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6/24/18
- IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
- First round draft picks of 2018 are now in the player list.
You can sign them this week.
- There is a slight risk in signing draft picks - if the player does
not sign by the MLB deadline (July 6 for players other than
college seniors - those who have used up their college
eligibilty have until 1 week before the 2019 draft to sign), the player is
immediately removed from your roster and from the BWB player
list.
- How to find the picks? On the player selection
screen, use the "Other" filter and you'll find an option for
"First Round (2018)"
6/23/18
- NOW ACTIVE - Prospects Roster
-
See the rules regarding prospects
- These are 5 roster slots that you can use to stash
players who have not yet played in MLB
- as you look at your roster and free agent pages,
these are the players whose name is not a link to a stats
page
- They don't count against your 40-man limit
- In December, they don't count against the maximum 28
players you carry over into next season - they are
protected
- A move to the prospects roster is permanent for the
season and you must make any moves on or before Week 21
- You can sign new players directly to the prospect roster
- There is a non-refundable "player development" charge of
250 for each player you designate as a prospect - all teams
received an extra 1000 in cash a couple weeks ago to help
you with the costs
- To move current players to the prospect roster,
go to your current team
transactions page and look for the link
- To sign free agents to the prospect roster, sign free
agents as you normally do - then as you set the round and
transaction, look for the special signing
designation to make your choice
- Also now available - you can sign players directly
to Injured Reserve - again, pick the free agent as
you'd normally do and then on the transaction index look for the
special signing designation to indicate that.
- Transaction warnings do
not yet take these new features into consideration
- those will gradually get fixed over the next few weeks, but
until then you'll need to figure them out manually.
- I've tried to test everything possible, but if you find
something that doesn't work right - whether with these new types
of transactions or with things that have been around before
this, please let me know.
6/21/18
- Week Twelve
Transactions Posted - Week Thirteen deadline is
extended until Wednesday afternoon, June 27 at 5 PM EDT
- Very close to getting the prospect roster spot operational -
it will be ready by this weekend.
6/10/18
- When will you see the first round draft picks hit
the BWB player list?
- First round picks will debut in BWB after the Week 12
transactions post
- So the first week to sign them will be Week 13 -
with a Tuesday, June 26 deadline. That gives
you a couple weeks from now to figure out who you like.
6/8/18
- There is a
rule change that's supposed to take place with the Week 11
transactions -
the
addition of the "Prospect" roster designation
- I'm running behind in getting this operational -
it's not yet in place
- It is possible that later this weekend that I can get it
running - look for more updates in a few days
- Meanwhile, as posted in the rules, the 1000 in cash
distribution that was to come in Week 10 to cover costs for
the prospect slots has
been granted to all teams.
- Also estimated to take place for Week 11 transactions was
the ability to sign players directly to IR. That also will
be delayed
6/7/18
- Every 5 weeks we shift the deadlines to better match the MLB
schedule (we play 6-game weeks, while MLB teams often have
7-game weeks). So for Weeks 11-15, our deadlines
for lineups and transactions are now on TUESDAYS.
6/6/18
- With Game #50 we hit the 1/3 mark of the regular season
5/13/18
- Week 5 complete - 1/5 of the regular season is done
5/5/18
- Every 5 weeks we shift the deadlines to better match the MLB
schedule (we play 6-game weeks, while MLB teams often have
7-game weeks). So for Weeks 6-10, our deadlines
for lineups and transactions are now on WEDNESDAYS.
4/30/18
- Week 3 complete - That's it for the first cycle of games within your
division. The next 8 weeks have you playing teams in
the other divisions.
4/28/18
- A quick explanation - during Week 3 transactions I made a
mistake on cash for Week 1 games and standings position -
actually using the Week 1 information from 2017. There was
a special financial update listed on 4/25 to fix that:
- Unfortunately, division position in a given week is
calculated from the transaction order - and the transaction
order for Week 3 had already been overwritten by Week 4, so
for Week 1, I calculated that everyone was in 4th place for
cash purposes (with cash award of 150).
- The cash awards for place and record you actually
received during Week 3 transactions was subtracted from the
cash you should have received.
- Those two values were added up and put into the
"Miscellaneous" column on the 4/25 update - and any negative
amounts were changed to zero. So nobody had money
taken away from what they expected they would have coming
into Week 4. It's possible that some teams got more
cash than they should have, but that's better than having
teams not get as much cash as deserved.
- I won't go back to Week 3 transactions and look for any
teams that didn't get players because they didn't have
enough cash.
