Vortex Fantasy baseball... who's interested??

[JohnnieWalker85]

Here is who I've heard back from and who I'm still waiting on:

Heard back from:
johnniewalker85 (me)
GS Audio
Beng
Ryan D
metsfan124
GTiTOM
Pofe333
BIOHAZRD35
Sandalman
JTiberiVR6
johnnycupcake
BMBLE B

Waiting on:
Ruff Dice
rlsib16

How long should I give them before I start the league?

NOTE: This is the list for the ESPN roto style league, NOT the Super Seinfeld League.

[RuffDice]

wasn't around a computer this weekend, I'll signup today.

[BMBLE B]

Will the draft really take 2 hours?

Any nights after 10pm EST is fine with me. Any night but Wednesday before 10pm is fine too.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Ok, how about this for the draft? We begin at around 8 or 9 EST so east coasters can be awake for the late rounds (where many believe leagues are won or lost). West coasters will need to auto pick the first few rounds but will be around for the later rounds.

What do you guys think about that?

[beng]

Sounds good to me. Should I have gotten an invite or anything? I didnt notice one in my email yet.

[JohnnieWalker85]

haven't sent the email yet. I'm just waiting to hear back from a couple people. I think today will be the last day for waiting. I just figured a lot of people were probably away from computers over the weekend.

[beng]

Sweet!

[pofe333]

Quote, originally posted by BMBLE B »

Will the draft really take 2 hours? Any nights after 10pm EST is fine with me. Any night but Wednesday before 10pm is fine too.

Each person usually gets 1.5 to 2 minutes per pick. With 14 teams and 22 rounds or so, that's alot of time. Of course alot of picks won't take that long, but autopicks sometimes drag out the whole timeframe and the later rounds get pretty slow when the pickings get slim.

Quote, originally posted by JohnnieWalker85 »

Ok, how about this for the draft? We begin at around 8 or 9 EST so east coasters can be awake for the late rounds (where many believe leagues are won or lost). West coasters will need to auto pick the first few rounds but will be around for the later rounds. What do you guys think about that?

I agree. A 9 EST starting point should work for most everybody. That gives West Coast until 6:00 to get to a computer and East Coast a chance to be done before midnight.

[GS Audio]

Quote, originally posted by pofe333 »

I agree. A 9 EST starting point should work for most everybody. That gives West Coast until 6:00 to get to a computer and East Coast a chance to be done before midnight.

That works.

[johnnycupcake]

Quote, originally posted by GS Audio »

That works.

x2

[BMBLE B]

x3

[Sandalman]

Time works fine for me. If possible, please not March 26. I'm getting married that weekend, and family should already be in town. I'll get serious grief from my fiancee and parents if I skip out on family time for a fantasy draft.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Quote, originally posted by Sandalman »

Time works fine for me. If possible, please not March 26. I'm getting married that weekend, and family should already be in town. I'll get serious grief from my fiancee and parents if I skip out on family time for a fantasy draft.

haha. Congrats. I was thinking we would do it as close to the start of the season as possible. That way we know who's playing where and who's hurt, who won't be ready, ect.

[RuffDice]

Schedule the draft date asap then. Not only should we get the time we want, but we'll all be able to settle upon a date to do it. I assume like in Fantasy Football, draft times closer to the first day of the season fill up fast.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Quote, originally posted by RuffDice »

Schedule the draft date asap then. Not only should we get the time we want, but we'll all be able to settle upon a date to do it. I assume like in Fantasy Football, draft times closer to the first day of the season fill up fast.

I sent you a PM I'm still waiting on your email address

[JohnnieWalker85]

Here is who I've heard back from and who I'm still waiting on:

Heard back from:
johnniewalker85 (me)
GS Audio
Beng
Ryan D
metsfan124
GTiTOM
Pofe333
BIOHAZRD35
Sandalman
JTiberiVR6
johnnycupcake
BMBLE B
rlsib16

Waiting on:
Ruff Dice

How long should I give them before I start the league?

