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How do you feel about baseball this year? (1 Viewer)

Thoughts on MLB 2020

  • Can't wait for the season

    Votes: 28 11.9%
  • Still pretty excited for the season

    Votes: 46 19.5%
  • Apathetic about having a season or not

    Votes: 162 68.6%

  • Total voters
    236
I would assume any player that tests positive cannot play for some period of time (2 weeks?). Obviously has huge implications on the talent level we see on the field. The whole season is going to be a mess and no one is going to consider it a real season anyway. Might as well try all the wacky things they were thinking about trying and see what sticks. Robo umps, no DH, player starts on 2B in extra innings, pitch clock, players can steal 1B, etc. Whatever, try anything.  :shrug:
** no pitchers hitting 

 
I’m just about to enter peak old man baseball fan status. Routinely catch at least a few innings of every Reds game on local affiliate. Check in on the games on radio in the car. Religiously check box scores and stats online,

If the NL goes DH permanently all those things will likely almost flatline for me.

I’m game for any and all extra innings changes including ties. I can roll with a pitcher has to pitch at least a full inning or x number of batters before you can yank him.

More brawls, less brawls,  bean balls - I don’t care.

But ####### pitchers hit or start televising cricket,

also: I don’t care if they play at all this year, which is a pity because I think the Reds were going to be interesting.

 
If they end up playing under this agreement, somebody gave them horrible advice on the last offer. This deal is definitely worse and for what? So they can file a grievance they’ll almost definitely lose years from now?
They are playing, my kid has to figure out what to do now that his buddy is leaving July 1

 
Anyone here do weekly HTH fantasy baseball? My main league has been around for 20+ years and we were looking for ideas in this format for the short season.

Seems like we will have to do something a bit different since the season is only 9 weeks.

 
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Anyone here do weekly HTH fantasy baseball? My main league has been around for 20+ years and we were looking for ideas in this format for the short season.

Seems like we will have to do something a bit different since the season is only 9 weeks.
Switch to Roto for just this season?  I think that is what my HTH league is doing. There is also a subset of this league that is ready to skip the season altogether. 

 
Switch to Roto for just this season?  I think that is what my HTH league is doing. There is also a subset of this league that is ready to skip the season altogether. 
We are in the same boat. As we have all gotten older with more life stuff there are a few teams that barely pay attention as is.

Roto probably wouldn’t fly as they are so resistant to change but I’ll float the idea.

I think it has potential to be great as there will be so many games everyday.

 
Anyone here do weekly HTH fantasy baseball? My main league has been around for 20+ years and we were looking for ideas in this format for the short season.

Seems like we will have to do something a bit different since the season is only 9 weeks.
My main league is a keeper league, so we really want to have a season if possible.  One thing we are considering is double and triple headers.  We are 12 teams, 2 divisions, 6 per division.  We are looking at doing triple headers for the first two weeks against the opposite division, then double headers against divisional opponents for the next 5 weeks.  4 teams in playoffs with the final 2 weeks.

It sucks, but like I said, keeper league, so it feels like we should do anything we can to have a season.  We are discussing reduced buy-in/payouts as well.

 
My main league is a keeper league, so we really want to have a season if possible.  One thing we are considering is double and triple headers.  We are 12 teams, 2 divisions, 6 per division.  We are looking at doing triple headers for the first two weeks against the opposite division, then double headers against divisional opponents for the next 5 weeks.  4 teams in playoffs with the final 2 weeks.

It sucks, but like I said, keeper league, so it feels like we should do anything we can to have a season.  We are discussing reduced buy-in/payouts as well.
We aren’t keeper but are also 12 teams. How do the triple headers work?

 
My h2h league is going roto, and we're not playing for money this year.  We've taken our league entry fees and are rolling them into the '21 season (assuming THAT happens!).

Just playing this "season" for fun.  Cuz who knows, it may be cut short.  

Also, some owners may have drafted with a full season in mind and punted on a category - like saves, for instance - which would make things really difficult for those owners in a roto environment.

Crossing my fingers that they can last through....

 
We aren’t keeper but are also 12 teams. How do the triple headers work?
It's a 5x5 HTH league.  Example, using A for division A, B for division B.

Team 1A plays Team 1B, 2B, 3B in week one.  Will get 10 wins/losses for the categories in each matchup, so will have 30 games played (Ws/Ls) after week one.

Team 2A plays Teams 1B, 2B, 3B

Team 1B plays Teams 1A, 2A, 3A

We use Fantrax, which allows us to create as many weekly matchups as we want.  I don't know what sites support that, but they do, so that was our solution.  We just didn't want to go Roto, as some of our owners really dislike roto.  Plus, this follows more closely to what we have always done, as far as the HTH category matchups.  It's less than ideal, but it does get us 160 games worth of W's and L's.  A bad or good week will just have a massive impact this year.

 
Anyone here do weekly HTH fantasy baseball? My main league has been around for 20+ years and we were looking for ideas in this format for the short season.

Seems like we will have to do something a bit different since the season is only 9 weeks.
I posted a similar question in the Baseball Forum last night.  I think I’m going to try pushing for roto.  We usually do HTH with 6 teams for playoffs. So, we’d be looking at a 6 week regular season followed by 3 weeks of playoffs under our format, which seems kind of dumb.

