Posted by Henry on March 14, 2008 at 9:32 pm
For what it’s worth, we’re playing the following:
Oh sure, there are more settings than that, but nothing all that interesting.
Posted by Henry on March 14, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I activated the league a few weeks ago. The league is sited on ESPN. For several years we used Yahoo, but switched to ESPN last year. ESPN seemed to offer a better interface and more configuration options. Also contributing to our choice was the fact that most of us linked to ESPN constantly for box scores, depth charts, pitching starts, and the occasional intelligence to be gleaned from their experts.
Anyone who played an ESPN league in 2007 knows that the site was a disaster for the first month. Transactions and lineup changes got screwed, with cascading data compilation problems. Two weeks in, ESPN had to restart the season. Even then it took them another month to fix problems with the head-to-head pitcher starts limit. When a manager reached his or her weekly start limit, all subsequent pitching stats were denied. Managers were thinking they had to save a start through the end of the week in order to compile saves. Several of us emailed ESPN to find out: Was this a bug or feature?
With no immediate reply, the league entered upon a drawn-out message board discussion about the saves problem. I proposed tinkering with the starts limit to allow us all to manage our pitching staffs in conventional fashion. But, of course, changing the start limit would have created its own problem, and I can do without the honor system if at all possible.
Then, behold, ESPN fixed the problem. And the rest of the season proceded more or less without major technical problems.
So here we go again.
