Benchwarmer News

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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