Fantasy baseball, with a catch.

[HollywoodLeo]

Draft time March 31st at 2:15 PM CST

But, here's the catch, you have to suck! Here's how the scoring set up looks.

Home Runs -10 Points
Caught Stealing 25 Points
Strikeouts 2 Points
Ground Into Double Play 15 Points
Total Bases -1 Points
Errors 20 Points
Losses 15 Points
Hits 1 Points
Runs 2 Points
Walks 3 Points
Hit Batters 20 Points
Strikeouts -4 Points

The trick, though, is you have to find players that suck...but will get a lot of playing time.

PM me with an email address if you want to join and I'll send an invite.

[DirtyKash]

So basically, the ideal players for this league setup would be low-AVG, high-K, low-HR batters like Jason Lane and high-loss, low-K pitchers like Josh Fogg and Ramon Ortiz.

I'll join when I get home from work.

[HollywoodLeo]

League ID#: 249538
Password: Iwanttolose

2007 Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball

[HollywoodLeo]

anyone else?

[DirtyKash]

I'm in bro.

[DirtyKash]

Leo, you have the league settings set up wrong. You have it as a rotisserie league, but you're supposed to have it set up as a points league, and then enter the corresponding point values.

[HollywoodLeo]

Leo, you have the league settings set up wrong. You have it as a rotisserie league, but you're supposed to have it set up as a points league, and then enter the corresponding point values.

I simply picked the "Hall of Shame" custom league Yahoo provided. They have it set up the way they like.

Rotisserie works on points, only the standings are based on the rankings you have off those points instead of blanket point values.

[DirtyKash]

I see...

[DirtyKash]

The description for Hall of Shame is by Points Only, though.

Express Settings - Hall of Shame

The Hall of Shame rewards futility! The worse your players perform in real life, the more points you'll score. Look for players who strikeout, lose games, commit errors... but still play every day. Like other Points leagues, fantasy points are awarded based on how your players perform in each of several statistical categories. All real-life statistics have associated point values, and each player's points are summed to produce your daily total. The team with the highest total at the end of the year wins its league championship.
League Settings


Scoring TypePoints OnlyMax Teams12Player universeAll baseballMax MovesNo maximumMax TradesNo maximumTrade End DateAugust 12, 2007Trade ReviewLeague VotesTrade Reject Time2 daysWaiver Time2 daysCan't Cut ListYahoo! SportsPost Draft PlayersFollow Waiver RulesLeague Start DateSunday, Apr 1Roster ChangesDaily - TomorrowMaximum Games Played162Maximum Innings Pitched1250Catcher (C)1First Base (1B)1Second Base (2B)1Third Base (3B)1Shortstop (SS)1Left Fielder (LF)0Center Fielder (CF)0Right Fielder (RF)0Outfield (OF)3Middle Infielder (MI)0Corner Infielder (CI)0Infielder (IF)0All Batters (Util)1Starters (SP)5Relievers (RP)0All Pitchers (P)0Disabled List (DL)1Bench (BN)4


Scoring Settings


Home Runs-10 PointsCaught Stealing25 PointsStrikeouts2 PointsGround Into Double Play15 PointsTotal Bases-1 PointsErrors20 PointsLosses15 PointsHits1 PointsRuns2 PointsWalks3 PointsHit Batters20 PointsStrikeouts-4 Points

[HollywoodLeo]

All I know is I picked the circle for custom leagues and then I clicked the circle for "Hall of Shame" and Yahoo did the rest for me.

[DirtyKash]

Obviously you messed up along the way. :-P

[HollywoodLeo]

OK, I know what happened. When I created the league the custom URL i tried first was taken and it reloaded the first page. When it did this I made it the default settings.

I edited it all to what it should be. Thanks for pointing it out.

[DirtyKash]

According to these settings, the top batter last year was FELIPE LOPEZ with 902 fantasy points. Dude had 11 HR, but 12 CS, 126 K, 9 GIDP, only 235 TB, and made 28 errors.

Top pitcher was JASON MARQUIS. 16 losses, 136 R, 221 H, 75 BB, 16 HBP, only 96 K.

As predicted, Ramon Ortiz is up there, being second for the pitchers. Johan Santana is basically undraftable.

[browntown653]

This sounds hilarious. For some reason the first batter I thought of was Felipe Lopez. I'm definitely in.

[HollywoodLeo]

This is one draft you don't want to miss, though. Or you want to make sure you pre rank your players.

Otherwise you'll be stuck with Puljos, Santana, A-Rod, etc etc