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EDIT: The TCDB H2H Fantasy Baseball PRIZE League is currently full but I am creating a waiting list for anyone who wants to reserve a spot for next year's fantasy baseball prize league. You may also be invited to take over a team THIS YEAR if any of our team managers quit/drop out at any point of this season. Just PM me if you want to be added to the waiting list.

Let's play ball! Play fantasy baseball against fellow TCDb members in a head-to-head league and win card prizes! All TCDb members are eligible to sign up, whether you're a newbie or not.

Some details:

• To sign up, you MUST send me your email address via a private message (just click on my avatar and then click on "Message") so I'll know where to send your league invitation. You can also  include any questions you may have about the league.
• This will be a Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball league
• All team managers must agree to donate card(s) to the league prize pool. We will determine later the approximate worth of cards to be donated. I anticipate each team manager will donate one or two cards with a $20 total value but this may change. Whether we use eBay Sold prices or other guide will be determined later with input from all team managers on the league message board. Distribution of prizes will also be determined via the league message board.
• Team managers are strongly encouraged to not abandon their fantasy team during the season. Abandonment will likely result in not being invited to participate the following season.
• It's likely most of the league settings will be the same as those of the H2H leagues that vrooomed will be running, just for the sake of consistency. However, depending on how many members sign up, we may have a divisional format.
• MLB's Opening Day is tentatively set for Thursday April 1. Whichever day that Opening Day is set for, we'll hold our draft probably the weekend before.

OH. Yes. Yes. Yes. So much yes. :) I'm in. PM with e-mail on the way.

We have a good start so far with member sign-ups. And there's room for more.

We officially have six team managers so far...looking for at least four more. Send me a private message with your email addy and I'll send you a league invitation.

We're now up to eight team managers and still looking for more. I'll be proposing a preliminary plan for our prize pool and distribution of prizes soon. Ideally I'd like to have 12 managers with enough card prizes for the top three to five teams. The draft is tentatively set for Sat. Mar 27 at 5:30 pm EST (2:30 pm PDT).

In addition to the league prize pool, team managers can win BONUS PARTICIPATION PRIZES!

All Prize League Team Managers who actively manage their team for the entire fantasy baseball season (including playoffs and consolation bracket playoffs) will receive one free pack of their choice of one 1987 or 1989 Topps wax pack (miswrapped--the wrapper may be worth more than the cards, lol). We still have room for more team managers. Just send me a PM with your email address.

We now have 10 official team managers with room for more. Deadline to request a league invitation (via PM to me) is Sunday, February 28th at 11:59 pm Pacific.

If team managers are good with these, there's a good chance that we may adjust some league settings to make the league a bit more interesting:

• Team managers might be grouped into two divisions
• Reduce "Max Acquisitions per Week" from 6 to either 4 or 5
• Add one more Batting Category such as (Total Bases or On-base Percentage or something else?) and one more Pitching Category (Quality Starts or Holds or something else?)
• Increase the # of IL (Injured List ) spots on each roster from 4 to 5

Below are three possible plans I came up with for prize distribution. For argument's sake, we'll assume here that we end up with 10 teams in the league and each card contributed to the prize pool is a baseball card that has a $10 ebay sold value (like almost everything else, this can change). Think of the three plans as discussion starting points. Starting Monday (March 1), team managers will discuss and adjust prize plans in the league's Yahoo message board until we settle on one prize plan for the league.

Prize Plan 1 (Small prize pool, top 3 finishers win prizes)

Each team manager contributes one card (10 total cards in the prize pool). Prize distribution could be as follows:

1st Place wins five cards from the prize pool.

2nd Place wins three cards (to be selected after 1st Place has selected their five cards).

3rd Place wins the two remaining cards (to be selected after 2nd Place has selected their three cards).

Plan 2 (Medium prize pool, all four playoff teams win prizes)

Each team manager contributes two cards (20 total cards in the prize pool). Prize distribution could be as follows:

1st Place wins eight cards from the prize pool.

2nd Place wins six cards (to be selected after 1st Place has selected their eight cards).

3rd Place wins four cards (to be selected after 2nd Place has selected their six cards).

4th Place wins the last two remaining cards.

Plan 3 (Large prize pool, top five teams win prizes)

Each team manager contributes three cards (30 total cards in the prize pool). Prize distribution could be as follows:

1st Place wins 14 cards from the prize pool.

2nd Place wins 7 cards (to be selected after 1st Place has selected their 14 cards).

3rd Place wins 5 cards (to be selected after 2nd Place has selected their seven cards).

4th Place wins 3 cards.(to be selected after 3rd Place has selected their five cards)

5th Place wins the last remaining card.

Keep in mind, the more teams we have in the league, the more cards there will be in the prize pool. The draft is tentatively set for Saturday, Mar 27 5:30 pm Eastern (2:30pm Pacific).

Edited for typos

Bump

I'm in if you still looking for managers

I'd be fine with any of the prize options, but Plan 2 seems nicely manageable.