Win $50,000 In The Debut NFBC Cutline Championship

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Win $50,000 In The Debut NFBC Cutline Championship

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:41 am

We have talked about this for the last year and it has now come to fruition. In 2015 we will offer the debut NFBC Cutline Championship, a contest that is designed to have quick nightly drafts, limited in-season free agency, and no need to set your starting lineups each week. It's a fun way to enjoy the baseball season with very little in-season management because the computer will pick your optimal scoring lineup each week. Here's a synopsis of how it will work:

** 10-team leagues with an initial draft of 30 players
** drafts at 7 pm ET and 9 pm ET almost every night of the week. These should conclude in 2 1/2 hours or less
** come home from work, feel like drafting and sign up online. Drafts will start every night to scratch that drafting itch
** solid grand prizes: Turn $125 into $50,000 in the NFBC Cutline Championship
** never Set your Starting Lineup: The computer will do it for you every week with your optimal scoring lineup
** limited in-season FAAB: Only 4 FAAB pickup dates in April, May, June. No pickups during the busy months of July-Sept.
** No free agent pickups; no Set Lineup during the money Championship Rounds. What you have at that time is what you get
** Season ends early: Cutline Championship ends in mid-September
** Survive the Cutline and the rewards are there for all Championship Round finalists in Round 3
** Live scoring and overall standings that shows your optimal scoring lineup each day. Really cool format
** The ability to expand your roster to 45 players to help with depth through the 4 FAAB periods. Stay tuned on that.
** The chance to still win $50,000 even if you land in the Wild Card Round in Week 1. Move UP to the Championship Bracket in Rounds 1 and 2.

The goal here is nightly drafts that don't take very long. These likely will fill at the last minute as folks come home from work and feel like drafting. There is no KDS and so once the leagues fill they will spit out a random draft order and we'll be ready to go.

The goal is also to create a league that doesn't take much time to manage. Having an optimal scoring lineup should be something appealing to new users who want to try this game out and to veteran owners who have dozens of teams yet still want to draft a little more. This format is ideal for both groups.

We know you need depth in these DCs, so we are going to do something that has never been tried before in fantasy baseball. We will allow you to expand your rosters by 5 players in the first FAAB while still being able to make other cuts and pickups. So when the season starts, you'll have 35 players. Then in the second FAAB, we'll allow you to expand to 40 players. Then in the third FAAB, we'll allow you to expand to 45 players. So you will have depth on these teams, it will just come in spurts, which allows us to have these quick drafts.

I will post the tentative rules next. Again, they are tentative as we work through everything with the IT department. We also want your feedback on all of this and if needed we can change any of this before finalizing. I'm interested in your feedback, but I do think we have a nice combination that will allow the NFBC to be THE PLACE for nightly drafts. And all of these draft results will make our ADPs the most dominant in the industry. And once again, we'll offer another contest with a solid grand prize with a very low entry point. It's the best way to bring in new users and to expand the NFBC.

And we will have a new online draft room this season, hopefully before the New Year. I believe folks will enjoy that drafting experience even more once they get used to the draft room and work the Draft Prep to have their draft lists in every online draft. That will be a powerful combination for all of our online drafts in 2015.

Check out the rules and let us know what you think of this new concept. We're interested in your feedback. Thanks all and get ready to draft....every night!! 8-)
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Re: Win $50,000 In The Debut NFBC Cutline Championship

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:53 am

Here are the tentative Rules & Prizes for the NFBC Cutline Championship. We will finalize these in the next week or so. Please feel free to provide feedback within this thread. Thanks all and good luck.

OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE NATIONAL FANTASY BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP (NFBC) CUTLINE CHAMPIONSHIP
1. Overview
The National Fantasy Baseball Championship Cutline Championship will consist of multiple leagues each comprised of 10 teams/managers. This is a “Best Ball” format where the computer will pick a team’s optimal scoring lineup each week throughout the season, giving owners the best possible lineup every single week. The top two teams from each league after the regular season will advance to the Championship Round and attempt to survive above the cutline in each of the three-week playoff periods.

Teams will initially draft 30 players online with online drafts being held throughout the off-season. Rosters will be expanded to 35 players via FAAB before Week 1 (Sunday, April 5), with owners having the option to add 5 new players without dropping any players (while still cutting and picking up other players). A second set of FAAB will take place before Week 5 (Sunday, May 3) and again allow owners to expand rosters to 40 players at that time. A third FAAB will follow before Week 9 (Sunday, May 31) where owners can expand rosters to 45 players. The fourth and final FAAB will be held before Week 12 (Sunday, June 21). The NFBC Cutline Championship has a regular season, which concludes just prior to the MLB All-Star Break on Monday, July 13, and a championship playoff which runs for 9 weeks beginning in the week of the All-Star Break and ending in mid-September. Championship Rounds run from:

Round 1: July 17-Aug. 9
Round 2: Aug. 10-Aug. 30
Round 3: Aug. 31-Sept. 20

Teams will compete in a points-based system with the computer picking your optimal scoring lineup each week (Monday through Sunday) from the required 23 starting positions. Categories include:

For Hitters
Home Run: 6 points
Stolen Base: 5 points
Hit: 4 points
Run: 2 points
RBI: 2 points
At-bat: -1 point

For Pitchers
Win: 6 points
Save: 6 points
Inning Pitched: 3 points
Strikeout: 1 point
Hit or Walk Allowed: -1 point
Earned Run Allowed: -2 points

The Cutline Championship is a points-based league designed to approximate the relative contribution value of batter and pitcher outcomes in standard NFBC rotisserie leagues. The Cutline Championship has a regular season, which concludes just prior to the MLB All-Star Break, and a championship playoff which runs for 9 weeks beginning in the week of the All-Star Break and ending in mid-September. Cost of entry is $125 per team.

