I'm going to be holding a weekly contest here with some nice prizes.
This is how it works. Each week (usually Mondays but I'm a little slow this week) I will post 4 games from the upcoming weekend. See below for this week's games. To enter the contest, you just need to post a comment containing the following info:
- Your guess of the winning pitcher for each game
- Your guess of anyone in the game who will hit a home run for either team
The person with the highest point total wins the weekly contest.
Here are some rules about how I'll be running this contest:
- In the event of a tie, the winner will be the person who posted their comment earlier. But I might just send prizes to everybody too.
- I will be posting the listed/projected starting pitchers for the games. If something happens and those guys don't start, too bad for you. It's your job to pay attention to the news and see if some team is going to change their starter for some reason.
- In the event of a rainout, I will use the makeup game, as long as it happens by Monday. For example, if I listed a Saturday game that gets rained out and it's played on Sunday as part of a double-header, I'll use the game that was added on Sunday and count that as the Saturday game. If instead the game is added later in the season, then that game will be dropped from the contest entirely for that week.
- Only your first entry counts. So perhaps you want to wait a little while to see who the starters are going to be, but also remember that the earlier entries win tiebreakers. Hmm...decisions, decisions.
- Entries must be made by Saturday morning, before all the games start.
The regular weekly prize will be some number of cards of my choosing--anywhere from 5 to 50 cards. I will try to tailor them to meet your interests.
The jackpot is a bonus. Each week, I am going to add something special to the jackpot. If anybody gets a perfect score (with no rainouts or otherwise canceled games), they win the jackpot. If nobody gets a perfect score, then the jackpot carries through and I will add something the next week. Cool, huh?
So, ok, here we go with the Week 1 games. Make your picks below in the comments.
All games scheduled for Saturday April 11 with projected starters listed:
Game #1: Pirates at Reds (Maholm vs Owings)
Winning pitcher: ?
HR hitter: ?
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels (Penny vs Saunders)
Winning pitcher: ?
HR hitter: ?
Game #3: Yankees at Royals (Sabathia vs Ramirez)
Winning pitcher: ?
HR hitter: ?
This week you can earn a maximum of 6 points.
This week's item being added to the jackpot is the 1988 Score Rookies & Traded set that I blogged about here.
As an added bonus, I'm going to participate in this contest...in the unlikely event that I beat you all, there will be no prizes for that week! Heh.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with the following:
Game #1: Pirates at Reds (Maholm vs Owings)
Winning pitcher: M Owings
HR hitter: M Owings (heh)
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels (Penny vs Saunders)
Winning pitcher: M Delcarmen
HR hitter: V Guerrero
Game #3: Yankees at Royals (Sabathia vs Ramirez)
Winning pitcher: CC Sabathia
HR hitter: M Teixeira
Game 1
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: Owings
HR hitter: Votto
Game 2
Winning pitcher: Saunders
HR hitter: Kendrick
Game 3
Winning pitcher: Sabathia
HR hitter: Posada
Game 1
ReplyDeleteWP: Arthur Rhodes
HR: Ryan Doumit
Game 2
WP: Joe Saunders
HR: Jason Bay
Game 3
WP: C.C. Sabathia
HR: Xavier Nady
Game 1 WP: Michah Owings HR: Jay Bruce
ReplyDeleteGame 2 WP: Brian Fuentes HR: David Ortiz
Game 3 WP: C.C. Sabathia HR: Alex Gordon
Game 1
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: Maholm
HR hitter: Andy LaRoche
Game 2
Winning pitcher: Saunders
HR hitter: Bay
Game 3
Winning pitcher: Sabathia
HR hitter: Gordon
Game 1
ReplyDeleteWP: Weathers
HR: McLouth, Domit, Phillips, Votto
Game 2
WP: Saounders
HR: Hunter, V. Guerrero, Youklis
Game 3
WP: Sabathia
HR: Texeria
1. Maholm / Adam LaRoche
ReplyDelete2. Okajima / Vlad
3. Sabathia / Tex
1. Maholm/Votto
ReplyDelete2. Penny/Ortiz
3. Sabathia/Gordon
Game #1: Pirates at Reds
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: Owings
HR hitter: Votto
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels
Winning pitcher: Saunders
HR hitter: Guerrero
Game #3: Yankees at Royals
Winning pitcher: Sabathia
HR hitter: Jeter
Game #1: Pirates at Reds (Maholm vs Owings)
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: Owings
HR hitter: Brandon Phillips
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels (Penny vs Saunders)
Winning pitcher: Penny
HR hitter: Vlad Guerrero
Game #3: Yankees at Royals (Sabathia vs Ramirez)
Winning pitcher: Ramirez
HR hitter: Alex Gordon
Game #1: Pirates at Reds (Maholm vs Owings)
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: maholm
HR hitter: mclouth
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels (Penny vs Saunders)
Winning pitcher: saunders
HR hitter: torii hunter
Game #3: Yankees at Royals (Sabathia vs Ramirez)
Winning pitcher: sabathia
HR hitter: teixiera
1 WP - Mike Lincoln
ReplyDeleteHr - Votto
Ramon Hernande
Brandon Moss
2 - WP Manny Delcarmen
Hr by - Youk
Drew
Napoli
Abreu
3 - WP - cc
HR -= Cano, Tex, Damon
I see some slug fests
Game #1: Pirates at Reds (Maholm vs Owings)
ReplyDeleteWinning pitcher: Owings
HR hitter: Votto, Edwin Encarnacion
Game #2: Red Sox at Angels (Penny vs Saunders)
Winning pitcher: Saunders
HR hitter: none
Game #3: Yankees at Royals (Sabathia vs Ramirez)
Winning pitcher: Sabathia
HR hitter: Texiera
A little clarification is needed on the HR hitter guessing.
ReplyDeleteI intended that you guess only 1 guy who hits a homer, and if that guy homered, you get a point (regardless of who else homers.) For THIS WEEK'S CONTEST ONLY I am going by the following rules:
1) If you guessed more than 1 guy for a given game, I am counting only your first guess. If that guy homers, you get a point, and I don't care what anybody else in the game does.
2) If you guessed one guy exactly, same deal--we care just what that one guy does.
3) If you guessed "none" for HR hitter, I will honor that too--if nobody homers, then you get a point.
Going forward after Week 1, I'm only going to accept a single guess per game, or a guess of "none" if you wish.