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Here's the 2nd half of the leaderboard which includes your picks for the remainder of the postseason, your picks of the World Series MVP (bonus contest), your current score to date, and the two tiebreakers (if necessary). Some picks have a strikethrough line because they got eliminated in their Wild Card Series. I've highlighted some contestant names in yellow. None of their remaining picks were eliminated in their Wild Card Series, so these contestants have a chance at picking up the maximum remaining 95 points. However, it really doesn't mean all that much because a nonhighlighted contestant, such as musiccollector75, could still end up being the grand prize winner. Also, please check the leaderboard to make sure I didn't make an error.

World Series MVP picks highlighted in gray means that player's team has been eliminated before reaching the World Series. A couple of other interesting tidbits:

• 14 of our 30 contestants predict the Dodgers to win the World Series
• 5 contestants predict the Padres to win the World Series
• 3 contestants predict the Rays to win the World Series
• 3 contestants predict the Braves to win the World Series
• 1 contestant predicts the Yankees to win the World Series
• 1 contestant predicts the Astros to win the World Series

I have a hunch the MLB commish would love to see the Dodgers and Yankees in the World Series to maximize TV ratings and the $ it would bring in. A Rays vs. Padres World Series could be interesting since neither of these teams have ever won a World Series. And I'm pretty sure a lot of us would like to see the Yankees and Astros meet in the ALCS to see if the Yankees can get a bit of revenge against the Astros. Are there other intriguing matchups you'd like to see?

The Braves, Astros and Dodgers all advanced to the League Championship Series in their respective leagues. Meanwhile, the Yankees took Game 4 of their series with the Rays to tie up that series at 2-2. So the #2 seed Braves will go up against the #1 seed Dodgers in the best-of-7 NLCS beginning Monday Oct. 12. The #6 seed Astros will be watching Friday's Yankees vs. Rays game to see who they will face in the ALCS which begins on Sunday Oct. 11.

vrooomed finally got an incorrect pick but still leads the pack. Here's the updated leaderboard:

Its looking like Jmiller4 is going to win this thing.  Are you awarding cards for only 1st?  Or do 2nd and 3rd get a little  something too?

Bellinger keeps it up, he's going to be a no doubter MVP!  :)  

Only the Grand Prize Winner (the contestant with the most points) and Bonus Contest Winners will get a prize (as posted in the original post).

The Tampa Bay Rays won Game 5 over the Yankees to advance to the American League Championship Series. The #1 seed Rays will now face the #6 seed Astros beginning on Sunday.

With the Rays winning, vrooomed still remains in the contest lead but is in danger of losing his lead. Here's the updated leaderboard:

More World Series MVP picks have been highlighted in gray to signify that they have been eliminated from consideration for World Series MVP.

Ok, the overall winner wins cards.  I get that.  If you guessed the bonus stuff, you also win.  But, what if nobody picks the MVP?

Good question. I should have addressed that possibility when I first posted this contest. Anyways, if nobody picks the World Series MVP, then no cards will be awarded in the Bonus Contest. In this case, any potential cards that would have been awarded in the Bonus Contest will simply roll over to the next contest I decide to run in the future (unless I can trade them away for cards in my want lists, lol).

So as I mentioned in the first post, there will be thirty cards going to the Grand Prize Winner (not counting the sealed packs of cards shown in the first post). As of this post I've only shown 18 of them. Here are six more cards that are going to the Grand Prize Winner:

1992 Jimmy Dean #3 Brian Jordan

1992 Post Cereal #20 Ken Griffey Jr.

1993 Hostess #30 Larry Walker

2019 Topps Big League #BO-1 Mike Trout

2019 Topps Heritage #AW-2 Christian Yelich

1998 Weber's Bread Los Angeles Galaxy #4 Robin Fraser (set is not yet found on TCDb but some set info can be found here)

...and now we are down to two! The Tampa Bay Ray and the Los Angeles Dodgers both won a tough seven-game championship series and go on to meet in the 2020 World Series. This battle between the #1 seeds begins Tuesday.

Our Postseason Bracket contest has a new points leader. jmiller4 has taken over the lead with imonaboat in position to pounce on the lead if his World Series prediction is correct. Here's the updated Bracket Challenge leaderboard:

In the bonus contest, a few more names have been grayed out/eliminated. But there are still a good number of bonus contestants who may yet end up with a bundle of cards.

I said it weeks ago that Jmiller4 was going to win this.