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Scoresheet Baseball Winter Can Discuss Your Special Needs Don’t miss out on the fun of playing SCORESHEET fantasy baseball this winter! Instead, re-live baseball from the mid-eighties as BASEBALL you draft, trade and manage players from the years 1988-1991. How would you like to liven up this As in all of our games, a player can part in each team’s success - you’ll have to winter by having Joe Carter hit home only be drafted by one team in each balance a player’s hitting with how much runs for your fantasy baseball team? Or league. Once the draft is over, we have his defense helps (or hurts) your pitchers. deciding if you want to trade Jack Morris found that trading in these winter leagues (Fielding numbers as used in Scoresheet for Kirby Puckett? Instead of spending hits a fever pitch. This is your chance to are also included for each player in the the off-season with no baseball, now you discuss blockbusters such as Stieb for draft packet.) We have found that with can have all the fun of drafting, trading Fisk, or Darryl Strawberry for a pack- player stats being known to all, these and managing a team of major league age of pitchers. You will get to see exactly leagues have some very evenly matched players from 30 years ago. how your trades work out as your read teams, making for great pennant races. over your results each week. And to help Join a National League and maybe Since the luck of unknown injuries refresh your memory of these past play- you’ll pick Dale Murphy to bat third, or isn’t a factor, this is also a great game for ers, we do print year by year statistics for Lenny Dykstra to bat leadoff. You could testing your managerial ideas. You can each player in the draft packet. choose to spend your top pick on Dwight really see the effects of various strate- Gooden, or go for the great hitting of Your team will play 12 games a week, gies controlling stealing, bunting, pinch Tony Gwynn. In the American League, for a full 144 game schedule. We’ll send hitting, earliest innings for pitchers, use such players as Stewart, Mattingly, you a complete scoresheet for every of closers and setup men, and defensive Ripken and Eckersley will all go in the game your team plays. Games can also replacements. first few rounds. be viewed on the web in a text based One of the best parts of this winter play by play format. You’ll also receive: Just as in our regular Scoresheet game is getting to know your fellow man- league standings, individual and team Baseball game, your team will play com- agers. Every year, our most knowledgeable stats, trade offers and results, a weekly plete simulated games, based on your and enthusiastic Scoresheet fans sign up to newsletter, league leaders, team-vs-team players’ major league performances from play. Virtually all of them are avid traders, records, and the best and worst team stats 1988-1991. Your league's draft will begin especially since our 4-year format encour- in all of Scoresheet. League winners will in early/mid November (depending on ages trading to fill holes. You’ll be playing be awarded trophies engraved with your when you sign up), and will run until early with our most experienced team owners name and accomplishment. December. Then the 12-week season runs from throughout Scoresheet, and can find from mid-December thru early March, TRY NEW STRATEGIES out what strategies have worked best for taking you right up to spring training. them. We’ll use 1988 stats for the first 3 weeks Not only is this winter game a great of the season, then 1989 stats for the next memory trip, it also is a chance to test DRAFT THE STARS 3 weeks, 1990 stats for 3 more weeks, and your theories of what wins baseball We will be forming 10-team leagues 1991 stats for the final 3 weeks. Changing games. If you think that pitching is 90% of either American League or National the stats used every three weeks will keep of the game then you should certainly list League players only. Each league is split you supplied with fresh challenges, as you a lot of pitchers at the top of your rank- into 2 divisions. At the end of the season trade or change your lineup to get the ing sheet. Or if you are a fan of the 3-run we play a League Championship Series, most from your team. Of course, all the homer, put sluggers such as Fred McGriff based on all 4 year’s stats, between the two or Kevin Mitchell near the top of your games are played on our computer - you division winners (no wild cards!) get the fun of running your team while we list. Speed and defense will also play a big do all of the work. Scoresheet Sports • P.O. Box 1097, Grass Valley, CA 95945 • (530) 470-1880 ph • (530) 470-1885 fax • [email protected] • www.scoresheet.com 1988-91 (2020) OT broch.indd 1 9/29/20 11:08 AM If you and your friends want to form a Your draft list will be password pro- AFFORDABLE FUN complete league and draft among your- tected so that only you can see it. As each selves, please feel free to call us and we pick is made it will be posted for every- Owning a Scoresheet Baseball winter can discuss your special needs. We are one to see and your league roster will be franchise costs just $64 for the entire quite flexible, and can run a league of updated. season – trades and lineup changes are all any size for you, including a combined free! If you join in a group of 4 or more The exact draft schedule for your league with players from both the A.L. the cost is only $59 per team. The team fee league will be posted before the draft and the N.L. is payable with your order form, or if you begins so that team owners know when prefer you can pay $35 with your order Before the season, you’ll draft a 36-man each of their picks will be made. There is form and the remaining balance when team. The large roster, together with trad- also a more detailed description of how your draft begins. Engraved trophies are ing, allows you to cover each of the 4 years this web based draft will work on our web awarded to all league winners. with both starters and backups. Each site at: week, we limit your players to their play- www.scoresheet.com/WB_WebDraft.php Each week of the season (12 weeks of ing time in an average 12 game span in the regular season play, plus a one week play- As soon as we receive your order form corresponding year in the majors. Thus a off), you’ll receive reports which include we will send you back complete draft- good bullpen and a strong bench are also everything you’d want to know about your ing information. The drafting packet important. team. The newsletter will relive all the big lists all eligible players by position, sorted baseball events of the times. Winter baseball accorded to at- leagues that we form bats or innings The accompanying pages show a pos- by putting individuals pitched in sible lineup using players from the 1988- together in the same 1988-1991. 1991 era, along with a sample game from league will all draft Summary stats a week using 1988 stats. Of course, your using our web based are printed for lineup will use the players you’ve drafted draft system. If you each player, for your team; certainly some of your have your own league of including yearly strategy decisions will be different from friends you can choose batting average what we’ve chosen. But by looking at the to do your own draft and home runs accompanying sample lineups we hope or you can use our web hit, at-bats or you will get a feel for the kind of teams draft. innings pitched, that will be playing Scoresheet Baseball ERA and fielding numbers. this winter. With web drafting you will enter a draft list on the web, and then you will Using these player lists, you’ll rank Send in your order form and begin be able to change your list as often as you the players in the order you want them. planning now for the winter season! You like - between every pick if desired. Deciding whether to draft a top pitcher can also order your team from our web site such as Tom Candiotti or a great infielder by using the winter baseball order form at: Our web based draft is not one where such as Ryne Sandberg will have you re- www.scoresheet.com/WB_order.php you have to log on during a set time slot living those great baseball days of 30 years As soon as we hear from you we’ll send to make a pick, and it is not a chat room ago. you the appropriate drafting information. draft where you have to log on for hours. Instead, as each team’s pick comes up our Scoresheet will be forming leagues See how much fun playing fantasy program will pick the top available player through the middle of November, with the baseball this winter can be. Don’t go from a list that you can change and save first web drafts set to begin November 1st.
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