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6779 sats \ 62 comments \ @StackerSports 5 Apr Stacker_Sports

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Great turn out for the pool.

Current prize pool: 10,233 sats

Even though week 1 is not complete, pick submissions for Week 2 are now open until Monday at 12pm est. I will do a week 1 recap post on Monday.

Good Luck!

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30 sats \ 7 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr

Im not sure if anyone else is as surprised as I have been with this opening weekend. Who had the Angels leading the AL West and the NL East only having ONE team over 500?!

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

Pirates 6-1, Tigers 5-1.

It's the first week. The surprises make it fun. We may need to invoke the rain out rules for your Braves pick this week depending how their series with the Dbacks shakes out.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr

Yeah I was going to ask about that lol since I don't have a horse in the race so to speak if the Braves would do me a solid and just win the next couple that would be great!

31 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

Rainouts: Games will occasionally be postponed due to rain. Games that are made up during the same series as doubleheaders will be treated as normal games with the win or loss counting to the team's total for the week. Games that are postponed and rescheduled later in the season will be treated as follows: If the game would not impact the participants ability to move onto the next week (for instance a team is scheduled for 7 games but plays 6 and wins 4 out of the 6) then the player moves on and the game is ignored. If the game would not impact the the participants ability to avoid a strike (for instance a team is scheduled for 7 games but plays 6 and wins only 2 out of 6) then the player is issued a strike and the game is ignored. If the game is relevant to the player's ability to move on (for instance a team is scheduled for 6 games and plays only 5 and wins 2 of 5) then it will go to team run differential for the week. If the chosen team has an equal or positive run differential for all games played that week the player moves on. If the chosen team has a negative run differential for that week the player gets a strike.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

So if Braves win 2/3 or 3/3 it is irrelevant. If they lose all 3 it is irrelevant. If they win 1/3 it goes to run differential for the week.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr

Thanks for the clarification! Also thank god they won 9-0 in the first game of the week and have since had close games in general!

A super unique question but one I was curious about and thought of with today's earthquake in NY. I am originally from Houston so in 2017 we got wrecked by Harvey and it nuked the Astros schedule for a couple of weeks. In a situation like that where your home games for instance are moved to another state is that taken into consideration? For example, on Monday once we have locked in picks NY gets hit with another earthquake that damages the stadium and they were supposed to play the whole week at home. The league would postpone a few of the games as they try to set up a secondary location so how would that factor into the whole thing? Would you more or less get a bye due to the circumstances?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 5 Apr

It's hard to have provisions for everything. I guess we would have to assess based on the circumstance and determine what affected participants and all other participants think is fair. If it was early in the pool my guess is it would essentially be a bye but I wouldn't want a player to win the pool or avoid their third strike that way if it was later in the pool so we would have to figure it out at that point.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr

Makes sense to me! Just something that I thought of earlier and since I was talking to you in the pool figured I would see what you said!

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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 5 Apr

I'll take Yankees, who I loathe, because I want to pick them before they suffer their season destroying rash of injuries.

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports OP 5 Apr

noted

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

They are playing the Marlins and Guardians next week. Might be a good pick but they have started hot. If they steamroll the Jays this weekend I would be concerned about a let down next week.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jer 7 Apr

It was looking like they would steamroll the Jays last night. Jays still lost but showed some fight, after Gausman knocked out after 1.1 IP

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports OP 7 Apr

close game. Yankees kind of let them back in having Weaver go so long but nice to see the bats wake up a bit.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 5 Apr freebie

We may want to include a link back to original post in each future weeks post. #484454

Also has anyone done the work and determined how many total weeks we could have in the 2024 season?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

Ah yes. I forgot again. Good reminder.

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 5 Apr

Looks like I'll be amongst the first ones to get the first strike. I'm glad this pools is threes strikes you're out.

I'll take the Dodgers for week 2.

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

Just need 2/3 against the Brewers this weekend to avoid a strike. Mariners rotation is great. Just need the bats to show up this weekend and you are good.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 5 Apr

Brewers seem to be on a hot streak, although the streak just ended on Wednesday. Hoping that this is the beginning of a losing streak for them.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

They started well but they have a pretty mediocre team. I wouldn't say they are bad but I don't think they will be a playoff team.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports OP 5 Apr

noted

20 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Apr

Week 1: Dodgers Week 2: Braves

50 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr freebie

You are just going to run through the best teams in baseball? There are 3 strikes so might not be a bad idea. If you can get 4 or 5 weeks in without taking a strike you can probably rely on the randomness of baseball to help you out.

60 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Apr

Shouldn't I pick the best teams while they're the best, just in case they get hit with injuries later?

60 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 5 Apr

Not a bad strategy. I am picking based on weakness of schedule. Trying to pick which teams even if they aren't top teams are playing the weaker teams in the league. I am hopeful that will serve me well until people start racking up strikes, then I will have the best teams in my back pocket for when things get tight. Who knows, could backfire on me.