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9 Spots Left: NFBC XII StandAlone League 1

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:17 pm

The Rotowire Online Championship finished with a record 2,148 teams or 179 leagues this year. That was slightly short of plan, but it was still a great year for our 12-team national contest and we look forward to awarding one of our great owners the $125,000 grand prize.

With the new Opening Day still several weeks away -- and yes, we are being very optimistic around here that Major League Baseball can still return in 2020 -- we decided to offer a different 12-team contest between now and Opening Day. We didn't want to offer a second national contest because we honestly have no idea when Opening Day will be. It could be early June, early July or even later.

So with no known timeline in place, we decided to instead offer private 12-team leagues with great returns to the Top 2 teams. Unlike 12-team satellite leagues, which pay the Top 3 finishers, we've gone with a higher price point here and 7x payout to first place. We are calling this new contest the NFBC XII StandAlone Leagues. Here's the contest link to the Rules:

https://nfc.shgn.com/rules/656

Basically these have the same rules as the Rotowire Online Championship without an overall contest. Here it is:

12-Team Leagues
30-Round Drafts
Weekly FAAB
5x5 Roto Scoring
$350 Entry Fee
Pay Top 2
$2,500 To 1st Place, $1,000 To 2nd Place (83.33%)
2-Hour and 4-Hour Drafts

We are going to debut with 2-Hour and 4-Hour drafts and we'll add nightly drafts as we get closer to Opening Day. If there's a request for any specific date and time to add an NFBC XII StandAlone League, we'll gladly do that. But at this price point and with Opening Day well away, we thought we'd start out with just the 2-Hour and 4-Hour formats.

We realize that additional FAAB leagues probably aren't in demand right now, but turning $350 into $2,500 does have some appeal and we wanted to offer a 12-team contest before Opening Day. Enjoy the "slow draft" format for now and hopefully soon enough we'll have some fun with the nightly drafts. Thanks and good luck.

Here's the current signup list:

NFBC XII StandAlone League
2-Hour League, Starts 30 Minutes After It Fills
Pays Top 2 Teams, $1,200 to 1st Place
1. Matthew Levine
2. Edwin Turnage
3. Donald Warner
Greg Ambrosius
Founder, National Fantasy Baseball Championship
General Manager, Consumer Fantasy Games at SportsHub Technologies
Twitter - @GregAmbrosius

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