So for the past two years I have sent out an invitation through a Daily Kos diary inviting people to participate in my yearly free Yahoo fantasy baseball league eloquently named "Cub Hater's Club 'xx" (where xx is the current two digit year). There was a pretty good response rate, and the league filled fairly quickly. I had so much fun last year (even though I got trounced) I thought I would do it again this year. Thus "Cub Hater's Club '10" is born.
We currently have seven returning league members, and need five more to fill out the league. So if you have any interest in participating you can read the details after the jump.
It's a free Yahoo league - but all Yahoo leagues are now free - so it requires nothing more from you than having a Yahoo ID. The live draft is scheduled for Saturday, March 27th, at 12:00 pm Eastern (that will be 9:00 am for anyone on the West Coast - everyone else can do their own time conversions). A Yahoo fantasy baseball draft usually lasts about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
The league id is # 164753, and the password is cubssuck. (Still pithy, I know!!)
To sign up, go here: Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Signup Page
and enter the league id and password in the appropriate places.
Cubs fans and Cubs hater's are especially welcome - but anyone with an interest can join. I only ask one thing from you: be active, and participate until the bitter end. Nothing is worse than a league where half or more of the managers give up at the All-Star break.
A few more details:
- It's a head to head league (H2H) (that means you compete against one other manager each week - and collect wins and losses or ties depending on your statistics in several offensive and pitching categories).
- Yahoo has eliminated PLUS leagues (the "premium for-pay" leagues), and thus are now giving away all the "extras" for free. So you have access to all the draft kits, live-scoring during the season, etcetera.
- Yahoo also made some changes to how they run a standard Yahoo league. They've added an extra UTIL spot a weekly transaction limit (6 acquisitions per week). That being the case, I decided to modify the league settings to use the standard Yahoo settings this year instead of my usual tweaks.
- Here is the entire breakdown of the roster positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, UTIL, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL
- Usually I add an extra DL spot compared to standard leagues, but that will be eliminated this year.
- The stat categories will be the standard Yahoo H2H league (i.e. there are 5 offensive categories & 5 pitching categories you compete in). The categories for this league are: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP. This is a change from previous seasons - we used to run a 7x7 league - but we have eliminated the categories for Hits, OPS, Losses and Holds this year.
- The minimum innings pitched each week is 7 (down from 21).
- Trades are subject to approval/disapproval by the commissioner.
Ok, that's it. If you're interested, you're welcome to join. The league is limited to 12 managers - so once that limit has been reached we'll be out of space. Thanks for your time, and to those who are interested, I hope you join and have fun!!