A starting lineup will consist of 14 hitters and 9 pitchers, with the same positions and position eligibility of standard NFBC leagues. Scoring is automatic, with each team’s highest scoring players assigned to the available starting lineup slots at the end of each week (Monday through Sunday). Accordingly, each week a team’s highest scoring lineup of 2 catchers, 1 first baseman, 1 second baseman, 1 third baseman, 1 shortstop, 1 Middle Infielder (2b or SS), 1 Corner Infielder (1b or 3b), 5 Outfielders, 1 Utility Hitter and 9 pitchers will count towards that team’s points.

DRAFT AND FREE AGENTS
Each league will consist of 10 teams participating in a 30-round draft. Rosters will expand to 45 players per team through FAAB over a 3+ month period.

Each team will have a free agent acquisition budget of $1000, but there will be only 4 free agent periods during the regular season and none during the championship playoff. Free agency will run on the following nights:

FAAB 1: Sunday, April 5 (expands rosters to 35 players)
FAAB 2: Sunday, May 3 (expands rosters to 40 players)
FAAB 3: Sunday, May 31 (expands rosters to 45 players)
FAAB 4: Sunday, June 21 (rosters remain at 45 players)

The first free agent period will be prior to Week 1, followed by prior to Week 5, prior to Week 9 and prior to Week 12. Players will be allowed to pick up as many free agents each week as they’d like, with five pickups being allowed without cutting a player during the first three FAAB periods. If an owner picks up less than five players during any of those weeks, they have the right to expand to the roster limit in the following FAAB periods. At no time can any team roster have more than the required number of players on their roster per period.

CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF
The top two teams in each league will advance to the Championship Round, while the third place, fourth place and fifth place teams in each league go into the Wild Card Round. All other teams are eliminated from post-season action. The Playoffs will consist of 3 rounds and each round will be 3 weeks in duration.

Round 1 (July 17 through Aug. 9) – Each advancing team from the regular season will begin this round with their weekly average point total from the season, which will be combined with their 3-week playoff total and the All-Star partial week total for a Round 1 Total Score. The Top 95 teams in the Championship Round will advance to Round 2 of the Championship Round. All other teams move into the Wild Card Round. The top 5 teams from the Wild Card Round move into the Championship Round for Round 2, while the next 95 Wild Card Round teams also advance to Round 2 of the Wild CardRound. All other teams in the Wild Card Round are eliminated from the contest.

Round 2 (Aug. 10 through Aug. 30) – The Top 95 teams from Round 1 of the Championship Round plus 5 Wild Card Round teams will advance to this round, while the remaining teams from the Championship Round and the Top 95 teams from the Wild Card Round will compete in Round 2 of the Wild Card Round. Each team will begin this round with 25% of their Round 1 Total Score, which will be added to their total of the next 3 weeks for a Round 2 Total Score. The Top 18 teams in the Championship Round will advance to Round 3 of the Championship Round, while all other teams from the Championship Round will move into the Wild Card Round. The Top 2 teams from the Wild Card Round move up to the Championship Round for Round 3, leaving 20 teams in line for the Championship Round of Round 3. The Top 18 teams after the Top 2 teams in the Wild Card Round move on to Round 3 of the Wild Card Round. All other teams from the Wild Card Round are eliminated.

Round 3 (Aug. 31 through Sept. 20) – Twenty teams are competing now for the 20 Championship Round prizes. Each team will begin this round with 25% of their Round 2 Total Score, which will be added to their total of the next 3 weeks for a Final Playoff Score. The team with the most points wins the $50,000 grand prize. The same scoring formula is used for the Wild Card Round, which has prizes for the Top 5 highest scoring teams in Round 3.

2. Event Location and Fees
All NFBC Cutline Championship leagues will hold their drafts at nfbc.stats.com. The cost per entry is $125 and there is no events fee or co-manager fee. Leagues will be offered most nights during the off-season and many will fill the night of the draft, sometimes just minutes before the start time. Once a league is filled, draft spots will be automatically run, an email will go out to all participants with the draft order and the draft will start on time. Watch the Countdown link under Home to see available spots in each upcoming Cutline league.

Once you have signed up, you'll find your team link for this league under MY TEAMS. Click on your team and you’ll see a link called DRAFT. There you'll find a DRAFT PREP link where you can rank the player default list for that online draft and all of the players will show up in your draft room exactly as you have ranked them. If you don't do that, the player default list will appear as STATS has it. Then on the day of your draft, the DRAFT ROOM link will appear and you'll enter the room there and draft your team. Use the Flash version if you have Flash on your computer and pick the player you want when it's your turn. There is a DRAFT BOARD link within the draft room that allows you to see colored stickers of every player being selected and to easily see the draft results.

