OPENING DAY!

This year, the MLB season begins earlier than ever. Opening Day is March 28, 2019, the earliest opening day in history outside of international openers. All 30 teams will play on this day.

SCORING

This year were going H2H Categories scorting format! Go head-to-head with one opponent each week, earning a win or loss for each stat category.

Scoring Categories

  • Batting: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OBP
  • Pitching: K, W, SV, ERA, WHIP
  • Fielding: DPT, E

What is H2H Each Category? H2H Each Category is the most common type of head-to-head play in fantasy baseball. It allows you to select the “X” number of statistical categories. For each scoring period, team totals are accumulated and a win, loss or tie is credited in each category based on the matchup results (i.e. 6-3-1 in a 10 category league). Learn more

There will be no divisions.

Review scoring categories

ROSTERS

  • Roster size: 30
  • Total Starters: 21
  • Total Bench: 9
  • Disabled List: 2
  • Starting Pitchers: 4
  • Pitchers GS limit 200 (about 28.6 per slot) Lineups lock daily, at the start of each individual game time.

Roster

Review roster breakouts

TRADES

To encourage trading among ourselves, Trade Review Period has been removed. You can trade with another team and see trade in affect within day.

SCHEDULE & PLAYOFFS

Fantasy “regular season” will be 22 weeks. Playoffs will make up the last 3 weeks of the MLB regular season. Top 6 teams make the playoffs, with the top 2 teams receiving a first-round bye. Seed tiebreaker will be based on head-to-head matchup results.

MLB Week Fantasy season
1-22 Regular season 1-week matchups
23 First round of playoffs
#3 vs #6
#4 vs #5
#1 & #2 (bye week)
24 Playoff semifinals
#1 seed vs lowest seeded winner of week 23
#2 vs highest seeded winner
25 (final week of MLB season) Playoff finals
winners of week 24 for 1st and 2nd place
losers play for 3rd place

playoff bracket

DRAFT

Live draft is Wednesday, March 20th at 6p. For those on the move, you can draft straight from ESPN Fantasy App. Busy during draft? Make sure to set your Auto-pick strategy from your team page.

MANAGEMENT

Let’s have what we had in 2016. No roster snafu’s. More recaps.
This league will be administrated by Yesi. Input and recap contributions from teams are encouraged and desired.

CHAT

League chat will be hosted on Telegram, where you can dish and be dished. Mostly, it’ll be a great way to share baseball news, fun facts, bloopers, and discuss group events other than email threads or side conversations. Download Telegram

Visit ESPN League Settings for full summary of settings.

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