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The day/time of the 2023 LP3 draft will be:

Sat Mar 25 @ 3:00 pm (Chicago time)

Details:

• The draft will be online on Yahoo.
• We'll do 15 rounds online and then stop.
• The last 5 rounds will happen one day at time from Mon Mar 27 through Mar 31. I'll email details on how these Mon-Fri selections will happen.

Finally, the classic. Print this out...to win:   lp3_draft_sheet.pdf

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Draft results

Draft results...in a couple different forms. (shrug)

1) Yahoo's fancy/weird draft grid:

draft_results_grid1.png   ~   draft_results_grid2.png

2) Old school...snagging results from Draft/Draft results at the Yahoo league.

Rounds 1-3   ~   Rounds 4-6   ~   Rounds 7-9   ~   Rounds 10-12   ~   Rounds 13-15

3) In a panic (ha) over online draft problems, I created this PDF backup of our draft.

draft_results_backup.pdf

The last 5 rounds are Mon-Fri, one pick per day.

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Draft order

The draft order this season is the "worst to first" order from last season.

Here you go. The LetsPlay3 in 2023 draft order is:

1. TY, Philly
2. Janny, Bay City
3. Eric, Vatican City
4. Ryan, RBI All Day
5. Ange, Plano Tib
6. Bob, Killer Rabbit
7. Kyle, Southern Rocket
8. Brad, Killer Maltese
9. Max, M-Money66's Grand Team   <~~ Newbie
10. Anthony, The Ronsby Swanson   <~~ Newbie
11. Troy, PTBNL
12. Rob, Notorious Beard
13. Ed, Boston
14. Jay, CRYOGENIC TED
15. Chris, Kelly Green Guy
16. Bill, Downers Grove

Happy drafting!

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Research!

Here are some FUN links to fantasy baseball research websites. Research!

• PitcherList is one of the few sites that covers Saves+Holds, www.pitcherlist.com
• Savant is the BIG Daddy of advanced (SABR) stats for players, baseballsavant.mlb.com
• FantasyPros has great consensus rankings and articles, www.fantasypros.com/mlb
• CBS Sports has some good fantasy writers, www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/draft-prep
• The Razz is for entertainment purposes only (pretty much), www.razzball.com
• For some original, unconventional research, try searching Twitter for "fantasy baseball"...and no, you don't need a Twitter account to do this,
  twitter.com/search?q=fantasy%20baseball&src=typed_query

If there are websites that you use and want to share, then Id love to add them. Just email me.

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About LP3 changes

What about those (crazy) changes to our scoring this year?!? How are we going to deal with all that mess? Well, here are some ideas for you. They may help you. They may not. Either way, I don't want to hear about it. (smile)

1. Try Yahoo

Yahoo projections use our new stats. Goto our league and hit "Players". I'm not quite sure how good their projections are (cough), but whatevs. LetsPlay3: baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/letsplay3

2. About On-Base Percentage (OBP)

We're now using On-base Percentage (OBP) instead of Total Bases. Imho, this is biggest change that we made. Very few websites rank players using OBP, so we have to scrounge a bit.

The projections at Fangraphs has OBP. It's a nice setup where you can filter and sort players as you like. Enjoy, www.fangraphs.com/projections?pos=all&stats=bat&type=steamer

FantasyPros has OBP too, www.fantasypros.com/mlb/projections/hitters.php.

For fun, I created a spreadsheet from the FantasyPros projections, fantasypros_top200.ods. It's FantasyPro's Top 200 boppers and includes OBP. You can download this spreadsheet and fiddle with it however you like. Let me know if you want/need any other spreadsheet goodies.

That spreadsheet is from an open source guy called LibreOffice. It's free, easy to use, and I (very much) recommend it. You can download it here, www.libreoffice.org

3. What happened last year?

Projections are hard to find for these changes: Net SB, Quality starts, Net Save+Hold. But we can look at what happened last year, thanks to the MLB website.

• Here are the top SB leaders from last season, www.mlb.com/stats/stolen-bases/2022.
• This PDF spreadsheet (from MLB) shows Net SB, mlb2022_net_sb.pdf
• Here are the Save leaders from last year. SVO is "Save opportunities", which we can use to get Net Saves, www.mlb.com/stats/pitching/saves/2022
• No holds yet, but here's Net Saves, mlb2022_net_saves.pdf
• Quality starts, www.mlb.com/stats/pitching/quality-starts/2022?expanded=true

4. 25 innings per week

We increased the minimum innings pitched per week from 15 to 25 innings. So, starters are more important. The days of rolling with 5 or 6 RP's might be coming to an end.

Alright, back of the envelope. There are 25 weeks in a season. A SP with 150 IP in a season means about 6 innings per week. A RP with 50 IP is about 2 innings per week.

To hit 25 innings, you'll probably need at least 4 starts during the week...plus your RP innings.