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1. OVERVIEW

The Fantasy Jungle is pleased to announce Fantasy Jungle’s Mid Season Baseball contest. The entry fee is a flat fee of $400.00 with absolutely no additional charges throughout the season for transactions.

All teams will compete in a draft style league with a scoring system based on points. You will compete in league play.

We will be using our unique power-scheduling system for this contest, which means each week your team will compete head to head with every other team in your league as they compile a season won/loss record for (13) weeks of the MLB season. In other words, each team will be playing 14 head to head matches every week of the regular season. The top scoring team in their league will be 14-0 for that week. The second best scoring team would be 13-1, etc.

In addition, teams will also accumulate points throughout the season based on the scoring system below. At the end of the regular season (after week 23), the League Championship Game will be determined. This will consist of the team in each league with the best overall record vs. the remaining team in that league with the highest point total. If the same team has both the best record and highest point total in their league, we will take the team with the second highest point total to play the team with the best record. The League Championship Game is a (2) week match-up that takes place over weeks 24, and 25 of the MLB season. Both teams that are competing in the League Championship Game will start the League Championship Game with their weekly point average that they have accumulated over Weeks 11-23 of the season (Mon. June 9-Sun. Sept 7). The team scoring the most points in these two weeks, plus their weekly average that they start out with, is deemed their League Champion, and the other team The Runner Up. All other teams who do not make their League Championship Game, will continue to submit lineups as they will all be playing for 3rd place, and the 3rd place prize money. The team at the end of Week 25 with the most total points for the season, will be declared the 3rd place team.

The last week, Week 26 in the MLB season, is not used in case "star" players that have clinched a playoff spot are given a couple days off by their respective teams.

Individuals will be allowed to sign up and manage up to 2 teams, however, these teams must draft on different dates to avoid being placed in the same league.

All contestants must have internet access to play in The Fantasy Jungle.
 

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2. DRAFT

All leagues will conduct their drafts online, via The Fantasy Jungle website. There will be two (2) drafts. The dates for the drafts are as follows:

Draft 1- Saturday, June 7th at 3 PM EST.

Draft 2- Sunday, June 8th at 3 PM EST.

Leagues will be comprised of 15 teams, and the draft will be conducted in serpentine fashion. Thus, the team who has the first pick in the first round will have the last pick in the second round and the first pick in the third round, and so on, and so on. The draft will consist of 27 rounds. Each team will have (60) seconds to make their selection. Each league will be assigned a draft moderator and a given a special conference line phone number to call, if in the rare instance they lose connection and cannot make a selection. The moderator will then keep you up to date with your league selections and choose the player you request until you regain connection. Every attempt will be made to reach anyone who has lost connection before we select a player for them. If we are unable to reach you and you have not provided a contact number, the draft moderator will make a selection for you based on rankings set forth by the Jungle staff.

The Fantasy Jungle will draw for both league assignments and draft position, (2) days before each draft date, at which time signups will close for that particular draft date.

We will draw for leagues and draft positions on the following days:

Draft #1- Thursday, June 5th, at approximately 3 PM EST

Draft #2- Friday, June 6th, at approximately 3 PM EST

All players that are on their team's (40) man roster at the time of the draft, are eligible to be drafted. The Fantasy Jungle will have all of these players listed and available in the draft room. If a player starts the season in the minor leagues, and is not on his respective team's (40) man roster at the time of the draft, he may not be drafted. Once the minor league player is called up to the majors, he will then be added into the free agent pool and teams may bid on him.

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3. ROSTER REQUIREMENTS

Teams must carry 27 players on their roster at all times and may never exceed that number. There is no disabled list, so if a player is injured, you are not allowed a free injury substitution. You can, however, keep this player on your bench. With 18 required starting lineup spots, each team is allowed to carry 9 players on their bench. Bench players may consist of any combination of positions. For instance, if you choose to carry 9 pitchers on your bench, you may do so.
 

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4. STARTING LINEUP REQUIREMENTS

Each week, you will submit a starting lineup. Your lineup will consist of:

1- Catcher
1- 1st Baseman
1- 2nd Baseman
1- Shortstop
1- Third Baseman
1- Corner Infielder (1B,3B)
1- Middle Infielder (2B,SS)
4- Outfielders
1- DH‘s (Any Hitting Position)
6- Pitchers (Pitchers can be either starters or relievers.)

