Yes, I know, fantasy football just ended about 16 hours ago and now we're already getting started on baseball. Honestly, I've been enjoying the off season here so much with stuff actually happening in a good way for the Pirates that I was ready to start this thread a few weeks ago. I tried to be patient, but since I've already been getting questions about this I thought we'd get this rolling.
Right now the purpose of the thread is just to give people a place to talk about the upcoming season and to give those who are interested in joining this year's league a place to let me know they're interested. We had 16 teams in last year's league and I'm more than willing to go to the full 20 that Yahoo allows for baseball.
Of the 16 that participated in last year's league, there's 11 of us I definitely expect to back this season, a couple that I'm not sure if they'll want to participate, and a couple more that either stopped participating during the season or who have disappeared of the face of the Lit earth. I think the 11 is a definite starting point as those are people who are pretty much in every Lit league that I do and then that'll leave a max of 9 more spots available for this season.
If the respone is there, there may be the possibility of a League 2 much in the same way we did football this past season. That would be a surprise to me, though.
The 2006 league will be a Plus league. More than likely I'll do something similar to what I did with the football league and send out a paypal link with the invites where you can make a contribution if you choose to. The one change I'll make is that I'll set it so you can contribute an amount of your choosing and not a set amount like I did with football. Yahoo charges $124.99 for the Plus league, and I know there were enough of us that purchased stattracker last year that contributing that amount to me thru paypal will more than cover the cost of the league.
The one person I don't want to see a contribution from is Lilly. As part of her prize as 2005 Lit Fantasy Baseball Champ she gets a free ride on the Plus league.
One thing that will be different from last year is trades. There will be no voting this year. I will review and approve all trades as quickly as I possibly can.
We'll get into more details as league sign ups get closer.
Right now you just need to post here if you have interest. I'll keep a running list of those who are interested.
And of course feel free to start discussing the upcoming MLB season here also.
Right now the purpose of the thread is just to give people a place to talk about the upcoming season and to give those who are interested in joining this year's league a place to let me know they're interested. We had 16 teams in last year's league and I'm more than willing to go to the full 20 that Yahoo allows for baseball.
Of the 16 that participated in last year's league, there's 11 of us I definitely expect to back this season, a couple that I'm not sure if they'll want to participate, and a couple more that either stopped participating during the season or who have disappeared of the face of the Lit earth. I think the 11 is a definite starting point as those are people who are pretty much in every Lit league that I do and then that'll leave a max of 9 more spots available for this season.
If the respone is there, there may be the possibility of a League 2 much in the same way we did football this past season. That would be a surprise to me, though.
The 2006 league will be a Plus league. More than likely I'll do something similar to what I did with the football league and send out a paypal link with the invites where you can make a contribution if you choose to. The one change I'll make is that I'll set it so you can contribute an amount of your choosing and not a set amount like I did with football. Yahoo charges $124.99 for the Plus league, and I know there were enough of us that purchased stattracker last year that contributing that amount to me thru paypal will more than cover the cost of the league.
The one person I don't want to see a contribution from is Lilly. As part of her prize as 2005 Lit Fantasy Baseball Champ she gets a free ride on the Plus league.
One thing that will be different from last year is trades. There will be no voting this year. I will review and approve all trades as quickly as I possibly can.
We'll get into more details as league sign ups get closer.
Right now you just need to post here if you have interest. I'll keep a running list of those who are interested.
And of course feel free to start discussing the upcoming MLB season here also.
