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Benchwarmer News
8/26/08
- Week Twenty-two Transactions
posted. Week 23 deadline is
Monday night -
midnight Pacific.
- The trade deadline has passed for 2008
- Starting with week 23 lineups, we've got roster expansion.
Your taxi squad players and minor leaguers will fill in if
you've got any extra holes in your lineups. You can
optionally put the players in order now.
8/24/08
- 2008 Football
Pools
- Week Twenty-one begins
- Games 121-123 Posted.
- Some teams are getting close to clinching divisions already.
- Who are we waiting on? These MLB teams have played the
fewest games (through 8/23):
- 128 Games - Bal, Cle, CWS, LAA, TB
- 129 Games - Many teams
- Subtract 5 from the MLB Game number to determine how many
BWB games can be scored.
8/23/08
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7/31/08
- Contract extensions are done for the year.
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Did You Know?
Bert Blyleven should be in the Hall of Fame
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7/25/08
- BWB All Star Teams are posted - you'll find a link on your
league's home page. Bonuses for all star players -
including MLB all stars - were included during the Week 17
update.
7/10/08
- There are no salary rebates for cut players for the rest of
the season.
6/27/08
- All teams received an extra million Benchwarmer Bucks this
week. You'll get one more distribution at the end of July.
6/12/08
- First Round draft picks (top 30 picks) are now in the player
list.
5/31/08
- All teams received an extra 1 Million Benchwarmer Bucks
during the Week 9 transactions (the last transaction period in
May). There will be similar cash distributions during the
final transactions of both June and July.
- Note an important
clarification in the rules for salary rebates regarding players
on multiyear contracts. The existing language was kind
of murky on whether a team getting a contracted player had to
pay any portion of the current year's salary (or maybe even
inferred that there was always zero cost).
- Later this week, we'll add an indicator on roster and trade
pages to players with multiyear contracts who were paid for in
full for 2008 and thus will earn a salary rebate or cause a team
picking them up in a trade to pay the prorated portion of 2008.
5/5/08
5/3/08
- Week 5 was another payment deadline. If you haven't yet paid
for your teams, you cannot change your lineup, in addition
to being blocked from transactions.
See the
deadlines for details. If you don't pay by
Week 10, BWB will take over ownership of your team and look to
replace you.
4/27/08
- In order to cut down on potential oversights and eventual
manual intervention during transactions/lineup processing, there
are 2 changes:
- On the page where you choose players to cut or put on IR,
you must select the type of transaction immediately (you can
still change it later).
- In order to use the "Cut" or "Inj" slot for a week's lineup,
you must actually first submit the transaction to release the
player or put him on IR.
4/20/08
- Don't forget - the first step of a transaction to choose the
player you want to sign or drop does not complete the
transaction. You must set the transaction round and
specific type of sign/drop.
4/13/08
- If you're new to BWB, you may want to hold off on contract
extensions and watch how they work a little bit.
- You do not need to get a multiyear contract with a player to
carry him over into 2009.
- What you are doing is paying lower dollar amounts now on the
bet that the player's salary will be significantly larger next
year.
- If you are signing a contract for more than one year, keep
in mind you must pay for each season. The amounts shown on
the extension form are what it will take to sign that player for
each individual year - not the total contract amount to wrap him
up for that long.
- A multiyear contract on a player who will not see the majors
this year - or only a brief call up - is a definite waste of
money (at least for the 2009 season).
4/2/08
- Season schedule is
posted. You'll find a link to the full schedule and this
week's games on your league's home page.
- Three of a Kind League - Draft
Central
- Phase Two (Part Two) Results Posted
- Rosters updated in the next hour.
- This is the end of the draft phase. Teams short of
players will need to use the Week Zero transactions to complete
their teams (use alternate picks!).
4/1/08
- Redbirds League - Draft
Central
- Phase Two (Part 3) Results posted.
- Rosters updated - teams can now participate in Week Zero
transactions (due Friday night).
3/22/08
- Reminder for returning leagues - your cash balances need to
be 5 million or lower after the next transactions are processed.
3/19/08
-
Benchwarmer Bash - We have a champion - the Gashouse
Gorillas from Reality Bites. Congratulations!
Gashouse wins 2 free seasons and London, as the runner up, gets
one free year.
See the News Archive
for older headlines.
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