243 Spots Left: Win $20,000 In The 2025 NFBC Post-Season Contest

[Greg Ambrosius]

The NFBC Post-Season Hold 'em Contest returns for a seventh straight season after selling out the last six seasons. For the third straight year, we'll have a $20,000 grand prize and total prize money close to $50,000.

Prizes will be based this year on 400 teams after selling out with 425 teams in 2024. We'll pay out the Top 20 finishers this year, so let's sell this one out again and maybe go beyond our goals.

Cost of entry is $150 per team and you can have multiple teams. The one change for this contest that we added in 2019 and will use again this year is that we will lock lineups starting with the Divisional Round Series, NOT BEFORE the Wild Card games. MLB first expanded the playoffs in 2023 to six teams per league and that will be the case again this year. The Wild Card Round will again be three game series starting on Tuesday, September 30th, but we are NOT setting our lineups until the Wild Card series are done. This gives us a few more days for signups after the regular season concludes and still leaves us with four teams from each league to pick our Round 1 lineups.

All four Divisional Round series will start on Saturday, October 4th and Registration will close that day before the first pitch of the first game. The Post-Season Contest will consist of three rounds of play: Divisional Round series, AL and NL Championship Round series and the World Series.

The Divisional Round series will all start on Saturday, October 4th and NFBC prize money will already be on your Player Accounts. Players will lock at their scheduled start times of their first Divisional Round games that weekend, so plan accordingly.

This will also allow players who won money during the NFBC season to use prize money to sign up for Post-Season Contest teams. We will get prize money on your accounts before the start of the Divisional Round games, so feel free to use that money if you'd like. If you know you are going to win prize money and want to secure teams before that prize money is allocated, just contact me, Tom or Geoff and we'll take care of those signups for you and then take the money off your Player Account once it is there.

Okay, now onto the format, in case you missed it.

This is a Hold 'em Contest which rewards owners for each additional round those players are on your team. You are limited to the number of players per team you can have on your team per round, but the points double for players who advance from Round 1 to Round 2 and then triple if they are still on your roster for the World Series. Picking the right players in Round 1 from the right teams is the key to winning this contest.

Here's the contest rules link and the Registration link:

https://nfc.shgn.com/rules/2354
https://nfc.shgn.com/signup/baseball?for=0;2354

Owners will select 16 players for Round 1 from the pool of available players from the eight remaining MLB playoff teams. There is no draft for this contest, nor any salary cap. You pick who you want and build your roster that way.

The starting lineup/positions will consist of 10 hitters and 6 pitchers, with the same positions and position eligibility of standard NFBC leagues, except for one less catcher. All 16 players on a roster for a round are considered "active." There are no bench positions.

1 Catcher
1 First Baseman
1 Second Baseman
1 Shortstop
1 Third Baseman
4 Outfielders
1 Utility Player
6 Pitchers

This is a points-based scoring system. Players can accumulate points in the following ways:

Hitters
Single - 1 point
Double - 2 points
Triple - 3 points
Home Run - 4 points
OUT (AB - H) minus .25 point
RBI - 1 point
Run - 1 point
Walk - 1 point
Stolen Base - 1 point
HBP - 1 point

Pitchers
Win - 4 points
Save - 4 points
Earned Run - minus 1 point
Strikeout - 1 point
IP - 1 point (1/2 = .3334, 2/3 = .6667)

After Round 1, owners can replace any player on their roster that was eliminated from the playoffs with another player. However, that new addition starts at 1x their points. All remaining players get double their points in Round 2 and triple their points in Round 3. Rosters can also be updated with new players before Round 3, but again those new additions start at 1x.

There are limits to how many players you can have per team per round of the MLB playoffs. They are:

Round 1: Divisional Games
Minimum of one player from each of the eight remaining teams
Maximum of three players from one team

Round 2: League Championship Series
Minimum of two players from each team
Maximum of six players from one team

Round 3: World Series
Maximum of 10 players from each team and minimum of 6 players from each team

Here's the prize pool:

NFBC Post-Season Contest:
1 - $20,000
2 - $5,000
3 - $4,000
4 - $3,500
5 - $3,000
6 - $2,500
7 - $2,000
8 - $1,500
9 - $1,200
10 - $1,000
11 - $750
12 - $600
13 - $500
14 - $400
15 - $350
16 - $300
17 - $250
18 - $200
19 - $150
20 - $100

We look forward to another great NFBC Post-Season Contest and paying out new winners just before the launch of the 2026 NFBC season. It's great to be drafting baseball year-round. Good luck and enjoy the NFBC Post-Season Hold 'em Contest.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Just a reminder that the 2025 NFBC Post-Season Contest is live and we'll take signups through Saturday morning, October 4th. Registration closes at the First Pitch of the first Divisional Series game that Saturday morning.

