2006 NFBC: Dates and Locations

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:05 pm

An Arizona spring training pkg would be nice for us West Coast guys, too. I would gladly skip Vegas once a year - not sure how many of the Vegas drafters are from CA - but I would think many of them would be happy to do 1 Vegas draft a yr (NFFC) and 1 Arizona draft.

SlackerDan · Post by **SlackerDan** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:11 am

Tampa .. easy place to get around and tons of hotels 20 - 30 minutes away. Greg, Hotels are normally plenty in the Clearwater, Palm Harbor area and they are only 20 - 30 minutes away from Tampa. Folks could also stay on Clearwater Beach...SlackerDan ( 2nd place in LV9 ). Glad Sweet Lou is fired, next year the manager will not SIT Scott Kazmir on the last day of the season...when I needed him the most!

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:56 am

Originally posted by KJ Duke:

An Arizona spring training pkg would be nice for us West Coast guys, too. I would gladly skip Vegas once a year - not sure how many of the Vegas drafters are from CA - but I would think many of them would be happy to do 1 Vegas draft a yr (NFFC) and 1 Arizona draft. Arizona is one of the states that have a strong stance against games of skill (i.e. fantasy baseball). We don't even take participants from Arizona, so hosting the event there is tough right now. But I agree with you....other than that one small point.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:57 am

Originally posted by SlackerDan:

Tampa .. easy place to get around and tons of hotels 20 - 30 minutes away. Greg, Hotels are normally plenty in the Clearwater, Palm Harbor area and they are only 20 - 30 minutes away from Tampa. Folks could also stay on Clearwater Beach...SlackerDan ( 2nd place in LV9 ). Glad Sweet Lou is fired, next year the manager will not SIT Scott Kazmir on the last day of the season...when I needed him the most! I have a hotel reserved for Tampa March 17-19 that has adequate meeting room space, but hotel rooms are tough to come by that week because of a huge convention. If someone can show me available rooms, I could expand to Tampa. But right now that week is tough in Tampa.

Latham · Post by **Latham** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:56 am

Greg,

Spring time in Tampa sounds good to me as well as anyone else wanting to get away from winter! I looked briefly for hotels in Tampa for March 16-19 and found plenty. You would also get some people that would stay in the surrounding area's close to their favorite teams spring training facility or with family in the area. I looked on expedia.com, orbitz.com and travel axe and found some hotels are expensive, but everyone I checked had rooms. I also checked the Legends Field website (Spring home of Yankees) and found a couple of hotel links on their web sites with available rooms. Let's make this happen so we can enjoy some spring training baseball!

Randy

5 closest hotels per expedia map (all with rooms)

Hyatt Regency Downtown $260/night

Wyndham Harbor $269/night

Springhill Suites $179/night

Tahitian Inn $99/night

Tampa Hilton Airport Westshore $209/night

Legends Field website suggestions

Holiday Inn Express $142/night

Best Western Westshore Hotel $99/night

Wyndham

Latham · Post by **Latham** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:58 am

Greg,

Spring time in Tampa sounds good to me as well as anyone else wanting to get away from winter! I looked briefly for hotels in Tampa for March 16-19 and found plenty. You would also get some people that would stay in the surrounding area's close to their favorite teams spring training facility or with family in the area. I looked on expedia.com, orbitz.com and travel axe and found some hotels are expensive, but everyone I checked had rooms. I also checked the Legends Field website (Spring home of Yankees) and found a couple of hotel links on their web sites with available rooms. Let's make this happen so we can enjoy some spring training baseball!

Randy

5 closest hotels per expedia map (all with rooms)

Hyatt Regency Downtown $260/night

Wyndham Harbor $269/night

Springhill Suites $179/night

Tahitian Inn $99/night

Tampa Hilton Airport Westshore $209/night

Legends Field website suggestions

Holiday Inn Express $142/night

Best Western Westshore Hotel $99/night

Chest Rockwell · Post by **Chest Rockwell** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:23 am

Greg,

Thanks for running a great event, After our late season victory there will be a run of teams trying to name their teams after you.

Now you have worked so hard feel free to take a long lunch today, and then come back and make this Tampa thing happen. Mons Venus Greg... Mons Venus I say.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:34 am

Originally posted by Latham:

Greg,

Spring time in Tampa sounds good to me as well as anyone else wanting to get away from winter! I looked briefly for hotels in Tampa for March 16-19 and found plenty. You would also get some people that would stay in the surrounding area's close to their favorite teams spring training facility or with family in the area. I looked on expedia.com, orbitz.com and travel axe and found some hotels are expensive, but everyone I checked had rooms. I also checked the Legends Field website (Spring home of Yankees) and found a couple of hotel links on their web sites with available rooms. Let's make this happen so we can enjoy some spring training baseball!

Randy

5 closest hotels per expedia map (all with rooms)

Hyatt Regency Downtown $260/night

Wyndham Harbor $269/night

Springhill Suites $179/night

Tahitian Inn $99/night

Tampa Hilton Airport Westshore $209/night

Legends Field website suggestions

Holiday Inn Express $142/night

Best Western Westshore Hotel $99/night We have space at the Tampa Hyatt Downtown. Rooms are $259-$269. Now I need to figure out if that makes sense to host it there and see if the interest is out there to fill 3-4 leagues and some auction leagues.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:24 am

Originally posted by :

Greg,

It would be great for me to come to Tampa for the big event. I'm one hour away and would drive.

Don Mathis Okay, let me see if I can get this done. I'm working on it and may have a plan in place soon.

KJ Duke · Post by **KJ Duke** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:36 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

quote:Originally posted by KJ Duke:

An Arizona spring training pkg would be nice for us West Coast guys, too. I would gladly skip Vegas once a year - not sure how many of the Vegas drafters are from CA - but I would think many of them would be happy to do 1 Vegas draft a yr (NFFC) and 1 Arizona draft. Arizona is one of the states that have a strong stance against games of skill (i.e. fantasy baseball). We don't even take participants from Arizona, so hosting the event there is tough right now. But I agree with you....other than that one small point. [/QUOTE]Minor point Too bad.

Liquidhippo · Post by **Liquidhippo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:35 am

What's the 'time schedule' for the Auctions? Not that I need to know a specific time per se, but if the Auction Leagues are staggered, I can join multiple auctions, best case scenario, one in the morning, one in the evening, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, yeah, 6 auctions, that should be enough.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:17 am

Originally posted by Liquidhippo:

What's the 'time schedule' for the Auctions? Not that I need to know a specific time per se, but if the Auction Leagues are staggered, I can join multiple auctions, best case scenario, one in the morning, one in the evening, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, yeah, 6 auctions, that should be enough.

Right now Greg I have set up the NL Auction Leagues for the morning in Las Vegas and the AL Auction Leagues and the Mixed Auction Leagues for Friday afternoon/evening. If you click on each city site on the home page, you can find the whole schedule of events. I have not decided on a Friday schedule yet for Tampa, if I expand there. I did receive your e-mail yesterday and will respond that way.

Anyway, I may have an announcement on Tampa soon. Hang tight. But if you definitely want the $1,250 Mixed Auction League, I'd come to Vegas. That one will definitely fill and it will be held Friday afternoon at the same time of the $650 Mixed Auction League.