NOTE: This is the list for the ESPN roto style league, NOT the Super Seinfeld League.

[pofe333]

You can create the league without sending out the emails, right? Then we can decide on a draft time anyway.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Do we want any defensive categories like fielding percentage, assists, putouts or errors?

Just sent the emails. I'm waiting to get Ruff Dice's email so i can send him an invite. Everyone else should have an invite in their inbox!

Draft is going to be April 2 at 9pm ET

Modified by JohnnieWalker85 at 10:28 PM 2-9-2009


Modified by JohnnieWalker85 at 10:40 PM 2-9-2009

[Sandalman]

Quote, originally posted by JohnnieWalker85 »

Do we want any defensive categories like fielding percentage, assists, putouts or errors?

I vote no. I like standard 5x5.

[pofe333]

I'm in. Need to work on my team name, but I've got my logo

I also vote standard 5x5.

[JohnnieWalker85]

So it turns out last year's league is still active (sorta like a keeper i guess). So, if anyone who was in it last year wants to follow their team from last year and see how they do with the same players, feel free.

EDIT: Apparently it wasn't with the same players so I made it so there are 5 keepers per team. Anyone from last year who wants to participate can.


Modified by JohnnieWalker85 at 9:56 AM 2-10-2009

[Sandalman]

Interesting. Looks like we get 5 keepers. I'm up for it if everyone else is.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Quote, originally posted by Sandalman »

Interesting. Looks like we get 5 keepers. I'm up for it if everyone else is.

I think if people don't want to to do it it will just auto pick for them in the draft. (what I'll probably do anyways) then we can transfer ownership to someone else or something.

[pofe333]

I'm confused here. So we are doing a new league and starting back up last year's league with 5 keepers?

[GS Audio]

I'll be keeping 5 people……not a bad deal!!

[RuffDice]

Quote, originally posted by pofe333 »

I'm confused here. So we are doing a new league and starting back up last year's league with 5 keepers?

Yeah... I think I'd rather pick my own players. How many are returning from last year?

[JohnnieWalker85]

Quote, originally posted by pofe333 »

I'm confused here. So we are doing a new league and starting back up last year's league with 5 keepers?

Yes. I just noticed that last years was still there so I reactivated it and made it with 5 keepers. I was just curious to see how I could do. I figured I would let the returning people know so they could do the same if they wanted.

ALSO the invites for the new league were sent last night. The new league is 14 teams standard 5x5 roto. Anyone who was on my list got an invite and this is a brand new league. no keepers from last year.

[GS Audio]

I'm in. JW.....I don't see any of my 2008 players......am I missing something?

[RuffDice]

I'm in.


Modified by RuffDice at 12:02 PM 2-10-2009

[beng]

I have the invite, I will try to log in today.

[Sandalman]

Quote, originally posted by pofe333 »

I'm confused here. So we are doing a new league and starting back up last year's league with 5 keepers?

I hope that's the plan. It really isn't fair to the people who are new to the league to have to deal with last year's deadbeat owners and trying to draft around other people's keepers.

Not that I wouldn't mind starting this league with Tex, Howard, Longoria, Lincecum and either Santana or Beltran, but it doesn't seem fair, somehow.

[BMBLE B]

Set it up just now.

[JohnnieWalker85]

Quote, originally posted by GS Audio »

I'm in. JW.....I don't see any of my 2008 players......am I missing something?

when you get to this page:
http://games.espn.go.com/frontpage/baseball

click the league called vortex (it should show your team name from last year. That's last year's league). It has nothing to do with this year's NEW league.

[RuffDice]

for those of you who can't figure it out, I'm Citi of Dreams but I used my abbreviation as Ruff.

[pofe333]

Quote, originally posted by Sandalman »

Interesting. Looks like we get 5 keepers. I'm up for it if everyone else is.

I don't know. All 10 teams would need to return or else who decides which players they keep? Also, nobody drafted last year expecting keepers.