3. Prizes
Prizes are awarded for league and overall standings.
Overall Prizes
Championship Round
1. First Place = $50,000
2. Second Place = $25,000
3. Third Place = $15,000
4. Fourth Place = $10,000
5. Fifth Place = $5,000
6. Sixth Place = $4,000
7. Seventh Place = $3,000
8. Eighth Place = $2,000
9. Ninth Place = $2,000
10. 10th Place = $2,000
11. 11th Place = $1,500
12. 12th Place = $1,500
13. 13th Place = $1,500
14. 14th Place = $1,500
15. 15th Place = $1,500
16. 16th Place = $1,000
17. 17th Place = $1,000
18. 18th Place = $1,000
19. 19th Place = $1,000
20. 20th Place = $1,000

Wild Card Round:
1. First Place = $3,000
2. Second Place = $2,000
3. Third Place = $1,500
4. Fourth Place = $1,500
5. Fifth Place = $1,000

League Prizes
1. League Champion $250

Cash prizes are awarded in U.S. dollars and are awarded to the principal owner of the team. Teams can split prizes among multiple owners by filling out the proper paperwork with STATS' accounting department before season's end. In the event of a tie, cash prizes are divided evenly among those who have tied.

4. Draft
Each league will be comprised of 10 teams, and each draft will consist of 30 rounds, with each team selecting a player from the AL or NL in each round in a serpentine fashion (team 1 through team 10 in odd-numbered rounds, team 10 through team 1 in even-numbered rounds). In all NFBC draft leagues, you do not need to fill your 23 required starting positions with your first 23 picks; your No. 2 catcher could be selected with your 30th overall pick if you choose. However, you must have a legal starting lineup with your first 30 picks. Players will be selected from all 30 Major League Baseball teams and minor-league prospects are eligible to be selected on Draft Day.

Rosters will expand to 35 players through FAAB before Week 1 on Sunday, April 5 as owners can pick up additional players without cutting any drafted players, while still making additional pickups with cuts at that time. Five more players are added during each of the next two FAAB periods for a maximum roster size of 45 players. Each week the computer picks your optimal scoring roster from the 23 required starting positions and will add up your yearly point total. One key is to have depth at every position so that you have replacements who score each week if injuries or demotions to the minors occur.

Time Limit for Draft: There will be a 60-second time limit for each owner to make his/her pick during each round of the NFBC Cutline draft. If a participant does not make a selection in the allotted time, the computer will select the top player from that owner’s Player Que and if no player is in the Que then the top available player from the player’s default list will be selected. If there is a computer failure, an error made with a selection by an owner or any other type of technical malfunction, the draft moderator can stop the draft at any time and correct the error and then resume the draft. The NFBC reserves the right to allow the draft moderator to roll-back the draft if a technical error occurred, but if the desired player had already been selected before the draft was stopped, that player is no longer available to be drafted.

Commissioner Decisions: All decisions made by the NFBC commissioner are final. Tough decisions sometimes must be made about eligibility rules, lineups, etc., and NFBC participants must accept the unbiased ruling of the NFBC commissioner.

5. Random Draft Orders
The NFBC Cutline Championship will randomly select draft orders and announce them shortly after leagues are full. KDS is not used in the NFBC Cutline Championship.

6. No Trading
Trading is not allowed during the NFBC season and owners are not allowed to trade draft picks.

7. Roster Requirements
NFBC Cutline rosters have a maximum of 30 players on Draft Day, 35 players after the Week 1 FAAB on Sunday, April 5; 40 players after the Week 5 FAAB on Sunday, May 3; and 45 players after Week 9 on Sunday, May 31. Team rosters remain at 45 players after the fourth and final FAAB period on Sunday, June 21 after Week 12.

8. Starting Lineup Requirements
Starting lineups will consist of:
1. 2 Catchers
2. 1 First Baseman
3. 1 Second Baseman
4. 1 Shortstop
5. 1 Third Baseman
6. 1 Middle Infielder (2B/SS)
7. 1 Corner Infielder (1B/3B)
8. 1 Utility Player (any offensive position)
9. 5 Outfielders
10. 9 Pitchers

There is no minimum innings pitched limit in the NFBC Cutline Championship since the computer will pick your optimal scoring lineup each week. Your best nine scoring pitchers each week – and they could all be Starting Pitchers or all Relievers – will be in your starting lineup each week, so build your roster accordingly.

9. Position Eligibility
The NFBC will use the following position eligibility rules in 2015:

a) Players who played at least 20 games at any position in 2014 will qualify at that position for the entire 2015 NFBC season. Players who play 10 games at a new position in 2015 will be eligible at that position after they have played there for the 10th time during the 2015 MLB regular season. Any player who missed all of the previous season to injury or retirement will qualify at the position he last was eligible for in the majors.

b) If a player did not appear in 20 games at any position, he qualifies at the one position he played most frequently the prior season in the majors. Designated Hitter is considered a position for these purposes (pinch-hitting is not). A player who only qualifies as a DH may only be assigned to the UT position. If a player's most games played at a position is less than 20 and tied among more than one position, the NFBC commissioner will assign eligibility at one position only.

c) Those players who only pinch-hit in the majors in 2014 will be position eligible according to their minor-league games played status in 2014. They would qualify at the position they played the most games in the minors.

d) Players who played all of 2014 in the minor leagues will be awarded position eligibility for the 2015 NFBC season based on the most games played at all levels in the minors. STATS will determine that one eligible position before Draft Day and that will determine that player's status for 2015 once he is called up to the majors. Those players who only pinch-hit or DH in the minors will only be UT-eligible.

e) The NFBC commissioner will rule on player eligibility prior to the draft as he deems necessary. Those eligibility lists are final and will be available to all owners prior to Draft Day.

