Baseball fantasy leagues can be too much work. My brother and I have our own league every year–just the two of us. We get all the best players. It’s fun. But this year we are mixing it up.
No players. Just one team.
Instead of picking players, we each pick a team. One team. We track the number of points that team gets.
Only the last place team
The teams we can select from are the last place teams. MLB has six divisions, so there are six teams to pick from.
Once a month
We select our team once a month. Whatever six teams are currently in last place, that’s the grouping we get to pick from. For the start of the season we started with the last place teams from 2008. Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals.
This blog post will serve as the place where we comment about our teams progress. I was thinking of making it a new twitter account for this, but that would be hard to see who posts what. This is easier.
Here’s how our first draft went. We submit to each other the name of the team we want. If it’s the same name, then we submit our second choice. Erik and I both selected the Detroit Tigers for our first pick. For our second picks we both selected the Baltimore Orioles. Then finally we nailed it with our third pick. Erik choose the San Diego Padres. I went with the Seattle Mariners. I forgot that Ichiro was injured. Oops. The main engine of the Seattle offense. But that doesn’t seem to have hurt the Mariners much, as they are currently in first place for all six teams. After three days, here’s the standings: Seattle (matt) 77 Pittsburgh 75 Detroit 68 Washington 62 Baltimore 43 San Diego (erik) 41 I find it funny how my team is in very first, and erik’s is in very last. Makes me laugh. Ha ha.
oh my. The Padres stink. Here’s the direct link to the league. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/310772
i’m surprised at how many points the teams are getting. i was thinking it was gonna be an average of 10 points a day
I just made the banner in this post link to the league.
LEAD CHANGE The Khans (Padres) overtake the lead from the Mashers (Mariners) for the first time this season. Khans 205 47 Mashers 193 14 Only Team One (Detroit) has more points than the Khans.
Pirates all the way, baby!
Very cool idea. I would have went with Detroit first, too! Padres have a tough division. I think it’ll be a close fantasy league.
Matt’s Mariners are now in 5th place. Your team stinks, Matt. ha! Erik’s Padres are in 3rd. Somehow Baltimore has vaulted itself to first.
NEWS UPDATE! The Khans (Padres) are in first place above all teams including the robot teams while the Mashers (Mariners) are in dead last amongst all teams. Ooooooooouch. 1. Khans (San Diego) 450 38 2. Team Two (Baltimore) 419 15 3. Team One (Detroit) 412 45 4. Team Four (Washingto 384 33 5. Team Three (PIttsbur 374 19 6. Mashers (Seattle) 370 28
Our teams are now in last and second to last place. Though the Mashers have a death grip on last place. 1. Team Two (Baltimore) 685 56 2. Team Three (PIttsbur 624 48 3. Team One (Detroit) 614 22 4. Team Four (Washingto 584 57 5. Khans (San Diego) 582 25 6. Mashers (Seattle) 558 13