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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 9, 2021 8:53:47 GMT -5
In the spirit of transparency, the league page shows that some league rules were changed. SOUTH found another glitch in the matrix that allowed him to add a player to his active roster without dropping a player thus putting him at 26 active players(max 25). The system allowed this because he is only carrying 13 minors, which gave him a total of less than 40 players. The system was set for a roster of 40(25 active;15 minor) plus an option to "count" minor players against the roster limit of 40. Which if you recall, we just changed earlier this week after SOUTH discovered an issue adding to his minors. Well after some tinkering, we think we have solved it going forward. The settings are now a total roster size of 25(active), 15 minors and those minors don't count towards roster limits.
In short please double check your rosters. We think everything is correct but it doesn't hurt to be safe.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 7, 2021 9:52:30 GMT -5
They have an app?? I've been using my mobile browser on my phone.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 5, 2021 13:45:12 GMT -5
Couple things here that I came across while adding a player this morning. I wanted to add Yermin Mercedes to my minors. When you go to add a minors eligible player, it gives you three options: ACTIVE, RESERVE, MINORS. By default it seemed to be set to RESERVE. The concern there is that people unintentionally add a Minors player to their Active Roster. I added Mercedes to my Reserve slot. 1. It put me over roster limit with 26 Active players. I got no notifications or messages saying so. 2. I was able to freely move Mercedes to my Minors roster. Brings us back to previous discussion. how can we monitor the "One demotion per year" rule? [/a] [/quote] This is now corrected. There was an option not checked causing minor players not to be counted against roster limits. I was going to try and show it like SOUTH but I'm not smart enough to figure it out. It's also why the transaction history shows me adding and dropping some nobody to test the system.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 5, 2021 9:04:48 GMT -5
I think the only question left is if we want to allow a player be added to an owner's minors roster who is currently in the MLB. If so, I think we are stuck with the "honor" system or spreadsheets. If not, we can just continue to enable ineligible minors to stay on minors rosters once there, and then that allows all the mechanisms people have said they liked: deciding when to promote. We can then have the 1 demotion for sending a currently MLB player to the minors roster, free demotions of players in the MiLB and during the off-season we can check baseball reference for forced promotions as we've done in the past. BTW, has anyone figured out how to see Earned Runs in addition to ERA? ERA hurts my brain as a single game stat to track how well my P has done. I like it as the category scoring stat though, just want to see how many earned runs are coughed up. Personally I would like to keep the ability to allow players that are on MLB rosters AND fit our AB/IP requirements to be added to minor rosters. Click on the players name, then stats. That will show everything including earned runs given up.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 3, 2021 23:40:42 GMT -5
Sithbucknut77’s Annual NOSF Dynasty League Predictions - 2021 Edition
Welcome back to NCOAST Dynasty League’s 7th season in the 8th year!
Our long national nightmare is finally over. No, I’m not talking about Covid, I am referring to PRONKx Sox’s average draft time! But seriously thank god that draft is over.
This year will officially consummate the transfer over league play for ESuxPN to Fantrax. Gone is the hassle of checking Google Docs for owned players and new hassles we don’t even know yet! It may look different but I think the league is primed for another great season. Will REDS pull off the 1st repeat? Does it count since Covid won last year? Do we crown a 1st time winner? Is this the year CEO doesn’t make the post season? Let’s see what the old prognosticator machine spits out!
The following SITH predictions are calculated after thousands of simulations based off team rosters directly after the completion of the draft. Current predictions to take into account the vast range of managerial skills, or lack thereof, within the league. Now for your reading pleasure this year’s NOSF dynasty league projections, where all projections are 100% correct 50% of the time.
BROW – Last time we played, BROW had by most accounts completed a quick and rather successful rebuild. But does he have the horses for sustained success? I think he does with a good blend of young and older players. If there is a gap, it is in the minor league roster with only a few high end prospects.
Quad County Confluence – This roster reminds me of the old roto strategy of “stars & scrubs” approach, with the elite talent of Trout and 2 legitimate Cy Young contenders in Burnes & Giolito. Every year the “No Trout fishing” sign is up, but I’m not so sure the ban should remain in place. If BELL can make a couple savvy moves with the ascending Witt, BELL could be primed for a quick turnaround.
CEO – Whoever said dynasties were good for sports? Well I think some new blood in the post season would be good and it looks like CEO is primed for a step back. That step back will be accelerated, not by dead prospects, but an improving WORLD division.
North Linden Militia – This this year’s Jekyll & Hyde team in my esteemed opinion. The projection models don’t line up with the names on the back of the jerseys. DRT arguably has 6 or 7 players that are top 10 or better at their positions. Yet the lack of depth has his counting stats lagging behind. In 2019, I stated DRT had possibly the best minors roster in the entire league, 2 years later I don’t see any reason to change that ranking. There are loads of high prospects coming and coming soon.
