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Just in case you might have missed anything throughout the
season, important notes that appear on the home page or other
messages will be posted here as well. Other places for
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3/20/18
- Original Six League - Phase One Draft Complete
- See the Original
Six Draft Index
- Live draft results recapped
- Rosters loaded and finances updated
- We now enter a very condensed Phase Two Draft -
your first list submission for 12 rounds of picks is due
Sunday, March 25 at 9 AM Eastern
- Grunge League - Phase One Draft Complete
- See the Grunge
Draft Index
- All contested players are resolved
- Rosters loaded and finances updated
- We now enter a very condensed Phase Two Draft -
your first list submission for 12 rounds of picks is due
Saturday, March 24 at NOON Eastern
3/17/18
- Non-BWB game option: One of our owners plays in a Roto
league that's been around for about 30 years, but the league
just lost a long-time owner who passed away. It's high
stakes - $560 buy-in (though that might get lowered). If
you're interested, let me know and I can connect you.
- Broadway League - Phase Two Draft - Part Two
- See the Broadway
Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- All teams have a legal roster - the Startup
Draft is complete! Once the Week -2
transactions are processed on Monday, the league will be
open for regular weekly transactions.
- The Grunge League (list draft - draft list due tonight) and
the Original Six League (live draft - 4 PM Eastern on Sunday)
are both full - but I have a person or two in each league who
joined to fill the leagues - and would be willing to step aside
if you want in. Please contact me ASAP if that's the case.
- There will be no more list drafts to run in 2018 -
but we
can take one more shot at a live draft league - the Wes Anderson
League - with the draft to run on Friday night, March 23 at 9 PM
Eastern. There is no guarantee the league will run - but
join it if you are interested. Don't pay for that league
until it's a guaranteed start.
- Payment is due by the Week One transaction/lineup deadline
(April 5) - do we have a
record of your payment?
- Contact me if you think we're missing something.
- Note other
payment deadlines throughout the season (where you
eventually lose your team if not paid)
3/14/18
- Last call for new leagues
in 2018
- Wes Anderson League - just as one more
possible option but there is no guarantee this league will
run. This would be a live draft on Friday night 3/23 at
9 PM EDT.
- If you're interested but new to Benchwarmer
Baseball, your first step is to
sign up here.
Then go ahead and pick out a
new league
- Are you already a BWB team owner and want to add
teams? Check first to see if you have an
available bonus team
from 2017 or else
add new teams here.
- Birdland Phase Two Draft - Part Three
- See the Birdland Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- All teams have a legal roster - the Startup
Draft is complete! The league is now open for
regular weekly transactions, beginning this week with the
next deadline on Sunday, March 18 at midnight
Eastern
3/13/18
- Broadway League - Phase Two Draft - Part One
- See the Broadway
Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- Not every team has a legal roster - so the Phase 2 Draft lists are now open again - the 2nd
submission is due
Saturday March 17 at Noon
EDT
3/12/18
- Original Six League - Live Draft time is set - Sunday, March 18, 4-7 PM Eastern
- Grunge League - This list draft league has
10 out of 16 teams filled - it will run, but we need some
additional owners!
3/11/18
- White Elephant League Phase Two Draft - Part Three
- See the White
Elephant Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- All teams have a legal roster - the Startup
Draft is complete! Once the Week -3
transactions are processed on Monday, the league will be
open for regular weekly transactions.
3/7/18
- Welcome to Benchwarmer Baseball - It's a
unique
form of fantasy baseball as we play individual head-to-head
games simulated from daily MLB stats - this isn't a Rotisserie
game.
- This is fantasy baseball 365 days a year.
In early January, teams cut down their 40-man rosters to
a maximum of 28 players that they can carry over onto
their 2018 squads and went through the Redistribution
Draft to restock the rosters from the available free
agent pool. Now they're putting the finishing
touches on their rosters before Opening Day.
- Check out the Benchwarmer Baseball
Tour for an introduction.
- Check out our
list of new leagues for 2018 that you can join to
begin your dynasty. Or, if you'd like to attempt
to turn around a struggling team, view our available
orphan teams
...pick up an existing team and rebuild it,
rather than start from scratch.
- If you're a first-time owner, you play under the
"rookie rate" of $35 for your first team (normal
price, $65)
- Orphan teams are also just
$35 - about 1/2 the normal
price.
- If you're interested, your first step is to
sign up here.
Then go ahead and pick out a
new league
or check out the
orphan
list again.
- Are you already a BWB team owner and want to add
teams? Check first to see if you have an
available bonus team
from 2017 or else
add new teams here. Email us if you want an
orphan team
and we'll set you up.
3/6/18
- Birdland Phase Two Draft - Part Two
- See the Birdland Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open again - the 3rd
submission is due
Tuesday night, March 13 at midnight
EST
- Broadway League - Phase One Draft - Full
results posted
- See the Broadway
Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open - the first
submission is due
Monday night, March 12 at midnight
EST
3/5/18
- The new tentative date for a live draft for the Original Six
League is Sunday, March 18 - the start time will be worked out
soon.
- Broadway League - Initial live draft results posted. We have a couple of teams that went over the salary cap
during the draft, so need to fix them before moving on to
Phase 2
3/3/18
- Broadway League - Phase One Draft - Live
Today!
3/1/18
- White Elephant League Phase Two Draft - Part Two
- See the White
Elephant Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open again - the 3rd
submission is due
Friday night, March 9 at midnight
EST
- Season schedule and
deadlines updated with 2018 dates!
- Contract extensions for 2019 and beyond are now open/active.
