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| The 2011 Baseball Cool Pool regular season will run for 13 weeks from April 11th to July 8th. Players will make picks weekly, due Sunday nights by 9:00pm ET. Please read and understand the rules for the 2011 Baseball Cool Pool. Pool Sign Up: To sign up for the 2011 Baseball Cool Pool waiting list, please visit the Sign Up Page and fill out all required information. Basic Operation: Conferences & Divisions There will be two conferences consisting of three divisions each. Each division will have either three (3) or four (4) teams. Teams Each player will choose a team name at the beginning of the season. All Baseball Cool Pool team names will be real MLB affiliate team names, ie: Myrtle Beach Pelicans or the Charlotte Knights. Picks Players will make picks weekly by Sunday nights at 9:00pm ET. All picks are to be submitted through the site on the "Pick Sheet" page. During the offseason, players voted on a format for the 2010 pool, and it was decided that three (3) teams will be picked each week by each player. The following is the weekly picks schedule. AL=American League Team, NL=National League Team Week 1: April 11th - April 15th - AL,NL,Any Week 2: April 18th - April 22nd - AL, AL, NL Week 3: April 25th - April 29th - NL, NL, AL Week 4: May 2nd - May 6th - AL, AL, AL Week 5: May 9th - May 13th - NL, NL, NL Week 6: May 16th - May 20tht - AL East, AL Central, AL West Week 7: May 23rd - May 27th - NL East, NL Central, NL West Week 8: May 30th - June 3rd - AL, NL, Any Week 9: June 6th - June 10th - AL, AL, NL Week 10: June 13th - June 17th - NL, NL, AL Week 11: June 20th - June 245th - AL, AL, AL Week 12: June 27th - July 1st - NL, NL, NL Week 13: July 4th - July 8th - Any, Any, Any Note: You may not pick the same team twice during any week. Example: Week 3 - two different NL teams will need to be selected. You can not pick the Astros twice. Weekly Matchups Each team will compete in a matchup each week against one other team. There is a pre-determined thirteen (13) week regular season schedule, and each team will be matched up against their division rivals twice during the season. They won't be matched up against teams outside their division more than once during the season to give everyone the opportunity to play against all of their friends. Scoring Each player will select three teams (mentioned above) each week. Those three teams combined win loss totals for the week will compute your win percentage for the week. The highest winning percentage in a matchup wins the matchup. Tie Breakers If a matchup for the week ends in a tie (the exact same winning percentage), there will be tiebreakers put into place to help break the tie. If a matchup ends in a tie, the following tie breakers will be used: 1. Your "Tie Breaker Team" Saturday game result. If your team wins and your opponents loses, you win. 2. Your tie breaker runs scored selection. If both tie breaker teams win or lose, the person who guesses the closest (+ or -) to actual runs scored in the Saturday game for your tie breaker team wins. 3. Total runs scored by your three teams combined in all games Monday-Friday. 4. Total runs allowed by your three teams combined in all games Monday-Friday (lowest score wins). 5. Highest winning percentage entering the week. Playoffs: There will be three (3) division champions from each conference (for a total of 6), and two wild card winners. The wild card winners will be the teams which have the highest win % in each conference, but did not win a division championship (tie breaker will be head to head record during the season, then average column). The playoffs will consists of three (3) rounds and five (5) weeks. Round #1 and #2 will be one week each. The third round (The BCP World Series) will be a "best of" three (3) series. The first team to win two weeks out of the three will be crowned Baseball Cool Pool champion. Picking Playoff Teams: Each player will choose any five (5) teams per week. The catch here is that the 5th team you are picking is for your opponent. You are picking four (4) teams for yourself and one for your opponent. The four teams you selected for yourself, and the team your opponent selected for you will have their records for the week added up, and that will be your record for the week. Best record in the head to head matchup wins. The 4 teams you select for yourself each week must be different. The team your opponent selects for you MAY be a duplicate of a team you select for yourself, however we do not forsee this happening. |