Alright, this will be the official thread for all things related to a new RBI league (curve style) I'd like to start. I want this to happen, the website is ready for it to happen, this is not a post-and-forget thread like the 2010 Fantasy RBI thread was. I wanted to get some of the new hacks in place before starting this league, but it looks like that's not going to happen.
First things first, I need to know who's interested. I want guys with at least 3 games in the RPC. This will accomplish a number of things...one, it'll weed out people who aren't serious about playing, it'll ensure that people know how to upload their stats and that they are actually setup to play.
If you don't have 3 games in, then you need to have a proven track record or have some sort of case you can present that will make me believe you'll actually play your games and are setup to play. I'd be happy if you just IM'd me and we can discuss that further and I can help you get setup.
I also want to make sure you have a decent connection so that gameplay stays solid.
Time investment on this doesn't have to take over your life...depending on interested parties, we'll play a home and away series vs. each team or something like that...nothing crazy...
Please respond to this post with your interest in playing, as well as your preferred team (this doesn't mean you get that team's players, it just means that's the team you'll be playing with. You'll run through a draft to build your team. First come, first served.
Items for discussion:
1987 Rosters, 2010 Rosters
Two leagues (divisions) based on talent
Include all players available for draft and utilize a salary cap to keep teams from being stacked, or do we limit the player pool to only the number of teams that we have chosen by players in the league
Confirmed to host
Turd - Brewers
Kahouty - Athletics
Dirty - Mets
James23 - Rays
TheCongo - Braves
SuckerPunch - Rockies
Bastardo - Mariners
scrambledeggs728 - Reds
GoNickMontana5 - Nationals
Kulseic - Pirates
Waiting List
Attezz
Timbone666
I don't have 3 games in, but not for lack of trying. I am much more consistant owner than in the past. I would welcome a chance to join league. My RBI skills are beginner at best (still fall for the curve waaaay to much) so please place me accordingly. I would like to be the PIRATES if poss. Thanx, Jim
Jim, I know you from past leagues...that's good enough for me.
Kahouty - Athletics
Count me in! Wooohoo!
One point of note, you'll be required to be able to host (either with hamachi or by setting up your router). I'll just need to verify that with each of you before we make your "membership" official.
Also, AIM is going to be required so that people can find you to setup a time to play your games...
I'm in
As requested by Scrambled, I picked his team for him...the Reds.
I have a lot on my plate, but am going to cut things out to have time as i think turd can make an rbi league work :D I'll be on this weekend for practice rpc etc, want to play hit me up.
AIM:RBICongo
If you're too busy, it's understandable. You'll always have an invite to my leagues.
Turd - I have the controller now and all the capabilities to host.
I would like the Mariners! :)
I like the idea of using 2010 players and a salary cap... perhaps with each team that the user has picked getting that teams franchise player... like Turd would start with Braun on his team, I'd start with Ichiro... etc... then we draft the rest of the players or something.
Just a thought, let me know, I'll be out of town this weekend but then back in buisness after that with baby #2 coming I'll have time to do nothing but sit inside.
Bastardo, you're all setup to host? That's freakin' awesome, who set you up? Do you have IM? That's helpful to people finding opponents...
I'm debating at least for season one to just have the players availbe from the teams chosen and move into a salary cap style next season. Keep it simple...I like your idea of getting the team's franchise player...
Hit me up and we'll chat some more...
I have Yahoo Messenger but I can get AIM if that is what everybody uses...
What about VoiceChat do we have that capability yet anywhere?
And I should say that I think I've set myself up to host, not positive :) :) :)
AIM is the standard...if you don't want to install it, you can use this:
http://products.aim.com/products/express
Anyways, hit me up tonight or tomorrow (I'm taking a night or two off in the upcoming days to just sit). But, hit me up and we'll make sure you can setup...
I think for now we'll cap the signups at 8 to keep it simple. Expansion is an option afterwards...once I verify that everyone is good to go for hosting, I'll setup the site and we can draw numbers to find out where we draft, get a schedule going, and hop to this thing...
