There will be a lot of change between now and the draft (June 4-6) but it is less than 5 months away now. I thought I’d crib a baker’s dozen of likely suspects and muse a bit on how that pertains to the Giants. As the season plays out names will be added and dropped, this is extremely preliminary. My ranking order should be taken with an ounce of salt.

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I HAVE NOW RECEIVED ENOUGH SUBMISSIONS TO FILL THE LEAGUE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MAY SEND IN AN EMAIL AND I WILL PLACE YOU ON THE WAITING LIST IN CASE SOMEONE DROPS.

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Welcome to the official organizing thread for the first (?) ever McC fantasy league played for cold, hard cash. I am embarking on this endeavor to attempt to create a more intense, passionate fantasy league, one motivated not only by passion and pride, but that greatest of motivators, cash money money.

I'm sure this will not be a particularly pleasant herd of cats to corral, but I'm nonetheless going to attempt to organize this thing. If you would like to participate, please read the following very, very carefully. I will attempt to answer all questions here. At the end of this post will be the information for signing up. If you could, please rec this post so that it'll stay up long enough to attract interest.

POINT THE FIRST: The entrance fee for this league shall be $40. This seems to balance the desires of those who would like to play for a significant sum with those who are looking for something more affordable. I understand that there are some people who will be priced out at this level. I apologize for that.

POINT THE SECOND: The payments for this league shall be administered by the fantasy league payment company Leaguesafe. Please go to their website and read all about them and all their processes. The payment for this league will be done via "e-check", which requires that you give your checking account number to Leaguesafe, which then withdraws the funds. There is an option to pay with a credit card, but if I enable that option for the league, there is a 3% skim off all donations. We will, therefore, be using the "e-check" option. I have done this before with Leaguesafe, as have many of my friends, and have had no problems and enjoyed using their service. I've yet to see complaints anywhere about this company, and I'm happy to use them again. Using this service prevents you from having to trust me with your money, which makes the whole thing better for everyone.

POINT THE THIRD: The winnings of the league shall be distributed thusly: Third place shall receive 40$. Second place shall receive 80$. First place shall receive the rest of the money, which will depend on how many people sign up for the league. Note: If 8 or fewer people sign up, we may eliminate the third place prize.

POINT THE FOURTH: This will be a head-to-head league with a snake (non-auction) draft. This league will be played on Yahoo fantasy baseball, the playform with which I have had the most enjoyment.This league will allow drafting of players in both leagues.

POINT THE FIFTH: The scoring categories will be the standard 5x5, with just three minor adjustments. We will use OBP instead of AVG, Net Saves instead of Saves, and Net Stolen Bases instead of Stolen Bases. Therefore, the 10 scoring categories will be: OBP, HR, RBI, NSB, Runs, Wins, Strikeouts, ERA, NS, WHIP.

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Holy shit, you read all that and you still want to play in this league? Awesome.

Here's what you have to do: Send an email to mccfantasy@gmail.com.

In this email should be: Your name, your MCC username (with a link to your profile, if you could), and a statement that you're interested in playing in this league and willing to pay $40 through the Leaguesafe service. I'd also like you to include which day of the week/time of day would generally work best for you to participate in the draft (i.e. Saturday afternoons).

I will be reviewing these emails. If there are more people interested than we have room for, preference will be given to more established MCC regulars, people who have been on the site longer, have more comments, etc, but newer members should be free to sign up too.

Within a week or two, I will be sending out invitations to the people who have registered who the league has room for. I'm not sure how many people will be interested, so the league could be anywhere from 8 to 16 people. If I get less than 8 people interested, we'll call this off.

Calling Operation Carrot, Care to Convene our comments on Cormac?

In case you want to be the convener. Otherwise we can kick it off some other way. I have not been in an English or Lit class in a long time. Kind of looking forward.

A bunch of us bought or acquired the book. I actually read a quarter of it and stopped. Let's start talking about it before Spring Training overwhelms all other mental and physical activity.

There will be a lot of change between now and the draft (June 4-6) but it is less than 5 months away now. I thought I’d crib a baker’s dozen of likely suspects and muse a bit on how that pertains to the Giants. As the season plays out names will be added and dropped, this is extremely preliminary. My ranking order should be taken with a barrel of salt.

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We're almost there! This is our sign-up thread. EVEN IF YOU SAID YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE BEFORE, PLEASE COMMENT HERE. It makes it easier for me, nvsfg, and Merope if we can just keep this kind of thing all in one place. Also, please calculate your draft points and put that in your comment. The formula we have decided on is: draft points=#comments + (20*#months of membership) + (35*#of FanPosts/FanShots). All of those are for McCovey Chronicles only, not SBN. We'll leave the window open for 5 days to make sure that everyone who wants to participate can. The draft will start sometime next week; most likely Friday.

So, to reiterate: comment on this post if you want to participate in the adoption thread, and include your draft points according to the formula above so we can build a draft order.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2012-02-10/former-giants-prospect-angel-villalona-expected-in-camp-after-missing-two-season

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There will be a lot of change between now and the draft (June 4-6) but it is less than 5 months away now. I thought I’d crib a baker’s dozen of likely suspects and muse a bit on how that pertains to the Giants. As the HS and college seasons play out names will be added and dropped, this is extremely preliminary. My ranking order should be taken with a barrel of salt.

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We had talked about getting together on the 18th, next Saturday to go hiking/walking at Garin Park in Hayward. At this time it is totally unclear if the Mister and I will be able to attend. This doesn't mean that you all can't go on along without us. J14 and a couple others are familiar with either the park or reading trail maps.

I don't feel like I can wait any longer to discuss the weekend, and maybe everybody has even forgotten about it by now. So it might not even matter! And we should just reschedule.

By way of brief explanation: For us 2012 has decided to continue the downward spiral of 2011. Now it is my turn to have medical problems and Kaiser apparently is really into "patient frustration" this month. Maybe it's a new marketing scheme. "Kaiser Permanente: sit by your phone for a week and work yourself into a tizzy." It's nothing to worry about, you'll either need a total hysterectomy or an aspirin, but we can't quite figure out which. "Hey, I know! Let's run another test!!!"

So we've no idea what to plan for tonight, let alone next weekend and waiting until next Friday to make a decision would be rather inconsiderate to those few of you who even remembered that this was a thing.

Please organize yourselves in the comments section. Time, meeting place (I'd suggest the big red barn at the visitors center) whatever. Preferred change of venue, or date... have at it!

Alright, so now that we've had a chance to claim who's staying and who's free to be adopted, it's time to lay out some ground rules. Last year's rules thread is here. Rules from last year that I think are good enough to stick around:

• Secondary draft board. Last year, I believe a user had a set amount of time (12 hours, 24 hours, something like that) to draft, then if that user hadn't drafted, he or she was skipped and thrown into a secondary draft pool. Anyone in that pool could draft the next time they logged in.
• The formula used last year was draft points = #comments + 20*(months of membership) + 35*(number of FanPosts & FanShots). Rank in order of descending draft points. This seemed equitable enough to everyone last year, so unless anyone has any qualms I'll be using the same formula.

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There will be a lot of change between now and the draft (June 4-6) but it is less than 5 months away now. I thought I’d crib a baker’s dozen of likely suspects and muse a bit on how that pertains to the Giants.

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