Utterly Ridiculous

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:49 am

Originally posted by Scott Boras:

His money, his team. I'm all for it. I genuinely hope he has fun with it. of course. however, when the OVERALL contest (you know, the $100,000) is decided based on who is in your league, something like this should be a boon for the other 14 leaguemates and bad for everyone else.

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:52 am

Originally posted by Scott Boras:

I'm inclined to believe that this drafter is a time traveler who has seen the future and came back and drafted all of the breakouts of 2011. Is there really any other explanation?

made me think of the Back to the Future movies. first one was good stuff. if this is true, who is Biff?

bjoak · Post by **bjoak** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:17 am

My question is how did this guy (?) stumble into the NFBC Main event? Who spends $1,400 to play fantasy baseball and apparently not do any sort of significant research beforehand? Did he do research and conclude everyone's dead wrong?Clearly the guy knows baseball. How would you even know Grant Green is a player otherwise? What he doesn't know is fantasy. Or depth charts. Based on the looks of his draft, he may not even know the rules.

All he knows is he goes in and picks players he likes and at the end of it he has a team. I can believe that guys like this join up on Yahoo all the time and find out the rules as they play.

So how does he end up ponying up $1450 for the NFBC? There is no question to me that he has to be ridiculously wealthy. If you were a billionaire, what would be the difference between a free Yahoo league and the NFBC? A grand and free are virtually the same amount of money at that point. He figured he'll join up with the one in AC where he can make a vacation out of it and possibly (to his frame of mind) win something tangible.

How did he find the NFBC? Who knows? A friend maybe.

team z · Post by **team z** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:30 pm

I had a huge issue joining the NFBC again this year until a friend gave me some advice. He told not to approach the NFBC as if I was playing fantasy baseball but to approach it as gambling. No rules, no expectations of fare play and no crying. I'm not in the main event but that league and team draft would pi$$ me off to no end.

Any commissioner of a normal fantasy baseball league with the least bit of stones would disqualify this league and refund that members money and kick him out. Then replace him and redraft the league.

I would not expect that to happen here.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:36 pm

Probably a good thing that you aren't in the main. Greg and Tom do a fantastic job. While the leagues are rarely considered fare, they've been fair since the NFBC’s inception. Good luck in your future fantasy endeavors.

Edwards Kings · Post by **Edwards Kings** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:14 pm

Originally posted by team z:

I had a huge issue joining the NFBC again this year until a friend gave me some advice. He told not to approach the NFBC as if I was playing fantasy baseball but to approach it as gambling. No rules, no expectations of fare play and no crying. I'm not in the main event but that league and team draft would pi$$ me off to no end.

Any commissioner of a normal fantasy baseball league with the least bit of stones would disqualify this league and refund that members money and kick him out. Then replace him and redraft the league.

I would not expect that to happen here. This has got to be the most asinine thing I have ever seen posted here and I have seen some pretty incredibly stupid posts. Your definition of "fare" must be that all the leagues you get involved in must go exactly by the script that you provide to the other players or the commissioner must summarily execute the offending owners and get replacements that only do what you want.

Goodbye, good luck, good riddance.

Plymouth · Post by **Plymouth** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:04 am

I will second that, Wayne!

King of Queens · Post by **King of Queens** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:13 am

Originally posted by Gekko:

quote:Originally posted by Scott Boras:

I'm inclined to believe that this drafter is a time traveler who has seen the future and came back and drafted all of the breakouts of 2011. Is there really any other explanation?

made me think of the Back to the Future movies. first one was good stuff. if this is true, who is Biff? [/QUOTE]Speaking of "Back to the Future," you missed the Gray's Sports Almanac reference a few posts back:

Originally posted by Sebadiah23:

I was in no way justifying the picks- how could someone without a grey's sports almanac?Craig, please remember that the Gray's Sports Almanac ONLY covers 1950 to 2000.

Ryan C · Post by **Ryan C** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:35 am

Took me 20 minutes to realize the first 14 pages of this thread were from 2010!!! Think a new thread could have been started here rather than linking to this one - especially since the one linked to has NOTHING to do with this year's event and is filled with a lot of useless junk.

If you don't want to rehash old posts - skip ahead to Page 14!

Plymouth · Post by **Plymouth** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:50 am

I will second that, Wayne!

Legend7 · Post by **Legend7** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:16 am

It's all Paul's fault

he's the one who restarted this thread! LOL

Chest Rockwell · Post by **Chest Rockwell** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:38 am

Originally posted by team z:

I had a huge issue joining the NFBC again this year until a friend gave me some advice. He told not to approach the NFBC as if I was playing fantasy baseball but to approach it as gambling. No rules, no expectations of fare play and no crying. I'm not in the main event but that league and team draft would pi$$ me off to no end.

Any commissioner of a normal fantasy baseball league with the least bit of stones would disqualify this league and refund that members money and kick him out. Then replace him and redraft the league.

I would not expect that to happen here. You refer to yourself in your profile as a federal reserve slave and pretty much only post negative comments. Based upon that and this post I will make a wild guess that the NFBC will not be the first or last place that pisses you off or more importantly do not exactly fit in.

Paul Gromek · Post by **Paul Gromek** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:37 am

it's all my fault...sorry

Ryan C · Post by **Ryan C** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:37 am

It's all good Paul - but some threads are better off left dead and buried