I'm in with the Rockies.
Oops, looks like I'm late to the game, but I'd like to be on the expansion list. I'm an RBI beginner and haven't played any RPC games yet but I'm a dedicated owner and love RBI baseball!
I didn't want to have 10 teams right off the bat because the more owners you have, the more leagues are prone to failure.
That being said, I don't want to turn away interested players...so let me confirm that everyone on the list is able to host either directly or with hamachi. If so, we'll expand to 10. If not, you guys can replace the ones that can't. I think most of ya'll can host, so it shouldn't be an issue.
GoNick, who's your team choice?
I got 20 bucks says this league fails just like every other attempt at online rbi leagues.
Who are these people?
not sure, but I heard they were all coming to your 4th of July party
Most of them are guys who play in the RPC...we're gonna use the online section of this board for our official discussion, so after the league starts, it'll be out of everyone's way.
I know it's been done before, and failed many times over. If it does fail, at least I tried. Out of all the old league posts and websites I've read, I feel like I'm the most ambitious of the bunch in a long time. I'm doing my best to get guys who I know are active and play their games...with a few question marks, but that can all be worked out. If it doesn't work, then it's never gonna work with this crowd. Tecmo has proven to work in league format, just need the right people. This is my last ditch effort to make it happen.
I'll take the Nationals, and I think this is the start of RBI's return to greatness!
As long as people play their games, it should be a good time. It would have been even better with all the new hacks that were coming out, but my guy has dropped off the face of the earth...
Website is setup, draft players have been imported. As long as I can get everyone verified to be able to host, I'd say we could start the draft next week. The draft will be fully automated on the league website, snake style, randomly drawing the order.
Two divisions, Tengen and Namco...owners will be placed into divisions based on perceived skill level.
Regular season:
8 Division Games (one home and one away vs each of your division opponents)
4 Interleague games
Post-season:
top 3 from each division make playoffs, top seeds get byes
3 game series for playoffs, a 5 game series for the world series
I'd be in, contingent on you having me and me finding someone to draft my team (currently in the works) for me.
Yeah, I've had several others ask me about joining as well. I'll put you on the wait-list...
Why would you need someone to draft your team?
Because I don't have the time to do the draft during the day but do have time to play at night.
I am ready...with a new AIM name :-\ RBIKongo
I'll fix it along with the other stuff you asked...still want the Braves? I assumed since you're an Atlanta Falcons fan...
I'm 99.999% positive you can host, considering I've played alot of games wit you in the past for tecmo...
yep i can host, don't need himachi to host either. and yes diehard braves fan, my first tat was a braves cap on a skull :D
For me Braves > Bulldogs > Falcons = Hawks = Thrashers
thank you!
Few more players to verify hosting and confirm that all owners going to commit to 1-2 games a week. If anyone wants to opt out at that time, we'll give the spot to an alternate.
I'll do a random draw in a chatroom or something for draft position, and we'll get the draft going...and then release the schedule and divisions once the draft has started...
Can we move this to the online page? I'm tired of having to read about how cocky Turd is.
Can you quote some of my text that shows where I've been cocky?
Confucious say "Man with hand in pants feel cocky all day"
Thanks, Bazooka Joe.
Using the following numbers numbers, I'm going to roll dice on this website:
http://rpgp.org/dice/?p=group under the room name RBILeague1. I'll keep rolling until I get 10 unique numbers. This is just for verification purposes so people can see I was honest in that they are random.
1 Turd - Brewers
2 Kahouty - Athletics
3 Dirty - Mets
4 James23 - Rays
5 TheCongo - Braves
6 SuckerPunch - Rockies
7 Bastardo - Mariners
8 scrambledeggs728 - Reds
9 Kulseic - Pirates
10 GoNickMontana5 - Nationals
And, with that said, here is the official draft order for season 1:
1 James23
2 GoNickMontana5
3 ScrambledEggs728
4 TheCongo
5 Turd
6 Kulseic
7 Kahouty
8 Dirty
9 SuckerPunch
10 Bastardo
Quote from: Turd on 06/12/10, 07:15:19 AM
Can you quote some of my text that shows where I've been cocky?
