Does points have a second season like game? I am scoring better tonight in pitching with nobody going.
Fantrax had mid-season games in 2011 thru 2014, but they didn't have one in 2015 or 2016. They will also handle all the record keeping for a private "commissioner" league for a one-time fee of $80 (I think it is) if someone wants to do their own league. I got in such a league that a long-time player from Texas had last year. I just mailed him $40 cash for the entry fee....though I could have also done paypal or a check. He was going to have a maximum limit of 50 teams and pay out 100% of the entry fees less the $80 Fantrax charge. He had been doing them for several years he said, if I wanted to get references for him. It worked just like the Fantrax-run leagues, as Fantrax kept all the records for purchases, daily standings, etc. The only thing you couldn't get from Fantrax were some of the info like "percentage owned", etc. It was completely on the "up & up", as Fantrax posted prize breakdowns once he had a final number of entries, along with daily stats & standings, etc...just like they would do with their own leagues. If he got the full 50 entries he was going to pay about 9 or 10 places, I believe, but he ended up with 26 teams, so I think he paid 7 places, maybe. Since the only deduction was that $80 fee to Fantrax, almost 100% of the entries were paid out in prizes. I finished 11th, though, so I didn't win anything...but Fantrax posted a list of the winners & prize money, just like it does for its own games.
Fantrax lists my team from that league with all my "past leagues" and automatically put me on the list to enter his league this year, if I wished. Since I already have 6 teams to keep up with, I hadn't thought that I would do that one again....but I still could...as could you...if we wanted to and Fantrax doesn't decide to do one again this year. I conversed with him several times by email and would have no qualms at all about his honesty regarding payouts, etc. As I said, he has been doing these leagues for many years now, using facilitators like Fantrax to handle all the data for a small fee.
Fantrax may start doing a mid-season again this year, I suppose, since they seem to be having more entries....particularly with the cheap leagues. If they don't, you could always do that one, since you only have that one team and it would only be $40 to enter. If you wanted to get a team, I could get you the contact info and I would get a team, too, if you did. Then, of course, there is always CDM. They will have many mid-season leagues, for sure.
The guy who ran that commissioner league went by "Shep Dogs". He had two teams in the regular Fantrax team using that name and also a team called "H to the Rizzo". (He is a Cubs fan.) Northcoast had a team in his mid-season league and there may have been some others you would regognize. Giggity Giggity, maybe?
Anyway, I learned of that league thru a notice somewhere from Fantrax on my Fantrax team threads, so I assume that you probably had the same notice somewhere....and it will probably be listed again this year. I only decided to try it after I found out for sure that Fantrax wasn't going to do its own league. Wasn't sure about it to begin with because I had never done a private league like that before. I thought "what the hell" though, as it was only $40. As I said, now that I did one, I don't have any concern about the guy's legitimacy. Like everything, there is something I like a little better & a little worse about it. You don't get quite as much info since you don't get percentage owned numbers, but the payout is even better than Fantrax's payout.....which is itself far better than CDM's.
