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  1. I actually like having the option to keep a FA or trade addition. Otherwise every trade is for a rental, which seems weird for a keeper league.
  2. If I am reading it correctly, the issue is that teams out of the playoffs trade for injured guys they will keep (because their Tommy John recovery will be complete by next year), and in doing so freely send studs in exchange to the playoff teams. Limiting the number of players each team can keep will usually fix that. And in my proposal two things address the problem: players drafted in rounds 1-3 can't be kept, and players carry their keeper cost all season long.
  3. I'm just the new guy but I would vote in favor of this.
  4. Keepers can get complicated fast. But, if we do kerpers, I like the idea of keepers with "progressive draft round" prices and a max number of consecutive years kept. At the risk of inviting a bunch of TLDRs, here's a proposal to get discussions started. A fantasy basketball league and a fantasy football league I was in have each used it successfully. 1. Each year before the draft, you can keep zero, one, or two players from your previous season's roster. The vast majority of your roster must thus be drafted each year, which keeps things interesting even if you don't have anybody worth keeping. 2. You cannot keep a guy if he was drafted (not kept, see below) the first 3 rounds in the previous season. This makes a bunch of superstars unkeepable each season. And you cannot keep a guy if he has been kept each of the past 3 seasons. 3. If you keep a player, you forfeit the draft pick corresponding to N rounds before the round in which the player was drafted or kept the previous season. N=2 is a good balance imo. So, if N=2 and I drafted Otani in the 5th round in 2021, I can keep him instead of my 3rd round pick in 2022. I could also keep him for my 1st round pick in 2023, and if I did, my 1st round pick in 2024. In 2025 I could not keep him because of rule #2. 4. A player carries his keeper price tag all season long, even if dropped to waivers/free agency. So if I drop Ohtani after drafting him in the 5th, and HG then picks him up, it would cost HG a 3rd rounder to keep Ohtani next season. 5. Any player not drafted or kept carries a Xth round keeper price for the following season. X can be set depending on how valuable a keeper you want a waiver wire gem to be the next 1-3 seasons (and directly controls if there is a potential young guy pickup frenzy at the end of the season). For example, lets say X=12, i.e., undrafted free agents can be kept in round 12 next year. Combining rules #3 and #5, if you keep two undrafted free agents next year, you would keep them in rounds 12 and 11. --- If we do keepers, we should probably agree not to mess around with roster settings or scoring settings from here on out because doing so usually impacts keeper value. If we allow draft pick trades, there would be one more rule involved, but I'll assume I don't want draft pick trades.
  5. I assume that would also take a flamethrower to his pitching ratios for the week.
  6. I 100% agree that if you have OPS you should not have either of the individual components as an additional category. If we want to reward extra base hits then SLG or TB instead of OPS makes sense to me. No idea what is actually supported in the fantasy league stats.
  7. AVG and OPS is weird to me but I don't have a ready fix. Total bases might seem weird too.
  8. The darts scene was the single best thing I watched during the pandemic. It was perfect television. The eyes on Ted when he delivered the "better manners when I'm holding the darts" line . And the writing genius of the "barbeque sauce" line that calls back to earlier in the episode. Choose second best was the pandemic episode of Mythic Quest. Interesting that both were on Apple TV+ because I watched absolutely nothing else on that service.
  9. Expected a rise or a fall. Definitely didn't expect a flat day.
  10. Even putting my views on religion aside, I feel like the only thing that will save this franchise is a new and rational ownership group moneywhipping the McNair family into selling. Everybody needs to convince the idiots that they would be better serving God if, instead of playing on his day, they left the football world and used the money to do charitable Christan work.
  11. There will probably be mutations and boosters. And we still have a lot of shoulders to jab. But in America there's been a death a minute for the last year (525,600, as the song goes). And most of us know someone that didn't make it. So cheers to y'all for doing what you had to and getting to this point. May we all soon be in a sea of vaccinated burnt orange at DKR, where the only sick feelings are on the visitor's sideline as Bijan breaks off long runs again and again.
  12. So what does everyone think will happen today and the rest of the week? Prices are crazy but still trying to figure if there's an option angle here...
  13. Gave our newly hired nanny the day off on Friday so she could volunteer at the Bastrop vaccine site. She did so and got her first vaccine dose at the end of the day.
  14. Houston and East Texas folk, Orange and Hardin counties have open appointments for ANYONE. I know at least adult who is not a 1A/1B/teacher but got the shot there, and know another who made an appointment for Tuesday. Needles in shoulders is how we will win. Do it for the rest of us and go get pricked you pricks.
  15. I think the Bastrop volunteer spots get posted here: https://bastropcountyconnects.galaxydigital.com/need/
  16. I have a small position but by the time I got in it was almost $29. Still, the company has good fundamentals so I don't mind even if there is no squeeze.
  17. Bastrop has been looking for volunteers every weekend, and they get shots if any remain. I have heard that, so far, volunteers have gotten shots because there were enough left over every weekend without fail.
  18. My entry is $295 and I own a handful of shares, so honestly this isn't about getting rich. I assume I should just wait to see how high it can go, been holding on in the red for so long I don't really care to try and get my money out at break even.
  19. I don't know what the reason is, but a doctor friend of mine says that they have seen enough evidence to say that the older you are, the fewer side effects you are likely to have from the mRNA vaccine doses. Which is interesting, because we know that if those spike proteins were attached to actual viral payloads, then you would be more likely to have serious issues if you were older.
  20. Idiot lawyer? I finished at UT Law a few years before him, but he was in my wife's class. She says there zero surprise amongst her friends about him.
  21. First Moderna shot five weeks ago after volunteering at Minute Maid vaccine site. Second last week. After second shot, felt crummy for about a day and change with slight headache and bodyache. Enough to know immune system was at work. No fever. Arm soreness both times for a day and a half.
  22. So Captain America on his way out of Chelsea?
  23. We got this, it would be a monumental upset for there to even be a day 5 assuming no surprise weather.
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