Your starting lineup will consist of these 18 players at all times. If a team does not submit a full lineup, the lineup will still be considered valid, however, only players in the starting lineup may accumulate points.
 

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5. SCORING

The scoring system is based on points.

All offensive players will accumulate points for each of these hitting categories:

Single-1 pt.
Double-2 pts.
Triple-3 pts.
Home Run- 4 pts.
Run-1 pt.
RBI-1 pt.
SB-2 pts.
BB-1 pt.
HBP-1 pt.
Hit for Cycle- 15 pts.


All pitchers will accumulate points in these categories:

Win-10 pts.
Save-10 pts.
Inning Pitched- ½ pt
Strikeout-1 pt.
Complete Game Shut Out-10 pts.
Quality Start- 5 pts (min. of 6 IP allowing 3 earned runs or less)
No Hitter-15 pts.
Perfect Game-30 pts. (If a perfect game is thrown, the player only gets credit for the perfect game and does not receive additional points for the no hitter.)


***All hitting stats by your pitchers will not be counted.

***If any of your hitters ever pitch, their pitching stats will not count

***If a pitcher has a quality start after 6 innings, and loses that quality start past that point, i.e. gets bombed in the 7th, you will not receive a quality start. He can never give up more than 3 ER, regardless of how many innings he pitches.
 

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6. POSITION ELIGIBILITY

Any position player who has played at least 20 games at any particular position during the 2007 season will be eligible at that position for this entire season. Any player will be eligible for a new position after accumulating 20 games at that position during the 2008 season. So for example, if a player has already played 20 games at a different position than the one he played in 2007 by June 9th, he is eligible at that position. If he plays his 21st game of the season after June 9th, he will be eligible right away. Even though it is a mid season game, a player doesn't have to accumulate 20 full games after June 9th to be eligible for a new position. It is just 20 games in 2008 so all games prior to June 9th do count towards his position eligibility.

If a player has not played 20 games at any specific position for the previous year, he may only be used at DH. Once he plays 20 games at a particular position, he will then be eligible for that position.

Minor league players will be eligible for the positions they played 20 games at while in the minors.
 

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7. FREE AGENTS

Any player who is not drafted by a team in your league will be deemed a free agent and placed in the free agent pool. Once players are called up from the minor leagues and officially listed on an MLB roster, they will also be considered as free agents and placed in the free agent pool. Players will remain in the free agent pool once they are in the majors, regardless if they have been sent down for any reason. Players not on MLB rosters, regardless of the reason, will not be in the free agent pool until they have been assigned to a major league roster.

There is no limit to the number of bids that any team can make each week. You may bid as much as you want, as long as you don't exceed your free agent dollars. Once your free agent dollars are spent, you have no way of acquiring new players.
 

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8. FREE AGENT ACQUISITIONS

All teams begin with 1,000,000 free agent dollars (One Million Dollars) that is used to bid on free agents. When a player chooses to acquire a free agent, he must release a player to make room on their roster.

The bidding process is blind, meaning no team will be able to see other players’ bids. The team that bids the highest dollar amount, will be awarded the player. Conditional bids may also be made by teams, in case they lose out on the original player they were bidding on.

A primary bid, may be followed by a series of sequential conditional bids. The team will be awarded the first player they outbid their competition on, and the rest of the bids will be erased. Therefore teams should rank their conditional bids on priority.

Example: A team bids $100,000.00 on Nate Robertson with a conditional bid of 80,000.00 on Tom Gordon . If the team is outbid on Robertson, the Gordon bid is then recognized.

Pyramid bidding will not be recognized (only the first bid for the player). In other words, if a player makes bids as follows:

Example: Primary Bid 40,000 on Carlos Pena
Conditional Bid 50,000 on Carlos Pena
Conditional Bid 60,000 on Carlos Pena

The system will only recognize the first bid. This is not auction bidding, it is blind bidding.

The final bidding period of the season occurs on the last day of Week 23, and that day is Sunday, so you may make bids up until the day before the League Championship Games start. After that time period, free agent bidding will close for the season, so it's important to set your rosters at this point so they are “playoff ready“.
 

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9. BIDDING TIME FRAME

Each week, teams will be able to bid on free agents starting at 12:00 EST on Tuesday. Bidding closes each week on Sunday at 7:00 PM EST. After that time, the players will be awarded to the team that bid the highest, and results will be up within an hour of the 7:00 PM deadline.