10. League Management Web Address
You can access your team and league via the Internet by going to nfbc.stats.com. You will need a username and a password to access the game site. Contact [email protected] if you are signed up for the contest and do not have a username and password.

11. Lineup submission
The NFBC Cutline Championship has an optimal scoring lineup format where the computer picks your highest scoring player from each of the 23 starting positions at the end of each week. Owners do not have to set their starting lineups at all during the season. Live league scoring and overall standings will be run in real-time, but the final calculation for each week is done after all Sunday games are complete. Weeks run from Monday through Sunday.

12. Free Agents
Any player who is not on a team roster within your league and is on a major league roster or once was on an NFBC team in your league is considered a free agent for that league. Even players on the MLB disabled list are eligible to be picked up during the FAAB bidding process. The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday of the weekly FAAB deadline at 7 AM ET and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time. Once a minor-leaguer plays his first game in the majors, he remains in every NFBC FAAB pool whether he returns to the minors or not. Once in the majors, he remains in all FAAB pools. Participants should also note that MLB unsigned veteran free agents at the time of Draft Day are eligible to be picked up or bid on in all NFBC leagues.

Free Agent Bidding Process: The free agent system will be a "blind bidding" process for each individual league. Each team will start with 1,000 free agent "dollars" for the season, and will be permitted to bid for free agents four times per year with a minimum bid of $1 per player. Teams will not be able to see other teams' free agent bids. The team with the highest bid on any given player will be awarded that player. The amount of the winning bid will be deducted from the winning team's free agent dollars. JUST FOR THE NFBC CUTLINE: Owners will be allowed to add 5 free agents without cutting a player during each of the first 3 FAAB periods, and can add additional pickups by cutting players on their current roster. If a team's free agent dollars go to zero, that team will no longer be allowed to bid for the rest of the season. No bid will be accepted that is larger than a team's available free agent dollars. All bids must be in increments of dollars (no cents). Only winning bids and the runner-up bids on each player will be shown after the FAAB bidding period for each NFBC league.

Bidding Time Frame: There are only four free agent time periods in the NFBC Cutline:

FAAB 1: Sunday, April 5
FAAB 2: Sunday, May 3
FAAB 3: Sunday, May 31
FAAB 4: Sunday, June 21

The NFBC bidding process will start the week before Opening Day and run for the first time on Sunday, April 5. FAAB will run after Weeks 5, 9 and 12. There are no additional FAAB pickups in the Championship Round. Bids will be accepted on the league website from Monday at 3 PM ET until the Sunday deadline at 10 PM ET in each of these weeks. Rosters will be updated shortly after 10 PM ET on Sunday with the results of all successful bids. First and Last Free Agent Bidding Deadlines: The first free agent bidding deadline is Sunday, April 5, at 10 PM ET. The last free agent bidding deadline is after Week 12 on June 21st.

The NFBC Cutline Championship has a unique FAAB system from our other games in which rosters are expanded after Draft Day by 5 spots on three different occasions. During those FAAB periods, NFBC owners can pick up five players without cutting anyone and still pick up additional players by cutting current players from rosters. There is no limit to the number of free agent pickups each FAAB period, but all owners are limited to their $1,000 FAAB budget. Rosters expand to 35 players after Week 1, 40 players after Week 5 and 45 players after Week 9. There are no free agent pickups after Week 12.
Conditional Bids: Conditional bids can also be offered. In the event you may lose out on a player, you can place conditional bid(s) for other players during the bidding time frame. Subsequent conditional bids will become relevant only if the previous conditional bid fails. Bids do not require conditional bids. Bids may have several sequential conditional bids. Participants should note that the computer takes the HIGHEST BIDS and processes each bid in that order if you have multiple FAAB acquisition bids. ALL BIDS WILL BE PROCESSED IN THE ORDER OF DOLLAR VALUE ASSIGNED TO THOSE FREE AGENTS, highest to lowest.

Example:
1. Acquire Kyle Gibson, $19, cut Trevor Bauer
2. Acquire Tommy Milone, $16, cut Trevor Bauer
3. Acquire Jake Peavy, $2, cut Trevor Bauer

Number of Bids Limit: There is no limit to the number of bids that may be submitted each week in which bids are permitted.
Tied Bids: If there is a tie bid during the season, the team that receives the player will be determined in order by

1. Worst league standing at the time FAAB was run (Sunday night using Saturday's standings).
2. Lowest standing the previous week.
3. Lowest draft position from Draft Day.

Any tied bids during the first FAAB period will be given to the team with the lowest draft order from Draft Day, whether there were a few games played before then or not.

Commissioner Review of Player Drops: All player drops for free agents are subject to review by the NFBC commissioner and can be revoked if the dropped player is deemed too valuable to be offered to that league's free agent pool, thus damaging the credibility of the overall contest. In the case of a "star" player being dropped in a league for a valid reason, the NFBC commissioner reserves the right to allow the cut but keep the player out of that league's free agent pool for any length of time, possibly the entire season. All decisions by the NFBC commissioner will be final.

