I read a Fangraphs article about a 15-team, 30-player mock draft put together by legendary fantasy baseball expert Tim Mcleod. Coincidentally, we were privileged that Tim joined us live by Zoom from Canada for one of our 2022 pre-TGFBI mock drafts. Anyway, in the Fangraphs piece, the format had a huge twist in that youContinue reading “MLB MEGA DRAFT 2022”
Category Archives: Fantasy Baseball Leagues
January Best Ball 2022
With the slow draft starting on 30 January 2022, this was a very-early-preseason event for us all, and the first attempt at “Best Ball” for many of the participants. The Format 16-team league with points structured to closely replicate roto, so you had to balance power and speed of the hitters, and maximise high-strikeout, low-ratioContinue reading “January Best Ball 2022”
UK Invitional 2022
One word sums up the 2022 campaign “oof”. With co-manager, Tom Pringle out of the picture for the whole season, it was left up to me. That was a mistake. We knew that 2021 was a rebuilding year but an offseason rule change to the keepers did us no favours with several in-season pickups (ShaneContinue reading “UK Invitional 2022”
Oxford Wildcats 2022
This is a long-term 13-team roto league with four keepers. The rules only allow players to be kept for three years and only if you drafted them outside of the first five rounds. Despite a couple of decent finishes, I have never won this league. The daily roster movement format does not suit my erraticContinue reading “Oxford Wildcats 2022”
Bat Flips & Nerds: ROTO 600
We received a request from Baseball Brit to create a league. I wanted it to be called the “Beat Baseball Brit” league but Joey was way too bashful, so we made it a straightforward roto league. As one of the last leagues to be created, it needed to be low maintenance, so we conducted aContinue reading “Bat Flips & Nerds: ROTO 600”
Béisbol Internacional
FORMAT Best Ball (Draft & Hold) on Fantrax. 15-team league with 40-man rosters. Players are only eligible in their primary position (no multi-eligibility). SCORING The top-scoring players at C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, 5 x OF, 6 x SP & 6 x RP count towards the team’s weekly score. ROSTER 40-man roster. PositionalContinue reading “Béisbol Internacional”
Webb-Albers Championship 2022
Holy Moly what a strange league. In recognition of Matt Albers and Ryan Webb’s record-breaking streaks of games finished without a save, this is a 16-team “Draft and Hold” format with a unique points-scoring system. Games finished 10 points Saves -20 points Complete games -20 points You draft five pitchers at the start of theContinue reading “Webb-Albers Championship 2022”
Bat Flips & Nerds Eliminator
The well-known British institution that is Bat Flips & Nerds markets itself with the tagline of “Baseball with a British Twist”, and as such, this league had a twist. FORMAT In 2021, the format was a 16-team draft & hold (40-man roster). The “twist” was that, unlike most deep draft & hold leagues with slowContinue reading “Bat Flips & Nerds Eliminator”
Deep League Roto 