Congrats, Derek. Any chance we could get a list of end-of-season LIPS ERA leaders? I understand if that’s not possible since that stat appears in Heater, though.

how did you do in the FP911 Experts League??

Yoo-Hoo works pretty well too

Yeah, Pat, the FP911 League wasn’t quite as good.  I finished 6th - not bad, but not great.  You can’t win them all, although admittedly, I didn’t have a good feeling about things even before the draft was over.  Some personal issues that week (which were unavoidable, but thankfully everything turned out okay) got in the way of properly strategizing, which spiraled even further by causing a couple of mistakes in the draft.  I didn’t get a lot of the guys I wanted as a result (Branyan, Hill, Cruz, and Morales were the big ones, and also some guys who didn’t pan out like Iwamura and Crisp - though their ‘replacements’ Aybar and Gomez weren’t much better anyway) and ended up with some I really didn’t want.  I’m man enough to admit my mistakes, and I think it’s important to be honest with ourselves at the end of every season, evaluate what went right, what went wrong, and how we can improve next year.  Don’t sugar coat anything and don’t make excuses that don’t exist - simply evaluate your process honestly and thoroughly.  I’ll be going through this process myself with each league I was in over the coming couple weeks.

... and taking Alex Rios and Big Papi hurt too.

Austin,
I’m 22, although I’m not sure of the exact age of the previous youngest.  I’ve been assured by a few people, however, that whoever it was was older than that.  I may even be the youngest to compete, though that hasn’t been confirmed.