13. Trades Between Managers
To minimize the possibility of collusion, there will be no trading allowed.

14. Scoring
The NFBC Cutline Championship is a “Best Ball” points style game and teams are trying to accumulate the most points in their league. Scoring is as follows:

PLAYER SCORING
Batter Scoring:
Home Run = 6 points
Stolen Base = 5 points
Hit = 4 points
Run = 2 points
RBI = 2 points
At-Bat = -1 point

Pitcher Scoring:
Win = 6 points
Save = 6 points
Inning Pitched = 3 points
Strikeout = 1 point
Hit or Walk Allowed: -1 point
Earned Run Allowed: - 2 points

Teams are ranked by most points accumulated each week. The top scoring team after the regular season finishes first and wins $250. The top two scoring teams in each league advance to the Championship Round.

CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF
The top two teams in each league will advance to the Championship Round and all other teams go into the Wild Card Round. The Playoffs will consist of 3 rounds and each round will be 3 weeks in duration.

Round 1 (July 17 through Aug. 9) – Each advancing team from the regular season will begin this round with their weekly average point total from the season, which will be combined with their 3-week playoff total and the All-Star partial week total for a Round 1 Total Score. The Top 95 teams in the Championship Round will advance to Round 2 of the Championship Round. All other teams move into the Wild Card Round. The top 5 teams from the Wild Card Round move into the Championship Round for Round 2, while the next 95 Wild Card Round teams also advance to Round 2 of the Wild Card Round. All other teams in the Wild Card Round are eliminated from the contest.

Round 2 (Aug. 10 through Aug. 30) – The Top 95 teams from Round 1 of the Championship Round plus 5 Wild Card Round teams will advance to this round, while the remaining teams from the Championship Round and the Top 95 teams from the Wild Card Round will compete in Round 2 of the Wild Card Round. Each team will begin this round with 25% of their Round 1 Total Score, which will be added to their total of the next 3 weeks for a Round 2 Total Score. The Top 18 teams in the Championship Round will advance to Round 3 of the Championship Round, while all other teams from the Championship Round will move into the Wild Card Round. The Top 2 teams from the Wild Card Round move up to the Championship Round for Round 3, leaving 20 teams in line for the Championship Round of Round 3. The Top 18 teams after the Top 2 teams in the Wild Card Round move on to Round 3 of the Wild Card Round. All other teams from the Wild Card Round are eliminated.

Round 3 (Aug. 31 through Sept. 20) – Twenty teams are competing now for the 20 Championship Round prizes. Each team will begin this round with 25% of their Round 2 Total Score, which will be added to their total of the next 3 weeks for a Final Playoff Score. The team with the most points wins the $50,000 grand prize. The same scoring formula is used for the Wild Card Round, which has prizes for the Top 5 highest scoring teams in Round 3.

15. Taxes
If the principal team owner's prize winnings are $600.00 or greater (or any other threshold subsequently established by the IRS), the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (“NFBC”) must file a Form 1099 with the IRS at the end of this calendar year. We will request your social security number and signature on this form. The form contains the amount paid to you and you will receive a copy of the form for tax purposes. STATS pays the principal team owner of each NFBC team that was submitted on the entry form and you are responsible for paying any taxes that result from your cash prize; please consult your income tax advisor for filing advice. In the event that the awarding of any prizes to winners of the Contest is challenged by any legal authority, STATS reserves the right in its sole discretion to determine whether or not to award such prizes. After 12 months, any unclaimed prize will be forfeited.

16. Eligibility; Registration
The National Fantasy Baseball Championship is open to individuals who are at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your state of residence) and are a resident of the United States of America or Canada. Notwithstanding the foregoing, residents of Washington State, Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Iowa, and Vermont are not eligible to register or play in the NFBC. All registrations must be in the full legal name of the primary team owner, though owners will have the option to add a co-manager(s).

17. Official Rules
Registration for, and continued participation in, the National Fantasy Baseball Championship constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to these official rules (“Official Rules”) and to STATS’ decisions relating thereto. STATS’ decisions in regards to these Official Rules and all matters pertaining to the National Fantasy Baseball Championship are final and binding.

18. Refunds
Once a participant submits valid payment, no money will be refunded unless the NFBC event for which such participant has registered has been canceled. A team spot is considered filled when the entire entry fee is paid. STATS reserves the right to cancel any entries which are not part of a full league. In addition, STATS retains the right to deny, at its sole discretion, eligibility of any individual to register for any NFBC game or event and/or participate in any NFBC game or event, even after the registration fee has been paid, but in such case, the entry fee will be refunded. Under no condition shall STATS be held responsible for any loss or liability related to any expenses incurred by a denied entrant or any person affiliated with that denied entrant. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the event that any participant or co-manager is banned from the NFBC as the result of any violation of the Official Rules, then no refund will be given.

19. Cancellation
At its sole discretion, STATS reserves the right to terminate any NFBC game, event or league at any time prior to the completion of the season due to any acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, change in applicable law, interruption of the season (including strikes, lockouts and/or use of replacement players), or any other situation beyond the control of STATS. In the event of any such termination by STATS, all entry fees will be refunded, with the exception of any live event fees (if such live event has already occurred).

At its sole discretion, STATS reserves the right to terminate any NFBC game, event or league (including the National Fantasy Baseball Championship Main Event) if there are an insufficient number of teams prior to the scheduled start of the league. In this unlikely event, STATS will refund all entry fees within 48 hours of cancellation notice and/or provide a new application form with the newly stated prize figures. In this situation, all pre-registered applicants have the right to a full refund or to agree to play for the newly announced prize structure. STATS is not responsible for any loss or liability incurred by any participant or co-managers due to cancellation of any NFBC game, event or league, including but not limited to travel or hotel expenses, time taken off from employment, etc.

