Online/Phone Option For Main Event In 2009

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:23 am

Just a reminder that if you're unable to travel this year for the NFBC's main event but you still want to be involved in the $100,000 grand prize, we are offering online/phone leagues this year. I've created a link for this under the EVENTS link on the home page explaining the procedure. Here's the link to that page:

http://www.fantasybaseballchampionship.com/online.asp

Here's the text in case you can't find it:

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, March 21:

1 p.m. EST: NFBC main event draft begins on MockDraftCentral.com

The NFBC will have online/phone leagues in the main event this year, allowing participants to compete for the $100,000 grand prize if they can't make it to the live event. Separate online/phone leagues will be comprised of teams drafting on MockDraftCentral.com starting at 1 p.m. EST on Saturday, March 21st.

Here's how it will work: By signing up for the Online/Phone option, you will be randomly placed into a 15-team main event league just like any other city. If there are 45 teams in the Online league, they will be randomly selected into three leagues and KDS preferences will then run for each league.

Team participants will be given an 800-number to call into for the draft and will also be given a URL for the draft site on MockDraftCentral.com. All 15 owners will be on the teleconference and all picks will be announced by team owners there. An NFBC representative will run the draft, announce the selections of each team and then make the selection on MDC.com for all to see. Team owners will be able to follow the draft on MDC.com and see all available players online, while still being able to hear all draft results through the teleconference. This will continue for 30 rounds, with 15 minute breaks after Rounds 10 and 20.

Thanks and good luck all.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:04 am

Okay, just a heads up that we have one spot left in this first league for the online/phone draft. I think we'll get a second one, but if you want to be guaranteed a spot in this league that will use MDC.com then grab this last spot. Here's the lineup card so far, and again, I hope we get a second full league for this format:

ONLINE/PHONE LEAGUES

Through MockDraftCentral.com

1. Mark Yagan, Overland Park, Kansas

2. Henry Cantrell, Raleigh, North Carolina

3. Rob Dykhoff, Eagan, Minnesota

4. Marc Meltzer, Jupiter, Florida

5. Ira Kerker, Boca Raton, Florida

6. Ryan Wendland, Waterford, Michigan

7. Tim Short, Blacklick, Ohio

8. Jeff Dobies, Farmingville, New York

9. Ron Kraus, Medfield, Massachusetts

10. Michael Lins, Hillsborough, New Jersey

11. Michael McCaffrey, Manchester, New Hampshire

12. Wayne Barber, Palm Springs, California

13. Jules McLean, Los Angeles, California

14. Donn Johnson, Atlanta, Georgia

Chest Rockwell · Post by **Chest Rockwell** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:28 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

Okay, just a heads up that we have one spot left in this first league for the online/phone draft. I think we'll get a second one, but if you want to be guaranteed a spot in this league that will use MDC.com then grab this last spot. Here's the lineup card so far, and again, I hope we get a second full league for this format:

ONLINE/PHONE LEAGUES

Through MockDraftCentral.com

1. Mark Yagan, Overland Park, Kansas

2. Henry Cantrell, Raleigh, North Carolina

3. Rob Dykhoff, Eagan, Minnesota

4. Marc Meltzer, Jupiter, Florida

5. Ira Kerker, Boca Raton, Florida

6. Ryan Wendland, Waterford, Michigan

7. Tim Short, Blacklick, Ohio

8. Jeff Dobies, Farmingville, New York

9. Ron Kraus, Medfield, Massachusetts

10. Michael Lins, Hillsborough, New Jersey

11. Michael McCaffrey, Manchester, New Hampshire

12. Wayne Barber, Palm Springs, California

13. Jules McLean, Los Angeles, California

14. Donn Johnson, Atlanta, Georgia Jules, Dak, Dobies, and others that is a brutal draw. Sign up and get it to 30 to spread that out a bit.