Larry Schechter Wins 2021 NFBC Diamond & $75,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

Larry Schechter of Boca Raton, Florida won the 2021 NFBC Diamond League and the $75,000 prize, but it didn't come without a late fight. Larry held off Doug Gruber by one point for the title, finishing with 112.5 points as Doug narrowed the gap during the final week. NFBC Hall of Famer KC Cha finished in third place and Leonard Ringle finished fourth as we pay the Top 4 finishers in this private league, which has a $10,000 buy-in.

This was another tight private league with the lead changing hands throughout the season. Congrats to all of the money winners.

Here's the final standings:

2021 NFBC Diamond League Final Standings:
1 Lawrence Schechter Winning Fantasy Baseball 112.5
2 Douglas Gruber Dougs Dawgs 111.5
3 kc cha deadmoney3 102.5
4 Leonard Ringle Diamonds & Rust 96.5
5 John Thompson Thompson 93
6 JimJ Ferrari Ferrari 87
7 Brian Slack Slow Rollers 83

Here's the prizes payout for the Diamond League:
League Prizes
1 $75,000
2 $35,000
3 $20,000
4 $10,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

Larry drafted from the 11th spot in this NFBC Diamond League. Here was his draft results:

Winning Fantasy Baseball
Yelich, Christian 1 11 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Scherzer, Max 2 20 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Realmuto, J.T. 3 41 C Winning Fantasy Baseball
Hader, Josh 4 50 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Iglesias, Raisel 5 71 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Perez, Salvador 6 80 C Winning Fantasy Baseball
Martinez, J.D. 7 101 UT Winning Fantasy Baseball
Wheeler, Zack 8 110 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Pham, Tommy 9 131 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Gregorius, Didi 10 140 SS Winning Fantasy Baseball
Hoskins, Rhys 11 161 1B Winning Fantasy Baseball
Santander, Anthony 12 170 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Gonzales, Marco 13 191 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Benintendi, Andrew 14 200 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Walker, Christian 15 221 CI Winning Fantasy Baseball
Pineda, Michael 16 230 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Polanco, Jorge 17 251 MI Winning Fantasy Baseball
Castillo, Diego 18 260 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Happ, J.A. 19 281 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Kiner-Falefa, Isiah 20 290 3B Winning Fantasy Baseball
Bradley Jr., Jackie 21 311 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Schoop, Jonathan 22 320 2B Winning Fantasy Baseball
Smith, Caleb 23 341 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Franco, Maikel 24 350 3B Winning Fantasy Baseball
Dunning, Dane 25 371 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Adames, Willy 26 380 SS Winning Fantasy Baseball
Calhoun, Kole 27 401 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Keller, Mitch 28 410 P Winning Fantasy Baseball
Piscotty, Stephen 29 431 OF Winning Fantasy Baseball
Duffy, Danny 30 440 P Winning Fantasy Baseball

[Greg Ambrosius]

Now in our 11th season of the NFBC Diamond League, Larry Schechter joins this select group of past winners:

2010 - Jim Stanard
2011 - Jim Ferrari
2012 - Donn Johnson
2013 - Jim Ferrari
2013 - Bob Particelli (League 2)
2014 - Bob Particelli
2015 - John Lemke
2016 - Joe Berg
2017 - Bill Phipps & Eric Kesselman
2018 - KC Cha
2019 - KC Cha
2021 - Larry Schechter