20. Code of Conduct
All participants and co-managers are expected to behave in lawful, respectful and sportsman-like fashion at all live draft events, throughout the NFBC season, and during use of any NFBC website, including, but not limited to comments posted on any NFBC message board. Additionally the NFBC events, games and/or leagues may not be used for any form of gambling. Any conduct or message board post by a participant, co-manager or other person which is deemed by STATS, in its sole discretion, to be unlawful, or to have the effect of intimidating, harassing, offending or otherwise harming any other participant, co-manager, guest, or NFBC/STATS representative, is strictly prohibited. STATS reserves the right, in its sole discretion to ban any person from current and/or future participation in the NFBC and/or from use of the message boards if such person engages in any such prohibited conduct or is otherwise in violation of any of these Rules. In addition, any person engaging in such conduct forfeits any rights to a refund, as well as any potential rights to a prize award. STATS shall not be responsible or held liable to any person for damage to property or personal injury or death arising from the acts or omissions of any third parties. Any participants or co-managers who collude, or attempt to collude, or who attempts to blackmail, bribe or otherwise influence any representative of STATS/NFBC, or who otherwise attempts to sabotage the league, in an effort to alter the results or outcome of any NFBC game will be disqualified and will be prohibited from winning any prize award. If a participant is banned from participation in a current NFBC game, then STATS reserves the right, to take those actions which it sees fit, in its sole discretion with respect to such banned participant’s team. Any criminal behavior may be referred to the appropriate authorities.

21. Errors
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22. Prize Splitting
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Post by mattjb » Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:10 am

Very different. Interesting format - sounds like fun.

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Is 1/3 of an inning pitched one point?

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mdecav wrote:Is 1/3 of an inning pitched one point?
Yes.
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Post by Quahogs » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:02 pm

If I have an OF/SS who happens to be the 3rd highest OF points will the optimal scoring program know to use him as a SS when all of my OF's scoring is > than my other SS ?

How is added position eligibility going to work? If a player becomes SS eligible on Saturday will he be part of the SS optimal scoring or is that locked in prior to the 1st game of that week ?

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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:28 pm

Quahogs wrote:If I have an OF/SS who happens to be the 3rd highest OF points will the optimal scoring program know to use him as a SS when all of my OF's scoring is > than my other SS ?

How is added position eligibility going to work? If a player becomes SS eligible on Saturday will he be part of the SS optimal scoring or is that locked in prior to the 1st game of that week ?
That's all part of the programming that we need to make sure works in optimal scoring because in football where we have this there really isn't any dual eligibility. But yes, we need to make sure we have all of this covered in the optimal scoring features.

Live Scoring is just a snapshot of the week. The scoring at the end of each week is what matters, so I don't see any problem with that player getting scored in his new position if he becomes eligible on Saturday or Sunday. Nothing is locked during the week. But again, this is all part of the optimal scoring features that need to be included.

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Quahogs wrote:If I have an OF/SS who happens to be the 3rd highest OF points will the optimal scoring program know to use him as a SS when all of my OF's scoring is > than my other SS ?

How is added position eligibility going to work? If a player becomes SS eligible on Saturday will he be part of the SS optimal scoring or is that locked in prior to the 1st game of that week ?
Good question, Steve. Not sure if this is the case, but ... since scoring is weekly, player eligibility should be locked as of Monday for the entire week (as if you were setting the lineup yourself with hindsight).

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Quahogs wrote:If I have an OF/SS who happens to be the 3rd highest OF points will the optimal scoring program know to use him as a SS when all of my OF's scoring is > than my other SS ?

How is added position eligibility going to work? If a player becomes SS eligible on Saturday will he be part of the SS optimal scoring or is that locked in prior to the 1st game of that week ?
Here is my guess how the optimization should be done:

1. Rank all your hitters by points scored that week.
2a. Put the highest ranked hitter in the position he's eligible.
2b. If he's multi-positional, place him the 'weakest' position where he's eligible, say this order: C-SS-2B-MI-3B-1B-CR-OF-U
3. Repeat Step 2a/b for all other player(s).
4. When you reach a point where you can't place a player on your roster because either a) all eligible positions are filled or b) moving a multi-positional player to a different position (ranked by the positions listed in 2b) would lower your team score by replacing someone, you skip that player.

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Post by Quahogs » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:52 am

Make sure the program recognizes DL players. There may be instances where your best ACTIVE player at the position bowls a negative score for the week. The DL 'd player at 0 would be the better score.

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Post by Asumijet » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:16 pm

The one thing that sticks out to me for this year is the April 5th FAAB date. Many of us will be traveling back home from Vegas or other locations or with family on that Easter weekend. If the goal is to create a game that requires little work, except on a few weekends during the season; this particular weekend in the inaugural season seems like a rough one to select given the intent and goal of the game. Not sure if there is a work around.
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Asumijet wrote:The one thing that sticks out to me for this year is the April 5th FAAB date. Many of us will be traveling back home from Vegas or other locations or with family on that Easter weekend. If the goal is to create a game that requires little work, except on a few weekends during the season; this particular weekend in the inaugural season seems like a rough one to select given the intent and goal of the game. Not sure if there is a work around.
I agree, but if we draft only 30 players then we know there will be holes in all of our lineups by Opening Day. So we have to get to 35 players somehow, some way. This was a compromise to have quick drafts every night and to still get expanded rosters, which we need for this type of contest that doesn't have weekly FAAB. Even those 35 players will feel thin until the next FAAB allows us to get to 40.

