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September 2022 - Lineup Lockdown Contest Details

Introducing the Lineup Lockdown - the first of many new game formats built on top of the CSFBL engine. We're debuting this with a contest - winner gets $100 as a thank you for helping us try out this new format.

  • Pick your team.
  • Set it up for the season.
  • Sit back and watch them play like crazy. (24 games per day!!!)
  • Beat all your friends at the same time.

Easy peasy, right? Read on....

Lineup Lockdown Rules & Regs

Every user of CSFBL from 1/1/2022 - 9/14/2022 is eligible to submit one entry for this contest - thank you for playing. We will expand the eligibility in the future, but this one is for our current folks.

This is a roster game - you pick the best team you can from a pool of players shared with everyone else. This is not a draft - everyone has the same access to every player, so some players are going to exist on multiple teams in the contest and even in your league.

  • You will choose you team of 25 players from a pool of 100, player details and entry form found here at Lineup Lockdown entry form (a spreadsheet version of the player data to work with, it can be found HERE)
  • The player pool is divided into 8 rounds, with increasing numbers of picks as you go.
    • Rds 1-2: 2 picks
    • Rds 3-6: 3 picks
    • Rd 7: 4 picks
    • Rd 8: 5 picks
  • You have to pick 11 pitchers and 14 position players

That's it for roster regulations. You've got lots of space to make the team that you want - if you want to draft eight catchers, or go all-in on speedsters that's up to you, but penalties for playing out of position will apply, so choose wisely.

Deadline

  • Entries must be submitted by 11:59PMEDT on Sunday 9/25/22 the- that link again - https://lineuplockdown.csfbl.com/
  • Entries much be submitted with the email address you have registered with CSFBL, to confirm eligible users. You will receive a confirmation email to that address when we receive your submission.
  • You can submit an updated roster if you want to change your mind after your first submission - only the last received submission will be used as your official entry.

League setup

  • After we have received all entries, you will be randomly assigned to a league, and your team will be built based off your submission.
  • You will receive an email letting you know that your team has been added to your franchise.
  • In the likely event that the number of entries doesn’t result in totally full leagues (isn’t divisible by 24), we will balance the number of entries across leagues and fill in empty spots with ‘house teams’ chosen by Zubaz, Hardy, Clone, Brian, or randomized entries…. as needed. (They aren’t eligible to win the contest, but they still want to beat you.)

Team Management

  • This is a 'set it and forget' contest, hence the 'lockdown' part of the namename. All management decisions (lineups, pitching rotations, stadium settings, manager settings, depth charts) must be made in the preseason. We should be able to get all teams distributed a day or two after the entry deadline - we'llyou'll then have a three-day preseason after all teams have been dispenseddispensed, when you can make those management choices.
  • When the preseason ends, the admins will take back control of all the teams to ensure that no changes can be made during the season.

Season Format

  • There will beare two rounds to the contest.rounds.
  • Teams will play a full 160 game season, your won/loss record from those games determines whether you move to the Final Table.season. (Playoff games do not count towards this)
  • All the leagues will be ranked together, and the top 24 users from the first round will move to the Final'Final Table.Table'. Ranking determined by the following:
    • Won/Loss record
    • If tied, highest run differential (Runs Scored - Runs Allowed)
    • If tied, random draw
  • The Final Table will follow the same rules as the first round, but working from a new player pool.

Additional Rules and League Settings

  • This game is focused on roster makeup and your ability to plan for the specs of this game - havingyou have to plan for not being able to touch your team all season. There is no trading, no free agency, no minor leagues, no drafting - just 25 players on each team that must stay there.
  • Sim Rate: 24 games per day - the entire season will run in 7.5 days
  • Free Agent Era Sim Model
  • Scouting Off (full information)
  • All players salaries are the same (Age/Salary not going to help you)
  • Stadium Changes are allowed until the preseason deadline

We expect to learn a lot from running this for the first time, and we'll make adjustments as needed in the future. That said, there can only be one Inaugural Champ - as always, thank you for playing

FAQ

If you have any questions, you can PM citizenclone for more information.

As questions come in, we'll add them to this doc.