2012 Fantasy Baseball For Stakes And The Troops
 

I have created a Yahoo League the same as previous years, it'll be mostly default, but I'll be adjusting the scoring for high points and maximum fun.
There will be only ten players.
That will leave a lot of free agents on the bench. There will be no waiver priority or waiver time. You can pick up guys right up till game time. The more involved you are, the better your chances of winning. :tu

Buy in will be five premiums ($50.00 minimum value, NC and/or CC) and a fiver (minimum) for the troops, due prior to the start of the season. There is no dollar value amount for the troop smokes. Usually, quantity is better. Know that they LOVE Acids and other flavored smokes. It's a good idea to buy (a few) nice house bundles to bust up for your weekly bets, and some premiums never hurt if you want to go that way.

Payout will be 30 smokes to first place, 20 for second place, and a bare minimum of 50 smokes to the troops. I hope we break the 300 mark for the troops this year, that'd be insane. :tu
I can take care of receiving/sending smokes, I've done it lots of times before without a hitch and I have plenty of extra storage tubs.

I will personally put together a nice fiver for the winner of the playoff loser's bracket as an incentive to keep everyone involved to the end. If anyone wants to offer any other bonus prizes, that would kick ass. Maybe something such as "fiver for highest score for week" or something like that.
Or "beat me this week, and I'll send a fiver to the troops". We had tons of that going on this year in Fantasy Football For Stakes And The Troops and it made it super fun for everyone.

The key is generosity, banter, and fun. The more bets and banter, the more fun it'll be. The more smokes we can gather for the troops, the more fun it will be.
If you cannot stay available for the entire season, please, please don't sign up, or find a brother or sister to step into your spot.
I can't stress this enough. If you don't eat, breathe, and sleep baseball, or will somehow become unavailable before season's end, please do not sign up.
Disappearing will just hurt what we're trying to do for the troops. We sure won't crucify you because we understand things happen, we just can't afford the normal two guys who quit after two weeks. Please take this seriously and approach it with the pride and respect the troops deserve.
You do not need to be a Fantasy Baseball Genius to join, the guys will help you learn if necessary. The main thing is the desire to have fun and lose lots of bets so the troops win some sticks. :D

Live Draft will be announced asap. If you can't attend, your players will be picked for you by yahoo in the order of player ranking.

Only ten guys will be playing, I'll pm the league name and password to those who join.
1. shilala (scott)
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Please give a lot of thought to the "extra" bets. Not to belabor the point, but this league is gonna cost you some smokes if it's going to be successful, especially for the troops. So take that into consideration very seriously.
If you're a gamer, you could end up buying a number of bundles for the troops if you lose weekly bets. Or you could end up making us other knuckleheads buy lots of smokes for the troops. It's gonna take up some of your time, and a good amount of smack talking to keep guys on their toes. You'll also lose some smokes to your buds if you're playing right.
We'll use this thread as our banter thread once we get all signed up and get the league going.
Thank You for your consideration!!! :tu

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Count me in brother,

I'm guessing this is a head to head leauge?

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Yes, head to head league.

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Get up there.

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Bump

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I gotta send out invites...

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I made most of the settings except the draft date.
We'll all work on that to see what works best. Mind ya, it has never worked out that everyone could be available for the draft. If you're the one guy who can't make it, we won't be picking on you.
Fortunately we can all set up our draft priority list and Yahoo will auto-pick. :tu

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Mmkay, you tweaked my nipple enough. I'm in.

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Good god. My wife will keel me if she finds out I'm joining another fantasy league but what the hell. I probably had it coming anyway. I'm in.

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1. shilala (scott)
2. Jarrod (JenksAnejo)
3. Stephen (stephen)
4. Matty (mattso3000)
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Don't worry, Scott...you're still set up as my cbid address. :lr

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I would join, but I am just not a huge fan of all the side betting. I just like to put in a 5'er or so in the beginning like we did last year in Hugh's league.

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I have talked with Scott and will be offering a Yahoo league again this year. This will be Year Three for this league. I will be starting a thread in a few weeks. There is even an option to renew last year's league. We'll see......

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For you guys who signed up so far, pm incoming. :tu

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1. shilala (scott)
2. Jarrod (JenksAnejo)
3. Stephen (stephen)
4. Matty (mattso3000)
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I'd like to play.

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Sweet!!! Thanks, Mark!!! :tu
PM incoming...

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Oh, it's on now...you're going down bro.

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:gary Yeah right brother. It's on, and you're off.

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Yeah, probably. You've played head to head before and I never have.

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It's ok. I haven't played fantasy baseball of any kind in almost a decade. Hope I can get Barry Bonds and Randy Johnson on my team!:tu

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We only need five more. I'm pounding on Mac real hard to bring him on board.
Let's get this thing filled up and ready to go, gentlemen. :tu
1. shilala (scott)
2. Jarrod (JenksAnejo)
3. Stephen (stephen)
4. Matty (mattso3000)
5. Mark (mkarnold1)
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fixd

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Count me in!!!

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1. shilala (scott)
2. Jarrod (JenksAnejo)
3. Stephen (stephen)
4. Matty (mattso3000)
5. Mark (mkarnold1)
6. Mike (Coach Deg)
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Come on fellas!! Let's help out the troops and support Jarrod's cigar stash!! Everyone will at least have a shot at 2nd place! :fu

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5:51 bump.
We only need four more warm bodies. :tu

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Bump

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We need a few more good men. I invited Dom, and thought it'd be a good idea to invite the rest of the guys from out FF league, but haven't done that yet.
If someone wanted to beat me to the punch on that, it'd be okay by me. :)

We're trying to get filled up before Hugh starts his league which will be in the coming weeks. I suppose we can go with 8 guys, but I'd really like to get 10. It seems to work just right with 10 guys. :tu

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I agree with 10 guys! 8 is just not enough it seems that every team would be absolutley loaded.

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Come on fellas no one else wants in?

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More bump

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Bumpity bump

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Bump.

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Nobody out there wants to get :gary and give me some tasty smokes for it? :r :su

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Figured there would be more takers on this..

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Yeah, as much as members here love baseball and supporting the troops on this site, I figured people would be all over this...:sh

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Come on meow, let's get 10 and plan a draft!! I could get one for sure but I would rather them be from this forum!

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Bumpity. :tu

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Bump!!!

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I thought you were liked round these parts. What gives?:D

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If this league fills up by midnight saturday, that is we get enough folks to have 10 participants, I will take on the field for troop sticks week 1. It's just 5 good sticks for entry and 5 to the troops, not asking for a kidney donation here.

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I know, right? I'm gonna have to put the Cigar Zombies on this, I'm afraid.

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They know that Ricky Vaughn isn't actually a baseball player, right?

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Scottie, you can sign me up.

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I don't really think it's pertinent at this point. If they want to draft Kevin Costner, it's okay by me.

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Thanks, Dom!!! :tu