If there's a better compromise out there, I'm all ears.
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Post by edelman24 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:55 am

what is a homerun worth..6 points or 6points HR + 4 points HIT = 10 points??

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Post by Gekko » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:02 am

edelman24 wrote:what is a homerun worth..6 points or 6points HR + 4 points HIT = 10 points??
Home run is worth a total of 13pts!

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Post by BK METS » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:10 am

Gekko wrote:
edelman24 wrote:what is a homerun worth..6 points or 6points HR + 4 points HIT = 10 points??
Home run is worth a total of 13pts!
Yes, 6 pts for HR + 4 points for HIT + 2 points for RUN + 2 points for RBI - 1 pt AB = 13 points

If a pitcher has a 7 inning win, striking out 9, with NO runs and 2 Hits, he gets 34 points. It definitely evens out.

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Post by DOUGHBOYS » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:00 am

Greg Ambrosius wrote:
Asumijet wrote:The one thing that sticks out to me for this year is the April 5th FAAB date. Many of us will be traveling back home from Vegas or other locations or with family on that Easter weekend. If the goal is to create a game that requires little work, except on a few weekends during the season; this particular weekend in the inaugural season seems like a rough one to select given the intent and goal of the game. Not sure if there is a work around.
I agree, but if we draft only 30 players then we know there will be holes in all of our lineups by Opening Day. So we have to get to 35 players somehow, some way. This was a compromise to have quick drafts every night and to still get expanded rosters, which we need for this type of contest that doesn't have weekly FAAB. Even those 35 players will feel thin until the next FAAB allows us to get to 40.

If there's a better compromise out there, I'm all ears.
I would just as soon play the first week naked, without FAAB.
Then, back up all dates by a week.
This event is meant to shorten time taken, yet we'll have to curtail time with families during Easter for it.
Not good.
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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:18 am

I asked KJ to run the scoring for this format from 2014 so that we could compare it to our Rotisserie rankings. He gave me the Top 100 so that everyone can see where players land with this points scoring system. Here's what he came up with and if you need more info we can add more players here, but enjoy this first Top 100 for NFBC Cutline scoring:

2014 Cutline Scoring • TOP 100 (Ranked by points; showing total points and NFBC player-rater rank)
1 • Jose Altuve • 850 • #1
2 • Mike Trout • 838 • #3
3 • Michael Brantley • 806 • #4
4 • Victor Martinez • 778 • #8
5 • Giancarlo Stanton • 756 • #6
6 • Jose Abreu • 753 • #11
7 • Johnny Cueto • 737 • #5 ◄P►
8 • Miguel Cabrera • 728 • #16
9 • Jose Bautista • 727 • #13
10 • Andrew McCutchen • 724 • #12

11 • Carlos Gomez • 722 • #7
12 • Felix Hernandez • 718 • #10 ◄P►
13 • Clayton Kershaw • 712 • #2 ◄P►
14 • Nelson Cruz • 701 • #15
15 • Corey Kluber • 698 • #14 ◄P►
16 • Anthony Rendon • 690 • #17
17 • Dee Gordon • 679 • #9
18 • Todd Frazier • 665 • #18
19 • David Price • 658 • #31 ◄P►
20 • AdamJones • 657 • #23

21 • Charlie Blackmon • 653 • #20
22 • Albert Pujols • 636 • #29
23 • Ian Kinsler • 629 • #32
24 • Anthony Rizzo • 627 • #28
25 • Adrian Gonzalez • 626 • #36
26 • Adam Wainwright • 626 • #19 ◄P►
27 • Jacoby Ellsbury • 622 • #21
28 • Justin Upton • 618 • #33
29 • HunterPence • 615 • #37
30 • Jon Lester • 613 • #26 ◄P►

31 • Josh Donaldson • 608 • #35
32 • Max Scherzer • 608 • #38 ◄P►
33 • Robinson Cano • 605 • #45
34 • Ian Desmond • 603 • #25
35 • Matt Kemp • 601 • #41
36 • Madison Bumgarner • 598 • #30 ◄P►
37 • Edwin Encarnacion • 595 • #42
38 • Adrian Beltre • 594 • #51
39 • Corey Dickerson • 592 • #75
40 • Brian Dozier • 591 • #34

41 • Ben Revere • 590 • #27
42 • Buster Posey • 587 • #54
43 • Jose Reyes • 584 • #40
44 • StephenStrasburg • 580 • #47 ◄P►
45 • Yasiel Puig • 575 • #50
46 • Denard Span • 573 • #44
47 • Yoenis Cespedes • 569 • #52
48 • Starling Marte • 567 • #39
49 • Alexei Ramirez • 565 • #46
50 • Jayson Werth • 565 • #58

51 • Josh Harrison • 562 • #48
52 • David Ortiz • 562 • #55
53 • Kyle Seager • 561 • #56
54 • Zack Greinke • 561 • #43 ◄P►
55 • Freddie Freeman • 558 • #73
56 • Billy Hamilton • 557 • #24
57 • Julio Teheran • 552 • #60 ◄P►
58 • Melky Cabrera • 550 • #72
59 • Chris Sale • 550 • #22 ◄P►
60 • JD Martinez • 549 • #113

