I hate to spam for a Fantasy League on one of my favorite sites, but I got one of those CBS Commisioner Leagues from Sportingnews.com for FREE and I don't want it to go to waste. Opening Day is fast approaching so I thought I'd hit you guys up to see if I can assemble some teams quickly. It will be weekly rosters, so nothing too intense, but with a scoring system based on Tom Tango's suggestions for a scoring system from The Book blog.

The draft will be live on Saturday afternoon, 4/3. Free for everyone.

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I'm looking to download a good graphing program to visualize some pf/x and bdb and retrosheet data I've been messing around with. Any suggestions?

Anything from free to under a hundred bones, preferably, so long as there's no weird trojans or spyware involved.

I think it would be an interesting addendum to the Colin Wyers sabermetric workbench tutorial  set up over at The Hardball Times.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/databases-for-sabermetricians-part-one/

As well as the saberizing a mac series here at BTB.

Thanks!