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Benchwarmer News
5/20/12
- Week 6 Continues
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Games 33-34 posted.
- Who are we waiting on? These MLB teams have
played the fewest games (through 5/19):
- 39 games - Cin, Col, KC
- 40 games - Many teams
- We subtract 5 from the MLB game # to
determine which BWB game can be scored.
- Next update expected on Tuesday.
5/17/12
- NEW!!!:
Transaction error-checking now includes potential errors you
might run into with roster sizes and limits and running out of
cash. It does not yet include any roster/cash changes as a
result of trades or contract extensions, but should be a help
for many of you. It may not be perfect - so let me know if
you find any situations where it doesn't seem to calculate
correctly.
- Week Six
Transactions - Results posted. Week Seven
lineup/transaction deadline is Tuesday night, May 22
at midnight Pacific.
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5/16/12
5/10/12
- NOTE THE DAY SHIFT: Transactions for Weeks
6-10 are due on Tuesdays.
- Beginning today, lineup changes are blocked for unpaid teams
along with transactions. You have until Week 10 to pay or
else you will lose your team. Payment
Summary
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5/7/12
- Have you been hanging on to guys on IR but don't really
intend to keep them for 2013? Or waiting to see if some guys
start performing in 2012? Week 5 marks the last
where you get 80% of salary rebated. After Wednesday's
submission, rebates start decreasing 4% each week.
5/1/12
4/23/12
- Payment was due on Week 1 deadline - April 11
- BWB delayed implementing restrictions, but if you're not
paid by Week 3 deadline (April 25) - this means
confirmed...including checks received - you will be locked
out from adds/drops/trades (you'll be OK for this week -
restrictions will start with Week 4 submissions). You'll be locked from
lineup changes if not received by Week 5.
4/20/12
- Should have reminded you before transactions this week, but
we run 2 weeks behind in applying standings to transactions.
Once we complete Week 1, those week-ending standings will
determine the Week 3 transaction order. And the revenue
for games won and division position for Week 1 get applied
during the Week 3 transactions.
4/15/12
- Working on some web code to help you out with
roster/cash limitations when you try to sign and trade
players, but that's a complicated mess, so it will come
eventually...in the meantime, make sure you're checking your
rosters - and the limits posted beneath your rosters - as
you submit transactions or you may miss out on some players
you need.
4/7/12
- 2012 Schedule Posted
- Due
TONIGHT - at Midnight
EASTERN - Extended to 8AM EDT on Sunday morning - Week Zero Transactions - check the
schedule page for
more details as well as the
rules for "inactive owners" (if your roster does not reach
minimum levels by the end of this week, you've been inactive
this pre-season). Things to consider:
- You must have a legal roster after this week's
transactions.
- Salary rebate for cut players goes up to 80%.
- Cash balances for returning leagues (not newly drafted
ones) must be at or below 5000 after this week's
transactions (including salary rebates...so be careful if
you're cutting guys or trading them away this week).
Balances above 5000 will be reduced to that level.
- All teams will then get 2000 in Opening Day cash...in a
little loophole in the calculation, you can actually count
on that 2000 to use for transactions this week if you're
short on cash.
- No new players added yet - see the note below from March
22.
- Transaction order will be reset to the reverse of 2011
standings (or team total salary for new leagues) for the
Week One transactions (due April 11).
- You don't have to have a lineup set until April 11, but
it doesn't hurt to start setting it now.
- This is a 2009 posting, so ignore the dates and the
specific names of new leagues, but here is some
additional discussion about Week Zero in the Benchwarmer Blog
4/5/12
- Firemen League Draft
Central - Startup Draft - Phase Two
Complete. League will start now with free agent
transactions with the Week Zero submission (Saturday 4/7).
4/4/12
- Superman League Draft
Central - Startup Draft - Phase Two
Complete. League will start now with free agent
transactions with the Week Zero submission (Saturday 4/7).
4/2/12
- Week -1
Transactions - Results posted. Week Zero
deadline is Saturday night, April 7 at midnight
Eastern.
- They Might be Giants
Draft Central - Startup Draft - Phase Two
Complete. League will start now with free agent
transactions with the Week Zero submission (Saturday 4/7).
3/22/12
- Some notes about new players...
- After the addition of guys on 40-man rosters in
December/January,
the
next time we add players is when they appear in a
regular season MLB game.
- Players are added to the list only at the time we
process weekly transactions, so that all teams have an
equal opportunity and at least 4-5 days to see that
players have been added.
- Our Week Zero
deadline is Sat April 7 and Week One (when BWB
Opening Day lineups are due) is Wed. April 11.
Expect that the Week Zero transactions will get posted
on Sunday April 8.
- Any players who appear in MLB games for the first
time on or before April 7 will get added to the player
list in time for the Week One transactions. If
they do not appear by that time, then they'll likely be
available for the Week Two submission (due 4/18).
