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0 Subject: 2006 RIBC: regular season discussion #1

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Mon, Apr 03, 2006, 12:27

This thread is for discussion of the 2006 RIBC season.

I'll set up the usual standings tracking program. It's not ready yet, but hopefully before the end of the night.
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372blue hen
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      Wed, Sep 06, 2006, 13:59
And despite that, I plan to start both Olly Perez and Daniel Cabrera tomorrow.
373blue hen
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      Wed, Sep 06, 2006, 18:59
err... today.

[Insert random Olly gloating here]
374holt
      ID: 22726517
      Thu, Sep 07, 2006, 01:36
my hitters went 5 for 40 today. kept looking through the box-scores... 0-4, 0-4, 0-3, 0-4. ouch.
375blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Thu, Sep 07, 2006, 10:32
Yech.

I really have to give credit to Twarpy. He spent several weeks trying to convince me to pick up Anibal Sanchez. Finally, I did. He's been my most consistent starter for the last 2 months.
376blue hen
      Leader
      ID: 710321114
      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 10:56
Looks like a fight to the finish - especially for the last few spots that don't get relegated.
377holt
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      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 13:20
yeah you and KKB seem to have a little battle going on there.
378darkside
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      ID: 3590317
      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 14:13
Sorry to butt in, but the post by blue hen made me wonder about next year.

Guru, have you given any thought to the how you will handle invites next year given the additional qualifying leagues? Or is that something you'll just decide early next year, as you did this year?
379KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 14:27
Forget hen, I'm focused on Guru! ;)

My Saves will take a hit in the short-term, but I'm hoping Rivera and Izzy come back so that I don't suffer too much in that department. I'm also hoping my pitching stays on track and can lower my ERA/WHIP some more and negate any losses in Saves. Mostly, I'm hoping my hitting moves of late will help out my RBI and SLG because that's where I'm really hurting. Realistically, though, Saves can cost me about 3-4 points pretty quickly if Rivera and Izzy are done for the season.

Still, I gotta be hopeful. Nice standings since 09/01...
380Guru
      ID: 10841817
      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 14:49
Copied from the preseason thread:
2007 RIBC (16 teams)
Top 6 from 2006 RIBC
Top 3 from each AAA league (6)
Winner of each AA (3)
Guru

2007 AAA leagues (32 teams)
Non-returning 9 from 2006 RIBC
Teams ranked 4-8 in each AAA (10)
Teams ranked 2-5 in each AA (12)

That produces only 31 AAA teams, so that leaves one to play with, plus openings due to attrition. Chances are that the 6th place AA teams would get to advance, and maybe more.


I always reserve the right to adjust, based on the actual standings, behavior issues, etc. But I think that general framework is a good guide.
381darkside
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      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 15:08
Didn't realize I'd missed that. Thanks very much!
382holt
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      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 17:35
i've probably asked this before, but are the final standings of each RIBC season archived anywhere? I'm curious to take a look at them.
383holt
      ID: 22726517
      Mon, Sep 11, 2006, 17:51
nevermind, found the info in post 73 above.
384KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 08:24
C'mon hen! We can take down Guru!!! ;)
385blue hen
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      Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 10:07
I think we can. But it sucks that we have to beat out each other. For a few days there it looked like Mach's team was going to choak, but I guess that's not going to happen - he's too far ahead.
386KrazyKoalaBears
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      Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 11:00
But it sucks that we have to beat out each other.

Yeah, but there's still quite a bit of baseball to play. 4-8 is only separated by 13 points. The way points have been moving around lately, it's not a terrible longshot.

Also, in standings since 09/01, Mach (4th) is 7th, Sanfordors (5th) is 8th, and Guru (6th) is 12th. You (7th) are 2nd and I (8th) am 4th. That bodes well for our quest! Keep the dream alive! ;)
387blue hen
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      Mon, Sep 18, 2006, 10:42
Finally caught up to Guru. Wonder how long that will hold up.

Yesterday was exciting in one of my other leagues. It's a head-to-head league and it came down to Bobby Abreu. If he went 0 for 5, I'd have lost. If he went 0 for 4, I'd have won. He actually got a hit, so I moved on. All day, I was calculating how much I needed and got it right at the end.
388JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Mon, Sep 18, 2006, 11:48
BH/KKB - don't totally write me off yet. It is alot to gain 10 points overall this time of year, but I am right behind you both at 9th overall, I'm 4th in September and gaining fast on you guys! (at least in my own mind).

6-8 more points is about the max upside I could gain if everything goes my way, so please help out and drop a few points here and there ;)
389KrazyKoalaBears
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      Tue, Sep 19, 2006, 08:25
JeffG, no problem. My team seems to be very good at dropping points all over the place. ;)
390blue hen
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      Tue, Sep 19, 2006, 10:19
I did my best by leaving Kenny Rogers on my bench. Six innings, no runs, a win. Blech.