REDS – REDS is close to turning into a juggernaut. Filled to the brim with young outfielders that he could use to fill any hole that may come up. It certainly helps that REDS sits atop the weaker of the 2 divisions.
Mr. Kate Upton – New Year, same SITH... Strong hitting, possibly not enough pitching. SITH has been working to bring up young upside arms and he needs a few to hit to take the next step before the batters get too old and a complete tear down is needed.
PRONKx SOX – Sigh….maybe change the team name? I think it’s either cursed or the OG pronk in disguise. But seriously, I think I can see an improved roster. Not win the division good, but competitive. SOX still have the oldest roster in the league which…wait a sec… of course Wainwright put him over the top. While the offense is respectable, the pitching is lagging just bit with depth behind Bieber, Lynn, & Gallen. If SOX can mine some good pitching he can take another step forward.
The CheatStros – aka King of the Middle Infielder. I’m pretty sure I look at STROS and think “How has he not won a title?” With the 2nd oldest team in the league the window I think he is in could be closing. Still with elite talent on both sides of the ball he will be tough to stop on offense plus a good pitching staff led by deGrom has STROS as a strong contender.
TESL – TESLA seems to another team in the same purgatory several teams are in, good enough to play .500 ball but not much better or worse or that. Pitching will have to carry the load this year as there is plenty of injury risk on the offensive side of the game.
The Baseball Team – TIG has that ho hum worker like roster, doesn’t really wow you anywhere but should be competitive most weeks. The real key for TIG to push past the .500 mark is to make some savvy moves that match up well with some high end prospects make the majors.
A new feature this year will be a “Baseball America” type minors organizational rankings and depending on how it’s received it could be reoccurring feature.
1. North Linden Militia – 5 possible future all-stars rostered
2. Mr. Kate Upton – Flush with probable above average MLB players
3. CEO – The top end prospects are really carrying this ranking
4. BROW – A typical BROW roster with a good mix of players that can help now & later
5. The Baseball Team – Uber talent at the top but the backend needs built up
6. PRONKx SOX – Tied for the oldest minor roster with not a lot of upside
7. Quad County Confluence – 1 elite prospect that will make an impact soon
8. REDS – A couple upside guys then some filler
9. TESL – A few good arms if they stay healthy but plenty of room to add
10. The CheatStros – more middle infielders but injuries and demotions keeping him down.
And now the presentation of the predicted standings and postseason participants!
World Ohio
The CheatStros 192-48 REDS 174-66
TESL 117-123 BROW 132-108
CEO 115-125 Mr. Kate Upton 114-126
North Linden Militia 114-126 Quad County Confluence 87-153
PRONKx SOX 76-164 The Baseball Team 79-161
Playoffs
The CheatStros(1) over TESL(4)
BROW(3) over REDS(2)
Championship
The CheatStros over BROW
Goodluck to everyone and have a great and healthy season!
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 3, 2021 11:32:45 GMT -5
Now that I have had time to really digest all the comments I now realize what TESLA was referring to about having players that are on MLB rosters but MINOR eligible. This stems from the original rule stating minor eligibility is granted if MLB service time is < 2.0 years. Since we used service time as calculated on baseball reference, a players time was updated yearly by that site and SOUTH would apply it to our rosters for mandatory callups, etc. At no point that I can recall, did we make minor eligible players ineligible for active rosters, therefore, we have always had minor eligible players on our active rosters even if they were in the actual minors. Now bring it forward to fantrax, the software does not allow us the ability to determine eligibility by our previous rule of < 2.0 years of service time. We selected career AB & IP limits to "get us close" to what 2 years of service time looked like under prior to the platform change. Fantrax has 3 basic minor eligibility setups: - None - which means any player can be put in a minors slots
- Simple - only real minor league players are allowed in minors slots
- Advanced - whereas we can use different metrics such as AB, IP, GP, or age
My opinion is whatever we do, is to have the site do most of the heavy lifting. If eligibility limits need adjusted, lets figure out where we want them to go.
I hear the argument against "stashing" MLB players on the minor rosters...personally I think we have all done that to some degree and a key way to build our teams. I speak for myself and have pondered when to call up that big prospect. 2019 is my last best example for myself, to I call up Pete Alonso on day 1 because he made the MLB roster or do I hold him back. Because if I call him up and he struggles, I only have the 1 demotion and reduce my roster flexibility and increase my risk of losing him or another valuable asset the next year because our mandatory cut down to 15.
