Fantasy Baseball Sunday Pick'em.
This was started by Mike Muschiano of the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Below is a detailed outline of the logistics. Essentially, 10 bloggers will select a pitcher and hitter every week based on their expectations for how they will perform on Sunday. Here are the rules and order/picks for Week 1:
Rules:
Player Selection:
Rotating Order on a Weekly Basis
No one player can be selected twice
No player in the Yahoo! Big Board can be selected.
Scoring system:
Hitters-
1 point for every base (i.e. single=1 point, double=2 point, etc)
1 point for a run
1point for an RBI
1 point for a SB
Pitchers-
3 points for W
5 points for CG
3 points for SV
1 point for 2IP
-1 point for ER
1 point for K
Here is who get selected and the order they were selected in (both pitcher and hitter are selected at the same time):
Brett Greenfield, Greener on the Other Side- Jair Jurrjens and Adrian Gonzalez
Robert Reed, Baseball Geeks- Ervin Santana and Casey Kotchman
Eric Stashin, Rotoprofessor- Gavin Floyd and Hunter Pence
Jason Collette, Rotojunkie- Andy Sonnanstine and Evan Longoria
Zach Piso, MLB Front Office- Chris Young and Ian Kinsler
Commish, Fantasy Baseball Geeks- Scott Olsen and Derek Jeter
Adam Ronis, Newsday- Oliver Perez and Matt Kemp
Grey, Razzball- Rich Harden and Rick Ankiel
Mike Muschiano, Poughkeepsie Journal- Fausto Carmona and Bobby Abreu
Andrew Martish- Tim Wakefield and Mike Jacobs
**Note: We used the Big Board dated May 5th- Funston updated his Big Board late yesterday after selections were in.**
There are the selections for the first week of the Sunday Pick'em. Check back tomorrow tonight for the results and standings.