Remember when I traded J.J. Putz and Garrett Atkins for Carl Crawford? Crawford's been great, but Atkins had a million RBI's last night. Could have used that.
391blue hen
      ID: 188362322
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 00:13
Has anyone noticed Stattracker not updating league points in real-time anymore? I used to be able to go in and see my points for today, but not anymore. Am I the only one having this problem?
392TB
      Sherpa
      ID: 031811922
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 00:48
I can't even get it to work for me. Keeps saying I need updated flash. I get the updated flash and it still doesn't work.
393blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 10:41
Well, if nothing else, that makes me feel better about my situation.
394holt
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      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 14:45
final week is here!
no champagne on ice yet, but I do have the local distributor on speed-dial.
GL all. hope the final week doesn't get too exciting.

395KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 15:50
Well, looks like this will be it for me in RIBC. 3 years in the "bigs" was fun, but it'll be AAA for me next year. :(
396blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 17:01
That better not be a concession speech. I expect you to go down biting and clawing, if at all, KKB.

Believe it or not, it appears that I have three closers, finally. Jenks, Wheeler, Fuentes. Perhaps they can get me 10 saves this final week.
397holt
      ID: 59848172
      Mon, Sep 25, 2006, 18:09
don't fall for it BH. if his team catches fire KKB could pick up as much as 20 points very quickly.
398KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 11:49
Oh, I'm not going down without a fight, but it's going to take one heck of an uppercut for me to win.

Still, I'm figuring 8th place is in the stars for me... we'll see.
399JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 13:02
KKB - Don't set aside a place in your shrine for that 8th place ribbon yet! I pulled within 1/2 a point this morning, and I think StatTracker even had me ahead for a little while late last night. I'm treating 8th as something to play for, perhaps 8th place in RIBC will be that all-important 'first alternate' spot for next season, not that I am ruling out still making a play for 7th ;)
400KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 13:55
Geez, kick a guy while he's down, JeffG. ;)

I hadn't seen the updated stats for today, so now I'm just hoping to hang on to 8th. Maybe Mr. Santana and Mr. Snell will have something to say about that tonight. :)
401JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 14:27
I guess I just need to throw myself a bone once in a while. I have not had too much excitement in this league since my mid-season jump from 14th to 6th to 12th in about a 2-3 week span. 10-12 is where I pretty much lingered since, that is, until Sepember hit. My team is having a real good week and finally created some separation from the 9th-15th tightly grouped place pack I was recently among.

Maybe we can get all the MLB teams to play another month so I can catch up more ;)
402blue hen
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      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 14:53

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403blue hen
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      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 14:54
Maybe I should take a screenshot?
404JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 15:12
bh - From time to time of late, I get the same symptom that you have reported with StatTracker. Yahoo! is wrong in one regard - IT IS NOT BECAUSE OF NO CATEGORY MOVEMENT. I usually delete the StatTracker window and re-launch or leave it up a few minutes and the numbers eventually pop up. I've seen it both using Explorer and Firefox. I do not make any changes to the firewalls, Java, cookies or cache when it eventually works.
405blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 15:39
Exactly. However, it has stopped working completely in the last two weeks. Which is when I need it most, of course.
406blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 11:17
You may have seen this thread. You also might have noticed that I picked up 5 starters for Sunday. I realized that I can gain some serious ground in wins and strikeouts (and hold off from losing some serious ground) so I am attempting to max out my innings. Here's hoping it ends well for all of you (unless you're in direct competition with me, of course).
407JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 11:40
bh you bum! I am in direct competition with you in K's and wins with similar innings left available on Sunday, but now with barely no one left to pick up. Your move will likely give you 40 innings over the max and could help you jump ahead of me in W and keep me from passing you in K's. Those two points you 'stole' from me could more likely help KKB stay ahead of me for 8th and 9th more than it would help you gain or lose you 7th position. I hope it damages your WHIP ;)
408blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 13:48
I noticed that, JeffG, and then I saw your post in the other thread. I am not familiar with any "gentleman's agreement" in RIBC. In fact, I am hoping to use this strategy to make a move up, perhaps passing Guru or Mach. Hopefully this isn't seen as "sinister" therefore booting me from the league forever like what happened when I tried to have Tim Brown as a keeper in a different sport.

If you ask real nicely, perhaps I can drop Jake Woods for you. Oh, and I better be getting a nice fruit basket from someone named Kafenatid...
409StLCards
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      ID: 31010716
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 14:01
Has anyone noticed Stattracker not updating league points in real-time anymore? I used to be able to go in and see my points for today, but not anymore. Am I the only one having this problem?

