Benchwarmer News
10/7/24
- And we're done - sort of - Week 25 complete - Games 148-150 posted -
See results
- That's a wrap on the regular season - except for the 18 divisions that ended in a tie and will require a 1-game playoff to decide the division
- It takes a little bit of setup to schedule the tiebreaker games - it might be a couple of days before I'm able to fit that in and score the games
- Standings for all leagues
- Around BWB
- Heading into the final 3 games of the season, 85 of the 272 divisions across BWB have not yet been decided.
- Update to the Close races across Benchwarmer Baseball before Game 148
10/5/24
- 44 Division Champions from the October 4 games (See standings for all leagues and a
full list of all 2024 division winners)
- Anchorman League - Rather Division: Roto Baseball Thunder (Orphan team - Foster owner Ricardo Alexander) - 5th division crown
- B Movie Actor League - Brisco County Jr. Division: Coney Island Warriors (owner Michael Rudolph - 8th win in 2024) - 3rd division win
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Batman League
- Kilmer Division: Brinkley CP Bulldogs (owner Michael Quinn - 9th win in 2024) - Defending league champion; 3rd consecutive pennant (10th overall)
- Bale Division: Gingerly Kersh & Trouty (owner Sherman Wan - 16th win in 2024) - New owner gets 1st pennant in league's 21st season; Best finish had been 2nd (4 times), closest finsh had been 2 GB (2021)
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Beatleball
- Lennon Division: Plastic Ono Memory Elephants (owner John Hula - 4th win in 2024) - Repeat win, 8th overall; League champ in 2017 and 2008
- McCartney Division: Broomall Boomers (owner Bill Munger - 2nd win in 2024) - 7th division win; League champ in 2017 and 2008
- Big Red Machine League - Dave Concepcion Division: Superblood Wolfmoon (owner Jim Duzyk - 2nd win in 2024) - Repeat title
- Blue and Gray League - Grant Division: Bradford Bluecoats (owner Michael Lehman - 3rd win in 2024) - 4th straight pennant, 8th overall; 4-time league champion
- Born to Run League - Cobb Division: Quad Cities Stealing Home (owner Tom Kohl) - Defending league champion; 4th division win
- Chevy Chase League - Emmit Fitz-Hume Division: Quahog Drunken Clams (owner Don Kruse - 3rd win in 2024) - 6th division win; 2013 league champion
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Fenway Fenatics
- Cronin Division: Engine Company 51 (owner Michael Lehman - 4th win in 2024) - 3rd division win
- Fisk Division: Skeleton Crew (owner Ken Stevenson - 2nd win in 2024) - 2-time defending league champion; 5th division win
- Firemen League - Wagner Division: Kingston Reggae Boys (owner Ricardo Alexander - 12th win in 2024) - 7th division win, 1st since 2019
- Five Boroughs League - Brooklyn Division: Brooklyn Ghostbusters (owner John Stroba - 4th win in 2024) - 3rd division title; League champ in 2021
- Four Star League - Eisenhower Division: Georgetown Canal Mules (owner Yuri Belova) - Defending league champion; 6th division win
- Geek Pride League - Dorsey Division: Silicon Valley Ones And Zeroes (owner Sheldon Price - 2nd win in 2024) - 4th trip to playoffs; 2018 league champ
- Golden Throat League - Haray Carey Division: Atlanta Gangsters (owner Ricardo Alexander - 13th win in 2024) - 2-time defending league champ; 6th straight division win (8th overall)
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Gone But Not Forgotten League
- Brooklyn Dodgers Division: Larry, Pedro, Kenny Hill and the 1994 Expos (owner Jason Kiernan - 31st win in 2024) - 5th division title; 2021 league winner
- St. Louis Browns Division: Veeckville Gaedels (owner Anthony C - 2nd win in 2024) - 5th division win; 2-time league champion
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Home of the Brave
- Maranville Division: YYZ Hosers (owner Anthony C - 3rd win in 2024) - 2nd division win
