**2018 Degenerate Fantasy Baseball League**

Empty Glass said:

Amongst the Ani said:

Empty, I will text you my login info. You want to co manage?

Nope. I want no responsibilities. I just want to laugh

Please offer me ridiculous trades from Ani when logged in as him

Ani is a catcher

Catch me outside

F Me In The Brain said:

Degeneratefk said:

There is a team that does not have a catcher on the roster. Now, there there is no specific rule on ESPN about this, I have stated here in the past that every starting offensive position has to be filled. I can look back through this thread or the other for verification on this.

My question to the league is how do you want to proceed with this? My suggestion is we give the team in question an opportunity to acquire a catcher and insert him I to the line up by the next waiver claim period (which is Wednesday I believe). If he doesnt, he should get some sort of penalty to be decided by the league.

Or

Do we ignore it and allow teams to not completely fill their rosters. I think i know the thinking behind not rostering a catcher. I think he figures why waste a roster spot on a guy that would hurt his team more than help when he can add a pitcher or someone else that can help his team in other ways

Let me know what you guys think.

Posted in the league forum. No reason not to let him shoot himself in the foot if this is a theory he wants to try. Think it is flawed and you stated there are no rules against it.

"Let Them Play! Let Them Play!"

Exactly......did the exact same thing last year and it wasn't an issue......for catcher (as with most positions) you have "starter" listed as 1 followed by "no limits"....there is no mention of having to roster a catcher , only that I'm allowed to only start 1 as part of my team each night....so whoever qualifies for whatever position I have sitting on my bench, I have the right to roster whoever I want on any given night (just like you do).... I don't see catcher as a value position so why would I waste a roster position on someone that I have the right to bench every night if I wanted to anyways?(like you do as well) ...By doing so, I'm taking the risk by not throwing one out there every night for offence (the same could be said of any other position that gets thin and not deep, perhaps SS)...it's not my fault i"m still getting batters victories rostering one less player every night.......It was my choice to be smart and learn from playing F Me the last couple of years and invest in pitching for my bench rather than regulars, because I see that as a necessary area of strength.... I'll gladly accept my "punishment" for the lack of clarity (don't see anything about rosters in this thread) and being in 1st place, which I'm sure played into this being such a big issue a month into the season.....and should it have been clarified that "bench" players meant anyone could fill that roster spot (hitters and pitchers) because there is a separate general "pitchers" category that also exists?

F Me In The Brain said:

maynardsux said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Degeneratefk said:

There is a team that does not have a catcher on the roster. Now, there there is no specific rule on ESPN about this, I have stated here in the past that every starting offensive position has to be filled. I can look back through this thread or the other for verification on this.

My question to the league is how do you want to proceed with this? My suggestion is we give the team in question an opportunity to acquire a catcher and insert him I to the line up by the next waiver claim period (which is Wednesday I believe). If he doesnt, he should get some sort of penalty to be decided by the league.

Or

Do we ignore it and allow teams to not completely fill their rosters. I think i know the thinking behind not rostering a catcher. I think he figures why waste a roster spot on a guy that would hurt his team more than help when he can add a pitcher or someone else that can help his team in other ways

Let me know what you guys think.

Posted in the league forum. No reason not to let him shoot himself in the foot if this is a theory he wants to try. Think it is flawed and you stated there are no rules against it.

"Let Them Play! Let Them Play!"

Exactly......did the exact same thing last year and it wasn't an issue......for catcher (as with most positions) you have "starter" listed as 1 followed by "no limits"....there is no mention of having to roster a catcher , only that I'm allowed to only start 1 as part of my team each night....so whoever qualifies for whatever position I have sitting on my bench, I have the right to roster whoever I want on any given night (just like you do).... I don't see catcher as a value position so why would I waste a roster position on someone that I have the right to bench every night if I wanted to anyways?(like you do as well) ...By doing so, I'm taking the risk by not throwing one out there every night for offence (the same could be said of any other position that gets thin and not deep, perhaps SS)...it's not my fault i"m still getting batters victories rostering one less player every night.......It was my choice to be smart and learn from playing F Me the last couple of years and invest in pitching for my bench rather than regulars, because I see that as a necessary area of strength.... I'll gladly accept my "punishment" for the lack of clarity (don't see anything about rosters in this thread) and being in 1st place, which I'm sure played into this being such a big issue a month into the season.....and should it have been clarified that "bench" players meant anyone could fill that roster spot (hitters and pitchers) because there is a separate general "pitchers" category that also exists?

Some league do insist that you have a person on the roster who could potentially fill every spot.
I disagree with this as a rule and, as you say, the rules never seem to say you actually have to play them.
Nothing to see here, as far as I am concerned -- there is no rule, so no rule was broken.

Since Avg isn't a scoring area in this game I see no reason for playing one.

The only position that it can go against right now is the K and that's only one.

How do I move the open positions in the middle to my pitching?

Chris, I checked your roster.

It appears you have should have 1 more player somewhere on your roster.
Since you have 1 guy on the DL, I am guessing you never added a player when moving him to the DL....but either way you should have 5 combined bench guys.

You also have 2 DL spots and only one occupied, but a load of pitchers on the DL.

You should....go to your team page.

Click on Manage DL


Click on To DL for the guy you want to move to the DL


From there you need to go back to the Add Player instructions that were shared preivously and put claims in on AT LEAST 2 guys. When they ask you who you would like to drop to add, you select NOBODY. This is key -- you have 2 empty roster spots.

I would add 6 guys. This way even if others outbid you, you are still adding 2 guys. Would be shocked if you were outbid all 6 times.

My advice would be to add 2 pitchers./..but that is up to you.

Also -- the reason you cannot move any pitchers into open spots right now? You only have 9 pitchers. They are always starting. Once you get a 10th or 11th pitcher you will see how to move them in and out.

Hope this helps.

Another question. If you have a bunch of games get rained out so you miss out on AB's and QS etc. How is that fair if the other person had a full schedule?

I want to except the baseball trade from Eric (but i'm sure it would get vetoed by the league).