SFM Diamond Weekly is a baseball game loosely based on the old Diamond Daily game from ESPN mixed with a little Eliminator Challenge.

1. The object of the game is to select one major league baseball team every week and accumulate points based on the statistics that team produces in five scoring categories. Once a team has been selected they can NOT be selected again for the duration of the game.

2. The season will last 25 weeks (taking off the week of the all star game (7/14 thru 7/20)) and each week will be from Monday to Sunday. The first week will start on Sunday, Mar.30th and end on Sunday Apr.6th(8 dyas) and the last week will start on Monday, Sept.22nd and end on Sunday, Sept.28th.

3. Selections will be due by midnight on Friday so they can be recorded and posted for everyone to see before the week starts on Monday. If a player doesn't get their pick in on time or chooses a team that they have already selected previously, they will be assigned the lowest scoring team (or the lowest that they haven't selected yet) up to that point in the season. This will guarantee that there are no zero weeks, but the player will be penalized by getting stuck with a possible bad team.

Example:

In week 5 you forget to make your pick, you will be assigned the team with the lowest total points for the first 4 weeks, unless you have already selected that team previously, in which case you will be assigned the second lowest scoring team.

4. There will be five scoring categories, three hitting and two pitching: Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Batting Average, Strikeouts, and Earned Run Average. The stats your selection earns in a week will be compared to every major league team and then points from 1-30 will be given out in each category, with the best team getting 30 and the worst getting 1. Then the points from all five categories will be added for your weekly total and then a running total for the season will also be kept.

Sample week:

Wk Team AVG Pts HR Pts RBI Pts ERA Pts K Pts Score

1 Red Sox .280 22 15 26 40 21 4.31 10 25 4 83

In this case you picked the Red Sox the first week of the season and your score for the week is 83 (22+26+21+10+4). They hit the ball well and you got good points from that, but their pitchers weren't very good, so that hurt you a little bit. The maximum score for a week is 150, which would mean the team you select finishes first in all 5 categories (not sure this will ever happen).

5. Regardless of the number of entrants the scoring will be cumulative for the season with everyone being in one large group and there are no playoffs.

6. If you are interested in this game, email me at johnfh@comcast.net. I will be using the email address to send out a reminder email every week. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to email me or post on the message board. I will get back to you as soon as possible.