Week 10 FAAB Bids

[Chest Rockwell]

Originally posted by Joe Sambito:

Eddie G,



We (Welcome to Stevieland) had the runner-up bid on Gallardo at 244 in LV1. Which was 68% of our remaining budget, we didn't want to go much more than that. As for Guthrie, I'll admit we missed on him. He was under our radar, and we flat out missed. It happens. But taking the next step and hammering on the fact that it must be a "weak" league, I take exception to. I think you should worry more about LV6, than LV1. You have gone from 30th('04), to 77th('05), to 173rd('06), to 180th('07) as of today. Those are some stats and trends that I'd be concerned with if I were you, don't worry about us over here in LV1, we can handle ourselves. It is funny to me that anyone would question the FAAB strength of that league. Stevieland was a guy I always worried about when faabing against them, they were always on top of things and very good at finding hidden gems. Another guy in the league bjoak is excellent at finding 20 dollar gems and riding them for 6 great weeks. The first league I check every week for FAAB after my own is Vegas 1, specifically to see what these 2 teams are doing because I can usually learn something.

[King of Queens]

Originally posted by Joe Sambito:

Eddie G...You have gone from 30th('04), to 77th('05), to 173rd('06), to 180th('07) as of today. Those are some stats and trends that I'd be concerned with if I were you Despite the ... OUCH!!!



I hope nobody ever peeks at my lifetime standings -- word might get out that I'm a one-trick pony. Not a very good trick at that!

[bjoak]

Eddie, first off I'm disgusted because I had to read you post 5 times before it made sense due to the word 'there.' But, yes, I measure a person's ability by what they do in the overall and by that measure you aren't the fantasy god you think. F Football is unrelated and doesn't matter to me any more than your ability to win a potato sack racing contest.



Again with Gallardo, maybe it isn't time to start celebrating the $500 bids as 'winners.' To me, I'd give props to LV1 for not spending all that money. I don't think you would herald big spenders on Lincecum and Slowey at this point. Gallardo may not even stick and his first start wasn't too much to get jazzed about. Also, when I saw the $500 bids the first thing I thought was, Why didn't you just draft him? I would think one roster spot is less valuable than half of your faab and you had to know he'd be up by now. I'm sure those people need pitching more than they assumed they would, but still, if he's that valuable a commodity to you...



And again your insistence on judging league strength by one or two picks is a very poor process. I'm sure I can go in and find a couple sleepers we snatched up early to make us look good. Your earlier comments about Ordonez were particularly silly. He could have been Garciaparra this year, and you wouldn't say look at how far Garciaparra fell. You need mass amounts of data to judge league strength and you need a full season of stats. If Ordonez blows out his knee today we'll look pretty smart.

[eddiejag]

First off i do apoligize to Vegas 1 as i have offended some of the member's.It is starting to look like Guthrie is going to be special,rotoworld even mentioned today he is rookie of the year matieral.Now a couple things ,Guthrie was owned in every league but Vegas 1 and i didnt think Bjoak's judgement on him was fair.Compareing him to Carlos Silva and saying he wouldnt have room on his team is a stretch.Also Bringing Down the House is from my home state and am friends with both guy's , im just messin with them a little.So with Guthrie striking out 9 and going 8 starts in a row over 7 innings is showing he's much better than Bjoak has projected.He now stands at 4 and 1 , should have six win's but Ray has blown two of his game's.82 innings , 59 hit's , 56 K's and 14 bb's, which is a 4to 1 strike out to walk ratio.

He has an era of 2.42 and a whip of 0.89.

The Gallarado stuff was just silly , i was feeling good with the Guthrie outing and justed checked out where Gallarado went for in your league compared to the other's.

Also you pointed out my baseball number's the first three year's. Finishing 30th was a very good year and collected 1.750.00 for coming in 2nd in my league.Finishing in the seventies is actually a good season but no money. Last year was my worst year ever as nothing worked , but still finished in the middle of the pack.This year is a long way off to consider if it's a bust.Let's also throw in the auction's league's.

First year in NY WON my AL auction by 11 points, that's 7.000.00 dollar's.Last year in Vegas won the AL auction for 7.000.00 dollars by 7 or 8 points.This year in the AL auction im up by 15 point's right now, thats a big lead , but CC Desparado's is in 2nd and i never count him out.

I also won the Ultimate last year for 40.000.00 dollars.I really didnt want to come off like this but Bjoak came at me [rotogod] pretty hard.

BUT , like i said early , i did go a little to far and didnt mean to come off like a jerk.

Sorry Guys and Girls Eddie G.

[CC's Desperados]

Originally posted by Jackstraw:

quote:Originally posted by CC's Desperados:

George, you will win the Vegas AL auction someday, I'm sure of it. Thanks, Shawn. I keep telling myself the same thing. Really I'm kind of out of my element. I am from the Southeast which is a NL region. The AL is one of those mysterious things like Pluto or something... Is it a game or is it a planet?! With what I have learned from you guys so far in the AL auction, I bet I would be hell on wheels if I joined the NL Auction next year. [/QUOTE]Good Luck with that league....

[King of Queens]

Eddie, maybe you were a little harsh, but no need to apologize -- I agree with you 100 percent. For Guthrie to be available, when he was available, was a complete joke. Even worse, the winning bid was an unopposed $1. To me, that makes 15 guys that are asleep at the wheel -- yes, even the winner should have expected higher bids, making him a candidate for a six-pack of Red Bull as well.



Same deal with Alan Embree going for $7 in Tampa 2 the same week. Helloooooooo, New Jersey!



Bud Fox, this is your wakeup call.



Now feel free to whip out my lifetime standings and tell me my opinion is irrelevant...

[Joe Sambito]

But your ahead of Artie Ratelli, so how can I bring up your lifetime standings.



I have already admitted that I missed on Guthrie, and boy my staff could use him. I don't really want to get in a pissing contest here, but I don't want too see this thread re-incarnated after every Guthrie start, good or bad, but apparently more good than bad.



I was happy to hear that there was a bit more to it, with Eddie's buddies in the league. Although that may have just added a bullseye to their chest.

[bjoak]

Hmm, as I recall, I A. compared Germano to Carlos Silva (nothing to do with Guthrie) and B. not altogether unfavorably as I compared him to Silva a couple years ago when he had a good ERA and a bad K rate.



As for Guthrie, I was projecting out based on his stats so far. He has improved his K rate since then. Still, I'd say if he ends up a guy with a 4 ERA, you consider that a success, but it's not going to be 2.40. I notice that you only think the rest of the season will take a while when it suits you. Come back in October and even then if you're right it'll be one player that in the vast scheme of things means a drop of evidence against my projections or for your player evaluations.



You know, don't get me wrong, you are probably pretty good when you look at money spent/earned on this each year, but you slammed a bunch of owners, many of which have better lifetime/2007 rankings than you because of one player in one faab period who didn't go. I could go look at any league and find 30 things wrong with its draft and more with the faabing since then. But it's not the kind of analysis that will help me win so it's not important to me and its a poor way to judge as big of a concept as league strength.