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Basic Rules
Every day you pick two MLB players, 1 pitcher and 1 hitter. Their stats accumulate in the traditional 5x5 roto categories: R, HR, RBI, SB and AVG for hitters and W, SV, K, ERA and WHIP for pitchers. Of course, there's a catch. You can only use a player once per month. If you select a player for any given day and his team plays a game (even if he doesn't participate) you cannot use him for the rest of the month.
Scoring
Everyone's cumulative stats will be totaled and then the rotisserie standings will be determined based on your total for each stat relative to everyone else participating. In stick with ASFL2 tradition, low score = better. The highest total in a category gets you 1 point, second highest = 2 points, etc. Add up those scores through the 10 categories for your overall score.
The standings will be totaled over three periods- weekly, monthly and overall. The weekly winners will receive a bonus point a la many ASFL2 games, the monthly winners will earn a spot in the playoffs and the overall standings will be used as a means of bonus point earning on top of the playoff results.
Weeks will run from Monday to Sunday, aside from the first (Sunday to Sunday) and last (Monday to the following Monday) weeks of the season.
Minimums
In order to prevent the rate stat standings from getting distorted by late or lazy entrants there will be minimums to be factored in.
The official MLB minimums are 3.1 PA/G and 1.0 IP/G or 502 PA and 162 IP for the year.
I'll keep the hitter minimum at 3.1 PA/G which translates into 22 PA per week, 93 PA per month and 456 PA for the whole season (doesn't include the playoffs).
Due to the fact that mostly starters will be used, 1.0 IP/G is too low for this games purpose each week or month. The weekly innings requirement will be 28 IP (or 4 per day). The monthly innings requirement will be 120 IP (also about 4 per day) and the yearly innings requirement will be 150 IP (more in line with the normal MLB minimum).
I should probably note PA = plate appearances = at-bats plus walks plus hit-by-pitches plus sacrifices.
Playoffs
As I already mentioned, the 5 monthly winners (April, May, June, July and August) will qualify for the playoffs. They will be joined by the top 7 in the yearly-standings who didn't qualify by winning a month, for a total of 12 participants. The tiebreaker throughtout the playoffs will be regular season rank.
Round 1 (Tuesday, September 1st to Thursday, September 10th)
The lower eight seeds will participate through the first 10 days of the month with the top 4 moving on to the semifinals.
Semifinals (Friday, September 11th to Sunday, September 20th)
The semifinal round will have the four moving on from round one face the top four seeds from the regular season with the eight split into two groups of four.
Group 1
Top seed from regular season (-2 from total)
Fourth seed from regular season
Second lowest score from the opening round
Higher regular season seed not-reseeded in opening round
Group 2
Second seed from regular season (-1 from total)
Third seed from regular season
Lowest score from opening round
Lower regular season seed not-reseeded in opening round
The groups won't be separate in the roto scoring table, meaning the worst score anyone will get is 8, not 4. The group winners will be guaranteed a place in the championship round with the two lowest scores after them also moving on.
Championship (Monday, September 21st to Sunday, October 4th)
Lower Group winner (-2 from total)
*Second lowest scorer from semifinals (-1 from total)
*Third lowest scorer from semifinals (-1 from total)
*Highest advancing score from semifinals
*The lower group winner will be guaranteed at least one point off their total. If they finish fourth or worse overall in the semifinals, the third place finisher will be moved down and receive no benefits.
Those involved will still be held to the one pick per-player per-month rule. This will be an added bonus to those with byes as they have less days of the month to pick players and will have a larger pool to pick from compared to those without byes.
Submitting Your Picks
In order to submit your pick for a day you simply need to reply in this format:
Batter(s):
4/5: Adam Dunn (Washington)
4/6: Ryan Howard (Philadelphia)
4/7: Jorge Cantu (Florida)
4/8: Chipper Jones (Atlanta)
4/9: Jose Reyes (New York Mets)
4/10: Ryan Theriot (Chicago Cubs)
4/11: Manny Ramirez (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Pitcher(s):
4/5: Felix Hernandez (Seattle)
4/6: Justin Duscherer (Oakland)
4/7: Frank Francisco (Texas)
4/8: Ervin Santana (Los Angeles Angels)
4/9: AJ Burnett (New York Yankees)
4/10: John Danks (Chicago White Sox)
4/11: Fausto Carmona (Cleveland)
I encourage you to make your picks weekly, but you're allowed to pick as far (or as little) in advance as you desire so long as there are at least 5 MLB games that haven't started at the time of your post for the day you are picking. You can also post your hitter picks separate from your pitcher picks, but you will only get stats for a day if you pick both a hitter and a pitcher on that day. Please make an effort to spell names correctly and correctly indentify teams.
If you have yet to make any picks for the coming week as of Saturday night and you aren't usually a daily picker you will be emailed a reminder for the week.
