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[Nabubrush]

Edit: wait, on the bunt thing do you mean how do players or manager's decide? Because players almost always get the sign from their manager. Batters rarely ever bunt on their own accord.

Well, I figured that was probably the case, but that's an interesting issue in and of itself (to me, anyway). How much of sports is like the managers playing chess against each other?

[melack]

Okay, so I'm taking a pretty big risk today. I'm purposely benching one of my best starting pitchers, Rich Hill. Why? Well, the guy's a fly ball pitcher who throws a ton of strikes, and he's going against my Seattle Mariners. I've seen enough of their games to know that these guys are free-swinging hackers who play baseball like it was a videogame (swinging at anything within three feet of the strike zone). As a result, they'll fall for terrible balls outside the zone and hardly ever walk, but like 6 guys in the lineup are near or above .300. Their knack for hitting anything in the zone and Rich Hill's knack for throwing strikes is a surefire recipe for pitching disaster. At least I think so. I have no idea if this move will pay off, but we'll see.

[Nabubrush]

That's the best part of fantasy sports, to me. I love trying to outwit the matchups - like in football trying to figure out if you have an outside runner who always goes left, and your opponent that week has a strong defense on that side, or if they are only good against inside runners, or whatever.

Sometimes you are running against the Raiders, so you just act like it's Christmas.

[iron_felix]

Which one of you guys are the Fightin' Phloggies? I tip my hat to you. A perfect record for the week is not easy to come by. I myself was close last week, with a 9-1 score on Sunday, but I managed to lose a couple pitching catergories on the very last day. Still, I can't complain with 7-2-1.

That was me.  I held the 10-0 record going into Sunday, but I was only leading in WHIP 1.53 to 1.54, with none of my pitchers starting for that day.  Fortunately for me I managed to hold out anyway.  It's also nice to see there are four teams in legitimate contention for first now.  It's a real race again!

It's been a pretty wild ride for the Phlogistons lately.  The week before I still had my Magic Roundabout rotation going and racked up 64 strikeouts, and then this week my offense exploded.  I even managed to get more stolen bases than I did back when I was focusing on stolen bases to the exclusion of other stats.  I think my strategy is beginning to solidify now, but I'm just hoping my players didn't use up all their mojo in that one week, or I could find myself in trouble soon.  Time will tell.

[KeithHernandez]

Hey Radiodread, Turbo Ninjas and MOTHERFUCKERS, are you guys still playing?

I am, kind of.  I got players I like (well, most of them), but do not want to waste time fuck*ng around too much with this.  My line-up seems good, but Ramirez and Andrew Jones have been struggling hard, I think that is hurting me bad.  I got Pedroia at the exact right time, though.  Also, most of my players are Red Sox, so I think it is a bad idea to have a lot of players on one team.

Also, I have a pitcher who through a no hitter tonight, and one who through a one hitter last week, but my only decent saves guy is on the bench.

[melack]

Yeah, you really ought to be given like 10 games in the standings for having a pitcher throw a no-hitter.

[Turbo Ninja]

This season has been uncharacteristically hands-off for me.  Last year I actually had a "little conversation" with my boss about how people around the office noticed how much time I was spending tending to my fake baseball teams and maybe I wasn't busy enough with legitimate work.  This season, I'm at a new office and it's the kind of place where the IT manager could actually pull up my browsing history and pass it to my new boss.  The threat of being In Trouble for fantasy baseball again has made me ease off, but I pledge to visit my team at least three times a week.

That whitewashing last week shamed me into it.

[Nabubrush]

This season has been uncharacteristically hands-off for me.  Last year I actually had a "little conversation" with my boss about how people around the office noticed how much time I was spending tending to my fake baseball teams and maybe I wasn't busy enough with legitimate work.  This season, I'm at a new office and it's the kind of place where the IT manager could actually pull up my browsing history and pass it to my new boss.  The threat of being In Trouble for fantasy baseball again has made me ease off, but I pledge to visit my team at least three times a week.

That whitewashing last week shamed me into it.

We tend to get a little bit of loose talk like that around the office here. Fortunately I work 14 - 16 hours a day, so people are mostly reluctant to throw any stones.

[melack]

I'm an unpaid intern, so they're lucky if I show up to work with ##### on.

[KeithHernandez]

What is the best way to find out which pitchers are starting?

[Nabubrush]

Other than the little ^ thing before the opponent's name?

[melack]

Yeah, just click a few days forward on your team screen and make sure every dude with a ^ next to their scheduled opponent is starting.

[Nabubrush]

Also, I did not realize this, but sometimes your fielders will have a little 'x' right before the game. That turns out not to be good.

[melack]

I think that's something they only recently implemented. It means they're getting a day to sit on the bench and eat sunflower seeds, right?

[Nabubrush]

Let me know if anyone is interested in a football league up ins; I'd be willing and able to serve as commish (I know it's early, but pigskin is my sport).

Ok, I've gotten one response, so the teams ought to be pretty stacked. I'll wait and make a thread in July probably.