- So...if Yu Darvish pitches for Texas in either of
their first 2 games, look for him between 4/8-4/11 to
add him to your roster...otherwise it won't be until
Week 2.
- Any players who appear for the first time in the
Japan games between Oakland and Seattle (Yoenis Cespedes
anyone?) will not be available until the Week One
transactions.
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Week 1 & 2 transaction order is in reverse order of
2011 standings - the same as was the case for the
Redistribution Draft (new leagues are in reverse order
of total team salary after Week Zero). Starting
with Week 3 we look at 2012 win-loss records to set the
order.
3/19/12
- Superman League Draft
Central - Resolution of contested picks complete...Phase
One is done - players are now on your rosters and each
team received an extra 10 million in cash - we now move on to
Phase 2, with your first set of picks (10 rounds) due
THURSDAY night 3/22 at midnight Pacific.
- Welcome to Benchwarmer Baseball - It's a different
form of fantasy baseball as we play individual head-to-head
games simulated from daily MLB stats - this isn't a Rotisserie
game.
- This is fantasy baseball 365 days a year. Teams
are now making adjustments to their rosters for the 2012
season.
- Check out the Benchwarmer Baseball
Tour for an introduction.
- Our new
16-team leagues are full for 2012.
- But, would you like to attempt to turn around a struggling team?,
these orphan teams
are available...pick up an existing team and rebuild it, rather
than start from scratch.
- Want to sign up for an orphan team in 2012?
If you're new to BWB, you can
sign up here. Existing BWB owners can pick up
brand new extra teams.
3/16/12
- This link is always found on the Help Page: As you're putting
together your 2012 roster, particularly if you're new to BWB
you might want to check out the
sample scoring
page that allows you to play around with a batting order
and see how it can affect your offensive score for a game.
3/14/12
3/8/12
- Multi-Team Tools.
Now has a method to attempt to sign a player as a free agent for
every team you own.
3/6/12
- Federal League
Draft Central - Startup Draft Complete
- Weekly picks/drops/trades now begin with Week
-4: Deadline Saturday 3/10
- For new leagues there is a 2-week reprieve in salary
rebates - you can cut players by 3/17 and receive a 100%
salary rebate rather than the standard preseason 50%
- Did you take over an Orphan Team for 2012? Some of
the details and links in these articles need to be updated,
but here's a series of postings from the Benchwarmer Blog to
fill you in on some of the things you need to know - it's
called
Orphan School
3/2/12
- The offseason
transaction order for weekly signings is run a little
differently. We do it as a kind of ongoing "waiver" wire.
As you pick a player, you go to the bottom of your league's
order. Because it's set manually, it will generally be
updated 1-3 days after the transactions post.
2/29/12
- Contract extensions for 2013 and beyond are now open.
Annual strong advice is don't use them now unless you have
to...returning teams can take a maximum of 5000 cash into
the season as of Week Zero. Otherwise, it's best to
wait until closer to the July deadline for extensions.
2/23/12
- Weekly Free Agency/Trades: Preseason
deadlines are on Saturday nights at midnight Pacific.
Results will generally be posted on Sunday or Monday. See 2012 Transaction
Deadlines
- Payment now due - If you're brand new,
you must pay before you join a league. If you joined
BWB in 2011 or earlier, you must pay by Week 1 (April 11) or
you will face transaction/lineup restrictions.
2/21/12
2/20/12
- Redistribution Draft - The draft is complete and
players are now on your rosters - however, we're still
redesigning how the results are posted, so there are no draft
details yet. In the meantime,
check out
some stats about the draft submission.
- Weekly transactions are now open: Sign free
agents, cut players, make trades.
2/15/12
2/14/12
- Redistribution Draft - The deadline for picking was
Saturday night. It takes a while to go through everything,
so we're targeting Monday, Feb. 20 for the completion of
posting the results. That will make Friday, Feb. 24
the first option for submitting cuts, free agent pickups,
and trades.
1/31/12
1/29/12
- Multi-Team Tools.
Do you run teams in multiple leagues? There's a
new page with a set of tools and
functions with you in mind. Look for more to be added
soon, but off the top there's a page that will show a rundown of
all the players on all of your teams plus a method to add a
player to the Redistribution Draft list for every one of your
teams.
1/20/12
1/19/12
1/18/12
- Returning Leagues - Player cuts...getting
close - one more night. Look for cuts to be posted
Thursday night. The schedule for submitting Redistribution
Draft choices will be adjusted accordingly. Look for at
least 2 full weeks.
1/8/12
- One more delay -With some late-assigned
orphans, and me still needing to work on rosters for the
remaining orphan teams, the deadline for carryover choices is
pushed back to Friday, Jan 13 (midnight
Pacific).
1/2/12
- New Players - 116 new players added to the
master player list based on the MLB 40-man rosters. No
more additions until after the season begins.
See the News Archive
for older headlines.
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