- Nichols Division: Middle School Jocks (owner Jamie Reese) - 3rd consecutive pennant
- K Street League - Sutton Division: Atco Baseball GURU (owner Chris Bellina) - 1st trip to playoffs since winning back-to-back league championships in 2006 and 2007
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Longball League
- Robinson Division: Trinidad Island Vikings (owner Leif Jonson - 5th win in 2024) - 3rd straight division win, 14th overall; 3-time league champ (last in 2014)
- Killebrew Division: McGwire and Sosa Race in 98 (owner Jason Kiernan - 32nd win in 2024) - 10th pennant; 2015 league champion
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Motor City League
- Horton Division: Gratiot Cards (owner Michael Quinn - 10th win in 2024) - 7th division title
- Greenberg Division: Canadian Red Barchetta (owner Ken Stevenson - 3rd win in 2024) - 1st division win in league's 12th season; Finished 2nd only once - in 2016
- Murderers' Row - Big Ed Division: Ruth and Gehrig Bashing and Smashin (owner Jason Kiernan - 33rd win in 2024) - 2nd pennant; League champ in 2020
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Original Six League
- Black Hawks Division: Montreal Maroons (owner Michael Rudolph - 9th win in 2024) - Repeat win
- Red Wings Division: Destiny's Guardians (owner David Henning - 19th win in 2024) - Repeat win, 3rd overall
- Reality Bites - Fear Factor Division: Minneapolis Coonhounds (owner Jon Swanson) - 3rd consecutive win, 7th overall; 2-time league champion
- Redbirds League - Brock Division: Brooklyn Usual Suspects (owner Jerry King - 5th win in 2024) - 3rd straight win, 7th overall; League champ in 2011 and 2008
- Royal Flush League - Otis Division: Speed Wins and Homers do too!!! (owner Jason Kiernan - 34th win in 2024) - 5th pennant; 2 league championships
- Scooby Doo League - Velma Division: Cujo's Death Dogs (owner Andrew Lehman - 4th win in 2024) - 1st division win in league's 10th season; Had finsihed 2nd 3 times
- Silver Screen League - Bang the Drum Slowly Division: Reality Bites (owner John Hula - 5th win in 2024) - 6th division title
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Steel City League
- Kiner Division: Atlanta Golden Krust (owner Ricardo Alexander - 14th win in 2024) - 3rd straight title, 6th overall; 2-time league champion
- Mazeroski Division: Carnegie Melons (owner Dave Matter - 4th win in 2024) - 3rd pennant
- They Might Be Giants League - Marichal Division: Silicon Valley Sluggers (owner Dave Matter - 5th win in 2024) - Repeat win, 5th overall
- ThirtyThirtysomething League - Jeff Bagwell Division: Oklahoma Black Gold (owner Phillip Dang) - 4th division win, 3rd straight
- Three of a Kind League - Beckley Division: Equilateral Triangles (owner Michael Rudolph - 10th win in 2024) - 3rd consecutive division crown, 6th overall; League champion in 2022 and 2020
- Wes Anderson League - Rushmore Division: Atlanta Red Eagles (owner Ricardo Alexander - 15th win in 2024) - 3rd consecutive title, 5th overall
- Whiff League - Andres Gallaraga Division: Spaceman Spiff (owner John Hula - 6th win in 2024) - 2nd pennant
- White Elephant League - Hunter Division: Dark Side of the Moon Over Miami Marlins (owner Andrew Lehman - 5th win in 2024) - 3rd division win
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Winners Circle League
- Mathewson Division: Dagobah Swamp Dwellers (owner Jason Kiernan - 35th win in 2024) - 5th division win
- Galvin Division: Angel Cats (ownerDave Matter - 6th win in 2024) - 4th pennant; 2018 league winner
10/4/24
- Week 25 Underway - Games 145-147 posted - See results
- Next game posting expected on Saturday or Sunday
- Standings for all leagues
- Around BWB
10/3/24
- Playoff lineup deadline shifted back to Wednesday, October 9 at midnight Eastern. This could go back further to that next weekend, but I want to preserve the ability to start games before that if the playoff brackets are set up by then.
