Fellow Managers,
I have the great privilege to welcome you all to Baldelli’s Modern Life XI — our 11th season in the “Modern” era.
While 2020 will never be forgotten, some good came out of it for the direction of this league. We learned that auction drafting is wicked fun and that roto is not our cup of tea. But 2021 promises to be the year we’ve all been waiting for.
Continue readingI have made a couple of last-minute changes to the league settings that I only realized mattered about two seconds ago (thanks Tragic BABIPs).
First, since we changed to roto scoring instead of head-to-head, weekly add drops no longer apply. That’s right, you can add or drop more than three players a week. Stream away. However, there is a maximum season total of 525 innings pitched by all your pitchers combined. That number, 525, is Yahoo’s recommendation (see attached). Waiver wire rules are the same.
Continue readingThe draft date is set for Thursday, July 16th at 5PM PST (8PM EST).
Good luck managers!
According to ESPN, MLB is eying the date of July 24th as opening day for a 60 game season. There is no guarantee that they will play all 60 games (or any for that matter) but that doesn’t mean we can’t play some fantasy.
Our 2020 fantasy season will be treated as a one-off exhibition. The rules that I recommend today will apply only until MLB returns to a normal schedule.
In light of the recent zombie apocalypse, and at the urging of many league managers, the 2020 Baldelli’s Modern Life draft will be postponed.
If any kept player tests positive for the zombie-virus (and only zombie-virus) before draft day, team managers will have the choice not to keep the player and to recoup their draft dollars instead. All other players are locked at this point (stay tuned for the keeper email).
This office understands that managers have life schedules that are difficult to adjust. However, it is our belief that the benefit of giving managers extra time to prepare for the new draft format outweighs the cost of rescheduling the draft. We did not reach this decision lightly.
We encourage all managers to wash hands and change diapers often before draft day.
In addition to the traditional waiver wire rules, all teams will now have a FAAB or Free Agent Acquisition Budget.
As we’ve done every year, each manager may add up to three free-agent players per week off of the waiver wire. If two managers both wanted to pick up the same player, then the manager with the higher waiver wire order would get the player. These same rules apply for 2020.
In addition to the above rules, each team will start the season with $100 FAAB. FAAB works like a silent auction. If a team is willing to bid FAAB dollars to acquire a player, they skip over the waiver wire order and enter the auction. The team with the highest FAAB bid acquires the player.
Continue readingBaldelli’s Modern Life X returns for another exciting season, with the league now fully under new management. The league rules have been updated. There is still a little tweaking that needs to be done regarding FAAB / waiver wire transactions, but that will be clarified soon. There are no changes to the scoring categories.
Continue reading2019 is the last year in which draft picks can be traded. In 2021 (2020 exempt as an exhibition season) they cannot be traded because we are switching to an auction. In an auction draft pick rounds don’t have the same value as a snake draft because managers can nominate players in any order.
2019 draft picks trades will have a value translated into auction dollars for 2020. In short, this is the only year in which managers may start the auction with more or less than $260.
Continue readingFrom the Office of the Commissioner
Years ago Daniel had the idea to transition our league from a loose band of listless one-foot-in managers into an epic dynasty league — a league with dozen keepers, AAA players held in NA spots, and a $1,000 entry fee. It would mirror Major League Baseball, and only the most dedicated managers would win.
Rules changed. Keepers grew from one to three, league dues raised steadily, and winning payouts grew alongside. New rules were added to balance out the system as we adjusted to this new reality: No trading of first-round picks, a limit of two draft pick trades per season, and the trade deadline was moved earlier and earlier to keep more managers feeling competitive for later into the season. We marched towards our collective dynasty as one. We would be made up of the best.
Continue readingManagers,
The time has come upon us to transition the league to our new leader. You all spoke, and after much vetting, I had to go with the only person that elected them self to take us on our next journey. Yes, that’s right, Misha (Mookie and the Betts) will be our unparalleled leader, officially taking the reigns after our 2019 season. Little back story into why I believe Misha will be an excellent commissioner for Baldedlli’s.
Let me take you back to the year 2002 where Misha and I first met. It was through a mutual friend, who had aspirations to be a pharmacist, but couldn’t get out of his boring, most mundane life to achieve such high levels of success, as a pharmacist. We’ll call him the pharmacist. Through the pharmacist, we became roommates our second year of college. Within the first two weeks of us all living together, it became clear that the aspiring pharmacist was a douche, and that our common interests in foosball, baseball and double dare sealed our alliance.
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