Rain-Outs/Postponed Games
In the event that you pick a player who is scheduled to play on a day, but winds up having his game postponed you will be allowed to choose a game later in the month for that player's stats to count in. If the postponement happens on the last day of a month you will be allowed to change the player to a different player playing that day who's game has yet to start or I will use a random number generator to select a day in the month for his stats to count from. If I need to use the number generator I will make sure the team involved had a game that day and/or the starter pitched. If a player is making his debut for the month on the last day and his game is postponed you won't receive any stats for the player.
Doubleheaders
If you pick a player who's team will take part in a double header for the day you select him you will need to pick one game from the double header to count for your player. If you fail to select a game it will be the second game by default, unless you're player was re-picked to play on the date when it will default to the first game.
MLB Schedule: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/schedules
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08/09: 10th, 429 Points
NFL Pickem Winner
09/10: Winner, 678 Points
Baseball Winner (only perfect CP score in ASFL2 history)
Tier 4 & 5 Winner
International Conference Winner
Keeper League: 9th
Third League Winner
10/11: 21st, 38 points
All-time: 3rd, 1145 points
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« Reply #1 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 10:38pm » |
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These are the results for April:
1 Brad Wilson 66.5
2 Nick Hall 90.5
3 Mike Miles 103.5
4 Anthony Lombardo 108
5 Susan Gantz 109
6 Rick Macaluso 110
7 Don Greenslate 117
8 Joseph Takkunen 117.5
9 Andrew Senger 119
10 Anders Nilsson 121.5
11 Kraig Monkman 129.5
12 Robert Casares 135.5
13 Jay Soester 137.5
13 Tim Schneider 137.5
15 Jason Oroszi 141.5
16 Chad Luik 148.5
17 Aaron Burton 154.5
17 Matthew Hardman 154.5
19 Nathan Susanto 164.5
20 David Synychak 176
21 Matt Spencer 177.5
22 John Galvano 181.5
22 Ryan Drzik 181.5
24 Jason Hurst 183.5
25 John Wright 189
26 Kevin Cheek 195
27 Kevin Whorton 211
28 Andrew Maher 231.5
29 Bill Waxman 257.5
These are the standings for May:
1 Mike Miles 55
2 Anders Nilsson 59
3 Brad Wilson 71.5
4 John Galvano 98.5
5 Jason Oroszi 111.5
6 Susan Gantz 116.5
7 Andrew Maher 117.5
8 Chad Luik 120
9 David Synychak 125
10 Rick Macaluso 138
11 Robert Casares 140
12 Tim Schneider 144
13 Matthew Hardman 146
14 Aaron Burton 147
15 Anthony Lombardo 149.5
16 Jay Soester 150
17 Nathan Susanto 154
18 Joseph Takkunen 158.5
19 Jason Hurst 159
20 Matt Spencer 160.5
21 Kraig Monkman 162
21 Ryan Drzik 162
23 Kevin Whorton 174.5
24 John Wright 186
25 Nick Hall 189
26 Andrew Senger 207
27 Don Greenslate 214
28 Kevin Cheek 255.5
29 Bill Waxman 279
These are the results for June:
1 Nick Hall 70.5
2 Mike Miles 84.5
3 John Galvano 88.0
4 Jay Soester 94.0
5 Joseph Takkunen 94.5
6 Anthony Lombardo 99.5
7 Anders Nilsson 105.0
8 Don Greenslate 109.0
9 David Synychak 111.0
10 Kraig Monkman 114.0
11 Matthew Hardman 117.0*
12 Andrew Senger 133.0
13 Rick Macaluso 140.0
13 Nathan Susanto 140.0
15 Brad Wilson 145.5
16 Kevin Whorton 155.5
17 Jason Hurst 164.0
18 John Wright 165.5
19 Jason Oroszi 171.5
20 Aaron Burton 172.0
21 Robert Casares 172.5
22 Matt Spencer 177.5
23 Chad Luik 179.5
24 Tim Schneider 183.5
25 Andrew Maher 184.5
26 Ryan Drzik 197.0*
27 Susan Gantz 220.5
Here are the results for July
1 Robert Casares 53.5
2 John Galvano 60.5
3 Jay Soester 84.0
4 Kevin Whorton 100.5
5 Mike Miles 105.0
6 Joseph Takkunen 108.0
7 Jason Oroszi 110.5
8 Anders Nilsson 116.0
9 Brad Wilson 117.0
10 Matthew Hardman 124.5*
11 Kraig Monkman 126.5
12 Tim Schneider 127.0
13 Andrew Maher 130.5
14 Rick Macaluso 132.0
15 Andrew Senger 135.0
16 Nathan Susanto 146.0
17 David Synychak 147.0
18 Nick Hall 149.5
19 Chad Luik 151.5
20 John Wright 152.5
21 Don Greenslate 155.0
22 Susan Gantz 160.5
23 Matt Spencer 198.5*
24 Jason Hurst 199.0*
25 Aaron Burton 226.0
26 Ryan Drzik 228.5*
Here are the results for August:
(1) Nick Hall 39.5
(2) Rick Macaluso 70
(3) Brad Wilson 70
(4) John Galvano 80.5
(5) Nathan Susanto 81
(6) Joseph Takkunen 87.5
(7) Andrew Senger 105.5
(8) Robert Casares 111
(9) Anders Nilsson 113.5
(10) Jason Hurst 116
(11) Jay Soester 118.5
(12) Mike Miles 122.5
(13) Kevin Whorton 124
(14) John Wright 125
(15) Chad Luik 129
(16) Kraig Monkman 131.5
(17) Jason Oroszi 134
(18) Don Greenslate 152
(19) Tim Schneider 166
(20) Matthew Hardman 173.5
(21) Andrew Maher 174.5
(22) Susan Gantz 180
(23) Aaron Burton 187
(24) David Synychak 240
(25) Ryan Drzik 242
Congratulation to Brad Wilson, Mike Miles, Nick Hall and Robert Casares for qualifying for the playoff.
