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Monday, March 31, 2008

Fantasy Baseball 08 Launches on FSL

Today we launch our second season of Fantasy Baseball on FSL. Unfortunately, we have a couple of small glitches that we are working on before we can put up a full slate of Fantasy Baseball contests. We have an issue with Internet Explorer running very slow when drafting a Fantasy Baseball team, and an issue the probable starting pitchers. We decided to only list the probable starting pitchers this year, and not list all possible pitchers for every game. Last year we indicated starting pitcher with an asterisk and sorted them to the top of the list. The plan for this year is to just show the starting pitchers with no need for an asterisk. Unfortunately all pitchers are currently showing up, although the probable starters are sorted to the top of the list. When drafting a team today, please be sure that you are selecting a starting pitcher. We are currently working both issues, and plan to have them resolved today. We are also putting the final touches on the salary cap values and will have salary cap contests up later today. Thanks for your patience as we address these opening day issues.

Let us know what you think of the Fantasy Baseball structures, cap values, and player draft pools. Your feedback will help us to refine our Fantasy Baseball offering, and also fix any glaring issues with player or contest cap values. We are very excited to enter our second year of Fantasy Baseball Contests, and we hope you will enjoy them.

Edit: The issue we are having with slow page loads is not really a bug, but an issue with the server. We will be resolving this over night tonight, and are doing what we can to improve the performance today. For now, please allow yourself plenty of time when entering a fantasy baseball contest, as team selection is running slow.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Fantasy Baseball Here We Come

Starting with the games on March 31st, FSL will be launching our second season of Fantasy Baseball. We could not be more excited, and every indication is that it will be absolutely huge. Our Fantasy Baseball offering will be even better this year as we will be going to Rank cap values accurate to the nearest point, and Salary Cap values to the nearest 1k. For those of you with us here last year, we launched with just Salary Cap and No Cap contests, and when we added the rank cap games the values were rounded to the nearest 5pts. Eliminating the rounding makes things much more interesting. Also, we have better control over player positions than we did last year. So missing players and bad positions will be much less of an issue. Player positions will be locked down, and will be based on the position indicated by MLB. For multiple position players it will be based on what postions they started the most in 2007 at. To give you a quick preview, below are the initial rank cap values for the most expensive position players. Daily Fantasy Baseball contests will begin forming as soon as we get the probable starting pitchers for March 31st.

44 A Rodriguez*
41 J Rollins*
41 H Ramirez*
40 C Jones*
39 J Reyes*
39 M Ordonez*
39 D Ortiz*
39 D Barton*
38 M Holliday*
38 M Teixeira*
37 D Wright*
37 C Utley*
37 R Braun*
36 V Guerrero*
36 A Pujols*
35 P Fielder*
35 C Beltran*
35 G Sheffield*
35 M Bradley*
34 C Lee*
33 E Byrnes*
33 B Roberts*
33 P Polanco*
33 C Crawford*
33 H Matsui*
33 C Pena*
33 C Figgins*
33 B Bonds*
33 J Ellsbury*
32 I Suzuki*
32 B Phillips*
32 B Abreu*
32 M Cabrera*
32 A Soriano*
32 T Helton*
32 A Ramirez*
32 M Alou*
32 L Castillo*
31 J Pierre*
31 A Rios*
31 N Markakis*
31 G Sizemore*
31 C Granderson*
31 M Lowell*
31 V Martinez*
31 R Howard*
30 O Cabrera*
30 G Atkins*
30 T Hunter*
30 C Guillen*
30 L Berkman*
30 R Martin*
30 K Griffey*
30 A Dunn*
30 J Posada*
30 C Hart*
30 J Kent*
30 E Renteria*
30 I Kinsler*
30 H Pence*
30 G Anderson*
30 K Matsui*
30 J Keppinger*
29 D Jeter*
29 A Beltre*
29 J Morneau*
29 D Lee*
29 J Damon*
29 M Ramirez*
29 J Thome*
29 J Mauer*
29 M Teixeira*
29 H Blalock*
29 R Ankiel*
28 A Gonzalez*
28 R Cano*
28 A Rowand*
28 T Tulowitzki*
28 R Ibanez*
28 D Pedroia*
28 B Hawpe*
28 M Tejada*
28 K Lofton*
28 B Giles*
28 B Upton*
28 S Victorino*
28 J Loney*
28 J Votto*
27 R Zimmerman*
27 J Hardy*
27 R Furcal*
27 P Konerko*
27 T Hafner*
27 K Youkilis*
27 W Taveras*
27 C Guzman*
26 M Young*
26 D Uggla*
26 F Sanchez*
26 V Wells*
26 M Ellis*
26 J Lugo*
26 M Cuddyer*
26 F Thomas*
26 K Johnson*
26 O Hudson*
26 P Burrell*
26 C Kotchman*
26 R Weeks*
26 J Hamilton*
26 C Ross*
26 N Morgan*
26 T Perez*
25 J Francoeur*
25 K Greene*
25 D DeJesus*
25 J Guillen*
25 R Winn*
25 S Stewart*
25 C Young*
25 N Swisher*
25 C Delgado*
25 R Theriot*
25 C Crisp*
25 J Willingham*
25 G Matthews*
25 L Gonzalez*
25 M Byrd*
25 L Castillo*
25 J Encarnacion*
25 T Redman*

Friday, March 7, 2008

New Fantasy Sports Live Forum


One of our user's has set up a great website focused entirely on short term fantasy sports contests like the ones we run here on Fantasy Sports Live. We been looking to get a forum up for our site, and we think this is a great home for it. So go check out FantasySportsHandicapping.com and the new FSL Forum. A link directly to the FSL Forum can be found on the sidebar.