Prizes are based on 400 teams and we've sold this contest out each of the last six years. Secure your teams while you can and then set your Round 1 lineups after the Wild Card games are completed. Enjoy everyone and good luck.

Here's the current signup list:

2025 NFBC Post-Season Hold 'Em Contest
Contest Starts On Saturday, October 4th:
1. Jose Parapar
2. Terrence Deschner
3. Terrence Deschner
4. Terrence Deschner
5. Dennis Massa
6. Thomas Ruelas
7. Thomas Ruelas
8. Jeffrey Johnson
9. Thomas Greenwald
10. Thomas Greenwald
11. Steven Metzler
12. Steven Metzler
13. Steven Metzler
14. John Russo
15. Daniel Epstein
16. Ray Pelleane
17. @Bru1212
18. Jeremy Sand
19. Jeremy Sand
20. Andy Robinson
21. Andy Robinson
22. Robert Perkovich
23. James Ariglio
24. Alan Murphy
25. Jeffrey Keilholz
26. Kurt j Emmert
27. @Drunkdingo
28. Craig Salzer
29. Ted Cohan
30. Ted Cohan
31. Rian Lange
32. Rian Lange
33. Alex Grigoriou
34. Paul Obrien
35. Richard Loppnow
36. Charlie Schramm
37. Thomas White
38. William Vittone
39. William Vittone
40. Stuart Sava
41. Stuart Sava
42. Stuart Sava
43. @RobG11
44. Pat Charley
45. Gregory Brown
46. Robert Davis
47. Jeff Jurney
48. Ross Berg
49. Ross Berg
50. Ross Berg
51. Brennan Logue
52. Bradley Banning
53. Scott Feschuk
54. Scott Feschuk
55. Jeffrey Cook
56. Jeffrey Moore
57. Ross Cleveland iii
58. Ross Cleveland iii
59. Douglas Keilholz
60. Richard Zito
61. David Jordan
62. Kellen Arneson
63. Fred Studier
64. Fred Studier
65. Fred Studier
66. John Roberts
67. Dennis Gahry
68. Joe Green
69. Joe Green
70. John Fousek
71. John Fousek
72. John Fousek
73. Michael Wylly
74. Michael Wylly
75. Thomas Ruelas
76. Patrick Schaeffer
77. Patrick Schaeffer
78. Darren Parrott
79. John Riccio
80. John Riccio
81. John Riccio
82. Harley Ratner
83. James Macdonald
84. Lucas Biery
85. Zachary Borgman
86. Matthew Thornton
87. David Antunez
88. Scott Jenstad
89. Patrick Gagne
90. Nick Walstrom
91. Michael Wilkins
92. Craig Dean
93. Michael Alexander
94. Brian Leigh
95. Randy Lukas
96. Randy Lukas
97. Scott Keikoan
98. David Einhorn
99. Martin Koch
100. Martin Koch
101. Jim Dehollander
102. Donald Daisley
103. Michael O'brien
104. Michael O'brien
105. Derek Dowdell
106. Robert Beckman
107. Robert Beckman
108. Daniel Ostas
109. Daniel Ostas
110. @RunHotSports
111. Isaac Cockburn
112. Joseph Logue
113. Kenneth Gavron
114. Alfred Theroux
115. Robert Perkovich
116. Bob Harris
117. Alfred Theroux
118. Robert Perkovich
119. Bob Harris
120. Dean Little
121. Dean Little
122. Dean Little
123. Kyle Estes
124. Kyle Estes
125. Daniel Dasilva
126. Daniel Dasilva
127. Ken Clark
128. Ken Clark
129. Ken Clark
130. Todd Zola
131. Tyler Bowen
132. Ron Kraus
133. Christopher Cosley
134. Christopher Cosley
135. Christopher Cosley
136. Don Merrill
137. Dean Little
138. Dean Little
139. Dean Little
140. Dan Iverson
141. Dan Iverson
142. David Clum
143. Michael Regan
144. Michael Regan
145. Michael Regan
146. Michael Christie
147. Russell Withers
148. Russell Withers
149. Russell Withers
150. Zachary Carson
151. Zachary Carson
152. Matt Hurley
153. Gary Lehnhart
154. @lightbike2
155. Kyle Baldwin
156. @timharan
157. @Straface23

[Wolfpac]

n round one can you start Ohtani at P, and then move him to UT in subsequent rounds while still obtaining the multiple round multiplier?

[Greg Ambrosius]

n round one can you start Ohtani at P, and then move him to UT in subsequent rounds while still obtaining the multiple round multiplier?

Yes. He just needs to remain on your roster in consecutive rounds.