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FanGraphs: The Game - Official Rules
1. Overview
FanGraphs: The Game is a fantasy baseball game where you create a fictional player
and make one pick each day to build your player over the course of the season.
2. Creating Your Player(s)
You may create up to one player at each of the following positions: C, 1B, 2B, SS,
3B, OF, SP, and RP. Each player must be associated with a team. Once you create
a player, the player cannot be deleted, so choose the team your player is on carefully.
There is currently no way to create two players at the same posiiton, though future
iterations of the game may include such options.
Creating players at all eight positions is not required, and you can play the game
with as few as one player or up to the maximum of eight.
3. Yearly Budget
All positions start out with $1000, with the exception of Catchers (C), which start
with $850.
4. Game Limits
All positions have a 162-game limit, with the exception of Catchers (C), which have
a 140-game limit.
5. Making Your Picks
Each day you may make one pick for each of your players until that player's game
limit is reached. The real-life baseball players you may pick qualify at the same
position of your player and range in value from $0 to about $15. You can only make
a pick if you have at least the same amount of money available to you.
FanGraphs will do its best to alert you to which players are in the starting lineup
once lineups are announced on a given day (typically one hour before the game).
You may pick any player from the list presented to you, even if said player is not
scheduled to play that day.
If your pick does not play for whatever reason, you will be refunded your money
for that pick. Players at the Relief Pitcher (RP) position will not be refunded
their money if their pick does not play.
6. Scoring
The entire stat line for your pick will be attributed to your player once the games
for the day are completed. This includes everything from standard stats (such as
home runs and strikeouts) to advanced stats (such as pitch speed, etc.).
Starting Pitchers (SP) will have the majority of their pick's stats divided by 5
for the day. All Starting Pitcher (SP) stats are shown rounded to the nearest decimal
place displayed.
7. Starting Lineups
The player with the highest year-to-date WAR
Starting Pitchers (SP) will have the majority of their pick's stats divided by 5
for the day. All Starting Pitcher (SP) stats are shown rounded to the nearest decimal
place displayed.
8. Periodic Awards
Your player may receive weekly, monthly, half-season, or seasonal awards based on
your player's total cumulative WAR for the respective time period.
Awards are broken down into Overall (O-Rank), Positional (P-Rank), Team (T-Rank),
and Team Positional (PT-Rank) and are ranked by prestige in that same order.
If you receive an Overall award, you will not receive any Positional, Team, or Team
Positional awards (to reduce redundancy). If you were to receive a Positional award,
you would not receive a Team award or a Team Positional award. And if you were to
receive a Team award, you would not receive a Team Positional award.
9. Hit Streaks
Any hit streak your player has over 10 games is recorded. You can view your player's
current hit streak on his player page.
10. Achievements
Achievements are awards that are not unique to your player and may be awarded to
multiple players for accomplishing various challenges or reaching certain thresholds.
11. Prizes
Prizes will be awarded to players that finish with the highest and second-highest
WAR at each position. Ties will be broken first by the fewest plate appearances
(batters) or innings pitched (pitchers) and finally by seniority (lowest playerid).
The winners will each receive 100 U.S. dollars. The runners up at each position
will each receive a free FanGraphs T-Shirt.
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