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The NFBC is your home for season-long fantasy games as we offer every type of format and price point for our die-hard gamers. We had a record-breaking 2012 season and this week we even announced our Mid-Season Schedule for folks looking for Second Chance Leagues around the All-Star break in July. Those leagues are available now and priced between $125 and $1,000.

But we know that many of our customers are also having fun in the daily games market and so this week we're happy to announce a partnership with FanDuel to offer once-a-week daily games for our NFBC customers. These will be moderately priced at $50 per team, limited to 44 spots in the league, and available on a first-come basis only to NFBC owners. We have created an NFBC community daily game format with $2,000 in prizes every Friday starting June 8th. FanDuel is the leader in the daily games fantasy market and we are proud to work with another industry company that we know is reliable with service and payments.

Here's how this is going to work:

** Leagues will take place each Friday, starting next Friday, June 8th. Lineups must be set by 7:05 pm EST
** There will be $2,000 in prizes per league
** $50 entry fee with signups taking place on the FanDuel site
** 44 spots in the league, only one entry allowed per player
** Payouts of: 1st - $600, 2nd - $500, 3rd - $400, 4th - $300, 5th - $200
** The league will be given a title with "NFBC" in it to establish that this is a league specifically for NFBC players
** This is a one-day fantasy league with results just from the Friday games. Winners receive their payouts that evening
** You can edit your lineup continuously until the deadline of Friday 7:05 pm EST.

Leagues will be created on Tuesdays with player values posted that day. Lineups are created using the player values and a salary cap limit. For this initial league, it will be created on Tuesday, June 5th. This same schedule will occur each week: Leagues created on Tuesday for Friday.

Although the league won't be created until Tuesday, the link for the contest will be: https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC. An explanation of the league will be on the initial landing page.

These are NFBC leagues, but if we are short of players to fill the league on Friday we will open registration to the FanDuel community to fill up the final spots. We are just shooting for one league on Friday, so feel free to sign up early in the week to secure your spot and you can adjust your lineup right until the Friday deadline. If there is demand for more than one league per week or even additional days during the week, we will add them.

We were happy to work with FanDuel at our live NFBC events in Las Vegas and New York this March and we're very happy to add this in-season game to our NFBC owners today. Daily games are not our expertise, but we believe it is another form of fantasy baseball that will appeal to our audience. We believe it makes sense to work with the industry leader in this area and in turn the NFBC and NFFC will be visible to the FanDuel audience. It's quite possible that many of those customers will in turn check out our season-long contests and join in the future. And yes, we do plan on offering this type of game during the NFFC season as well with weekly games involving just our NFFC customers for top prizes.

So if you're looking for another way to enjoy fantasy baseball and you want to do it while competing against your NFBC brethren with a contest that you can trust and has the NFBC involved, then check out our new NFBC/FanDuel weekly contest. Payouts are good and the entry fee is low enough. And maybe you can win enough to offset some of those early season injuries that have you down in the dumps or down in the standings. Good luck all.

In these games, two points:
** Watch the weather; don't pick players in possible rainouts
** Matchups: Like in-season fantasy baseball, know your matchups. If Pujols is hitting .071 against a certain pitcher that day, chances are good that he won't be a top hitter that night. Study matchup data to be successful.

If anyone has questions about these contests, contact Geoff Bough at [email protected] or at 650-248-3606. He's there to help.

And continued good luck to everyone in your NFBC leagues. The daily games aren't for everyone as nothing quite replaces the enjoyment of drafting in March and grinding your way through the marathon that ends in October. But there's nothing wrong with supplementing your fantasy fun with a weekly game from time to time and if our customers want to do that the least we can do is keep them together in a contest where they know most of the participants. Enjoy all and if you have further questions contact me at [email protected] or at 715-254-5553. Thanks.

Very nice add Greg. One suggestion, free entries to next year's NFBC contests or even to this year's NFFC contests may be an even more attractive prize to your constituency and a way to bolster registrations for both contests in advance.

Glenneration X wrote:Very nice add Greg. One suggestion, free entries to next year's NFBC contests or even to this year's NFFC contests may be an even more attractive prize to your constituency and a way to bolster registrations for both contests in advance.

II'd rather have the cash then a free entry... Unless the value of the free entry was greater than the cash value... Or if the free nfbc entry was not only entering me into a 15 (or 12) team league but also an overall competition like the Slow Draft overall contest.

Glenneration X wrote:Very nice add Greg. One suggestion, free entries to next year's NFBC contests or even to this year's NFFC contests may be an even more attractive prize to your constituency and a way to bolster registrations for both contests in advance.

