Fantasy Baseball League

Just a quick post today, but I wanted to remind everyone that while they're filling out their March Madness brackets, the baseball season is right around the corner (who knew?). Last year, I ran a pretty fun league through Yahoo with a bunch of guys that were mostly bloggers, with the prizes being various blasters.

After talking it over with some of the participants from last year who want to come back this year, it was agreed that we liked having cards as a prize and it differentiated it from other leagues. However, last year's prize pool was made up of blasters that had kind of lost its luster by the time payouts arrived in October.

So we decided to let the winner choose their own cards with a $100 gift certificate to Dave and Adam's Card World. They ship for free on Thursdays with a $99 order so the winner can maximize their winnings without paying shipping. No sponsorship deal, although maybe I should send an email...

And we as a community get to benefit when they post about them. 

Consolation prizes are still up in the air as it will depend on whether this will be a 10 or twelve player league. We're about half way there, either way, so we're looking for a few more guys to fill in the league.

Buy-in is $15, due by the end of the month. Draft will be live, through Yahoo with a date and time to be decided soon.

Here's a link from a couple of weeks ago where I brought the idea up and in this post, there are a couple of more links posts about last season's league.

I wouldn't call it super competitive, but there are lots of knowledgeable guys out there. If baseball card knowledge translates to on field performance...

Less than the price of a blaster!

I'll be setting up the league tonight and sending out invites to those already committed.

For the rest of you, just leave a comment letting me know you're in. C'mon, you know you want to...

Blogger Fantasy Baseball League?

Well, the football season is over and pitchers and catchers will be reporting any day now. That means it’s time to offer up the Blogger Fantasy League again. Last year was the inaugural season and while I learned a few things in hindsight, I thought it went fairly smoothly.

Yahoo won’t let me set up a league yet and before I do anyway, I thought I’d float the idea out there and see if anybody has any ideas on how to make it better. One suggestion I got was to offer different blasters as prizes. By the time they were awarded in October, let’s just say the bloom was off the rose for some of earlier in the year releases.

In a nutshell, last year we used 10 categories (5 offense, 5 pitching) and had head to head matchups each week. Prizes were blasters for the top 3 placers and repacks for individual category winners.

Here are a couple of links from previous posts so newcomers can get a feel for how it went last year.

Fantasy Baseball Anyone?

2013 Baseball Fantasy League Final Tally

I’m looking for ideas on maybe changing up the prizes and/or buy-in amount. Or keep things the way they were. The first invites will go to those who played last year, but we played with 10 and there’s room for 12. So if you’re interested, let me know.