 
Anyone here do weekly HTH fantasy baseball? My main league has been around for 20+ years and we were looking for ideas in this format for the short season.

Seems like we will have to do something a bit different since the season is only 9 weeks.
Daily lineup roto.

 
We have 12 teams and are going to go to a six week regular season with double headers most weeks so that every team plays everyone else 1 time.  Then we will seed for playoffs with the top 4 teams making it (and all of those teams getting some winnings).  It will be a one week semi final and then the winners matchup in the finals for two weeks. 

 
Not nearly as interested as I thought I would be. More of a novelty than a true competitive "season" with a legit champ. And I still have doubts about how smoothly this will go with so many hotspots and outbreaks taking place.

 
This is going to be an interesting ride..

just some of the Restrictions....

Players won’t even have the same lockers. Maybe not even the same locker room. All lockers must be six feet apart from one another, meaning some will be in the home clubhouse, others in the visitor’s clubhouse, some in the umpires’ room, others simply in the stadium workers cafeteria.
Players, who will be prohibited from entering the stadium if their temperature is above 100.4, will have their temperature and symptoms checked at least twice a day. They will have saliva tests every other day. And once per month, players will be given antibody tests.

When the game starts, not everyone can sit in the dugout. Some of the players will have to sit in the stands, spaced out between not only seats, but entire rows.

And no more spitting. Tobacco is forbidden. You can chew, but not sunflower seeds. Gum is permitted, but you can’t spit it out.

Sorry, pitchers, don’t even think about licking your fingers. They can carry a wet rag in their pocket, but no licking.

Hitters, don’t look for a batboy or batgirl to pick up your bat. You're on your own..

MLB has the right to shift games to neutral sites for the regular season and postseason.

If there’s a significant outbreak on a team, there’s a 60-man club player pool hoping to cover it.
:oldunsure:  

 
A mediocre team that can stay healthy might win it all.  
I agree. Every year, even the weaker teams go on a decent run sometime during the season. If a team in 2020 can start hot for a few weeks, coast into the end of August, and then just hold on when regression kicks in, that just might be enough.

The AL Central will be a ferocious three-way fight. Cleveland/Minnesota/White Sox get a third of their season against two of the worst teams in all of baseball in Detroit/KC. It wouldn't be surprising to see those three separated by just a couple of wins even in the last week of the season. 

 
I agree. Every year, even the weaker teams go on a decent run sometime during the season. If a team in 2020 can start hot for a few weeks, coast into the end of August, and then just hold on when regression kicks in, that just might be enough.

The AL Central will be a ferocious three-way fight. Cleveland/Minnesota/White Sox get a third of their season against two of the worst teams in all of baseball in Detroit/KC. It wouldn't be surprising to see those three separated by just a couple of wins even in the last week of the season. 
The Royals will be better than you think.

 
So the season is going to be 60 games, and people care about it? If your team wins whatever it is (the mini-Series?), will it mean anything? What's the asterisk limit on a "championship" like that?

 
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So the season is going to be 60 games, and people care about it? If your team wins whatever it is (the mini-Series?), will it mean anything? What's the asterisk limit on a "championship" like that?
If the Braves would win it I would be just as happy as if it were a normal season.  :shrug:   ETA:  My happiness would be dampened seriously if somehow the Braves were the only team to get through without many Covid-related shutdowns and everyone else was forced to play A-level players.

It might end up being kind of fun.  Every game is meaningful.  We shouldn't see pitchers getting shut down for load maintenance.  I guess I'm taking a glass half full approach.

To flip that, I'm still not sure they complete even a shortened season or that it won't be a ####-show with players having to sit out for chucks of the "season". 

 
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Does it really take a lot more than 60 games to figure out who the better teams are for the playoffs? I know Washington got hot last year but they are an outlier. 

I have been thinking  that 162 is way too many games as it usually is. 

 
Clearly if the team you're rooting for wins, there's no asterisk.  Meanwhile if a team you dislike wins, asterisk that thing up.

1981 Dodgers team doesn't seem to be treated as an inferior champion, which is about as close to a comparison as I can think of from memory.

 
I do hope that when (if) they start back up that we don't get the initial pregame "WE BEAT IT!" celebrations.  We didn't beat anything.  We/they worked around it.

 
Who cares.  Watch the games and have fun.

I swear some of you guys could screw up a wet dream.
Yup.

Fingers crossed but the next 7 months or so has potential to be the greatest period in sports history.

Baseball every day, playoff baseball, NBA every day, NBA playoffs, US Open, The Masters, The Ryder Cup, NFL, College football, I’ll even throw MLS in here.

It’s going to be redonkulous. 

 
Who cares.  Watch the games and have fun.

I swear some of you guys could screw up a wet dream.
This is so true.  Everyone starts with the same set of rules and just like any other season of any other sport, some teams will have to find a way to deal with adversity that others don't face.  its the nature of sports.  So be it.  Just enjoy that baseball is being played and root for your team.  

The only competitive advantage that might happen is if some teams are allowed to have fans, and others are not, but that is a city, county, state issue for each individual team.  I, for one, think the players would be happy to have fans in the stands even if they are the road team.  I just think they like the additional energy.  It is going to be eerie to be in the ballpark when the game is being played without any fans. 

 
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