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Benchwarmer News
11/18/08
- November Special -
Sign up and join BWB for the first time and your first team
is just $10. You must sign up and pay by the end of
November (new owners only).
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Benchwarmer
Bash - Quarterfinal Round Complete -
Games
5-6 Posted.
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Benchwarmer Bash Bracket
- The first of two off-season trade periods is now open.
The deadline is Monday night, November 24. Remember -
salaries will not be final until about 11/19. You can
agree on trades now if you like, but you'll have almost a week
after the salary postings if you just want to wait.
Accept trades now at your own risk.
- Trade details:
- There is no salary assumption/rebate on these trades.
You're only trading players and any cash you choose to include.
- Since you cannot cut players right now, do not worry if a
trade causes your roster to become illegal. You'll be
finalizing carry over players by mid-December, so that will
resolve any roster problems.
- The second trade deadline will be December 5.
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11/17/08
- You can continue choosing your carry over players.
The final deadline for this will be in December - probably
December 12, but for now the deadline will appear on your
roster page to be the same as the trade deadline (see below).
- Many rosters are now illegal. If you had a full
roster plus a player on IR, you're now over the limit.
After salary changes, it's possible that you have too many
players making over 250. Don't worry about this now -
picking your carry over players will fix this situation in
December.
11/12/08
-
Benchwarmer
Bash -
Round
Two Complete
- If you haven't yet done this...please visit your team roster
pages and follow the link on the page to indicate if you're
going to keep ownership of the team in 2009. For those
of you in multiple leagues - sorry, you must switch to each team
to do this - I'll try to modify it next year to allow you to get
them all in one page.
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Did You Know?
You can choose not to receive broadcast email messages from other owners
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11/11/08
- Did you win a division or a post-season tournament?
You've won yourself a free
bonus team that you can use for yourself or give away to
a friend. If you were a league champ, your current team is
free in 2009 too.
- Otherwise - if you didn't win a free team but want to buy 1
or more new teams, sign up
here. You get a $10 discount for every team beyond the
first.
11/10/08
- 2009 Positions and Preliminary Salaries Posted.
Note: The salaries are pending premium performance
adjustments, which will increase the salaries of top players
(leaders of several stat categories and major award winners can
have salary increases of up to 25-30%). The final
salary figures will be posted on approximately November 19.
- The 2009 BWB Salary Cap is slightly more than 43 million
Benchwarmer Bucks, down about 6 million from 2008. See the
team finances page to see
the actual salary distribution by league.
11/3/08
- As we start getting "No" answers on teams coming
back, we'll begin to build up
the Orphan team list for 2009.
- You can actually begin paying for 2009 if you like,
though payment is not due until April for returning teams.
If you're still in the Benchwarmer Bash - you should wait (your
team is free if you win). If you're dropping a team or
two, wait a bit on paying...the multiple team discounts were set
up assuming you'd be keeping them all.
11/2/08
10/22/08
- Playoffs - Week
2 - Championship Week Complete - Games 6
& 7 posted.
- Congratulations to the 2008 League Champions
- Beatleball: Roseville Bandidos - Andy Deeble
- Beer: Elsinore Hosers - Anthony Citarella
- Chevy Chase: St. Cloud Ice - Jerry King
- Golden Throat: Boomer Sooners - Philip Dang
- Hall of Fame: Oaxaca Revolution - Sherman Wan
- K Street: South Philly Italian Stallions - Anthony
Tarone
- Longball: Lemon Juice - Roland Dupont
- Reality Bites: Maryland Tax Collectors - Adam
Wilson
- Redbirds: Brooklyn Usual Suspects - Jerry King
- Shadowball: BALCO LABS 2 Disgruntled Postmen -
Derrick Silensky
- Three of a Kind: Hudson River 3-Eyed Fish - Tom
Twomey
10/20/08
- Player of the Year
Rankings are final. It's nearly unanimous for Berkman,
Sabathia, and Lidge. Only the Chevy Chase League finished
with Mariano Rivera #1 in the bullpen.
- There were slight adjustments in the formula earlier this
year to reduce the weight of more minor stats, but the POW and
POY is a compilation of percentile rankings in many statistical
categories.
- The POY rankings are based 50% on the full season
performance of the players, and 50% on the top 22 weeks of POW
scores for players (allowing them up to 3 bad/injured weeks).
10/15/08
- Playoffs - Week
1 Complete
10/11/08
- You can find a direct link to your league's playoffs from
your league's home page.
10/4/08
- Congratulations to owners with multiple division winners:
- 5 Teams(!) - Phil Dang
- 3 Teams - Jerry King, Don Kruse, Adam Wilson
- 2 Teams - Roland Dupont, Robert Elias, Andy Marquis, Sherman
Wan
- Current expected schedule:
- Minor League results - posted by the end of October or early
November.
9/24/08
- San Berdoo at Santa Ana in a one-game playoff for the Fletch
Division title in the Chevy Chase league.
- San Berdoo wins 5-1 and wraps up the final playoff
spot. Last year, San Berdoo beat out Santa Ana by one game
- this year it took the extra game to do that.
- Box Score
(does not appear on the schedule page).
- What happens in Benchwarmer
Baseball at the end of the season?
9/23/08
- Week Twenty-five
complete...sort of
- Game 150 Posted.
- See standings for all
leagues.
- Two division races were still undecided heading into the
last game. None of the teams involved managed to win game
150.
- Chevy Chase - Fletch F. Fletch Division - Santa Ana
tied with San Berdoo; Both teams lost and ended up in a
first-place tie.
- K Street - Seaver - Altoona led New Jersey by
1 game; Both teams lost, so Altoona held onto their lead for the
title.
9/11/08
- NEW - In Week
25 there used to be NO transactions. Starting this year,
you can cut players or move them to IR, but you cannot sign a
player.
9/7/08
- Week 24 Transactions (due Tuesday night) - this is
the final week you can pick up a player this season. Week
25 will be cuts and IR moves only.
8/30/08
- The stats for the completion of the suspended White Sox -
Orioles game are counted when the game is complete. The
suspended game was #130 for both teams and the regular game
#131. So you may see some players on the DL show up in
your box score.
8/28/08
- If you drafted a 2008 First Round Pick who did not sign a
major league contract, he's going to be removed from the BWB
player list (and your rosters) after the season.
8/26/08
- The trade deadline has passed for 2008
- Starting with week 23 lineups, we've got roster expansion.
Your taxi squad players and minor leaguers will fill in if
you've got any extra holes in your lineups. You can
optionally put the players in order now.
7/31/08
- Contract extensions are done for the year.
See the News Archive
for older headlines.
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