BIG PIMPIN'

Well, I've been busy with research, but I have still found time to make most of my Fantasy Baseball teams awesome.

Total Number of Teams: 7
Total Number of Teams where I was present for the draft: 5
Teams I drafted in First Place: 3 (Another team drafted is in 4th of 14 and that league has the most retarted scoring system ever)
Non-drafted: 2nd of 10 and 6th (soon will be moving up) of 12

My sole blackeye is the team I drafted in an AL only league. What the fuck was I thinking? I completely blew the draft; it is incredible. I thouhgt I could draft guys later than I could because there were so many who missed the draft. As a result, I am comfortably in 8th place out of 10. The best part is that there are no decent free agents, and the "Big Name" players I could trade 2 for 1 are sucking. GREAT!

F-ing Injuries

Well, I finished second in my Yahoo fantasy basketball league, due largely to a string of injuries. I lost 3 categories to 6 with the closest lost being rebounds by 3. Considering that Lebron missed 3 games, Gerald Wallace missed 2 and Ricky Davis missed 5, I think having any of them completely healthy would have made up the difference. The most disappointing part though was that I lost 3-pointer by 9, only hitting 35 in a week and a half of games. The prior week/game totals for my team were 46, 43, 46, 52, and 43. So, to only make 35 in 10 days was pretty BS. So, 3 more rebounds (for a tie) and a normal performance for 3-pters would have tied the total at 4 wins 4 loses and 1 tie. I held the tie breaker (points scored during the period). Oh well.

As for fantasy baseball advice here's one hot player.

Kevin Youkilis 1B/3B- .354 1 HR, 10 RBI, 9R, 0 SB
This guy has two position elligibilty, hits at the top of the Boston order, and has a .448 OBP. He is going to help average and runs for sure. His RBI totals are impressive for a leadoff spot.

I am the Champion

With three out of four championships in fantasy basketball complete, I am the champion in all 3. The Chem Eng Grad League 2 Week championship came to an end with my team winning 6 categories, 2nd in 2 categories, and last in 1 (turnovers). It may have been closer if Joe's team had not been decimated by injuries in the final week, but then again I had Garnett sit out the last week, too. BOX

Week 1 Fantasy Baseball

The weekly P.I.M.P. and I would relish your season ending knee injury Awards

These awards go to players that have either extremely helped my teams or hurt my teams.

P.I.M.P. Award

1. Chris Shelton- 0.583 AVE, 1.458 SLG 5 HR, 9 RBI
2. Ryan Freel - 0.545 AVE, 5 SB, 8 R
3. Hideki Matsui - 0.400 AVE, 7 RBI, 3 HR, 6 R
4. Josh Smith - 16 ppg, 1.25 3pt/gm, 3.25 blk/gm, 4.75 ast/gm
5. Rafer Alston - 14-52 completely killing Joe's FG% for the Fantasy basketball Playoffs

I would relish your season ending knee injury Award

1. Scott Podsednik - 1-21, 0.045 AVE, 1 R, 1 RBI, 0 SB
2. Barry Bonds - 2-12, 0.167 AVE, 4 R, 0 RBI, 0 HR

I have both of these guys on one team, DIE BASTARDS

The Fantasy Basketball playoffs are going well so far. However, one of my teams dropped from the 2nd seed to the 4th seed in what a ridiculously hot streak by the team in 4th. They finshed the season with a 24-0 (8 pts per week) streak against idle managers (dumbasses), and caught and passed me (I had a 10 point lead 3 weeks ago). The person in my division caught me, too. However, we had been battling for the division lead for the last two months; and considering how often my players have been injured this year I am not too concerned about that.

The Baseball Season has started, but more importantly that means the fantasy baseball season has started. YEAH, YEAH! I am in 1 league that looks like it will be the most fun league that I have been in. The message board is averaging 3 posts a day of people trash talking, and every team in the league has made at least 1 roster move. I missed most the draft, because it was on St. Patrick's Day; so, my team has some work to do. However, I was lucky enough to get Jonathan Pappleborn off waivers yesterday before his save. Score one for the BEEFCAKE.

Also baseball related, I am in a 9x6 weekly head-to-head league that uses weekly rosters. This league is retarded. It has wins, saves, and holds as a category, but only 3 spots for starting relief pitchers. What the fuck? The league also has total bases, AVE, OBP and SLG as categories, also retarded. And to cap it off you get 3 bench spots and start 15 players. So it is impossible to have any depth on your team. I brought this up with the league on the message board, and this is how the commish responded.

"more roster spots: i'm disinclined to add more roster spots because i don't want teams to hoard players; i'd rather have more players available in the FA pool so weaker teams can be more competitive. it's harder to hold on to first place if you don't have depth. "

Of course, it's harder to hold on to 1st if you don't have depth, that is why good owners/managers develop depth on their bench. Also the reason a team is weak, generally, is b/c the owner fucked up the draft and doesn't pay attention to the waiver wire.