Quote from: Turd on 06/10/10, 10:02:16 AM
I know... I'm ... best
'Tis a stretch, but well played...
Can i be in the leauge? AIM- timbone666
League is currently full. I'll add you to the list of alternates. I'd all but guarantee well need a few before seasons end.
Hey Turd, just wondering how the draft was going to work? Also, is there somewhere we can see all the power and contact numbers for the 2010 rom. Thanks!
for ratings, I've tweaked the ratings a bit to try and reflect this season so that it was a little more updated. I'll post the league website link in a day or two as well.
The draft is a snake style draft done on the website. You'll basically pick your guy right on the site and it'll advance to the next draft slot. This will happen until all the teams are filled.
I'll have the rules and whatnot posted after we get the last two confirmed for hosting. I'll send the league an email with details soon. Any more questions? Let me know.
Cool so we're close eh? We drafting from just the teams players that are in the pool? And its the 2010 rom correct? Or has none of this been decided?
Eager to draft it up and start swatting doubles.
Just from the 10'teams in the league, and yes, 2010 with tweaked ratings for the first part of this year. We are close.
Am I to assume at the moment that we do not have access to this web page?
You do not, but I'll let ya know tonight all that information...
:D very excited
question...do you guys want to use:
a.) My 2010 batter ratings
b.) This season's ratings calculated off of how players are currently batting...basically Corey Hart would be one of the leading power hitters in the lineup under this system.
The welcome email has been sent. Draft starts Friday. Let's move all league discussion to the online forum now...
Think of some awards while you're at it. Here's what I got so far:
http://www.rbibaseball.us/league/awards.php
Quote from: Turd on 06/14/10, 08:29:26 PM
question...do you guys want to use:
a.) My 2010 batter ratings
b.) This season's ratings calculated off of how players are currently batting...basically Corey Hart would be one of the leading power hitters in the lineup under this system.
B plz, me likey Corey Hart hitting like Hank Arron.
a.
You mentioned ideas for awards...
The Great American Sticker Challenge would like to sponser The Picture Perfect award given to any individual player that has a hit in every game.
You can fire away on a logo for it.
Good idea...clarification though, this award will likely go to every manager in the league because it's highly unlikely that anyone throws a no-hitter. Remember, stats for this league are tracked by team only...we don't have the ability to track by individual players.
I will rethink that prize then.... hmmmmmm... I hate managers so I don't know if I want award them anything :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
So when does this draft officially start? My wife tells me that you were discussing it with her :)
I just sent out an email. James23 already made his pick cause I left it open, so technically, it's started now. I wanted to wait til friday in case we tweaked anything, but whatever...
Turd, is there a way you can post the full ratings outside of the draft board... I just was wondering because I don't know what Crawford or Reyes had for rankings.
Sure. I'll work on that.
HAHA STOKAGE! Draft in full effect. GL to the competitors.
Yep. Seems like the draft website is working well thus far.
Quote from: kahouty on 06/15/10, 09:26:00 PM
HAHA STOKAGE! Draft in full effect. GL to the competitors.
Good Luck to you as well... I only hope my tough draft position doesn't hurt my year one squad. Either way it's going to be really fun.
And if I finish last I can draft that Harper guy next year.
RBIKong just took my favorite player...
:( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Mine is Braun. Sometimes winning is more important than chumming with your favorite players.
However, losing would be more fun with Ichiro than with Joey Votto... just ask Ken Griffey Jr.
Zing.
Joey Votto is right up there with Chase Utley for my secod favorite. Both of them help my fantasy team out greatly.
Chase Utley took the Brewers out of the playoffs Turd... I'm gonna go find your car and pee on it!