4/23/18
- After 10 games, we have one undefeated team (Ballybricken in
Beatleball by Sherman Wan) and 7 teams without a win including
one of mine. See
standings for all
leagues
- Around BWB is a comparative look at teams and owners in
different leagues - some good, some...not so good. See how
you stack up
4/9/18
- And we're off! Opening Day! Week 1
Begins - Game 1 posted -
See results
- The next score update - for Games 2 & 3 - is expected on
Tuesday night (weather permitting that games in Kansas City
and Minneapolis occur tonight).
- This was late in posting, but there were some significant
modifications to
the Benchwarmer Baseball rules for 2018. These
include:
- Rules for 2-way players
- An addition of a new optional roster designation that
will come in mid-season - the "Prospects" roster - up to 5
minor-league players who are safe from carryover decisions
in December - that won't count against the 28 maximum
players you can keep.
- A reboot of the minor league competition for
players on your minor league roster
- Some provisions to deal with potential collusion and
tanking.
4/8/18
- Corrected season
schedule and deadlines - not sure what calendar I
was looking at (or not looking at), but all the dates beginning
with Week 6 were wrong.
4/1/18
- Week Zero
Transactions Posted
- Any teams with cash balances above 5000 were cut down to
that level (exceptions: new leagues, new owners taking over
orphan teams, and orphans adopted on or after Week -2).
- Teams were then provided with an extra 2000 in Opening
Day cash
- Players may start getting added to the player list from
here on out - as they appear in their first MLB game
- Players are only added at the time of the posting of
transaction results - so you don't have to be searching
daily for new additions.
- You'll find the new players in the player/free agent
list - find the drop down box for "New in 2018" -
players are listed by the first transaction week in
which they can be signed.
- Due to some snafu with our stats provider, I only
have complete leaguewide box scores from March 29, so
players who debuted after that - like Scott Kingery -
will show up for Week 2.
3/31/18
- 2018 Schedule posted - you can see this in
a number of ways:
- Weekly schedule for your
entire league - this is the link I'll post on the home
page when we score games, it's also available on your
league's home page and in the footer of every web page - the
"Results" link. This page will show the results and
links to box scores.
- Full season schedule
for your league - a text representation of each 3-game
series for this year. It's also available as a link on
the league home page and on the weekly schedule. This
page will not show game results.
- Full season schedule
for your team - A running record of all your games (or
check out another team), including YTD record at each game,
a link to the box score, and a look at upcoming pitching
matchups (available once I get the Week 1 lineups from
everyone). This is available from a link at the top of
the weekly schedule page.
3/28/18
- The transaction order has been reset for Week Zero to the
same order used for the Redistribution Draft - reverse order of
the 2017 standings. For brand new leauges in 2018, it was
reset in reverse order of total team salary (Original Six League
was just fixed this morning). This order will stay the
same until Week Three when it will start being reset weekly
based on 2018 standings. See
Rules 12.9.2 and 12.9.3 for details
- Discounted price on Moneyball orphan team -
the league wants to fill the orphan before the season starts, so
it's offering a discounted fee of $50 for this season.
This is a private league that collects extra cash to pay out in
prize awards.
You can see the team roster on the orphan page - look for
the Benchwarmer Office team in Moneyball
3/27/18
- Original Six League - Phase Two Draft - Part Two
- See the Original
Six 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 Saturday, March 31 at midnight
Pacific
- Grunge League - Phase Two Draft - Part Two
- See the Grunge
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 Saturday, March 31 at midnight
Pacific
3/25/18
- Original Six League - Phase Two Draft - Part One
- See the Original
Six 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 Tuesday night, March 27 at 9 PM EDT
- We're getting down to the wire for the final
touches on your rosters heading into the season.
- Week -1 transactions are due tonight at
midnight
EDT
- Week Zero transactions are due Saturday,
March 31
(giving you a little extra time to deal with MLB final
cuts and DL moves) -
teams in returning leagues will lose any cash balance left
over 5000 at that time (and then all teams get an
extra 2000). Starting a couple of years ago, there are exceptions to this rule:
- Any orphan teams acquired by an owner for his/her
initial season of BWB are not subject to the maximum
cash balance
- Any orphan teams acquired where the extra 4000 cash
is credited on Week -2 or later does not have to quickly
reduce (We're currently in Week -1, so pick up an orphan
now and your cash is safe)
- And - any teams
currently in orphan status will not be subject to a cut
- Week 1 lineups will be due on Thursday, April 5
- See more information at the
season schedule and
deadlines
- Game schedules for 2018 will be posted later this week
3/24/18
- Grunge League - Phase Two Draft - Part One
- See the Grunge
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 Monday night, March 26 at Midnight Pacific (3AM EDT)
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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