What I have noticed is that early in the evening the stat tracker works for me, however, late in the night as the games are ending, the stat tracker doesn't show the daily league points, it just shows 0's. The stats for my players seems to be working, (although sometimes it freezes and quits updating, which I assume to be a stat feed problem), just not the column showing the relative movement for all the teams (the 'scoreboard' tab of the left side green bordered part). I have also found that sometimes I have to launch stat tracker twice just to get it to load at all.
410blue hen
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      ID: 710321114
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 14:13
It runs really well, actually. Just shows lots of zeroes.
411StLCards
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      ID: 31010716
      Fri, Sep 29, 2006, 16:57
When I first opened stat tracker today it showed the scoreboard fine and I was actually ahead in pts, but when I open it now it again shows all 0's, so I guess it isn't a late night thing either. Pretty frustrating.
412TB
      ID: 448553012
      Sun, Oct 01, 2006, 00:51
Okay, I know we really sucked this year, but thought we might try to finish the season with a bang, which we did, but it was the wrong kind of bang. I've been watching our innings and decided about a week ago that we would load up on guys pitching today and try to get 30-50 extra innings as discussed a couple posts above. It's been a pain with pitcher starts changing daily, but we managed to get 8 starters going today. I didn't add up the numbers, but it's pretty ugly. It's not like our ERA or WHIP were a concern, but it does epitomize our pitching this season. Okay, had to peek and at a quick count it looks like 23.1 innings and 31 earned runs. Suffice it to say that I don't have much to say in a final recap other than congrats to those on top, see some of you in AAA next year, and hope to be back the following year. I promise we will draft smarter next year.
413filthy
      ID: 4716141
      Sun, Oct 01, 2006, 06:10
im doin my best to stay in AAA, 16.1 innings 19 runs for me last night. joe saunders received a lifetime ban from my teams.
414blue hen @delaware
      ID: 49531187
      Sun, Oct 01, 2006, 22:09
I will give more detail in a closing recap, but I have to say that this is one of my best managed seasons ever. I pulled off two blockbuster deals that dramatically changed the face of my team, and I did quite well in the closer chase (after Gagne), even if I did trade away two key closers.

I managed my innings perfectly, and didn't fall too far behind in offense (even finished off 1B). Helton might not have been the greatest first-round pick ever, but he did give me a hefty leg up in OBP and I did manage to trade him, for a lot and at the right time. Gagne and Prior, on the other hand...
415JeffG
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      ID: 01584348
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 00:06
By the way blue hen, your loading up of starters today did allow you to pick up some extra ground on W and K, but you dropped 2 places in ERA.

Congrats to Holt for winning our league very convincingly, and nice job for all of you who earned your place back in this league next year. For the rest of us, I'll look forward to seeing most of you again in AAA.

Thanks also to Guru for those great RIBC league tracking tools and especially for opening the invite to those of us who qualified from the other leagues.

I'll post some closing thoughts on my season later on.
416I_AM_CANADIAN
      ID: 59652217
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 00:54
Congrats Holt! Well managed team... and an excellent 2nd half.

3rd out of 16 aint that bad right? That's what my wife tells me. :(

Lookin forward to seeing some of you again in a few months.
417KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 08:41
Congrats holt!

JeffG, I told you it was in the stars... ;)
418JeffG
      ID: 146591911
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 08:46
KKB - Nice job fending me off, you needed quite a month of September to do it!

RIBC September only stats

Rankings through games of Sep 30,
excluding games through Aug 31

Rank Team R RBI SB OBP SLG W SV K ERA WHIP TOTAL
1 Kafenatid.net 9 13 12.5 13 16 11 3 12.5 11 14 115
1 JeffG RIBC 15 12 11 14 13 15 6 8 14 7 115
3 Blue Hen Rules 11 3 16 10 2 14 9.5 14 15 13 107.5
4 Holt's Revenge 16 14 3 9 11 8 15.5 9 10 11 106.5

Biggest gainer - blue hen +12.5 (JeffG +9.5)
Bigest drop - jumpball -16.5
419KrazyKoalaBears
      ID: 15023167
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 08:50
Well, I've won one month every year I was in RIBC (at least I know I did so last year and THINK I did the first go around), so this year was no different... except that it won't keep me in RIBC. :(

Oh well, just have to fight my way back in!
420holt
      ID: 10830261
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 14:46
thanks guys. it's been fun. great league as always. thanks again and again to Guru for the invitational leagues. of all the leagues I play in, they are by far the most enjoyable and competitive!
421blue hen @delaware
      ID: 49531187
      Mon, Oct 02, 2006, 17:35
Nice finish. Man, KKB really scared me at the end. Who knew Jake Woods would save my season?

First and foremost - congrats to Holt. You really steamrolled us this year. Your spot in the Hall of Fame is well deserved.

Thank you very much to Trip and Hubble for giving me Carl Crawford, Juan Pierre, Jason Schmidt, Hank Blalock, and Ty Wigginton. Couldn't have done it without those guys.

Thanks to Mach and Chris for giving me a home field advantage in RIBC.

Thanks to Jeff for picking Bobby Jenks for me while I was in Vegas.

Thanks to a special young lady for having gone to high school with Joe Mauer, causing me to pick him well ahead of his time. Oh yeah, and thanks to her for putting up with all my shenanigans - picking up Dan Kolb while we were at a broadway play, stopping at a Kinkos to activate Scott Spiezio, and watching endless Twins (and other) games this season. She rocks.

Thanks to J for trading me Giambi last year, ensuring I would move up to the Majors.

And mostly, thanks to Guru for this wonderful set of leagues. It's an honor to play, and even more of an honor to play well. You made very few moves this season, drafted a lot of Indians, and beat a slew of great managers (and mMoses). Good work!
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