Here are the week winners with total number of BPs for week win. In parenthesis is the week(s) they won:
John Galvano (5, 9, 11, 14) 4
Jay (12, 13, 15) 3
Nick Hall (4, 20, 21) 3
Joseph Takkunen (6, 17) 2
Rick Macaluso (18, 19) 2
Susan Gantz (1) 1
Brad Wilson (2) 1
Tim Schneider (3) 1
Anders Nilsson (7) 1
David Synychak (8) 1
Mike Miles (10) 1
Jason Oroszi (16) 1
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08/09: 10th, 429 Points
NFL Pickem Winner
09/10: Winner, 678 Points
Baseball Winner (only perfect CP score in ASFL2 history)
Tier 4 & 5 Winner
International Conference Winner
Keeper League: 9th
Third League Winner
10/11: 21st, 38 points
All-time: 3rd, 1145 points
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #2 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 10:45pm » |
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Well Anders you got your wish....You will definitely be kept busy lol
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 10:49pm » |
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Jay tries too hard.
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #4 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 10:53pm » |
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on Mar 30th, 2009, 10:45pm, bigddogg19 wrote:| Well Anders you got your wish....You will definitely be kept busy lol |
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I really should learn to keep quiet about these things
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08/09: 10th, 429 Points
NFL Pickem Winner
09/10: Winner, 678 Points
Baseball Winner (only perfect CP score in ASFL2 history)
Tier 4 & 5 Winner
International Conference Winner
Keeper League: 9th
Third League Winner
10/11: 21st, 38 points
All-time: 3rd, 1145 points
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #6 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 11:26pm » |
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on Mar 30th, 2009, 11:23pm, theabl wrote:
My problem as well.
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« Reply #7 on: Mar 30th, 2009, 11:40pm » |
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I really enjoyed studying economics, way too much probably since I haven't really got much benefit from my Maters degree in my career, if it can be called that.
The one fundamental premise of economics that I always had a problem with is the assumption that people will always make rational decisions based on the information they have at the time to maximize their utility.
I had a lot of discussions with my teachers about what utility is. Obviously it is not just to make as much money as possible and everyone agrees about that but then how do you quantify it? How would anyone assign value to the time we spend here? How would we? The only proof that it has value to us is the fact that we spend time here. So the value is the alternative cost, i.e. the money we could have made if we had spent the time we spend here on trying to make money. I don't think we should be thinking about that...
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08/09: 10th, 429 Points
NFL Pickem Winner
09/10: Winner, 678 Points
Baseball Winner (only perfect CP score in ASFL2 history)
Tier 4 & 5 Winner
International Conference Winner
Keeper League: 9th
Third League Winner
10/11: 21st, 38 points
All-time: 3rd, 1145 points
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #8 on: Mar 31st, 2009, 12:18am » |
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where do u go to find who the starting pitchers are a week in advance?
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #10 on: Mar 31st, 2009, 4:02pm » |
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Is this game part of the overall standings of the league or is it just for BP's?
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« Reply #12 on: Mar 31st, 2009, 4:45pm » |
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So in order to get Saves we need to pick a closer and just hope he has a chance to get the save?
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Re: MLB Daily Roto
« Reply #14 on: Mar 31st, 2009, 5:19pm » |
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on Mar 30th, 2009, 11:40pm, Suzerain wrote:| I had a lot of discussions with my teachers about what utility is. Obviously it is not just to make as much money as possible and everyone agrees about that but then how do you quantify it? How would anyone assign value to the time we spend here? How would we? The only proof that it has value to us is the fact that we spend time here. So the value is the alternative cost, i.e. the money we could have made if we had spent the time we spend here on trying to make money. I don't think we should be thinking about that... |
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This is the escense (sp?) of why Utility and Futility are so hard to discerne (sp?).
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Rocky Mountain Oysters
Brew City Storm
Hackin' Loogies
Lug Nutz
Bloody Puckin' Mess
Transylvania Knights
Naismiths NightMares
SW Tech Fightin' Donkeys
Pickin' & Grinnin'
"...and BOOM goes the Dynomite."
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