played at 6 AM our time. But that's only 'cause that's a reasonable time in Tokyo.

Yep.

It's good to find a decent player who can be plugged into various slots at
need.

I think I'm hung up on the concept of fielding a 'team' each day. I'm down to one SS so there will be days that I don't field a SS and days that I field multiple SPs. Strange kinda 'team'.