Yes, I do know what you're suggesting here Glenn. Other contests offer the bigger first place prize and then just roll them over into free entries for next year. From a game operator's standpoint, I'd love that too because I'd have 20-30 teams sold by season's end and no money going out. But as you know, at STATS we take all money in and pay out all money in prizes.

But it is a good suggestion and I'll talk with FanDuel about offering some of these contests with the bigger first place prize equal to an NFBC entry in 2013. We can switch these prize levels as we get these going and give a top prize equal to the value of an NFBC Main Event entry, but paid in cash. Hopefully the winner will set the prize money aside and join the NFBC with it next year. Cash in, cash out. But good suggestion.

Greg Ambrosius wrote: ** Matchups: Like in-season fantasy baseball, know your matchups. If Pujols is hitting .071 against a certain pitcher that day, chances are good that he won't be a top hitter that night. Study matchup data to be successful.

Actually, studies have shown this is NOT the case - one of which is on the Fanduel site

http://www.fanduel.com/insider/2011/07/ ... ps-part-1/

They don't accept Maryland

I guess that means i'm out.

ToddZ wrote:

Greg Ambrosius wrote: ** Matchups: Like in-season fantasy baseball, know your matchups. If Pujols is hitting .071 against a certain pitcher that day, chances are good that he won't be a top hitter that night. Study matchup data to be successful.

Actually, studies have shown this is NOT the case - one of which is on the Fanduel site

http://www.fanduel.com/insider/2011/07/ ... ps-part-1/

I know that Polanco and Theriot didn't care much about that study tonight! Both had fantastic #'s against their opposing pitchers and killed them again tonight.

While I don't think you can argue with a very deep study like that, and I'm a big believer in the small sample size reality, I was also a player until my mid 20's. There were pitchers I killed that my teammates struggled against and pitchers I struggled against that everyone else hit. I know from experience that there were some pitchers I was more comfortable against, and saw the ball better against, than others. And I'm sure that's the case with big league ballplayers as well...you just have to dig through the small sample size to find them.

The easiest thing to do is go with the historically best hitters who are seeing the ball well at the current time. Also, I always found that the best player on my team always hit (regardless of the pitcher)

Cobb wrote:

ToddZ wrote:

Greg Ambrosius wrote: ** Matchups: Like in-season fantasy baseball, know your matchups. If Pujols is hitting .071 against a certain pitcher that day, chances are good that he won't be a top hitter that night. Study matchup data to be successful.

Actually, studies have shown this is NOT the case - one of which is on the Fanduel site

http://www.fanduel.com/insider/2011/07/ ... ps-part-1/

I know that Polanco and Theriot didn't care much about that study tonight! Both had fantastic #'s against their opposing pitchers and killed them again tonight.

While I don't think you can argue with a very deep study like that, and I'm a big believer in the small sample size reality, I was also a player until my mid 20's. There were pitchers I killed that my teammates struggled against and pitchers I struggled against that everyone else hit. I know from experience that there were some pitchers I was more comfortable against, and saw the ball better against, than others. And I'm sure that's the case with big league ballplayers as well...you just have to dig through the small sample size to find them.

The easiest thing to do is go with the historically best hitters who are seeing the ball well at the current time. Also, I always found that the best player on my team always hit (regardless of the pitcher)

This sort of thing is just like 1H/2H players or contract years.

Yes, there are some guys that truly "own" a pitcher. But more often than not -- A LOT more often than not, the numbers are just random happenstance.

You can selectively pick out two guys that had good nights. There are probably more with favorable histories that did not do so well.

There are also some guys that struggled historically versus a pitcher and had a great night.

The point being, it is not predictive. Not everyone 7 for 18 with 2 HR and 2 doubles against a guy is more comfortable.

I'm not a scout, I can't speak from that aspect.

All I can speak from is the numbers. Perhaps someone with a discerning eye can figure out the truly favorable matchups (and then give me a call, because I am working with promoting a different daily game )

I agree. I did state that I believe in the reality of the small sample size...which most of the batter/pitcher histories are.

I used those 2 as examples because they were 15/38 and 12/35 going into last night...I certainly would not use somebody with 18 AB's as an example...albeit pushing 40 AB's is still a SSS. There's a possibility you could look at those histories and see that maybe those guys saw the ball well off those particular pitchers. Their histories were double the 7/18 line you used as an example.

I'm just telling you from personal experience that everything isn't just random sample size.

