Imagine your fantasy baseball league is getting ready to start its draft, but one of the teams isn’t in the draft room. Phone calls, text messages, emails, tweets, and Facebook posts all go unanswered. What should the commissioner do? This was precisely the scenario of a recent case that was submitted to Fantasy Judgment where a GM no-showed the draft because he was called into work at the last second.
SUPREME COURT OF FANTASY JUDGMENT
Balls Deep vs. Who’s Your Daddy
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI FROM
THE SOUTHWEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE
Decided February 24, 2014
Cite as 6 F.J. 1 (February 2014)
Factual Background
A fantasy baseball league called the Southwest Fantasy Baseball League (hereinafter referred to as “SFBL”) is comprised of 12 teams and has been in existence since 2010. The SFBL is a mixed AL/NL dynasty league where each team must keep a minimum of ten (10) players from one season to the next within its 28-man roster. Each individual player may be retained by the same team for a maximum of five (5) years before returning to the free agent pool and being eligible to be drafted again.
As with many rotisserie leagues, the SFBL uses the standard 5×5 scoring categories to determine the standings and prize money. For offensive players, the five categories are: (1) batting average; (2) homeruns; (3) runs batted in; (4) runs scored; and (5) stolen bases. For pitchers, the five categories are: (1) wins; (2) earned run average; (3) WHIP (walks+hits/innings pitched); (4) strikeouts; and (5) saves. Statistics are cumulative throughout the course of the season and there are no head to head games contained within this roto league.