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Greetings sports fans! We've had a number of members actively discussing baseball here at The Syndicate, so I cooked up a fun and easy fantasy sports game for us to engage in during the upcoming MLB regular season. Baseball is the oldest professional North American sport and beloved by millions. It's also an esoteric sport, featuring a single batter taking on nine defenders. Despite this seeming unfair advantage to the defense, baseball produces a lot of runs (points to those not familiar with the sport) each year.
I've always thought regular fantasy sports are too complicated and time-consuming for me to fully embrace, so I set out to simplify things. Some of you may have played my EZ Fantasy Football game back in the fall but EZ Fantasy Baseball will be different. Some involvement and strategy is involved but for the most part, participants get to sit back and enjoy the ride. The point of EZ Fantasy Baseball is to finish the regular season with the most runs. Here's how it works:
REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE:
The MLB regular season runs from Sunday, April 3rd through Sunday, October 2nd. We're going to break the season down into weeks. Week 1 begins on opening day and runs through the following Saturday. This means that each new week of our competition will run Sunday to Saturday. The All Star Game shortens a week in July and the final game of the season is on a Sunday. That means that one week mid-season will be shorter than the rest and the last "week" of our game will be the final day of the regular season.
TEAM SELECTION:
There are 30 Major League teams and 27 'weeks' in the regular season. Each week, you will pick a new team to use for earning points. There is no weekly draft for teams. You may pick whichever team you like for a given week, so long as you have not already used them.
You may only select each team once all season. This is where strategy or random fun kicks in. By the end of the season, each player will have used 27 out of the 30 MLB teams to amass points. The remaining three teams will be used for tie-breaking purposes if necessary.
You may submit a list of your team picks in advance or you may pick them on a weekly basis. It is entirely up to you. A deadline will be set for submitting your picks. If you fail to submit your next week's pick by the deadline, I will randomly assign a team for you for that week.
EARNING POINTS:
Each run scored by your weekly team pick earns you a point. At the end of each week, I will tabulate the number of points earned and add them to your cumulative score. Who ever has the most points at the end of the season is our EZ Fantasy Baseball winner.
After each week of competition, I will post both the weekly and cumulative results here in the thread. Participants are welcome to engage in discussion and/or trash talk throughout the week.
That's about it. Any questions?
FINAL OVERALL SCORES:
1. Metalmarsh89*** (864 runs)
2. G-Man**** (797 runs) [won tie-breaker]
3. Sloonei**** (797 runs)
4. S~V~S**** (775 runs)
5. Turnip Head*** (761 runs)
6. JaggedJimmyJay*** (746 runs)
7. Draconus***** (738 runs)
8. Spacedaisy** (733 runs)
9. Epignosis** (726 runs)
10. AllAlongTheBoardwork** (720 runs)
11. MovingPictures07*** (712 runs)
12. birdwithteeth11* (682 runs)
13. Russtifinko* (645 runs)
Each asterisk (*) marks a week as the runs leader (sole or tied) for a given week
Week 1 Results
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