Evening all !
Spring is almost here, so baseball can’t be far away… time for our regular bestball baseball contest?
Previous league winners
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2021 - @Rick_Spangle
2022 - Me !
2023 - @JordanA24
2024 - Me again !
2025 - @Rick_Spangle again !
Draft will be on the evening of Monday 23rd March. Guessing it will be at about 7 pm UK time but we can flex that, within reason, if that causes a problem.
Entry fee is £30, payable to allhailzippy@gmail.com - we normally have enough players to have three prizes, but I’ll confirm that once we know numbers
League link: Fantrax - The Home of Fantasy Sports
2026 SIGN UP LIST
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- Jon Cartwright - Montgomery Biscuits
- Sam Devereux - Savannah Bananas
- Andy Duenner - Spokane Indians
- Javier Aparicio - Portland Mavericks
- Malcy - Great Lakes Loons
- Andy ‘Rick Spangle’ Smith - Albuquerque Isotopes
- Iain ‘Mozza’ Morris - El Paso Chihuahuas
- Juan Gainzarain Zapateria - Reno Aces
- Jordan Allaway - Sugar Land Space Cowboys
- Gary Johnson - Louisville Bats
Right then, 10 players signed up for 2026 - the prizes are:
1st - £180
2nd - £90
3rd - £30
Draft order is:
- Louisville - Gaz
- Portland - Javier
- Spokane- Andy D
- Reno - Juan Gainza
- Great Lakes - Malcy
- Sugar Land - Jordan
- Albuquerque - Andy S
- Montgomery - me
- El Paso - Mozza
- Savannah - Sam
Best of luck everyone, see you in the draft room on Monday
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Hope you all enjoyed the draft ! Just a few hours till the season opener, so here are a few quick draft stats:
- The Shape of the Squads
In-field
Nobody went crazy and picked only 1 player at a position (it HAS happened in previous years!). Typically we all got 2 or 3 of each position - Spokane’s 4 Short Stops was the only exception - and I suspect Andy had dropped out of the draft room by the end so there may have been an autodraft in there
Outfield
Mostly 7 each, nobody went outside 6-to-8
Pitchers
8,9,10 was a standard pitching line-up. Gaz and Andy S went heavy with 12 - but Malcy blew that out of the water with 14 pitchers (he went short on all other positions to make up for that!
- The Value of the Squads
Rather than just ‘how many players did we pick’ at each position - how much draft capital did we spend?
I have assigned 300 points to the 1.01 draft pick, then 299, 298… all the way down to 1 point for the last pick. This is how our draft now looks:
The two that leap straight out are:
Malcy spending a ton on pitchers - not only did he pick the most, but he also used 5 of his first 9 picks, meaning he was way clear of me and Sam, and even further clear of the rest
Gaz grabbing Short Stops with picks 3 and 4 and 5 ! So his spend of 801 points at the position was comfortably the most anyone spent on a single infield position (nobody else put even 600 into one position)
…the counterpoint to that was that he didn’t look at catchers until round 27, so he also got the lowest spend at a single position!
- Popular teams
Fifteen players selected from the big hitting and big spending Yankees. No huge surprise. Likewise reigning champs the LA Dodgers with 14.
Also on 14, the Kansas City Royals. A belief that last year’s upwards trend will continue? Or more likely, Sam being a massive homer and picking 6 of them for his squad!!
At the wrong end, it was very hard to give away any Nationals players - only 5 taken in total, and even three of those were late (only James Wood and CJ Abrams in the first 15 rounds of the draft)
