The Pennant Chase Newsletter

Happy almost 4th of July! Those who are into running or participating in re-wind leagues, there are some exciting new commish tools to discuss. Let’s get into it!

Sort and draft by career value

This is game-changing for re-wind leagues. Owners will now be able to view a player’s career value on the free agent or player-ranking tables. This makes draft prep about a million times easier.

The “career value” is the player’s total career WAR (baseball) or Win Share (basketball) or Approximate Value (football).

Commissioners can enable this feature by setting the “draft based on career” value on the League Settings page.

This feature also forces the CPU to pick players based on career value instead of single-season value.

Why is this a big deal? Because in re-wind leagues, owners are typically drafting rookies based on how they did over their career. But that requires clicking into their career card or going off to a third-party website.

Now you can quickly see which players in your draft class had the best overall career value.

If you forget to draft or rank players, you won’t get totally hosed in these leagues because the CPU will draft the player with the best career value who’s available.

Granted, the system isn’t totally fool-proof because if a veteran is available in the free agent pool (say, a 39-year-old Ken Griffey Junior) he would likely get auto-picked based on his high career value. But commissioner can combat this effect if they want to by setting the max age for the draft to a lower number.

I’ve already taken advantage of this new “career value” feature in two of my re-wind drafts, and I can say it’s been an amazing time-saver.

More budget-draft leagues released

As of Monday night, I have created a new set of fav-team budget draft leagues for all sports. They go fast!

Check out the baseball, basketball or football Join Auto Leagues pages to jump in!

Track your fav-team titles!

Are you one of those crazy, ambitious (or maybe just plain crazy) PC users who wants to try to win a Favorite Teams title with every franchise? Well, now your progress will be tracked on your user profile!

Just scroll down to the grid on your profile to check out your titles.

Note, this grid only applies to budget-draft leagues.

Are you a custom-league commish looking to promote your league?

I’d like to use this newsletter to help custom leagues promote opening or interest in new ideas - reach out to me at [email protected] or via the website’s messaging system to let me know about a league you might want to support.

Have a great holiday!

Wishing you all a fantastic 4th and hope your summer has gotten off to a nice start! Thanks for your continued support of the best free baseball site on the ‘net!