I  am defending champ in this league.  It’s a 5×5 roto with no bench spots-

1.(1)Miguel Cabrera (Det – 1B)
2.(24)Ian Kinsler (Tex – 2B)
3.(25)Andrew McCutchen (Pit – OF)
4.(48)Dan Haren (LAA – P)
5.(49)Desmond Jennings (TB – OF)
6.(72)Asdrubal Cabrera (Cle – SS)
7.(73)Buster Posey (SF – C)
8.(96)Lance Berkman (StL – 1B,OF)
9.(97)Adam Wainwright (StL – P)
10.(120)Ricky Romero (Tor – P)
11.(121)Michael Pineda (NYY – P)
12.(144)Cory Luebke (SD – P)
13.(145)Nick Markakis (Bal – OF)
14.(168)Jhonny Peralta (Det – SS)
15.(169)Brandon League (Sea – P)
16.(192)Josh Willingham (Min – OF)
17.(193)Doug Fister (Det – P)
18.(216)Ryan Roberts (Ari – 2B,3B)
19.(217)Neftali Feliz (Tex – P)
20.(240)Brandon Belt (SF – 1B,OF)
21.(241)Mike Trout (LAA – OF)
22.(264)Yonder Alonso (SD – OF)
23.(265)Jonny Venters (Atl – P)
24.(288)Lance Lynn (StL – P)
25.(289) 

Tyler Greene (StL – 2B,SS,OF)

 

I am pretty happy with my team.  I think I have a good mix of power and speed as far as my hitters go.  My runs and RBI should be fine as well.  Really the only concern I might have is batting average but I hope Cabrera and Yonder Alonso can prop me up a bit.  I was surprised that I ended up with three shortstops  but I thought Peralta was just too good to pass up in round 14, especially with the Tigers adding Prince to the lineup this year.  Tyler Greene was my sleeper pick target and I was happy I got him with my last pick.  He can play three positions and if he gets regular playing time he could steal as many as 35-40 bases.  I will probably look to trade one of these guys somewhere down the road.

I do have a glaring hole in my pitching with only one closer but I am OK with this.  Closers are so fluid every year that I didn’t want to reach for anyone.  I just have to be quick on the trigger when this year’s Jason Motte/Jordan Walden pops up.  The pitchers I did get are real studs.  All of them have ERA’s under 4 and WHIP’s under 1.20.  I have some good K numbers too with Luebke and Venters.  I was also happy to get Lance Lynn with pick 288.  He should be able to put up some good numbers while filling in for Chris Carpenter and when he does lose his starting job that spot will probably end up as a stream of pitchers trying to get up to the innings limit.

I hope I will be able to defend my crown here and I am going to try to jump into an auction league on Yahoo before the start of the season.  I have never done one before but they are very intriguing to me.  My plan is to get the numbers from Tout wars and the LABR draft to give me a guide on prices.  When I do I will be sure to post that here as well.

 

Welcome to the new website, which is new because I kinda blew up the old one.  I didn’t mean to, I was trying to upgrade some files on the server and messed up my database that took down my entire site.  I tried to figure out how to fix it but after a few weeks I just gave up and hit the reset button.  I am kinda bummed about losing almost everything but at least I managed to save my syncing guide and I even figured out how to hack the post numbers so the old incoming links from other sites still work.  I guess I just have to look at this as a fresh start and go from there.

The good news is I was able to upgrade everything I was trying to when I took out my site.  Most of it is back-end stuff that you will never see but it will make things a lot easier on me.  You might notice that there is now a link in the header to the famous syncing guide.  I wasn’t able to do this before but now it is really simple.  I am also using the same template as before but there are a lot of new features which I need to figure out.  I really liked the look of the old site so I am going to have to tinker with stuff and see if I can get it back.  It is close but not quite there yet.  Hopefully I wont end up crashing everything again and end up with version 4.0.

 

OK, if you are like me you play poker on more than one computer.  I have my laptop for out on the road and around the house, and I have my multi-monitor desktop setup with my skype and camtasia and teamveiwer for when I am ready to put in a serious grind.  The only problem is how do we sync our hand histories between the two?

I have tried a lot of different ways, USB flash drive, emailing them to myself, sharing them across the home network and copying them from computer to computer.  They all work but they are also all a pain in the butt.  I am not a very organized person so I was never sure if I got them all synced up.  You want to have as many hands as possible for your HUD stats, plus you need a complete copy of everything for tax purposes.  So is there an easy way to do all this, something that we can setup one time and then forget about?

The answer I found was Dropbox.com.  All I had to do was download the software and set up a free account and I was ready to go.  Dropbox creates a folder in your “my documents” folder whose contents automatically sync to your online account anytime something is changed.  If you have dropbox installed on a second computer these files will automatically change as well as long as both computers are connected to the internet.  Sounds pretty handy for what we need, right?  Well, it gets even better. these files are also stored online so if something happens to your computer you can always rebuild your database.  You don’t have to worry about it if your hard drive fails or if lightning hits your house and fries your computer, you just sync them up on your new computer and off you go.

 

 

So, here is how I have my dropbox setup.  There are three folders inside that I use for my hand histories, they are-
1. HAND HISTORIES laptop
2. HAND HISTORIES desktop
3. HH archive

 

 

 

 

On my laptop I changed the archive folder in the auto-import settings from this-

 

 

To this-

Then I did the same thing on my desktop pointing it to HH desktop. Then I added my HH desktop folder to my auto-import list on my laptop like this-

 

I also added the HAND HISTORIES laptop to my desktop auto import.  Notice that these folders get archived to HH archive in the dropbox folder so all the files end up in one place. It only takes about 15 minutes to install the software and set up the folders and then everything is automatic.

This is so much easier than running back and forth with a flash drive or trying to network your SQL databases.  You literally just set it and forget it.  The only thing you really need to remember is that Hold’em Manager waits 15 minutes before moving your hand histories to the archive so if you finish a grind and shut down your computer right away the hands might not show up in the dropbox until you turn that computer back on and start up Hold’em Manager again.

 

If you have any problems figuring this all out you can email me- teamlongclaw(at)gmail(dot)com

 

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