Tuesday, March 6, 2007

SBC Fantasy Baseball Update

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... my first fantasy post of the icy spring.
While the rest of my law school class wastes their time on Contracts and Legal Writing, eleven fellow baseball fanatics and I have banded together to form the best fantasy baseball league in St. John's University history, SBC Baseball. "SBC" of course, is a not-so-inside joke, standing for Space Bar C*&t, the new girl who whacks her keyboard with the all the frustration of a sex-starved law student... which, judging by her general appearance and over-laughter at professor's jokes (I'm talking about you, Parella - she's gunning for ya) she most definitely is.
I will begin by posting the rules of this league:

SBC Baseball
12 Team Head-To-Head, Overall Points System
MLB - All Players available.
C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OFx3, U, SPx5 and RPx2.
Unlocked Rosters... BUT:
Once a starting pitcher has started a game in a given week, he is locked in to his SP slot (allegedly to cut down on the abuse of innings pitched... but with enough negative stat categories, starting Jered Fernandez and Tim Wakefield just for IP would result in negative points... but I digress).

Scoring:
Scoring for Batting Categories
1B - Singles 1 point
2B - Doubles 2 points
3B - Triples 3 points
BB - Walks (Batters) 1 point
CS - Caught Stealing -1 point
HR - Home Runs 4 points
KO - Strikeouts (Batter) -1 point
R - Runs 1 point
RBI - Runs Batted In 1 point
SB - Stolen Bases 2 points

Scoring for Pitching Categories
BBI - Walks Issued (Pitchers) -.5 points
BS - Blown Saves -4 points
ER - Earned Runs -1 point
HA - Hits Allowed -.5 points
INN - Innings 2 points
K - Strikeouts (Pitcher) 1 point
L - Losses -5 points
S - Saves 8 points
SO - Shutouts 10 points
W - Wins 10 points

My team (conveniently named Rough Justice) had the third overall pick. Here's my roster and draft order (gets a little hazy in the late rounds due to the hot polish bartender and Bud Heavies going down like water, feel free to correct):

First Round
3. Johan Santana, SP
(ed. note: Some might disagree with taking a pitcher this early. This is not a pitcher, this is Johan.)
Second Round
22. Travis Hafner, U
Third Round
27. Brandon Webb, SP
Fourth Round
46. Brian McCann, C
Fifth Round
51. Ryan Zimmerman, 3B
Sixth Round
70. C.C. Sabathia, SP
Seventh Round
75. Bill Hall, SS
Eighth Round
94. Freddy Sanchez, 2B
Ninth Round
99. Barry Bonds (GROAN...), OF
Tenth Round
118. Prince Fielder, 1B
Eleventh Round
123. Rocco Baldelli, OF
Twelfth Round
142. Bob Wickman, RP
Thirteenth Round
147. Joe Borowski, RP
Fourteenth Round
166. Alex(is) Rios, OF
(ed. note: suck it, Trevor)
Fifteenth Round
171. Chris Duncan, OF
Sixteenth Round
190. Joel Zumaya, RP
Seventeenth Round
195. Akinori Otsuka, RP
Eighteenth Round
214. Eric Byrnes, OF
Nineteenth Round
219. Marcus Giles, 2B
Twentieth Round
238. Vincente Padilla, SP
Twenty-First Round
243. Chuck James, SP
Twenty-Second Round
262. Philip "Great White Hope" Hughes, God's Own SP

My strategy, if you can call it that, was to grab three of the best pitchers I could get my hands on, then worry about my outfield and bullpen later by throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. Comments and critiques are not only appreciated, but encouraged... including trade offers from fellow SBC'ers.

-RJ

2 comments:

Another Torres said...

I'm going to have to agree with you... that Polish bartender was certainly boner-inducing.

Anonymous said...

Well said.