Congrats To All 2014 NFBC Main Event Champions

[Greg Ambrosius]

Let's give it up for everyone who earned an NFBC Main Event league title in 2014 because we know how tough it is to win one of these titles. Kudos to everyone who came through in 2014.

It was a fantastic 2014 season with a lot of injuries, a lot of strong pitching performances and a lot of injuries. That's right, bookends of injuries, strikeouts and bad hitting in 2014. To win an NFBC Main Event league title in our very tough 15-team league format you had to draft well, constantly pick up the right free agents and make the right lineup decisions. It wasn't easy this year, that's for sure.

Congrats again to all of our league champions this year. Here's a few quick facts and then a list of our league champs:

** Alan Greenberg was the only owner to win multiple league titles, winning New York League 4 and Las Vegas League 4. He drafted from the 15th spot in both leagues.

** Jon Stadtmueller was the only owner to have two teams in the Top 11 overall as he won Las Vegas League 5 and finished 2nd in the very tough March 26th Online League 5.

** Steve Fiore came the closest to competing for the $75,000 cash bonus as he finished 3rd in the NFBC Primetime and 7th in the NFBC Main Event. Eric Heberlig also came close as he won the NFBC Primetime and finished 13th in the NFBC Main Event. Nobody won the "Lindy" this year, but several owners continue to prove it can be done again.

** Out of our 28 leagues, six champions came from the No. 6 spot to lead the way. Nos. 1, 3, 11 and 15 were next with three league champions each.

** 13 of the 15 draft spots produced league champions this year. Only Nos. 2 and 4 failed to produce league champions in 2014.

** Six league champions started their teams with Clayton Kershaw in the first round. No other first round pick was on more title teams than the great Clayton Kershaw.

Here's a look at the league champions followed by the list of league champions and their draft spots. Congrats all:

New York League 1 - owner: Josh Jantas, Pick 6 (Clayton Kershaw)
New York League 2 - Lee Jupinka, Pick 13 (Hanley Ramirez)
New York League 3 - John Lemke, Pick 6 (Andrew McCutchen)
New York League 4 - Alan Greenberg, Pick 15 (Yu Darvish)
March 29 Online League 1 - Kevin Kirves, Pick 6 (Andrew McCutchen)
March 29 Online League 2 - Nickolaus Sackett & Brian Slack, Pick 6 (Carlos Gonzalez)
March 29 Online League 3 - Eric Heberlig, Pick 10 (Clayton Kershaw)
March 29 Online League 4 - David Deterra, Pick 9 (Edwin Encarnacion)
March 29 Online League 5 - Chris King, Pick 3 (Clayton Kershaw)
March 26 Online League 1 - Scott Zeidman, Pick 9 (Troy Tulowitzki)
March 26 Online League 2 - Chad Schroeder, Pick 8 (Ryan Braun)
March 26 Online League 3 - Jason Duponte, Pick 15 (Carlos Gomez)
March 26 Online League 4 - John Donadio, Pick 13 (Prince Fielder)
March 26 Online League 5 - Chas Nelson, Pick 6 (Ryan Braun)
March 22 Online League 1 - Dale & Greg Morgan, Pick 1 (Miguel Cabrera)
March 22 Online League 2 - Gabe Donnelly, Pick 3 (Carlos Gonzalez)
March 22 Online League 3 - Lindy Hinkelman, Pick 14 (Adam Jones)
Las Vegas-Online March 22 - Matthew Bannister, Pick 1 (Mike Trout)
Las Vegas March 29 League 1 - Neal Moses, Pick 5 (Clayton Kershaw)
Las Vegas March 29 League 2 - Steve Fiore, Pick 11 (Prince Fielder)
Las Vegas March 29 League 3 - Bob Mazur, Pick 1 (Mike Trout)
Las Vegas March 29 League 4 - Alan Greenberg, Pick 15 (Chris Davis)
Las Vegas March 29 League 5 - Jon Stadtmueller, Pick 7 (Hanley Ramirez)
Las Vegas March 29 League 6 - KJ Duke, Pick 12 (Edwin Encarnacion)
Las Vegas March 22 League 1 - Phil Gurnee, Pick 3 (Clayton Kershaw)
Las Vegas March 22 League 2 - Bill Macey, Pick 11 (Adam Jones)
Chicago League 1 - Eric David, Pick 11 (Clayton Kershaw)
Chicago League 2 - Michael Makula, Pick 6 (Andrew McCutchen)

Draft Spots - # of Main Event League Champions
No. 1 - 3 league champions
No. 2 - 0 league champions
No. 3 - 3 league champions
No. 4 - 0 league champions
No. 5 - 1 league champion
No. 6 - 6 league champions
No. 7 - 1 league champion
No. 8 - 1 league champion
No. 9 - 2 league champions
No. 10 - 1 league champion
No. 11 - 3 league champions
No. 12 - 1 league champion
No. 13 - 2 league champions
No. 14 - 1 league champion
No. 15 - 3 league champions

Nos. 1-7 = 14 league champions
Nos. 8-15 = 14 league champions

Pretty interesting data all around. Good job all and see ya in 2015.

[mattjb]

Not bad for a Brit whose accent the girls couldn't understand

[Rog]

congrats to everybody and all their accomplishments

[COZ]

Only two out of 28 with Mike Trout. Fascinating. Always interesting to see what spot and who was taken with their first round pick. And imagine how Kershaw owners felt when he was out to start the year, I felt like I dodged a bullet. Silly me.

COZ