Pro Leagues are recommended for those people who are new to Fantasy Baseball. One Pro League will be a Father and Son League.
Makeup: A 1 year league consisting of 12 teams in 3 divisions (4 teams per division).
Fee: $170 (no hidden costs)
Prizes:
Major League Teams are recommended for people who like to build from year to year.
Makeup: A continuous league consisting of 12 teams in 3 divisions (4 teams per division) in which 10-12 of 29 players are retained for the following year.
Fee: $170 (no hidden costs)
Prizes:
Veteran Leagues are recommended for people who want more prize money and who like to start from scratch each year.
Makeup: A 1 year league consisting of 12 teams in 3 divisions (4 teams
per division).
Fee: $250 (no hidden costs)
Prizes:
Expert Leagues are recommended for people who want more prize money and who like to build year after year.
Makeup: A continuous league consisting of 12 teams in 3 divisions (4
teams per division) in which 10-12 of 29 players are retained for
the following year.
Fee: $250 (no hidden costs)
Prizes:
Champion Leagues are for people who are very serious about Fantasy Baseball and want serious prize money.
Makeup: A 1 year league consisting of 12 teams in 3 divisions (4 teams
per division).
Fee: $370 (no hidden costs)
Prizes:
The Super Tournament consists of all the league winners and determines who is the champion of champions.
Makeup: A 2-week playoff after the league championship in which the total of
those 2 weeks determines who wins.
Prizes:
Hitting or Pitching Average
Total Average
Each team plays 22 games against teams in their division and 12 games against teams outside their division for a total of 162 games played.
The regular season is 18 weeks long. The playoffs and Super Tournament are the following 6 weeks. There are no games or transactions during the All-Star Week.
Each team has a roster size of 29.
Post Trade Deadline, rosters will expand by two (2) players.
In the continuous leagues, the 4 playoff teams keep 10, the 4 middle records keep 11, and the bottom 4 records keep 12.
The pick order for the redraft will be based on team records through week 12. This will prevent teams from trying to "tank" to get a better pick position. If a team makes the playoffs they will automatically pick between 9-12. The redraft is done by a daily pickup for 19 days during March of the following year.
Losing on purpose or "Tanking" will not be permitted under ANY circumstances.
Negligence is not tanking. If someone is not paying attention and doesn't make lineup changes, it is not considered tanking.
If someone is caught blatantly tanking, they will be penalized and will not be able to change their lineup for the rest of the season.
It is up to the members of each league to monitor and alert the Commissioner of anyone trying to lose on purpose.
The Draft will consist of 29 rounds in which each team picks once per round.
The team that picks first in the 1st round, picks first in the 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc., and picks last in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, etc.
The draft order is determined by random envelope selection.
The Draft is conducted via call-in conference number. It takes roughly two hours. Online drafting is coming in the 2020 season.
NOTE: There is no cost for the phone draft.
Each player is only eligible at a single position at the beginning of the season.
Positions are determined for the present season by where a player is projected to play, NOT where that player played the previous season.
If a hitter plays 5 games at an additional position, then he is also eligible to play that position the following week.
If a pitcher has 3 or more starts, then he is eligible as a starting pitcher. If a pitcher has 3 or more relief appearances, then he is eligible as a reliever.
The Hitting points are scored as follows:
The Pitching points are scored as follows:
Every week your hitting starting line-up includes:
There are 4 lineup formations that can be used in your pitching lineup:
For each of the starting hitters, 7 games count or if more than 7 games played, then the average multiplied by 7 rounded down.
If the starter does not play 7 games, the backup player fills in as follows:
If the backup player plays more games than games needed by the starter, then you divide the total points of the backup player by the number of games played and insert the average for each game needed.
For example, Ronald Acuna, Juan Soto, and Mookie Betts are your outfielders. Acuna and Soto played in 6 games and Betts played in 5 games. The 3 outfielders totaled 17 games out of the 21 needed. Your backup OF, Mitch Haniger, played in 6 games and scored a total of 16 points. (An average of 2.66 per game). Since Mitch Haniger played more games than games needed, Haniger scores (21 games - 17 games = 4 games needed) x 2.66 = 10.64, rounded down to 10 backup points.
The same rule applied for your backup catcher, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, and DH backup.
The Backup only counts if the starter plays less than the 7 games needed.
Your total score for the week is compared to the total score for the 3 teams you played. Those you outscored by 50, you sweep 3-0. Those that outscored you by 50, swept you 3-0. If those situations do not apply, then the higher scoring team wins the series 2-1.