Not all the answers come from your super computer TZ

This link for the Friday daily game should be live tomorrow. I'll post more updates on this league once I get them. Enjoy and good luck to all who join it:

https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC

Okay, this week's NFBC/FanDuel contest is now live. Compete against 43 other NFBC owners at $50 per person for $2,000 in league prizes this Friday. Salaries for all players are listed on the site. Good luck everyone and we'll make this a regular Friday contest through the rest of the season.

Here's the link: https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC

Also, I heard that a couple of our NFBC players won weekly FanDuel contests and are now in line for a $100,000 grand prize and a trip to Las Vegas. I heard that there are 15 finalists who will be flown to Las Vegas for that final contest and a shot at the $100,000 grand prize. Robert Particelli and Scott Fleming are two of the finalists, proud members of the NFBC. I'm not sure if we have any other NFBC owners in the finals, but congrats to all who are in line there as well. We were pushing that prize at our live drafts in Las Vegas when Geoff was set up at the FanDuel booth. GREAT JOB guys.

Okay, first 44 members to secure teams get in this league. We will close it out at 44 teams and just go with one league this week. Thanks and good luck all.

Okay, 8 of 44 spots are currently filled with NFBC members. We'll close this out once we get to 44 teams. Looks like a good group of owners to start with. Jump on in if you still want a shot at the $2,000 in league prizes.

Here's the link: https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC

11 of 44 spots currently filled with NFBC owners for tonight's NFBC/FanDuel game. We will open this to the FanDuel public tonight to fill the league, but NFBC owners still have first dibs on the spots. Good luck to all who are playing tonight and I'll post the winners tomorrow. Thanks and good luck all.

We got the Turd in the house tonight

Outlaw wrote:We got the Turd in the house tonight

Yeah, now 19 signed up for this contest. Should fill shortly. Turd Ferguson could be tough to beat.

Maybe I missed it, but is there a weekly version of this? Start making your lineup changes on a Tuesday or Wednesday (or whenever), and the game goes from Monday to Sunday? I'd like my $50 to stretch a little longer than one day!

Also, just curious as to why Friday was the day of choice, seems like a Saturday or Sunday, with games going on pretty much all day, would be a better choice.

I was at neighboors house last night and he has Strike Zone, which is offered Tuesday and Friday nights, perhaps that's why this league is played on Friday night!! If so, good idea...I think we're going to join this league next Friday!

So on Tuesday, there will be a bunch of leagues posted, but this one will have the NFBC? What prevents anyone from joining the league? How is it only for NFBC members? Or will there be a link that takes you directly to the league once you log in to the fanduel website?

Steel Lugnuts wrote:So on Tuesday, there will be a bunch of leagues posted, but this one will have the NFBC? What prevents anyone from joining the league? How is it only for NFBC members? Or will there be a link that takes you directly to the league once you log in to the fanduel website?

Yes, this same link will have a new $50 weekly game. Only NFBC members have access to this link, but we'll open it up to all FanDuel members if we haven't sold out by Friday morning. We will offer another $50 entry fee league and maybe try one at $25 per team the next week. We can also offer some $50 leagues with a $1,500 first place prize. Stay tuned as we'll mix and match to give everyone a chance to compete and win prizes.

But yes, on Tuesday you'll see new player values and a chance to join Friday's game.

I logged in and only saw the 33-team option with the $1500 payout, which is no big deal.

I do wish you were able to sign up and create an entry without having to create your team right away, eventhough you can change it up until Friday at 7:00.

I'm also going to see if there is a way to print out the current player dollar values, easier to view than scrolling through each player list.

Okay, we're going to offer another Friday night NFBC/FanDuel contest this week and lower the number of entries to continue doing all we can to fill up this league with as many NFBC owners as possible. I think we had more than a quarter of last week's entries from the NFBC as Benjamin Clark won last week's $600 prize with 67.25 points. We finished with 44 teams last week and gave out $2,000 in league prizes.

This week we'll limit the contest to 33 teams and give out $1,500 in prizes to the top 5 finishers. We'll go with another $50 entry. To set your roster go to:

https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC

Okay, here's the prizes:
1st - $500
2nd - $400
3rd - $300
4th - $200
5th - $100

Only 33 places in the tournament, one entry per user. Also important is that there is one early Friday game - Red Sox/Cubs. That game is not included in this tournament, so the start time is 7:05pm EST on Friday.

Good luck everyone.

Again, just a reminder about this week's NFBC/FanDuel game. Only 33 spots in this week's contest: $50 to win $1,500 in prizes, including a $500 first place prize. Good luck all.

https://www.fanduel.com/NFBCBB?t=MEDIA_NFBC