Fantasy Is All That Matters: Mitch's of the Midway

Scoring Settings and Weekly Categories

-10 team league, 8 teams make the playoffs; $100 entry:

Standard Scoring

10 team entry standard payout
regular season winner	$200
1st place	$500
2nd place	$250
3rd place	$50

Weekly Categories and Top Scorer

-2 Weekly Random Categories; $100 entry: See weekly categories @ end of blog.
-$75 paid out weekly, $25 per category (2 per week) along with $25 for highest score of the week.
-^total paid out for 13 week regular season =$975.00
-With ten full entries that would leave us with an additional $25.00 that will be handed out to a random manager at some point in the season rewarded for 'good play' (i.e., a solid waiver wire pick up, a trade, a specific play/benching in a given week that wins you a weekly match up. Will be chosen at random by commissioner and featured on blog stating the reason they won the bonus $25.00

Home Field Advantage Bonus in the Playoffs

-Home team in each Playoff Matchup starts with +2 points, considered home field advantage. Ever try playing in Foxborough in December?

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-This will encourage regular season match ups and ensure finishing as a top seed during the year is rewarded.. along with a nice cash payout for winning the regular season. Each playoff match up home team is rewarded +2 points at start of match up, giving the disadvantage to the lesser seed - really like this rule and should be fun if the 2 points actually decides a victory!

Acquisitions and Waiver Rules

-Manager who has most recent waiver claim gets moved to the bottom of the waiver order.

-Really encouraging trades this year... Jahns has been super active in trades in our fantasy baseball league this year and it has made it a ton of fun. Trade veto requires 4 votes, max trades allowed per year is 15.

Keepers

-Proposing this idea..I hope all managers will want to agree on. Settings can certainly be changed, but would like to have this in place for next years draft.

-Most optimal settings I've done some research on regarding keeper league settings is as follows:

Typically, a player drafted in the fifth round the previous year would then count as a fourth-round pick the current season. This makes keeping players a value proposition instead of a simple choice of who the best players are on the roster. It also limits the number of players that can be kept who are drafted in the first few rounds every year. This system is a favorite for many keeper league owners because it tends to reward owners who hit big on late draft picks, and tends to allow the top players in the league to shuffle a little more season-to-season, increasing parity while rewarding those who really know their stuff.

-So if you draft a sleeper wide receiver in the 14th round this year, you can 'keep' that player in next year's draft and it will count as your 13th round pick.

-Same goes for a higher drafted keeper. If you love your running back you drafted in the 3rd round this year you can keep him next year, but will count as your 2nd round draft pick. Keep in mind you'll only be able to keep this player for one more year, as he would then count as your 1st round draft pick in 2021. You cannot keep a first round draft pick in the following year's draft.

-No waiver wire adds throughout the year can be kept the following year. Prime example of this was managers who picked up James Conner last year once the season started. We would have no way to diagnose a round order to consume that keeper. Keepers have to be drafted by the manager.