148 219 All Green Caesar Dear Diary (4/28/06) 4/28/06, 7:10am (Last Edited: 4/28/06, 7:22am) Well, the MLB season is just about a month old and I would have to grade myself fantasy season as a solid &b-B-b& thusfar. &b-BaseballGeeks BBM League (10 Teams)-b& I am 3-5 in the young season. Not bad, considering I had to retool my bullpen on the fly. Here is a lowdown on my roster: C - S: Posada BU: Kendall 1B - S: Overbay BU: Morneau 2B - S: Kent BU: Barfield 3B - Platoon: Glaus & Rolen SS - Platoon: Renterria & Hardy OF - S: Manny, Crawford & Jenkins BU: Winn & Pierre Rotation: Peavy, Maddux, Myers, Hudson & Maroth BU: Haren Bullpen: Lidge, Gordon, C-Cordero, McCarthy, Cassidy & Villarreal Strengths - I think my pitching is solid at this point. Weaknesses - Hitting ... 2B may be a big concern. &b-High Heat - 5x5 Yahoo Roto (10 Teams)-b& Over the last month I have been hovering at the top of the league. Falling no farther than 4th &i-(and that was only for one day)-i&. I currently sit in 2nd ... one point back of 1st. I have only made a few moves: Picked up Kinsler and stashed him on the DL Placed Helton on the DL Picked up various bodies to fill in on off days Oh ... I did pick up Papelbon early My Score Runs - 10 HRs - 3.5 RBI - 5 SB - 4.5 AVG - 2 - - - - - - - WINS - 8 SVs - 9 Ks - 8 ERA - 9 WHIP - 8 As you can see, I am kicking ass in Pitching. My strategy of using Shields and Linebrink to massage the ERA & WHIP is working like a charm. I am surprised that I am so low in Stolen Bases ... with Figgins, Rollins & Crawford on the team. &b-GameDay Ritual League (12 Teams)-b& I should be 3-0 ... damn it! When setting your starting lineup for the week ahead, you have a decision to make on your pitchers that have two starts: use the 1st start, use the 2nd start or use the average of both starts &i-(reminder tha tthis is a points league)-i&. I have been using the average every time ... except ...in Week 2, Myers was scheduled to start &b-AT-b& Colorado ... my thinking was that Myers has been good ... bot great ... so I decided to only use his 1st start. He got me 9 points in his 1st start against the Braves and then flew out to Colorado and pitched a 30 point gem (7.2 IP, 0 ER) ... that was the difference as I lost by &b-FOUR POINTS!-b& In injury news: D-Lee on DL, Hermida on DL, Betancourt on DL ... Along with setting your rotation, you must also set your batting order each week. This is the one thing that I downplayed when preparing for the FAB (draft). Each slot in the batting order offers various bonus points (refer to the manual for more: gamedayritual.mlb.com/baseball/help/manual.htm) Here is my batting order for Week 4: &img-http://www.geocities.com/msugreen/GDR_BO.JPG-img& The +1 -> +9 columns refer to the amount of bonus points I can expect if I start that player in that slot. For example, if I start Ichiro in slot #1 I can expect 11 bonus points if he scores his average 2.9 PPG. If I was to start him in the #9 slot, I would only expect 5 bonus points. Just another element of GameDay Ritual that makes it truly unique. [Green Caesar from Roswell/GA] Replies: