2023 BOWIS Tournament Topic

Best Of What If Sports
Prove you are the best!

What is it?
A collection of 6 challenging and distinct draft leagues held every year. 24 users join all 6 leagues and at the end of the year, whoever has the most points is the BEST OF WHAT IF SPORTS!

The 6 leagues
1. $55M
2. $45M
3. $50M Banned (every player drafted in the first two leagues is banned)
4. Current season league (i.e. 2022-2023)
5. $50M Franchise League (Two rounds, draft a franchise with each of your picks. Teams can only be drafted once per round. Teams that are drafted in the first round will be eligible to be drafted once in the second round.
6. Wild Card League! - The previous champion gets to choose any draft league they want! (For the first season, there will be a league wide vote of three different options).

Schedule
Drafts will be spread out throughout the year. Schedule after season 1 will have drafts starting around January 1st, March 1st, July 1st, September 1st, and October 15th. With this schedule, a champion will be crowned near the end of the year. For season 1, drafts will have to occur one after the other in order to have a 2023 champion crowned during the 2023 year.

Draft Specifics
$55M, $45M, and $50M banned will all be 6 round drafts with the 6th round being a double round.
Curent season draft will be 15 rounds. ABBABABABABABAB
All draft orders will be completely randomized. Trades are allowed for all drafts, but only as complete position swaps. Trades need to happen prior to the start of the second round.
Each draft will be on an aggressive clock schedule.
Proxies are expected if a user is going to be away for more than a few hours.

Scoring:
All regular season wins in each league will count as 1 point.
All playoff wins in each league will count as 2 points.
All byes will be counted as 4 playoff wins and be counted as 8 points.
Making the playoffs in all 6 leagues is worth 20 points.
Each individual championship is worth 20 points.

Prizes:
Wis will be giving out the following prizes in site credits:
1st Place: $50
2nd Place: $25
3rd Place: $25

I will also be personally giving out $10 in site credits to the winner of each league.

Relegation:
This is a tournament to prove who is the best. Every year, the bottom two finishers will be relegated to the bottom of the waitlist.

Users (24)
benhoidal
Midge
robusk
24kpyrite
steelers821
ty84moss
riftonapple
jhsukow
raggedclaws
jcred5
berkelon
mptrey
chewy3344
PBandJ
dmcclane
jethroeg
BenJoker
dh555
uptowngbv
pexetera
samuelyork93
Sephy13
ronsouth1
albiband0

Waitlist
gerryred

6/23/2023 10:08 AM (edited)
In
6/15/2023 10:44 PM
I'll play
6/15/2023 10:45 PM
In
6/15/2023 10:46 PM
I'm in. Though I'll be drafting from phone for anything basically from now til mid-July with wedding and honeymoon stuff.
6/15/2023 11:01 PM
Well this is a pleasant surprise. I am definitely IN.
6/15/2023 11:10 PM
What are the 3 different options for the Wild Card League? I really don't want to do the league where you must list " the top 288 players in order of preference" (or something like that)...
6/15/2023 11:18 PM (edited)
in
6/15/2023 11:19 PM
Posted by gerryred on 6/15/2023 11:18:00 PM (view original):
What are the 3 different options for the Wild Card League? I really don't want to do the league where you must list " the top 288 players in order of preference" (or something like that)...
Autodraft, silent auction, era draft (which era tbd)
6/15/2023 11:47 PM
Count me in.
6/16/2023 2:49 AM
I’m in
6/16/2023 6:29 AM
I'm in, in a poker sense I am dead money, but this will be fun.
6/16/2023 7:03 AM
In

For the $55M, $45M, and $50M banned drafts, are we drafting players, or player seasons?
6/16/2023 9:32 AM
In
6/16/2023 10:38 AM
Posted by dmcclane on 6/16/2023 9:32:00 AM (view original):
In

For the $55M, $45M, and $50M banned drafts, are we drafting players, or player seasons?
Players
6/16/2023 10:58 AM
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