Are you looking for a way to make some serious cash with your fantasy baseball knowledge? Do you think your baseball acumen stacks up well against the field of folks that play the game? Is it possible that you follow Ray Flowers work, respect what he does, but you would love the chance to compete against him and show him what a real man would do in fantasy baseball? If so, now is your chance as we are announcing a partnership between the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC) and Fantasy Guru with the Beat Ray Flowers League. At the Las Vegas Park MGM, in Las Vegas, Ray Flowers will compete against 14 of you in the NFBC Main Event, live and in person, on March 23rd, 2019 at 10 AM PST. Interested in joining the fun of a live draft against The Oracle? We thought you might be.
Yes, to be clear. Ray Flowers will be drafting his team from a ballroom at the Las Vegas Park MGM on March 23rd, 2019 at 10 AM PST. Join the fun and compete in a 15-team mixed league with some of the sharpest minds in the game… and Ray.
NFBC MAIN EVENT – THE RULES
The Main Event will 15-team mixed leagues.
The NFBC regular season will extend from the first game of the MLB regular season through the final game of the regular season (including one or more season-ending MLB tie-breaker games if needed). Teams will compete for accumulative stats in five offensive and five pitching categories, with each category weighted equally. Here are the categories.
Hitters: AVG, HR, RBI, RUNS, SB
Pitchers: WINS, ERA, WHIP, STRIKEOUTS, SAVES
As an obvious shorthand, the league is a 15-team mixed league that uses 5×5 scoring. Here is the actual roster construction, and it’s right in-line with the industry standard.
HITTERS (14): 2C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, CI, 5 OF, UT
PITCHERS (9): Any combination of starters and relievers you desire.
BENCH (7): Anything you want can be kept on your bench. There is no DL.
There is a 1,000 innings pitched minimum requirement for all Main Event leagues, but no minimum requirement for the number of starting pitchers or relief pitchers on each roster. Should any team not reach the required limit of 1,000 innings pitched by the end of the season, the rankings will be altered to show that team getting 1 point in both ERA and WHIP. No other teams will switch positions in the standings, but the team that didn’t reach the minimum IP will automatically earn one point in ERA and WHIP.
Players need to have appeared at 20 games at a position in 2018 to qualify there in 2019. The requirement is 10 games at a new position in-season to pick up a new qualification.
The weekly deadline for setting your NFBC starting lineup is on Monday’s with the following exceptions:
(1) Week 1, the deadline is before each game on Thursday, March 28th.
(2) Week 16, (All Star break week), the deadline is before each players’ first game on Thursday, July 11, or Friday, July 12.
In the NFBC, you don’t have to lock in your entire starting lineup on Mondays if you have players who don’t play their first game of the week until Tuesday. You are allowed to lock in your starters on Monday five minutes before their scheduled games that day and also 5 minutes before their games on Tuesdays if that is their first game of the week. NFBC team owners are also allowed to switch out any hitter (or hitters) from their starting lineup and replace him with a hitter from their reserve roster on Fridays. Pitchers will not be allowed to be moved out of your starting lineup at any time during the season; what is set on Monday remains for the remainder of the week for all pitchers.
There is no trading in the NFBC.
Here is the link to join the Beat Ray Flowers League: NFBC LEAGUE.
LEAGUE COSTS AND THE PRIZES
It costs you $1,700 to sign up to play in the NFBC Main Event against Ray Flowers.
You can turn that money into a whole lot more.
If you win the league you get $7,000.
If you finish second you get $3,400.
If you finish third you get $1,700.
However, you aren’t just playing the Beat Ray Flowers League… you’re also playing against the field. This means you can win this league, as well as having a shot to win the $150,000 Grand Prize if you beat all the teams in the Main Event. That’s right, you can win the league prize as well as getting a shot to win the overall prize which is $150,000 (for the whole pay structure of the overall race, click on the prize link).
Pretty damn cool, right?
HOW TO SIGN UP
Here is the link to join the Beat Ray Flowers League: NFBC LEAGUE.
Here are the directions to follow when you sign in.
1 – Click on the link.
2 – Click on SIGN UP NOW.
3 – Verify that it says MAIN EVENT.
4 – For location choose LAS VEGAS PARK MGM.
5 – Make sure the date is March 23rd, 2019 at 10 AM PST.
The fellas over at the NFBC will take it from there after you complete the purchase of your spot, so don’t panic if you don’t see a Beat Ray Flowers notation show up (as long as you use the link in this article, you will be good to go).
Are you looking to cream the know it all that is Ray Flowers?
Are you interested in competing against some of the best of the best?
Are you interested in making a good chunk of change for your fantasy baseball efforts this season?
If the answer to any of those questions is yes – and frankly we know that the answer is yes to all three – then sign up, get one of the 14 available spots, head to Vegas, meet Ray Flowers, see a show, grabs some drinks, throw some dice and have some fun.
Let’s do this.