The first week of bidding will start on the last day of Week 1, which is a Sunday.

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10. TIED BIDS

If two teams bid the same amount on a player, and it is the highest bid for that player, the tiebreaker procedure will be as follows with the player being awarded to the team with:

1. Worst league record.
2. Team with lowest point total.
3. Coin toss.

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11. PROTECTED PLAYER’S LIST

The Fantasy Jungle will also post a list, before the season, of "star" players that may be released from any team at any time, but will not enter the free agent pool and therefore not be allowed to be acquired by another team in the league. This method is done to prevent any form of collusion. Allowing someone to drop Alex Rodriguez into the free agent pool so his league mate has a better shot in the championship round would not be fair.

The Fantasy Jungle also reserves the right to add or remove someone from the protected players’ list, but that will only be done if they have an injury/suspension that will sideline them for the entire season or the majority of the season, or if a player reaches “star” status. This rule will allow you to drop anyone from your roster, but forbid league mates from acquiring them. Also, if you drop a protected player you cannot reacquire that player at anytime during the season. This is to prevent players using this rule as a “disabled list” and reacquiring players for
a dollar once they have recovered from an injury.

 

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12. LINEUP SUBMISSION

* NEW THIS YEAR *
Every team must have their starting lineup for the week in by 5 minutes before the first game of the week. This usually occurs on a Monday except for the week of the All Star Game in which you will have until 5 minutes before the first game after the AS Break. If there is a game that starts on Monday morning before noon, all players from that particular game need to be in your starting lineup (5) minutes before the game starts in order to be in your lineup for that week. At that point, all those players are locked and changes will not be allowed. The same is true if you have a player carried over from the previous week, and have not taken him out (5) minutes before the game starts. He will be locked and in your lineup for the entire week, so please pay attention to any schedule changes.

Stats are calculated Monday thru Sunday. Once the deadline passes, no team will be allowed to adjust their starting lineup for that week. If a team fails to put in a valid starting lineup for week one, they will automatically have a valid roster submitted determined by draft order and position requirement.

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13. TRADES

Trades are not allowed in The Fantasy Jungle. Player must use the draft and waiver wire to produce their winning team. This is to prevent the possibility of collusion.

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14. LEAGUE STRUCTURE


Each league is made up of 15 teams, selected at random, (2) days before the draft in a live drawing.

We use a POWER SCHEDULING FORMAT. This means that the top scoring team in their league will be 14-0 for that week. The second best scoring team would be 13-1, etc.. This happens every week during the regular season, and your cumulative won/loss record determines one of the teams who make their League Championship Games.

At the end of week 23 (after completion of games on Sun. Sept 7th), the League Championship Game teams will be determined. The two teams in each league championship game will be 1) The team with the best record vs. 2) The remaining team left, with the highest point total.

If the same team has both the best record and highest point total in their league, we will take the team with the second highest point total to play the team with the best record.

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15. CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

The League Championship will be decided over the course of 2 weeks, which are weeks 24-25 of the season (Mon. Sept 8- Sun. Sept 21) Teams will be allowed to make transactions as normal for these weeks. The team with the most points of these 2 participants over this period (combined with their starting weekly point average), will be declared the league champion, and the loser will be the league runner up.

All other teams who do not make their League Championship Games will continue to play for 3rd place and turn in lineups for these weeks (Weeks 24-25). The team with the most total points for the season will be declared the 3rd place winner.
 

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16. REGISTRATION DEADLINES

Space is limited, so don't get shut out.

Deadline to Signup:

Thursday, June 5th at 12:00 PM EST

Players may enter 1 team per draft, so feel free to enter as many as (2) teams.

Please do not wait until the last minute to sign up, to avoid being shut out. If you wait until right before the deadline, you may be turned away if The Fantasy Jungle cannot fill a full league. There will be no partial leagues in the contest.
 

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17. COST

The cost to play Fantasy Jungle Baseball is $400 per team. This is a flat fee, and there are no transaction fees, event fees or other hidden costs.

The price to enter 2 teams is $750.00 so players entering 2 teams will receive a $50 discount.

 

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18. PRIZE POOL

All prizes are guaranteed, and are all league prizes, with a 92% prize payback !!!

League Prizes:
League Champion:     $ 3,000.00
League Runner Up:    $ 2,000.00
Third Place Team:      $    500.00
 

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