Announcing Home Run Derby (2025) - A fun game to play!

[Southpaw19]

Announcing the 2025 Home Run Derby!
Hello and welcome to the official announcement for the 2025 Home Run Derby game that has been played over at Northside Baseball's Forum since the early 2000’s! If you’re reading this on NSBB, welcome back! If you’re reading this on Twins Daily or Brewers Fanatic - Hello and consider this your official invitation to play our 2025 Home Run Derby!

If you are reading this and you have not played before, it is a form of “fantasy baseball” but without the day-to-day need to check your roster. There are no fantasy points for statistical offense, with the exception of Home Runs, of course!

I am working with Brock Beauchamp to get the word out as much as we possibly can, in order to generate re(new)ed interest in this great and fun game. We are “crossing the streams” for this campaign, and we are opening up the participation to multiple forums. For the 2025 Season, this game will be played between Northside Baseball, Twins Daily, and Brewer Fanatic! Members from each forum can sign-up to play and participate!

To read up on everything about the Home Run Derby, you can visit the wiki site linked in the successive post below. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I have been running this game since 2006-2007. I’m still in the process of updating the rules pages, along with the groups/tiers for the upcoming 2025 season. More information will follow here in this community. I look forward to playing alongside all the new (and returning) members!
 

Edited March 4, 2025 by Richie the Rally Goat
Removed bad hyperlink

[Brock Beauchamp]

Join up if this interests you! If the project proves popular, we'll try to develop an interface and some automation for the game next season.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Link in OP is wrong, this is the correct link: http://nsbbhrd.wikidot.com/

[Richie the Rally Goat]

After having read the desktop formatted rules on my phone several times, I have a few mechanical questions.

Is there a specific template for the draft post?

can multiple teams pick the same player?

are all three sites playing the same game together?

[Brock Beauchamp]

13 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

Is there a specific template for the draft post?

can multiple teams pick the same player?

are all three sites playing the same game together?

1. I don't know, I don't know why I'm even responding.

2. I don't know, I don't know why I'm even responding.

3. Yes!

[Southpaw19]

15 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

After having read the desktop formatted rules on my phone several times, I have a few mechanical questions.

Is there a specific template for the draft post?

can multiple teams pick the same player?

are all three sites playing the same game together?

There's not a real template, but I would post it like this:
Position - Player - Cost

Yes, multiple teams can pick the same player. Your team is not connected to any other team. The goal is trying to compose the team with the most home runs. The strategy comes in trying to pick players that the majority wouldn't pick, because if we all have the same, we all get those totals "together" and the standings don't move.

Yes, the three sites would play the game together. The goal is to have over 20-30 participants.

[Matthew Lenz]

On 3/4/2025 at 10:43 AM, Southpaw19 said:

There's not a real template, but I would post it like this:
Position - Player - Cost

Yes, multiple teams can pick the same player. Your team is not connected to any other team. The goal is trying to compose the team with the most home runs. The strategy comes in trying to pick players that the majority wouldn't pick, because if we all have the same, we all get those totals "together" and the standings don't move.

Yes, the three sites would play the game together. The goal is to have over 20-30 participants.

Are you just wanting us to post in this forum?

[Southpaw19]

18 hours ago, Matthew Lenz said:

Are you just wanting us to post in this forum?

I'm working that out with Brock. Once I have the designated location, I will post threads about this season's game.

[Bryan Jaeger]

Any update on this?

[Brock Beauchamp]

@Southpaw19?

[Southpaw19]

They have been posted - but buried with traffic from other topics. One of the downsides of posting in a main forum.

The entries thread is here and the discussions thread is here.

[Southpaw19]

** REMINDER **

Deadline to submit rosters is Wednesday, March 26th at  11:59:59 PM Central Time.
This is one night before MLB Opening Day. No entries will be accepted after the deadline.

Any home runs hit during Tokyo WILL be added to your team's total, provided those players are on your roster.