Did You Know? To email an owner, click on his/her name on the team's roster page
10/1/24
- Week 24 Statistics and Players of the Week
- Team finances updated after Week 24 games
- Scoring won't be up tonight - will try for a late Wednesday post
- Missed 1 of the division winners on the last post:
- Bleed Dodger Blue League - Drysdale Division: Southeast Northern State Westerners (owner Leif Jonson - 3rd win in 2024) - 6th division win; 2011 league champion
9/28/24
- Sorry - busy week. I was prepping to score games Friday evening, but a health situation in my household had me at the hospital all afternoon/evening and will be back there today (everything appears to be OK). I will work on the games Saturday night with hopes to post late Saturday or on Sunday monring.
9/16/24
- Heading into Week 23, the final 18 games of the season are all against teams in your division. Here's a look across all of Benchwarmer Baseball at close races
9/15/24
- Week Twenty-five Transactions Posted
- Next deadline - Week Twenty-six (first week of the playoffs: Tentatively set to Saturday, October 5 at midnight Eastern - this is subject to change (earlier or later) depending on time needed to set up the playoff structure and schedules.
9/3/24
- Reminder - this is the final week to sign free agents. Week 25 transactions are only for cuts and IR moves.
8/31/24
- This is the final week to sign players for the 2024 season
8/29/24
- Sorry I missed this last weekend when posting Games 118-120; it's a little bit earlier
than we normally see...congratulations to our
first Division Champion:
(See
standings for all leagues)
- B Movie Actor League - Burn Notice Division: Cyborg Avengers (owner David Henning) - First win since 2020, 5th overall; 3 straight league titles 2018-2020
8/23/24
- Week 22 transactions - You'll see some prospect list moves this week in a few leagues - someone reported some issues last week with submitting transactions, so I allowed these moves. It was easier to add them in Week 22 using normal processing than trying to retroactively changing Week 21 stuff.
8/16/24
- September roster expansion comes into play for game lineups during Week 23. However, since several of you have lots of teams, you can begin ordering your taxi squad and minor league players now - a week early.
8/10/24
- It's our last deadline shift of the season. Starting this week and through Week 25, transactions and lineups are due on Wednesdays.
8/9/24
- Trades are closed until the off season
- Upcoming dates/deadlines of note:
- Wednesday, August 14 - Week 21: Final week to add players to the Prospects Roster
- Wednesday, August 28 - Week 23: Roster expansion - minor leaguers and taxi squad players can fill in as bench players.
- Wednesday, September 4 - Week 24: Final week to sign free agents
8/1/24
- At Game 100, we've passed the 2/3 mark of the regular season
7/30/24
- Because of the All-Star break (and weather), we eventually get out of our normal cycle of a 2-week gap between when games are played and when the standings affect transaction order and financial rewards for games. I won't be able to finish Week 17 games and set transaction order and financial information in a timely matter before needing to process Week 19 transactions. So this week's transaction order is the same as last week and there will be no financial rewards for wins/place applied this week. We'll be on a 3-week gap until MLB catches up.
7/19/24
- First round draft picks of 2024 are now in the player list.
You can sign them this week.
- How to find the picks? On the player selection screen, use the "Other" filter and you'll find an option for "First Round (2024)"
- You'll also find them by looking for players who are new to the list in Week 18, although they will be mixed in with other players added this week by making their first MLB appearances.
7/10/24
- Check all your teams to see if you have any pending trade offers.
