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The best ball format is flat-out great fun. Cutline is a blast and I'm all in no matter how you tweak it. Glad you are looking to try and make it better. Improving FAAB will help all games, especially this one. I have one minor suggestion regarding free agent eligibility, especially if FAAB is held ...

Feeling better about the trade now?

Mr. Vetter, Enjoyed this list. Thank you. Like you, I'm interested in the ones not on it. Looking at the shortstops only, I see Carlos Correa, Jonathan Villar and Corey Seager on only one team each. Out of 27 Shortstops, filling 59 roster spots total. Under-represented for sure, given their draft po...

Hey guys it's appears the Cutline stats aren't updating fully. Noticed the last 2 days that a player on my team (Mitch Moreland) has zero stats for week. I suspect other players affected. Any way stats can be adjusted so we all know who makes the cut on cut down day?? Thanks in advance. Thanks for ...

I'm with you that there is inequality in the player pool in a overall contest if a minor leaguer is available in some leagues and not others. The way I would fix it is to allow any player drafted on any team in any contest to be eligible in FAAB for all teams in that contest, not just the league or...

There are two rules in the NFBC I'd change. 2. Allowing players drafted then dropped to remain in that league's pool, even if the player is a prospect that never played in MLB yet. In an overall competition, the available inventory for all leagues should be the same. Again, I don't care as much abo...

If the landscape remains the way it is now, middle relievers will organically become more useful as fantasy owners realize having Miller/Devenksi/Betances etc. instead of streaming an SP7 may earn more ratio points than are lost in W and K.. This is true. But the impact of middle relievers stats on...

Is it possible to have a separate, stand-alone FAABuless Cutline contest? 46 rounds, slow or fast, held up from say mid-December until the start of Spring Training?

There are some terrific ideas on how to improve Cutline in this thread. In Cutline I like the idea of a shorter draft and being able to replace injured players, so I'm kind of at a loss on how you do both without keeping FAAB. Having said that, I play multiple teams and would even if it was FAABules...

Greg, I'm glad you agree that it's a shame he is not up. International League player of the month, there is no player I can think of in the minors more ready than Yoan. There is a lot of misinformation out there regarding when players lose their Super 2 eligibility, but I think a player who has neve...

This lie,that Moncada is somehow not ready, troubles me a great deal. We are all being robbed of seeing a great young talent at the major league level. This is just simply Hahn double-speak that means "over the next seven years we can save somewhere between $12 and $18 million dollars if we wait to ...

It looks like the standings on your team page and overall are a couple of days behind. However, if you hit "live scoring" and look at the standings on that page's tab for standings, it is up to date. Very odd. Look at "live standings" again. While "live standings" was accurate when I last looked, i...

Just an FYI. I'm not sure rerun is the right term. It looks to me that Saturday stats were ever run at all. Sunday stats weren't either. All my other stats for my regular NFBC roto leagues have been updated through Sunday.

I don't know Dave's time in the forty, but I can add to his scouting report. The man is a fantasy-playing stud. A couple years ago, I had the pleasure of doing back-to-back auctions with Dave in Vegas. I meet him before the first one that was held Thursday night, and I asked him how his day had been...

Here is a recent photo. Is it just me, or does his head seem bigger too?

All in all, I would not have recognized Eric this spring if I had seen him. The transformation he has had since his days in Seattle/Tacoma is huge. It reminds me of someone else who was transformed.

Funny, but this is the guy I remember from 2012 in Seattle. The muscles seem to come and go quickly with this guy.

If John Lackey wants to accuse Eric Thames of juicing, he should find his balls and just do it. Making cryptic comments and winking at reporters is chickenshit. Thames was tested last week and passed. Hate myself for not owning him at all. I think Lackey could be more helpful by leaning on the Play...

Compare the eligibility requirements of the NFBC to those of DK/FD: NFBC Eligibility - 6 excluded states The National Fantasy Baseball Championship is open to individuals who are at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your state of residence) and are a resident of the United States of ...

I guess you could hope no one wins from NY- or is the Tax on all players entry fees from NY? No, that's not how they are calculating this. They are taking all revenue from New York minus the prizes and taking 15.5% of that net. It's not on winnings. DFS companies have already adjusted their prize p...

Really good links to look at, King of Queens. I suppose that decades ago, stadium orientation was more important... when most games were played during the day. Comerica was the most southerly-facing modern stadium up until SunTrust. I found the following article on-line regarding the strikeout rate ...

Who designed the Braves SunTrust Stadium? Populous (formerly HOK Sport), the same folks that designed: Marlins Park (2012) Target Field (2010) Citi Field (2009) Yankee Stadium (2009) Nationals Park (2008) Busch Stadium (2006) Citizens Bank Park (2004) Petco Park (2004) Great American Ball Park (200...

I'm 33 years old and this is the third stadium, all in Atlanta, that I can actively remember the Braves playing in. Doesn't seem that long ago I was watching Kelly Gruber doing the chop down the third base line during the World Series at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Let's see. Atlanta Fulton Stad...

[quote="Edwards Kings"} "But as to your general question as to who designed the stadium, it was a bunch of money-grubbing jerks" Turner Field was only 20 years old...what exactly was wrong with it? Its kind of ridiculous that we are essentially building throw-away disposable stadiums built with taxp...

I was just looking at sketches, and dang if the whole darn thing isn't facing almost due south. Seems to me that's going to be miserable for the fans. Also miserable for the hitters in the late afternoon. Especially the right-handed batters looking right into the sun on those April and September day...

This off-season, Bryce Harper was tweeting Free Agent suggestions and GM Mike Rizzo was making public pronouncements on what he thought the best batting order would be for the 2017 Nats. And now Dusty Baker is saying they will try and trade Derrick Norris. Bryce, do your job. Get in shape. Be a good...