FanGraphs: The Game 2013!

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March 30, 2013

Good news everyone! You can now make your picks in FanGraphs: The Game for the 2013 season!

For those of you who played last year, you will be able to change the team of any of your players up until you first spend money. So, if you want your players to be on new teams, I advise doing it before you make any picks. You can do this on the settings page.

In addition, your player will keep all of his stats from the 2012 season and continue on to year two of his career.

Lastly, if you had autopick set last year, it has now be unset. If you want to keep playing with autopick on, you will need to make your autopick selections again.

And for those of you who are rookies to FanGraphs: The Game…

FanGraphs: The Game is our daily fantasy game, and allows you to create a player and make picks each day to build your player’s stats over the course of the season. Whatever statistics your pick of the day accumulates are then added to your player’s totals.

All of your totals will be tracked on your very own FanGraphs player page and your player will show up on the leaderboards, so you can see how well you’ve performed compared to others throughout the season. (These show last years stats.)

Because each player you create is assigned a position and is affiliated with a specific organization, you have the chance to crack the starting line-up and hold bragging rights over your friends and others who are gunning for that same spot. You can also win awards (weekly, monthly, half-season, and full-season), achievements, and track your hitting streaks.

At the end of the season, the player with the highest WAR at each position will win $100, and the player with the second highest total at each position will each win a FanGraphs T-Shirt. Please see the full game rules for further details.

Click here to create a player and make your first pick. You can make as many as eight players or as few as one – it’s all up to you. And, since you’re only going to be making one pick per day for each player you create, this is the fastest and easiest way to enjoy fantasy baseball. And best of all, it’s entirely free.

We’ve created a twitter account where you can keep up with accomplishments, leaders, and various news from FanGraphs: The Game, so follow @fgthegame now, and use #FGTheGame to communicate with your friends and others on Twitter each day.





 

David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.

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byronmember
11 years ago

Any changes to the pricing? Do you still have to take backups eight times to take a star once?

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David Appelman
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

Pricing remains the same. The WAR totals from last year worked out pretty well, so things appear to be working as intended.

And 8 backup players to take 1 star is not exactly true. It depends on the price of your backup player. A $6 player is projected to be average at that position.

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byronmember
11 years ago
Reply to  David Appelman

Eight times was an exaggeration, but the ratio of good players to bad players still bugs me. Below average starters cost $3 or $4, with stars in the teens (all data from beginning of last year, when I stopped playing). So if the average is $6, and you go $7 over by taking a $13, then you have to take a $3 player twice and a $5, still below-average player once just to get back even. Whatever, we talked about this last year and the game is obviously popular. I still just don’t get it.

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Jaejo
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

The way that I see it, when you make a $3 selection you’re just hoping for a single hit and/or some walks to “break even” for the day. When you select your $13 all star, you expect big numbers from your guy that day. If you look at match-ups, you’ll skew both odds in your favor and get some additional value each day, even if it’s only incremental.

$3 guys can go 4/4 with a double, and $13 stars can go 0/5 with 3 k’s (ouch!). You can look over numbers and match-ups to make an educated guess who will be the best value that day, but you will still need a bit of luck no matter what.

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Jaejo
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

Also wanted to add, sometimes the best pick is no pick at all. Feel free to skip a day if you don’t like any of the choices.

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byronmember
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

Jaejo, what I don’t like is that the “cheap” selections save you much less than the “expensive” guys cost you. It’d be one thing if you could take a top player 25% of the time, an above average starter 50% of the time, and a low-end platoon guy 25% of the time, but if the star is $6 over average and the above average starters are $2 over average and the platoon guy is only $2 below average, you don’t get to play the whole season.

Now, it seems like this is necessary to get realistic WAR numbers at the end of the year, and it sounds like everyone but me is happy with it, so I get why it’s not changing. But I’m not interested in taking Tulo once and Brandon Crawford four times, nor in playing substantially fewer than 162 games. It’s that you have to take the bad players SO MANY TIMES that bugs, me not that you have to take them at all.

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Krog
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

How many players actually play a whole season though. The list of players who showed up for 162 games is tiny. You can play multiple positions if you don’t like taking a day off.

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wjylaw
11 years ago
Reply to  byron

Welcome to the wonderful world of playing guys with platoon splits. Lots of guys under $6 who have good match ups each day.

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