7/8/24
- Upcoming dates/deadlines of note:
- Friday, July 12 - During Week 16 processing, all teams get an extra 1000 in cash
- Thursday, July 18 - We switch weekly deadlines to Thursdays - Week 17: the contract extension deadline
- Thursday, July 25 - Week 18: The week that 2024 first round draft picks will be available to sign
- Thursday, August 8 - Week 20: Trade deadline
- Wednesday, August 14 - Week 21: Final week to add players to the Prospects Roster
7/7/24
- For Week 16 lineups - you may reorder your pitching rotation from scratch - we will not check on games of rest between Weeks 15 and 16 - it's our version of the All Star Break. Lineup deadline is Friday night.
- All teams will get a cash distribution this week of 1 million Benchwarmer Bucks (1000) in advance of the contract extension deadline on Week 17 (deadline July 18)
7/5/24
- This week's deadline extended to Saturday, July 6 at 1 PM Eastern
- With the unexpected check into the programming and the rescoring, I'm running behind this week. I still need to score 3 more games and then reset the transaction order based on the standings at the end of Week 13 - and I won't get that all done until tomorrow.
- Existing trade offers expiring at 7 PM tonight will not change
- Week 16 will most likely not switch to Thursdays - stay tuned
7/4/24
- With Game 75, we're at the halfway point of the regular season
- Due to a scoring error, Games 73-75 were rescored and
updated box scores and standings are posted.
- Someone questioned their bullpen stat line in a particular game and, on investigation, I found a mistake in the programming.
- When you have relief pitchers in your spot pitcher slots, they are supposed to be pulled last and used only when needed. The program was putting them first - meaning the spot relief pitchers were being used ahead of the others.
- It's likely been this way for a long time - I can't go back and fix the first 72 games of this year, but the lineups for 73-75 were still loaded and I just had to re-run the scoring.
- Check your email for more details.
6/28/24
- You have 2 more weeks to cut players and still get a prorated salary rebate for the 2024 season. After Week 15 (deadline July 5), all cuts will return zero salary.
- Transactions posted a little late last week. Someone requested some extra time for this week. I wouldn't get to these before Saturday afternoon anyway, so I've extended this week's transaction/lineup deadline to 2 PM EDT on Saturday, June 29.
- Check all your teams to see if you have any pending trade offers.
6/24/24
- We're set to begin 3 weeks of play within your division
6/11/24
- Reminder - we've shifted to Friday deadlines. Transactions and lineups due Fridays at 7 PM Eastern
6/4/24
- We've crossed the 1/3 mark of the regular season
5/3/24
- Reminder - we've shifted to Saturday deadlines. Transactions and lineups due Saturday at 1 PM Eastern
5/2/24
- Check all your teams to see if you have any pending trade offers.
4/30/24
- Every 5 weeks we change the transaction deadline day to better match the mapping between MLB games and BWB games. Starting this week, and for Weeks 6-10 our lineup/transaction deadlines are due on Saturdays - see Season Deadlines
4/23/24
- Week 5 is the final week to cut players and receive an 80% salary rebate of their 2024 salaries. After this period, the rebate drops by 4% every week.
4/17/24
- It's a little early in the season - 24/25ths of the regular season still remains - but here's our 1-page look at comparing teams across all the leagues in the BWB universe: Around BWB
4/14/24
- Starting with this week's transactions (Week 3), the transaction order is determined by the standings on the game week 2 weeks before that (Week 1). Since we're currently finishing up Week 1 games, and setting the picking order takes a lot of time early in the season (a lot of ties to break), we probably won't be able to post the new order prior to the Monday evening deadline. You're going to be flying blind a little bit on the exact order.
4/11/24
- We are underway - it's BWB Opening Day! Week 1 Begins - Game 1 posted
- Maybe Friday for the next couple games and then we'll finish the first week over the weekend.
- Don't forget as we try to catch up - Week 2 lineups/transactions are due tonight at midnight EDT.
- Check all your teams to see if you have any pending trade offers.
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