FanGraphs: The Game – 2014!
Good news everyone! You can now make your picks in FanGraphs: The Game for the 2014 season!
Please note you will be able to change the team of any of your players up until you first spend money. So, if you want your players to be on new teams, I advise doing it before you make any picks. You can do this on the settings page.
In addition, your player will keep all of his stats from the previous two seasons and continue on to the next year of his career.
Lastly, if you had autopick set last year, it has now be unset. If you want to keep playing with autopick on, you will need to make your autopick selections again.
And for those of you who are rookies to FanGraphs: The Game…
FanGraphs: The Game is our daily fantasy game, and allows you to create a player and make picks each day to build your player’s stats over the course of the season. Whatever statistics your pick of the day accumulates are then added to your player’s totals.
All of your totals will be tracked on your very own FanGraphs player page and your player will show up on the leaderboards, so you can see how well you’ve performed compared to others throughout the season. (These show last years stats.)
Because each player you create is assigned a position and is affiliated with a specific organization, you have the chance to crack the starting line-up and hold bragging rights over your friends and others who are gunning for that same spot. You can also win awards (weekly, monthly, half-season, and full-season), achievements, and track your hitting streaks.
At the end of the season, the player with the highest WAR at each position will win $100, and the player with the second highest total at each position will each win a FanGraphs T-Shirt. Please see the full game rules for further details.
Click here to create a player and make your first pick. You can make as many as eight players or as few as one – it’s all up to you. And, since you’re only going to be making one pick per day for each player you create, this is the fastest and easiest way to enjoy fantasy baseball. And best of all, it’s entirely free.
We’ve created a twitter account where you can keep up with accomplishments, leaders, and various news from FanGraphs: The Game, so follow @fgthegame now, and use #FGTheGame to communicate with your friends and others on Twitter each day.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
I just lost the game.
I wish we were able to look at combined multiple seasons but I guess there’s a reason that doesn’t work with this particular game.
I plan on getting that working soon. Also I hope to have some performance improvements with the leaderboards that are long overdue.
Oh, great! Thanks.
Looking back at last year depresses me with just how close I got to positional top 2. I had two different players finish 3rd in the positional rankings.
It looks like I had the best shortstop last season, but never heard anything about the prize?
I just sent you an e-mail at your accounts e-mail address. If for some reason you didn’t get it, please let me know!
is fangraphs: the game football coming back next season after a one year hiatus?
also, for those of us who already have fangraphs shirts would it be possible to have a year of ottoneu as a reward instead?
It might come back! We have about 5 months to figure it out.
Unfortunately we can’t do an ottoneu league, but we can do a 2015 FanGraphs+ subscription with the 2015 Hardball Times.
I’m new to the game, what happens if you pick a player at a position at which he is eligible, but he plays at a different position that day? For example Mark Trumbo is eligible at 1B.
You’ll still get credit. All that matters is his eligibility and not the actual position he plays. Eligibility can change on a day-to-day basis.
In Trumbo’s case, he will lose eligibility at 1B after today’s game and gain OF eligibility, but could gain 1B eligibility back were he to have a high enough percentage of games played at 1B.
An app for this would be amazing.