I want the most opportunities to decide the fate of my assets whether they are on our active roster or minor rosters. Yes let the site do the work. Is there a way to remove minor status from players in active lineup? For example edman biggio Walker should no longer be eligible to be put in my minors because they have been on my active roster. Fantrax has that option but it is in direct contradiction of how we have determined eligibility from the outset of the league.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 3, 2021 11:23:08 GMT -5
I want to take a second and express my gratitude for being a league with a bunch cool guys that know how to have some fun while taking the league seriously. I was given a shock to my system today when in another league, I was accused of breaking a rule, a stupid rule at that. Thinking the accusation was in a private message, my retort was a little sarcastic pointing out the player in question was not on my roster and then asking who made the accuser "the tranny police?". For my insolence I received a "**** off" & a "cocksucker" and further "*******" & "pussy". A real joy for a the 1st saturday of the season.
So when bust each others balls about whatever the topic of the day, its nice to know its all in good fun. Hope you remember this when I post the preseason prediction column.
Thanks again
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 2, 2021 21:20:11 GMT -5
Now that I have had time to really digest all the comments I now realize what TESLA was referring to about having players that are on MLB rosters but MINOR eligible. This stems from the original rule stating minor eligibility is granted if MLB service time is < 2.0 years. Since we used service time as calculated on baseball reference, a players time was updated yearly by that site and SOUTH would apply it to our rosters for mandatory callups, etc. At no point that I can recall, did we make minor eligible players ineligible for active rosters, therefore, we have always had minor eligible players on our active rosters even if they were in the actual minors. Now bring it forward to fantrax, the software does not allow us the ability to determine eligibility by our previous rule of < 2.0 years of service time. We selected career AB & IP limits to "get us close" to what 2 years of service time looked like under prior to the platform change. Fantrax has 3 basic minor eligibility setups: - None - which means any player can be put in a minors slots
- Simple - only real minor league players are allowed in minors slots
- Advanced - whereas we can use different metrics such as AB, IP, GP, or age
My opinion is whatever we do, is to have the site do most of the heavy lifting. If eligibility limits need adjusted, lets figure out where we want them to go.
I hear the argument against "stashing" MLB players on the minor rosters...personally I think we have all done that to some degree and a key way to build our teams. I speak for myself and have pondered when to call up that big prospect. 2019 is my last best example for myself, to I call up Pete Alonso on day 1 because he made the MLB roster or do I hold him back. Because if I call him up and he struggles, I only have the 1 demotion and reduce my roster flexibility and increase my risk of losing him or another valuable asset the next year because our mandatory cut down to 15.
I want the most opportunities to decide the fate of my assets whether they are on our active roster or minor rosters.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 18:59:52 GMT -5
(Which opens up a pitcher stat stuffing loophole) You can always do what I've personally hated and set an IP limit per matchup.I hate that as well.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 12:18:24 GMT -5
but as long as they are currently on the minors roster they can stay there. But, can they stay on the minors roster on Fantrax without the Minors(M) designation? Yes...its an option we have selected. They can stay there for the remainder of the current season.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 12:03:40 GMT -5
Honestly I think south needs to weigh in. On the Minors stuff.
And for the record I drafted marte and demoted him thinking he would be my 1 demotion for the year.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 11:59:57 GMT -5
you only get one minors demotion a year right? i thought that was still a thing That is my assumption as well.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 11:59:20 GMT -5
A minor pick up currently counts as a transaction. I mean moving a minor from my minors roster to my active roster. Otherwise I could have a collection of minors eligible pitchers that are in the majors and stream them each week, promoting them the day of their start and back down after. I saw on Fantrax: www.fantrax.com/faq/roster There are several criteria that your league's Commissioner can configure to determine when a player is eligible to be moved to the Minors slot in the Team Roster screen. This criteria, which can be found in the Rosters section in the League Rules Summary screen, includes:
1) Whether or not the player is in the (real-life) minor leagues, inactive or a free agent. A green flag will appear next to a player's name if he belongs to any of the above 3 statuses. 2) The player's age. 3) The player's total number of career games played.
My vote would be to remove #2 and #3 and then it would mirror real baseball. You can keep a minor on your minor rosters once they lose eligibility, but you can only move them back once they re-gain it, like if they got demoted in real life. And then we could enforce #2 and #3 in the off-season as usual with forced promotions. We don't use 2 or 3 already. The best closest option to mirror our previous rule if <2.0 years of mlb service time was to use AB's for batters & IP for pitchers. And I think miss read one of your statements, calling up one of your rostered minor players does not count as a transaction.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 11:36:54 GMT -5
Also did we decide on how we are treating minor eligible players drafted in the active draft being placed on our minor rosters? It looks like we are "just rolling with it" as well. It would be nice if we did have some rule that was agreed upon for moving minors during the season. It should at least cost a tranny I think. Not sure what's built into Fantrax. A minor pick up currently counts as a transaction.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Apr 1, 2021 9:37:17 GMT -5
Happy opening day!!! Woot!