;)
So did Sabathia by choking. Granted he had about 5 minutes rest between starts, but still.
Fielder and Ichiro :D
Hey Turd. I was doing some scouting on my draft players, and I noticed Jack Cust isnt available in the league draft pool. Is there an updated rom that you used when Cust got cut, or was this just an oversight? The A's players listed as OF'ers are Crisp and Davis, but no RF'er.
Mis-draft...
I call for a re-draft!
Well, I found the problem. For some reason, I had three guys labeled as DH and not B (for bench), so they weren't showing up as available players in the draft. That means that the last three picks can't be made because we'll be 3 available guys short.
Position,FieldPosition,Name,Bats,Average,HR,Contact,Power,Speed
DH,Cust,1,240,25,26,866,122,20
DH,Grffey,1,214,19,30,832,120,25
DH,Burrel,0,221,14,29,804,122,27
I don't think we can enter these guys in the draft because it would be unfair to people who wanted to draft them before...perhaps we'll just give the last three picks a guy with stats equal to the worst available batter in the draft pool.
Dammit.
That's fine by me, as long as I get to name my mystery player.
Perhaps average the players taken in the final round.
That's a better idea. Average it is.
Turd - I thought I got the "you're up" text last night... I don't seem to be up... did I get auto'd or something.
Let me know, power is out at my house, couldn't get online last night.
I did text you that you were up, but since you didn't make your time, I auto'd you...the rule was that in these later rounds, you'd get the guy with the most power available, and then the highest curve pitcher if your batters were full. Your next picks would be at 5:30 today...
Should be done with round 9 with your picks. Then we should be able to fly through rounds 10-16 and get preseason going...
Problem with the auto'd situation is now I have two LF's... how's that gonna work position wise?
I don't mind the auto at all, just that I cant make a lineup.
The rules state any player can play any position...you don't need to draft by position! In fact, if that were the case, the site wouldn't allow it, but I have that turned off.
From the rules (www.rbibaseball.us/league/rules.php)
"For this season, your batters can play any non-pitching fielding position."
Oh!!! Okay, great, I've got no problems then... I just can't wait to play.
Me too. Last rounds should fly.
What a dumb ass, that Bastardo...
Quote from: Gantry on 06/22/10, 05:18:30 PM
What a dumb ass, that Bastardo...
I'm going to kill you.
You'll be too drunk to kill me...
I missing a player that I drafted...
Turd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curses!
Gantry = plotting.... plotting....
Yes, I was just skipping you...who are your two picks?
I was literally skipping you the exact moment you were drafting and it messed something up. I'll remove the picks and then you can redraft...
I'm fairly certain next season's draft will feature a bidding system...it's really the way to go.
Hey Bastardo,
If you could pick tonight, that would be great. That way I could pick in the morning before I go to work rather than the autopick.
Thanks,
Jackandjose
I just texted him so he knows he's up. He had some power outages that should be resolved. I hope he picks too. It'd be nice to fly through thee last picks.
Bastardo truly is the worst...
Thanks! There is no reason why we can't get through a round in the evenings.
Turd-With the 72nd pick I took Marqui. It now shows me with Prado and Marqui is available again. I guess it's no big deal.
I'm not sure how that happened. If that really is the case, I'll fix it on your honor, but the site has been spot on with all the other picks. Unless I screwed it up when fixing some of the data a few rounds back.
Don't worry about it. I don't mind keeping Prado, maybe I hit the wrong button. I was more worried that someone else might have drafted him.
Alrighty...
email me a list of players if you want me to pick one for you...Bastardo, who is normally reliable, is being the worst right now.
ok. If he makes his second pick soon, I should be able to pick this morning. Pick a reliever for me this afternoon. Thanks!
List of jerks.
1. Gantry
2. Suckerpunch
3. Turd
4. Mahca
I'm number one!
I'm number one!
Locking this topic, new league business and whatnot moving to this forum:
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?board=7.0