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Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball FAQ
- The game sounds great but is it time consuming to play?
- Even with all the options you have as an owner, it takes no more of your time to play Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball than
any other fantasy game. You can choose to turn in a new lineup or let your team ride for as long as you like. And even if you
do regularly make changes, it only takes a few minutes.
- How many players can I have on my roster or at each position?
- You start with a 35 man roster (after completing the initial draft before the season), and it will grow during
the season as you take part in supplemental drafts or make unbalanced
trades. But you may not list more than 30 players on a weekly lineup card.
Any players not listed on a lineup card WILL stay on your team's roster (as part of your farm team or "taxi" squad),
and will automatically be used before any (AAA) players are called up.
Just like in the major leagues, you make the decisions as to how many players you want at each position. So it's up to
you whether you want to make sure you have plenty of pitchers for the long haul or keep a couple of extra position
players. We do offer a roster balancing feature during the draft that will help insure
you get a good mix of players, but you aren't required to use this feature if you don't want to.
- What is the tiebreaker process?
- If 2 or more teams are tied at the end of the season, but the tie
only matters for playoff seeding, then we'll use head to head records to
break the tie, and will go to overall run differential if necessary. If two or
more teams are tied and a playoff berth is at stake then a 7 game playoff
will be played to break the tie. That tiebreaking series will use the same
rules as our normal playoff series, and will be played at the same time as
the normal playoffs (essentially adding an extra playoff round to see who
makes the 'real' playoffs.)
If there are 3 teams tied for one playoff berth the team with the
best head to head record among the three teams will get a bye while the
other two teams play a best of 7 series, and then the winner of that series
will play another best of 7 series against the team that had the bye. If
three teams are tied for two playoff berths the #1 seed according to head
to head records among those three teams gets one of the berths, and the
other two teams play a 7 game series to determine who gets the second
playoff spot. NOTE: The first thing the program does is figure the
division winners. So, if three teams are tied, with two of them tied for a
division crown, while the third is from a different division but tied with
those two teams for the wild card, first the program figures who wins the
division (by playing a 7 game series if the one who does not win the
division is not guaranteed a wild card spot.) Then, after figuring out who
wins the division, the program would play a series between the non-
division winner and the team from the other division that is tied for the
wild card.
- How do the playoffs work in Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball?
- Playoffs are a best of 7 series, using the whole season's stats,
with September performances weighted more heavily. 12 team
leagues are split into 3 divisions. At the end of the regular season the
3 division winners, along with one wild card, make the playoffs. Of the
4 playoff teams, the division winner with the best record plays the team
with the worst record. 10 team leagues are split into two
5 team divisions. At the end of the regular season the 2 division winners,
along with one wild card, make the playoffs. The division winner with the
best record will get a bye in the first round of the playoffs, with the
other division winner playing the wild-card team.
Most 4 division leagues simply have the 4 division winners going to
the post-season. In those leagues, if you played a balanced schedule
(playing every team the same number of times), then in the first round the
division winner with the best record plays the division winner with the
worst record, with the 2 other division winners meeting in the other series.
If you are in a 4 division league that played an unbalanced schedule
(where odd numbered teams played more games against other odd
numbered teams, and even numbered teams played more games against
other even numbered teams), then winners from the 'odd-numbered team'
divisions meet each other in round 1, and the 2 winners from the 'even
numbered team' divisions meet in the other round 1 series.
For 'private' leagues with more than 4 teams in the playoffs, our
default seedings for matchups is simply based on won lost records among
the playoff teams, though whenever a division winner faces a wild card
team the division winner does get home field in games 1, 2, 6 and 7. But
*for determining matchups, our default is* that the team with the best
record gets to play the team with the worst record, even if that worst
record team is a division winner (unless you have given us specific
instructions otherwise.) Also, our default program is that matchups ARE
re-seeded after round 1, so if an upset happens in round 1 the remaining
playoff team with the best record gets to play the remaining playoff team
with the worst record.
If you are in a league with a different set-up then described
above, please check your league's web page. Right above the season
schedule on that page is a line saying how many wild cards are slated
to make your league's playoffs.
- When is the trading deadline?
- The Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball trading deadline is before the first
MLB game starts on Labor Day each year. That is also the
deadline for turning in lineups to be used for the games
of that week and also for 'playoff only'
lineups. If you
make a trade, please do report it to us by the deadline so that we can
put it thru! And like always, please only make trades that are
designed to help your team, not a friend's!
- How are Free Agent pick ups handled?
- There are five in-season (supplemental) drafts of two rounds each.
There will be a two round draft in April (rounds 36 and 37), two rounds in
May (rounds 38-39), two rounds in late June (after the June MLB draft) which
will be rounds 40-41, two rounds in late July (42-43) and two rounds in
late August (rounds 44-45).
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