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Fantasy Baseball Introduction Sign-up Be A Bounty Hunter Rules & Prizes Terms & Conditions Help FAQ League Demo Contact Us Owners Area Trades/Team Stats Forget Password? View Other Teams Weekly Highlights League Stats Fantasy Teams Overall Standings YTDBi-Weekly League Standings YTDBi-Weekly Player Points Position Players YTDBi-Weekly Pitchers YTDBi-Weekly Position Groups Pitcher Groups		HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball Eligibility Contest open to those who are 18 years of age or older at the time of registration (if the age of majority in a jurisdiction is different than 18, you must be of the age of majority within your jurisdiction to be eligible to receive a prize) with a valid internet e-mail address at the time of registration. This contest is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia or Canada. Contest is void in Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Vermont, the province of Quebec and any other state or province which prohibits contests of this sort. Persons from those states or provinces may play and have their places noted in the standings, but ARE NOT eligible to win any prizes. By entering this contest to win prizes, you hereby represent and warrant that you are not a resident of the aforementioned states or provinces. Canadian winners may be required to take and pass a time mathematical skill testing question. This contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. This contest is subject to all federal, state, provincial and local laws. Your participation in HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball constitutes your acknowledgement and agreement that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of the terms of these rules. HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball is a contest of skill. 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All purchases are final after this date. After you provide your user ID a password will be emailed to you to access the game. Once logged into the game, you must choose your team's player roster via the drop down boxes provided on the player selection page. Each participant must have a unique email address. You may modify your team on a bi-weekly basis as set forth in the "Player Selection" section below. HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball will begin on April 5, 2009 and will continue for the entire 2009 Major League Baseball regular season ending with games played on October 5, 2009. All dates are subject to change. Entries will be accepted from February 15, 2009 to April 5, 2009, 11:00 PM ET. HeySportsFans takes no responsibility for misdirected entries or for entries that are lost, damaged or corrupted in the web transmission. HeySportsFans reserves the right to disqualify any entry that has been incorrectly completed or contains invalid or incorrect information. Each entry submitted will compete against all other entries eligible to compete for prizes in any given contest period. Leagues Teams are given priority for placement in leagues on a first-come, first serve basis and will be assigned to leagues at the start of the season. Budget Leagues: All Budget teams will be placed in Budget leagues of a maximum of 50 paid teams, plus additional "no purchase necessary" entries as determined by HeySportsFans. Leagues may compose of less than 50 teams at the discretion of HeySportsFans. If the last formed league has less than 50 paid teams, their league prizes may be pro-rated. Entrants will be asked a preference of how they would like their teams spread throughout leagues. HeySportsFans will do their best to honor such requests but reserves the right to assign leagues in any way it feels necessary. Premium Leagues: All Premium teams will be placed in Premium leagues of a maximum 20 teams. If the last formed league has less than 20 paid teams, their league prizes may be pro-rated. Multiple Premium entries from a single player will automatically be distributed as evenly as possible throughout Premium leagues. High Stake Leagues: All High Stake teams will be placed in High Stake leagues of a maximum of 10 teams. If the last formed league has less than 10 paid teams, their league prizes may be pro-rated. Multiple High Stake entries from a single player will automatically be distributed as evenly as possible throughout High Stake leagues. Rosters Your roster must consist of a total of seventeen (17) players: 5 Starting Pitchers, 2 Relief Pitchers, 1 Catcher, 1 First Baseman, 1 Second Baseman, 1 Third Baseman, 1 Shortstop, and 3 Outfielders, 1 Mid-Season Position Player and 1 Mid-Season Starting Pitcher. Your roster must consist of players listed in the HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball list of players at the time of registration or trade, as the case may be. Players may not be listed with their current team due to release, retirement, or trade. Player Selection The following system of selecting players is used for selecting your original team roster AND for trading players during the season. Players may be selected through the Internet site free of charge, 24 hours a day except during maintenance of the Internet site. A player selection/trade is defined as dropping one player from your team and adding another player. A player MUST be exchanged for another player at the SAME position (e.g., a catcher for a catcher, etc.) and within the SAME group. To ensure you have the correct roster in place, when you have completed your selections, you MUST click on the "Activate Player Selections" button at the bottom of the trading page. If you exit without activating player selections, none of the trades will be accepted. All approved trades are final. Contest Periods and Trading Deadlines Contest periods run Monday through Sunday on a bi-weekly basis. The exceptions to this are at the start and end of season. Regular season games played before the first Monday of the regular season will be included in the first contest period and games played after the last Sunday of the regular season will be included in the last contest period. Player selections will end and your roster will be frozen at 11:59 PM Eastern Time the day before the start of each contest period. Player selections made after the trading deadline will not take effect until the next contest period. The following is for your convenience, yet is subject to MLB rescheduling of games. Contest Period Trading Deadline 11:59 PM ET For Games Played 1 April 5 April 5 - April 19 2 April 19 April 20 - May 3 3 May 3 May 4 - May 17 4 May 17 May 18 - May 31 5 May 31 June 1 - 14 6 June 14 June 15 - 28 7 June 28 June 29 - July 12 8 July 12 July 13 - July 26 9 July 26 July 27 - August 9 10 August 9 August 10 - August 23 11 August 23 August 24 - September 6 12 September 6 September 6 - September 20 13 September 20 September 21 - End of Regular Season Scoring Team scores will be available through the Internet site the day after the final game of each contest period is played. Your bi-weekly ranking will be available beginning April 20, 2009. Points are awarded based on the HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball scoring system. Position Players: Walk, Run, RBI: 1 point. Single: 2 points. Double: 3 points. Triple: 4 points. Home Run: 5 points. Error: minus 3 points. Pitchers: Inning Pitched: 3 points (1 point for each 1/3 of an inning). Earned Run Allowed: minus 3 points. Strikeout: 1 point. Win: 10 points. Save: 5 points. Shutout: 10 bonus points. No-Hitter: 50 bonus points. Each contest period is scored separately. Scoring is based only on the games actually played each contest period. If for any reason, a player's game is postponed (due to weather, etc.) you will receive points for that game only if you have the player on your team roster the day the game is officially completed. You only have until the end of a contest period to dispute any score for the previous period. Scores will not be changed for previous contest periods and the scores posted by HeySportsFans for a particular contest period will be final once the following contest period is over. Statistics for games that are postponed will be counted in the periods when the games are actually played. Internet Site http://www.heysportsfans.com Our site is best viewed with Netscape 4.0 or higher, Internet Explorer 4.0, or the 32-bit version of AOL 4.0 for Windows95 (for AOL users). 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