61 • Howie Kendrick • 539 • #80
62 • Matt Holliday • 536 • #77
63 • Jordan Zimmermann • 533 • #49 ◄P►
64 • Christian Yelich • 533 • #66
65 • Alex Gordon • 533 • #67
66 • Lucas Duda • 533 • #69
67 • Paul Goldschmidt • 529 • #100
68 • Justin Morneau • 528 • #84
69 • Jeff Samardzija • 523 • #103 ◄P►
70 • Cole Hamels • 519 • #87 ◄P►

71 • Adam LaRoche • 519 • #82
72 • Rajai Davis • 517 • #65
73 • James Shields • 515 • #104 ◄P►
74 • Evan Longoria • 513 • #86
75 • Sonny Gray • 513 • #97 ◄P►
76 • Chris Carter • 512 • #79
77 • Phil Hughes • 510 • #85 ◄P►
78 • Marlon Byrd • 510 • #90
79 • Marcell Ozuna • 510 • #92
80 • Brett Gardner • 510 • #70

81 • Torii Hunter • 509 • #95
82 • Alcides Escobar • 502 • #78
83 • Tyson Ross • 501 • #89 ◄P►
84 • Lance Lynn • 501 • #94 ◄P►
85 • Jonathan Lucroy • 501 • #112
86 • Ryan Braun • 501 • #88
87 • Jimmy Rollins • 494 • #71
88 • Neil Walker • 492 • #102
89 • Troy Tulowitzki • 490 • #159
90 • Jered Weaver • 489 • #105 ◄P►

91 • Craig Kimbrel • 484 • #63 ◄Closer►
92 • Daniel Murphy • 483 • #114
93 • Lorenzo Cain • 483 • #81
94 • Greg Holland • 482 • #64 ◄Closer►
95 • Tanner Roark • 481 • #83 ◄P►
96 • Erick Aybar • 479 • #110
97 • Jason Heyward • 477 • #99
98 • Hanley Ramirez • 477 • #96
99 • Garrett Richards • 475 • #57 ◄P►
100 • Danny Santana • 473 • #150

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Post by Quahogs » Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:29 pm

DOUGHBOYS wrote:
Greg Ambrosius wrote:
Asumijet wrote:The one thing that sticks out to me for this year is the April 5th FAAB date. Many of us will be traveling back home from Vegas or other locations or with family on that Easter weekend. If the goal is to create a game that requires little work, except on a few weekends during the season; this particular weekend in the inaugural season seems like a rough one to select given the intent and goal of the game. Not sure if there is a work around.
I agree, but if we draft only 30 players then we know there will be holes in all of our lineups by Opening Day. So we have to get to 35 players somehow, some way. This was a compromise to have quick drafts every night and to still get expanded rosters, which we need for this type of contest that doesn't have weekly FAAB. Even those 35 players will feel thin until the next FAAB allows us to get to 40.

If there's a better compromise out there, I'm all ears.
I would just as soon play the first week naked, without FAAB.
Then, back up all dates by a week.
This event is meant to shorten time taken, yet we'll have to curtail time with families during Easter for it.
Not good.
Totally agree. The 1st week of April will be filled prepping for the last round of auctions, roto drafts etc.
The last thing you want on your plate are 10 cutline faabs to analyze. Let's make that a part of the 1st week of the season when games are under way and we're nose deep in roster analysis.

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Post by ALL-IN JD » Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:55 pm

Steve,

Joe might think you are a "company guy" if we make that change, giving you an unfair advantage!! :-)

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ALL-IN JD wrote:Steve,

Joe might think you are a "company guy" if we make that change, giving you an unfair advantage!! :-)
C'mon Dobies everyone's nice and medicated. Stop playing Nurse Ratched 8-)

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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:39 pm

We can certainly discuss the deadline for the first FAAB, but waiting through the first week for 5 more players would hurt anyone drafting early in the off-season. Since it's an optimal scoring lineup, could that first FAAB be mid-week after Opening Day? I'm just throwing out all possibilities because I know that folks getting 0's in Week 1 won't go over very well and it would be so easy to have an open hole with only 30 players.

I'm all for delaying the first FAAB, but I'd love to find a way to get to 35 players before the end of Week 1. It's worth discussing.
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Post by ALL-IN JD » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:41 pm

Greg,

What if you delayed starting the Cutline Championship to week 2?

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Post by ALL-IN JD » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:42 pm

And just push everything back one week.

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Post by Quahogs » Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:11 pm

Greg Ambrosius wrote:We can certainly discuss the deadline for the first FAAB, but waiting through the first week for 5 more players would hurt anyone drafting early in the off-season. Since it's an optimal scoring lineup, could that first FAAB be mid-week after Opening Day? I'm just throwing out all possibilities because I know that folks getting 0's in Week 1 won't go over very well and it would be so easy to have an open hole with only 30 players.

I'm all for delaying the first FAAB, but I'd love to find a way to get to 35 players before the end of Week 1. It's worth discussing.
No one wants 0's of course but it's not like we're IN the cutline tournament at that time. We're just in a league where everyone drafted the same date and time.

These are 10 team leagues. It's a totally new concept. The flow will probably be nothing like a 15 team draft. So why don't we eliminate C#2 and go with 13 offensive starters leaving the bench with 8 players as backups lessening the chance for zeros ?

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Post by KJ Duke » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:00 pm

I like 2 C's; where to draft is part of the risk/strategy.

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