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 31, 2021 23:19:07 GMT -5
If it's as simple as drag and drop, you could take those last 3 weeks and spread them out across the season. Say put one at opening day, one near the middle of the season and leve the last one where it is. But if you would have to manually edit every single week to accomplish this I'd say the hell with it and leave it as is. Also, I still like the idea of putting the two teams you only play once on the two long weeks, though it's probably too late and too much work to try and make happen for this year. Unfortunately its not drag and drop. One of the last things I did last night was to write down each individual weeks. Assuming work doesn't turn into an 18hr day, I should be able to make the adjustments after work. I tweaked it a bit so the last 2 weeks are in divison games....I think... the margaritsas are hitting hard tonight....
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 31, 2021 23:07:14 GMT -5
you can adjust that in you're preferences
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 31, 2021 19:28:56 GMT -5
A flurry of activity today
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 31, 2021 8:04:15 GMT -5
FYI to all, I have the schedule adjusted to the correct amount of in division out of division matchups and the weekly periods. I still need to look at the weekly matchups, as in currently the last 3 weeks are all out of division which isn't ideal. I'm gonna try my darndest to get that done tomorrow night...I'm just spent for the evening. If it's as simple as drag and drop, you could take those last 3 weeks and spread them out across the season. Say put one at opening day, one near the middle of the season and leve the last one where it is. But if you would have to manually edit every single week to accomplish this I'd say the hell with it and leave it as is. Also, I still like the idea of putting the two teams you only play once on the two long weeks, though it's probably too late and too much work to try and make happen for this year. Unfortunately its not drag and drop. One of the last things I did last night was to write down each individual weeks. Assuming work doesn't turn into an 18hr day, I should be able to make the adjustments after work.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 23:57:44 GMT -5
FYI to all, I have the schedule adjusted to the correct amount of in division out of division matchups and the weekly periods. I still need to look at the weekly matchups, as in currently the last 3 weeks are all out of division which isn't ideal. I'm gonna try my darndest to get that done tomorrow night...I'm just spent for the evening.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 22:23:29 GMT -5
All non owned players are on waivers until Wednesday. So they can be claimed at your discretion. should they roster immediately? Players go on waivers for 24 hours. The draft was completed just before 8pm est, that's when waivers will run. Then they are assigned based on the standard waiver rules we have always used. If you put in a claim, it actually tells what time it will process, assuming you are awarded said player.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 22:19:14 GMT -5
Another fantastic question...we need to research what options are available to us with the league software. Without looking I'd bet they count towards your weekly transactions. wherever prior policies are obstructed by site mechanics i would probably be in favor of yielding to site mechanics just to make things easier...if minors trannies count now then easy resolution would be to just accept it I do not see an option that separates normal trannies from minor trannies...but really, what is a normal trannie? I also am in agreement with TORCH and defer to the league software. Anything to keep us from tracking data outside of the system.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 21:58:26 GMT -5
Another question is, how do minors adds work on fantrax? Do they count against the weekly adds limit, and are they on the same waiver system as active pkayers? Can we start adding them when active adds open, provided that you don't add anyone drafted in 2020 or eligible to be drafted in 2021? Another fantastic question...we need to research what options are available to us with the league software. Without looking I'd bet they count towards your weekly transactions.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 21:55:54 GMT -5
Well the draft is finally over....sort of? Not sure how we're handling the few picks that the system skipped in round 10. I believe we are just rolling with it at this point. One more thing we should rectify prior to next years draft. Quite frankly it was probably just a gap on our league setup. That's to say, we have always had roster limits but we have also always allowed owners to acquire draft picks that put a roster over 40.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 21:52:35 GMT -5
Remember roster limits are 40 total with 15 minors. Anyone that is above that needs to be at that come 1 pitch on opening day. Obviously we will need to come to some kind of resolution on the 2020 & 2021 minors draft and roster limits at some point between now and MLB's June 1st year players draft.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 30, 2021 21:45:39 GMT -5
When can I start adding players? I have 3 open roster spots due to crappy keepers All non owned players are on waivers until Wednesday. So they can be claimed at your discretion.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 29, 2021 14:44:21 GMT -5
Hey...what's a guy gonna do. I think maybe new pronk should get rid of the pronk name, it must be cursed!
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 27, 2021 10:30:09 GMT -5
I was under the impression that active drafted players are on the active roster and like previous years you would have to use your one demotion to move them down to our minor team. Since we have little less then 24hrs till our next pick we could hash it out now. Lol That's how I was playing it as well. Keep in mind, under the current system, we can roster 15 players on the minor roster at opening day. Since historically we held a separate minors draft, our rosters expand to cover the extra 2 players. That is something we could probably hash out as well.
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 25, 2021 16:01:49 GMT -5
I think pronk has taken his ball and went home...
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Post by sithbucknut77 on Mar 23, 2021 20:25:44 GMT -5
F that schedule....
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