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It's that time of year again. Time for the annual GW fantasy baseball league. 

Sign up here
League ID#227830
password: gwisthegreatest

The league will do a live draft March 29th at 5pm EST.   We'll be using the same settings as last year, unless anyone has an objection to something.

If you've never played before and have questions, just post them here.  I'll answer whatever questions you have.

Edit: Make sure you post the name of your team after signing up.
Last Edit: March 17, 2009, 12:42:30 am by Grunthor
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I'm in.

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I see you left out the most important stats out: Scrap Factor, GRiT3, and H.U.S.T.L.E.

No matter. The Hustle Fanatics love a good challenge.

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Can we award points for players who respect the game? Thanks

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Also I'm Jose Canseco's Fave5
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Don't forget the draft is this Sunday.  Hopefully we can get a few more people to sign up for this before then.
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5PM EST?

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5PM EST?

Yeah 5pm EST.

Edit: I can change the time to later in the day if need be, but I need to hear from you guys by no later than 9pm tomorrow night about it.
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hey get on IRC for the draft (all 4 of us...)

Also Ive never done fantasy before so I dunno this is going to be crazy!~!~!~ Willy Mo first round pick
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Bump, I'm playing a crappy browser based BASEBALL MMO http://mmobaseball.com/index.aspx with goons in case any of you want in
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Bump, I'm playing a crappy browser based BASEBALL MMO http://mmobaseball.com/index.aspx with goons in case any of you want in
you should have used your referral link because i actually stumbled onto this post last week and joined this game. guess you didn't want them free points...............

also yeah this game is pretty crappy but it's a nice idea and doesn't require much time to play. i do like how it is an adequate simulation of WORTHLESSNESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT AND FAILURE but that's only because there's no safety net at all and you need to just BOTHER OTHER PLAYERS to get anywhere in the game. i'll probably keep playing this though, because it's barely intrusive enough to be a time-waster. what's your team anyway? i have a third baseman and a right fielder both almost to level 2 if you guys have ZERO TALENT SLOP or cpu players sitting around that need to be replaced.

this is a much better text-based baseball game btw. a lot less sitting around waiting involved and a lot more stuff to mess around with. the pace is a lot better too. you control an entire organization and the free leagues simulate three games a day.


ps if anybody signs up for mmo baseball use this link so i can get me some points
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Yea I wasn't thinking!!!! Forgot referrals are a necessity to get free points.

Basically I haven't played a game yet but the guy running our team just dumped me some extra money and seems pretty ok. He also just bought another team that isn't loaded with goons yet so I can probably get traded there and get you guys spots too (noz has a guy I think?). Post your player link if you wanna do that. I new season is suppose to start soon, heads up

I think the nice thing about it is it takes 2 seconds to pick what to train and I bet during the games you do even less. But I imagine in  a year people will be making players for high school teams and desperately hoping their guy makes it to a college or Canadian Semi-proAAAAAAA team and almost nobody touches the 'majors'. I bet I strikeout every plate appearance in my debut and never make it anywhere.

I'll check out Sim  Dynasty for sure. It definitely looks neat and the pacing sounds good. It's probably more along the lines of what I want anyway
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i made two accounts with a player on each. i hope they don't care about multi-accounts, but it doesn't seem like the sort of game where anybody can gain some sort of unfair advantage with it unless they're using it to cheat the points system(which i didn't do)

http://www.mmobaseball.com/myplayer.aspx?id=34335
http://www.mmobaseball.com/myplayer.aspx?id=34338

i might keep Wilkenns where he is now because the guy who owns the team i'm on is pretty nice and gave me some leveling up money. also he said he may end up having a utility outfielder spot open for next season and said i could have it if his guy fell through. but i'd be dumb to turn down a starting role if your guy has one available. manto, however, doesn't have a team lined up at all(the team i'm on is just helping me level up as well) and i'd like to get him a good gig somewhere. i've almost got both of these guys to level 2, so they may actually be vaguely serviceable by the time the next season rolls around. i kinda dig this game enough to dump the ENORMOUS REQUIRED SUM of fifteen minutes a day into it, so i probably won't be going inactive to piss off your owner.

yeah it'd be great if you could help out. bugging perfect strangers for a spot on their roster is a bit annoying.

also what is your character's link?
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they do care about having multiple accounts (no idea why) but who cares really

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Hahaha, I'm a shit head! All the roster spots on his teams are filled! I shouldn't of opened my mouth, sorry

Right now my guy (http://www.mmobaseball.com/myplayer.aspx?id=34228) and Manto are both in the same league (different conferences though). That's something I guess? I'll try and keep my eyes open if anyone goes inactive or there's a spot open. It seems like getting everyone on the same team is going to be really difficult!!

Also I really like Sim Dynasty. I picked up some team and spent the night fucking with lineups and letting go of AAAA schmucks (heh). I'm on a 2 game winning streak YES!!! The only thing is it is really difficult to get a feel for how my guys compare with the rest of the league.The game also seems to value some weird stuff with the mentoring but I'm not entirely sure I get that part yet to begin with. I'm pretty much ignoring defense for now too
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I find it odd that Sim Dynasty has no kind of plate discipline rating whatsoever. Only contact and power.

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Hahaha, I'm a shit head! All the roster spots on his teams are filled! I shouldn't of opened my mouth, sorry

Right now my guy (http://www.mmobaseball.com/myplayer.aspx?id=34228) and Manto are both in the same league (different conferences though). That's something I guess? I'll try and keep my eyes open if anyone goes inactive or there's a spot open. It seems like getting everyone on the same team is going to be really difficult!!

Also I really like Sim Dynasty. I picked up some team and spent the night fucking with lineups and letting go of AAAA schmucks (heh). I'm on a 2 game winning streak YES!!! The only thing is it is really difficult to get a feel for how my guys compare with the rest of the league.The game also seems to value some weird stuff with the mentoring but I'm not entirely sure I get that part yet to begin with. I'm pretty much ignoring defense for now too

it's no big deal about not finding me a team. i actually found both of my players really good gigs. manto is the #5 hitter for some decent semi-pro A team, and wilkenns is the utility outfielder/backup first basemen for an extremely good playoff-caliber semi pro team. i'm pretty happy with both spots, particularly wilkenns' team, so it's really no big deal.

in semi-unrelated news i also found out about a football equivalent of mmobaseball called goal line blitz which is really the exact same thing as mmobaseball but quite a bit older, so they've had a lot more time to perfect things. it's a pretty slick game, really. i suspect it's made by the same people who did mmobaseball or was a major inspiration for it, because the way the game works is fundamentally similar. actually the major difference is that training isn't time-based but done with points you get every day, so it's even less intrusive than mmobaseball is. the points carry over so you can really just check up on your player once a week and not fall behind. also the free agent/drafting system actually works, so it's MUCH easier to get an immediate foothold in the game. idk if this is old news to you guys, but it's pretty cool. if you like mmobaseball and american football, you'll definitely like this game.


ps yeah i love the hell out of sim dynasty. glad you like it. eventually i'm probably going to do a paid league at some point, mainly due to the fact that I already have the equivalent of a few seasons earned through their points system. let me know if you ever like the game enough to do that.
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Glad to hear because I was kicking myself for offering something I didn't really control.

Yea I've heard about Goal Line Blitz and will definitely make a character sometime. I like sports *grins* but yea there isn't a good reason not to play especially if it actually takes less time than mmobaseball

Sim Dynasty is great but I had like a 1-9 streak and finished the season pretty poorly. I also can't get a decent trade started because nobody else is active. But yea I'd play in a legit league though I dunno it mostly depends on the cost

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