The unofficial Second Half of the MLB Season begins Friday, so no time like the present to launch the 2nd half Survivor pool.

The following stackers have committed to participate:

@grayruby @Undisciplined @supercyclone @siggy47 @Bell_curve @IamSINGLE @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears @BitcoinAbhi @Turdinthepunchbowl @Wumbo @Cje95 @pj @needcreations_

Prize Pool: Starts at 10k sats and will be the total sats zapped to all the MLB Survivor Pool related posts by this account throughout the entire pool.

Rules: You may only use each team once. This pool will run only 7 weeks until Sept 1st. If a sole winner has not be determined by that point we will go to tiebreaker to determine the winner. Participants pick one team per week. That team must win at least 50% of their games played Monday through Sunday that week. Due to the nature of baseball where it is common for bad teams to beat good teams, elimination will work on a two strikes and you are out model. A strike will be issued if a participant's team fails to win at least 50% of their games that week. Winner will be the last participant standing who has not stuck out.

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.

End of Pool Tiebreaker: After the final games on Sept 1 the pool is over. If we don't have a clear winner at the end of the pool, best total run differential for all the remaining participants picks throughout the pool will determine the winner. Other Tiebreaker: If the final two or more players are eliminated with 2 strikes the same week (prior to the last week of the pool) the tiebreaker will be best run differential for the chosen teams that week. Other Tiebreaker 2: If we are still tied after Tiebreaker 1 we will go to an additional week of picks between only the tied participants. If both players survive that week we go back to the tiebreakers until someone is victorious or the pool ends and is decided by the End of Pool tiebreaker.

Deadlines: Even though games from the previous week will still be going on, I will do a post on Fridays opening up picks for the following week. Pick submissions will be open until 12pm est on Mondays. You may pick your team in advance of the current week's games being completed provided you don't select a team you have already chosen.

Pool Posts: I will keep track of all participating stackers, what teams they have chosen, how many strikes they have, if they have entered their picks before the deadline, if a rainout provision needs to be invoked and do a weekly post reviewing the previous week results, announcing any strikes/eliminations, and a weekly post opening up Pick submissions for the following week but I will not be posting schedules like I do for NFL/March Madness. The onus will be on the participants to check the weekly MLB schedule and chose the team they think gives them the best opportunity to move on.

TDLR: Pool is the same as the first half pool aside from changes bolded above.

Week 1 will consist only of games taking place this Friday-Sunday due to the All Star Break. Submissions are now open!

Good Luck!