Are You Ready For Fantasy Baseball - 2009?

It's Opening Day, and George is already streaming pitchers!

The Geriatric Gerbils are making my Owls molt.

The week is still young. Tuba man! Nice average! But the ERA ....

Just making minor adjustments.

ok, first time with fantasy baseball...

questions!

Can I rotate players every day based on who is playing that day and who is not? For example, Damon played yesterday, but has today off. Pierre is playing today, so can I rotate the non-playing player for the playing player and switch again tomorrow?

Same with pitchers?

yes and yes

Another question. None of my pitchers are on the bench. So if any of them are activated, they will count? I don't have to move pitchers around?

Seriously! So much for my pitcher-hoarding draft strategy. Wasn't exactly expecting Tejada to carry the team...

You have just enough pitchers (so do I) that you don't have to move them around at all. If you get one more (let's say you drop one of your extra outfielders and pick up a pitcher instead), then you'll need to pay attention to who's starting. Fortunately, when it comes to pitchers, teams usually know up to 5 or so days in advance, so you're able to do a little preplanning, like if you're going on vacation. Mileage varies when there are injuries, extra innings or weather issues.

For anyone other than a pitcher, though, the manager usually doesn't pencil them in until day of, so you can find yourself checking by, say, 2 PM Eastern Time or so, and even then not every roster is up.

I must be missing something. I thought the batting category CS is Caught Stealing, which is a bad thing to have happen. I see that one of my guys got caught stealing while none of the Lushies players has. But I get a point in the matchup for that?

Same with BSV (blown save)... wouldn't that be a detriment to your team and a point for the other team?

Yup, low man wins that category.

It's confusing because on your matchup scoreboard Yahoo! has been handing that point to you, weirdly. However, the league page has been accurately reflecting the totals.

There must be something wrong with the league settings. The Tubas have a higher CS and BSV number but the matchup shows him as earning points, not giving them to his opponent.

Seems....so....maybe some bugs to work out still? ElStud and I have been trying to figure out how it works and what two or three of the scoring categories actually are. I presume if he has more runs, however many more runs, than I do, he gets 1 pt? Etc. And if we are tied up neither of us gets a pt?

Yall got it right. And, oh yes. When you go to the League page you will see the match-up scores. That is before the current day's games and will be updated the next morning. Click Match-Up and you will see the live-time scores.

Got it. Thanks.

Now are there any points involved for pitching peformance? And how does that work?

Same thing going on with Tico's CS...

10 of the 19 categories involve how your pitchers do, cumulatively, for the week. IP is Innings Pitched. If your guys rack up more IP, you get a point. W stands for wins. More W's for your guys = a point for you.
Tico made reference to George's strategy in the past re SP. He would add a SP to his roster who would be starting on Monday, and then drop him for a SP who would be starting on Tuesday. He would definitely get points for IP and K (strikeouts) But he would probably lose BB (walks allowed). He might, through sheer numbers of IP get W's. It is a strategy that is not unique to George. I have seen mention made of it by the Yahoo columnists. Whether it is effective is moot.
You may know that CG stands for Complete Game and SO stands for Shutout. It would be heresy to propose this but I do wish CG and SO (or is it SHO) would be replaced with some other categories. The reason is that SP throw the ball so hard and so fast that they are only good for about 100-115 pitches per game. That takes them into about the 6th or 7th inning. Then they typically start to fade. In addition, as Tico noted a season or two back, teams have RP who earn big salaries to close out games. A manager has to keep them happy. We will each be lucky to pile up more than 3 CG's this season and perhaps 1 SO.

what is whip?