Thursday's 2 MLB Games Is A Free Look For ALL NFBC Leagues

[Greg Ambrosius]

Thursday's 2 MLB games are now FREE LOOKS for everyone competing in the NFBC this season. The first scoring period for EVERY NFBC league runs Thursday through Sunday and players won't lock until their first games on Friday.

For the four teams involved on Thursday -- New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers -- they will lock on Friday before the first scheduled game at 4 pm ET. Everyone can change their starting lineups before then and either get the stats from Thursday's games or bench those players from Thursday's games.

We originally said that owners of NFBC Draft Champions leagues would have to lock in their starting lineups before Thursday's game, but that became too confusing of a message to send out and it just was too inconsistent from a programming standpoint. It's best to just go with one consistent plan and that is to allow everyone a free look on Thursday and lock in your starting lineup on Friday.

Hope this helps and we hope the message is less confusing. Good luck everyone and enjoy.

As a result of this ruling, we'll add a Thursday night $150 Draft Champions Express League and even some Satellite Leagues and Best Ball Leagues. Opening Day isn't until 4 pm ET on Friday, so stay tuned and maybe some Friday noon ET drafts will arrive. We'll see. Thanks and good luck.

[Money]

Just curious as to why you have only a couple of leagues drafting after these games begin. In Football it was understandable because of the lag between Thursday and Sunday. This seems odd to me. Anyhow, congratulations on filling the main event. We are all looking forward to seeing some baseball!

[Greg Ambrosius]

Just curious as to why you have only a couple of leagues drafting after these games begin. In Football it was understandable because of the lag between Thursday and Sunday. This seems odd to me. Anyhow, congratulations on filling the main event. We are all looking forward to seeing some baseball!

I think the better question Joe is why is MLB scheduling two games on Thursday and then not another game until Friday at 4 pm ET? As you may know, MLB first announced that Opening Day would be Friday, July 24th, then trickled out word that two marquee games would be on Thursday and for more than 10 days didn't name a time or who was playing until the MLBPA approved of it. We weren't waiting around for them and losing all of Thursday night of drafts because we didn't know if they were starting at 1 pm ET, 7 pm ET, 10 pm ET or whenever.

So we made it a free look and moved along without knowing what MLB's plans were. Every drafting day was important when we were left with 23-24 drafting days, so not losing one due to MLB's stupidity seemed like the right call from here in Iola, Wisconsin. Hope that helps.

And shame on MLB for not using all of Friday for round-the-clock TV coverage of games. I mean, how stupid is that when no other sports league is on TV that day? They could have games continuously from 1 pm ET to midnight and instead went with one game at 4 pm ET, another one at 6:10 and then the rest that night like they are more concerned with TV ratings for their local Sports Networks (many of which are owned by owners) than displaying the beautiful game of baseball round-the-clock on Opening Day. So stupid.