There is no rush to do this and likely the only reason you want
to do them this early is to get your
cash
balance down below 5000 by Week Zero.
- Week -5 transactions corrected to assess the
250 fee
for IR moves. Team cash balances have been updated.
2/24/18
- Birdland Phase Two Draft - Part One
- See the Birdland Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open again - the 2nd
submission is due
Monday night, March 5 at midnight
EST
2/21/18
- Prize Leagues - Did you know there are some
private leagues within BWB that collect their own fees and pay
out prizes? There are two orphan teams available in the
Beer League and one in Moneyball Leauge
- See the list
and contact me for more details if interested.
- Live Drafting! We're continuing to
try out a live draft process for new leagues and have 3 of them
set aside for that purpose this year. We need to fill them
to run them! It looks like the Broadway League is
getting close - and we have a tentative draft day set
up as Saturday, March 3. We'll narrow
down an actual time once we get a couple more entries, but plan
on a time in the afternoon (EST). Join now!
Check out the list of new
leagues, where you'll also see details about the
draft process.
2/20/18
2/18/18
- White Elephant League Phase Two Draft - Part One
- See the White
Elephant Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open again - the 2nd
submission is due
Monday night, Feb 26 at midnight
EST
2/17/18
- Birdland Phase One Draft
- Phase One is complete!
- See the Birdland Draft Index
for the last set of contested pick awards and other details
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open - the first
submission is due
Friday night, Feb 23 at midnight
EST
2/15/18
- New: This applies at the moment to teams in
Birdland - but once your Phase One draft deadline passes, you
can now view your draft list where before you were redirected to
a "too late" page. Access the Startup Draft link on your
team roster page.
2/13/18
- Birdland Phase One Draft begins with a
listing of players drafted by only 1 team
2/12/18
2/2/18
- Due to some scheduling issues on my part, there are a couple
of deadline changes:
- Birdland Phase One Draft - deadline for
the draft list is now Monday, Feb 12 at midnight EST
- White Elephant League Phase Two Draft -
deadline for the Phase Two, Part One list is now
Thursday, Feb 15 at midnight EST
- The date to modify your Redistribution Draft
lists for rounds 2-5 is unchanged at Sunday night,
Feb 11 at midnight EST
1/31/18
1/30/18
- White Elephant League Phase One Draft
- See the White
Elephant Draft Index
- Rosters are loaded and finances updated
- The Phase 2 Draft lists are now open - the first
submission is due Monday night, Feb 12
Thursday Night, Feb 15 at midnight
EST
1/28/18
- Birdland is our next new 2018 league to fill up
- See the Birdland Draft Index
- Phase One Draft lists are due on
Sunday night,
February 4 Monday night, Feb 12 at midnight Eastern
- Slight hiccup on the Redistribution Draft pages on Sunday
morning - that's now fixed but to give you some additional time
if your work was interrupted, I've pushed back the
deadline to Monday, January 29 at 9 PM EST. I
wasn't going to be able to work on it until Monday night anyway
- so this deadline gives you some additional time and I can
still start on it before midnight on Monday.
1/27/18
- Reminder - Redistribution Draft Lists - at least for
Round 1 - are due tomorrow night -
Sunday, January 28 at midnight EST
Monday, January 29 at 9 PM EST.
- View all of your
teams' Redistribution Draft lists - including
potential error messages. Don't forget - you can ignore the
errors for players with round zero if you want to keep those
players on your list for the next week.
1/24/18
- Forgot to do this - the transaction order for each league is
now reset to be in effect for the Redistribution Draft.
This mostly affects division winners from last season - the
league champ drafts 16th, the other conference champ 15th, and
the other 2 division champs 13th and 14th.
1/21/18
- Quick note on the Redistribution Draft lists: Technically,
if your list has any leftover "round zero" picks (not ranked in
Rounds 1-5), those lists will
show up as having errors - and during processing all those
players without a valid round would be deleted. However, some of you utilize a method
where you identify a lot of players to put on your lists and
then figure out who to rank...and that when we move into the 2nd
and 3rd weeks of the draft, you might need to add some of those
unranked players into your lists. Rather than make you do
all that work over again, BWB will save any players on this list
that might not be legal - when you go back to the 2nd or 3rd
week, they'll still be on your list, provided that nobody
drafted them already.
1/17/18
1/12/18
- White Elephant League is full - I've reset
the draft list due date to Friday night, January 19,
at midnight Eastern time.
1/8/18
- Results of carryover choices posted. View the
Transactions page to see
the cuts in your league.
- The 2018 Redistribution Draft is now open. You'll have
just about
3
full weeks to make your selections (see the link on your team
roster). Deadline is Sunday night 1/28/18 Midnight EST.
- There's nearly 3 weeks to do your list for Round 1, but you
should consider building for all 5 rounds
- Then, after Jan 28, we post the results of only Round 1 only - any
drafted players will be removed from the remainder of your
lists.
- You'll have 2 weeks to redo draft lists (if you choose),
then we post the results of only Round 2 (again removing
drafted players from your rounds 3-5)
- Then one more week for an optional redo of your draft
lists, and we post the results of Rounds 3-5
- The season calendar of deadlines is coming soon, but the
deadlines for the Redistribution Draft are:
- Sun 1/28 - First submission - we post results for Round
1
- Sun 2/11 - Adjust your lists for Rounds 2-5 - we post
results for Round 2
- Sun 2/18 - Adjust your lists for Rounds 3-5 - we post
results for the remaining 3 rounds
- The draft order is not yet updated - check
back later this week
- With all the cuts - the Trade Rumors list is cleared out in
our annual deletion of everything.
1/3/18
1/2/18
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