The winner in the case of a tie will be the team with the highest scoring contributing player.
If the highest scoring players are also tied, the winner is the team with the second highest scoring contributing player. If the two teams are still tied, then the winner is the team with the third highest, etc.
The first week of the season, each team plays two 4-game series and one 1-game series. The same rules apply as before, but when there is a tie in the 4-game series, then the series is split 2-2.
By the first game on Monday, your full weekly line-up must be left on the Mr. Sports web site.
Trades are due by Friday Midnight Eastern Time on the web site.
Round 1 of Transactions are due by Thursday Midnight Eastern Time on the web site.
Round 2 of Transactions are due by Saturday Midnight Eastern Time on the web site.
The Injured List allows you to carry up to three injured players without losing a roster spot. When a MLB team puts a player on the IL, you are eligible to put that player on your IL the next day. When the player comes off theIL in MLB, you have 7 days from that day to take that player off your IL.
If the player is not removed by the 8th day since coming off the IL, the player will be waived. NO EXCEPTIONS! If you cannot pay attention to when a player is coming off the IL and you don't want to lose that player, then don't put that player on your IL.
A IL move can be made at any time. When you take him off the IL, you can either waive someone outright or put someone else that is eligible for the IL in his place.
Once two teams agree on the trade then each person must submit the trade to the Mr. Sports web site. If the trade is not identical it does not go through.
There is no trading limit. No cash or "player to be named later" trades will be allowed.
There is a 20-30 person Trade Committee that will vote on every trade submitted. Trades with more positive votes then negative votes will go through. The Commissioner has the power to overturn the Trade Committee's decisions if The Commissioner feels there is collusion.
You MUST waive a player if your roster is going to exceed the 29 player limit.
You are not allowed to trade players that you just received that week.
The Trade Deadline is the Wednesday during Week 14.
You can pick up ONLY two players per week.
For each round of pickups, if two teams want the same player, the team with the worst record gets him, with a tie breaker going to the team with the lowest average.
If a player is waived to complete a trade or waived in round 1 transactions, he is available to be picked up the same week. If a player is waived for a transaction for round 2, he is not available to be picked up until the following week.
Transactions can be made through the League Finals.
For the playoffs, a transaction period will be available during the second week of the 1st and 2nd round for ALL teams in continuous leagues and playoff teams ONLY in one year leagues.
After 18 weeks of play, the top team in each division and the top team that did not win the divisions advances to the playoffs.
If two teams have the same win total, the tie-breaker is scoring average, then head-to-head record, then pitching average.
Teams will be seeded according to record. Best record No. 1 seed and will play the playoff team with the worst record as the No. 4 seed. The other two playoff teams will play one another as the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds. This occurs during weeks 20-21.
The team with the better record, higher seed, and higher scoring average gets 1 point per difference in total scoring average before the playoff round starts.
A wild card team cannot have homefield over a divisional winner, even if they have the better record and average.
If two teams are tied after the two weeks the winner is the team with the highest contributing player over the 2 weeks. If still tied, then second highest, etc.
If the team with the higher seed has the worst average, there is no advantage for either team in the Finals.
The two winning teams play during weeks 22 and 23 of the season with the highest scorer declared champion of the league and advances to the Super Tournament.
The same tie breaking rules apply to the Finals as in the semi-finals.
For every additional team that you purchase, you get $10 off the previous team, up to a maximum of $30 off per team.
There is a $20 credit given to the team with the highest score overall each week.
The Commissioner has the right to remove any owner from the service if he feels the owner is a disruptive force to the integrity of the league; i.e. tanking, bad behaviour, etc.
There will be no refunds of any kind.
Mr. Sports will withhold an $170 deposit for current Major League teams and a $250 deposit for current Expert League teams from winnings accumulated during the Football Season. Any winnings earned will be used first to fill the deposits. The deposit is non-refundable should the owner drop the aforementioned team or teams. These are keeper leagues, thus, you are expected to stay for the continuity and sustainability of the league. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Any customer who has not FULLY paid for all of his/her baseball teams will not have access to his/her teams.
To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, an owner must accumulate 150 points over his or her career.
The Hall of Fame Scoring is as follows:
For being ranked in the Top 20 in Hitting, the Top 20 in Pitching, or for placing in the Super Tournament is scored as follows:
For being ranking in the Top 20 in Total is scored as follows: