Gift Certificates for this unique fantasy baseball game are available for under $20.  Any fantasy baseball nut will enjoy playing this online game.  Would your friend make a great manager?  This is where he can test his skills against other fantasy managers.

http://www.simyard.com/gift/

The Gift Certificates come for $19.95 or $59.95 for a 3-month or 1-year membership.  Three months is enough time to try the site out and see if it’s right.  The year is perfect for the competitive player looking to build a franchise.  The Stadium Permit offered by these gift certificates allows you to have three teams and two stadiums.  This is required to pay players and join leagues.  This is a truly unique fantasy baseball simulator where you call the shots as the team owner.

Do you have a fantasy baseball group already that is looking for more of a challenge?  If you buy five three-month gift certificates, the sixth is free!  After playing SimYard for three months, your fantasy baseball group isn’t going to want to go back to traditional fantasy baseball.  This is perfect for the off-season!

The newest baseball simulator on the web is getting better.  SimYard is undergoing improvements this month which will make the game deeper and the gameplay better.  If you haven’t checked out the best baseball simulator on the web, now is the time.

A new bidding system will be launched, allowing public bids to be made throughout the season on players.  Players who have expiring contracts will give “Buy Now” contract extensions to their current teams based on the public bids.  This will lead to a much more consistent salary for all of the players.

In addition, many of the players have been working to compile a wish list of features, and I plan to implement many of them.  In my opinion one of the biggest things that makes SimYard so worth playing is the fact that there’s an active administrator working on it full time.  Yes, this is my full time job.

So stop by SimYard.  It’s free to play pick-up games in the park, and you can even qualify for the postseason tournament.  If you want to take the team to the next level, you can get a Stadium Permit which allows you to have a farm system of three teams.  The bottom team can play pick-up games in the park while the other two join leagues and play scheduled games all month in their league with a postseason at the end.

It’s a lot of fun.  Come by SimYard today and start playing your franchise now!

Here’s a brief summary of how to get started on my fantasy baseball simulator: SimYard.

First, get an account and create a team.  You can play this team in the public fields to gain fans.  Be sure to use the Interact feature in the park to increase your team’s buzz and to find better players.

When you’re ready to move on, buy a Stadium Permit.  Make a second team and a stadium.  It’s probably too soon financially for you to support a third team and second stadium, so put that off for one more season.  Look for a league with a low salary cap and join it.  You can still make the third team, but don’t make a second stadium.  Remember to buy advertising for your stadium, and a starting stadium should hold roughly 2,000 people.  Set a budget so that you can pay off your loan in a couple of years.

Search for players to sign.  Sign the best players from your team because you can have an advantage being the home team.  Offer them slightly lower contracts than you would offer to other teams, but be sure to offer them a decent amount.  Sign a whole starting lineup and pitching rotation and bullpen.

Your second season, you’ll have one (or two) teams in the park and one in a league.  You should earn lots of revenue from the league which you will use to build a stadium for your second team and join a second league.  Be sure the two leagues have different salary caps, because you will put your best players on the higher salary cap league.  Sign more players to fill out two complete starting lineups, rotations, and bullpens.

Your third season, build some upgrades to your first stadium, which should be nearing capacity.  Sign better players.  You’re off and running in SimYard.

The fantasy baseball simulator, SimYard, opens up the 1901 season tomorrow night.  Now is your chance to get in and start playing Spring Training games.  Give your guys a little training boost before the new season.  SimYard is the next generation of fantasy baseball.

The next generation of Fantasy Baseball has been featured on Fox News Chicago.

Click here to watch it on Youtube

The traffic on the site has been quite high since then, and the 1900 season is turning out to be the best so far. Third teams have been added for players with Stadium Permits so there will be minor leagues for the 1901 season. Leagues will be having their first playoffs shortly.

http://www.simyard.com/

The playoffs are in the air at SimYard.com, with single elimination wildcard playoffs leading into tomorrow’s quarterfinals. SimYard went live at the beginning of February with the goal of simulating a full season of baseball each month. In February, we have succeeded.

Hundreds of teams were created and thousands of games were played. Fifty-three of those teams made the playoffs. Some of the teams used all their pitchers at the end of the season to get their spot and now face a tired bullpen. There is a lot of excitement in the air.

Every two hours, there’s another round of games. This gives your bullpen a bit of time to rest leading up to a hectic 20 minutes of 48 teams all facing elimination at once in the first round of the playoff wildcard tournament. The top 5 teams get automatic entry to the quarterfinals, guaranteed to have their pitchers rested tomorrow when they start. The next 48 teams have to win four straight to get the same quarterfinal spot.

We’re going to do this every month.

If you haven’t found SimYard yet, then you’re missing out on the next big thing in fantasy baseball.  In the first week, over a hundred people have already signed up, and more than half of them are actively playing against each other in the park.  At any given time during the day, there are four or five games going on simultaneously, each of which takes about 20 minutes to play.

SimYard is a fantasy baseball management simulation game.  Teams are battling it out in the park for a position in the postseason tournament, which will start on February 27th and last for two days.  Currently, the Puyallup Eagles are in first place with a 48 - 35 record.  The Mars Green Stockings (27 - 17) and Srilankan Pirate Ninja Robots (20 - 10) are both 1.5 games back in second.  These standings will be used to seed into the tournament.  If you want to be involved, now is the time to join up!

The game is free, and soon there will be a paid portion launching where you can create your own leagues, build a stadium, and negotiate contracts with your players.  Sign up for SimYard, and help create a new baseball history in this next generation of fantasy baseball.

Based on past posts, we know for the fact that I dislike the Moment of Truth.  The show just moves WAY to slow for me.  What if we were to add an interesting twist, I say pay Roger Clemens a shitload of money to go on the show and play.  Watching him answer those 50 questions would be classic!  Here are a few that I can think of before actually asking if he ever took steroids or HGH.

First it will start off easy for the 10k round.

“Has anyone injected you with a substance in your ass?”

“Do you think you are the best pitcher in the history of the league?”

“Have you ever lied about taking illegal substances?” - This would could be things like, have you ever smoked pot?  Think of the possibilities here.

“Do you think you will get voted into the hall of fame?”

“Have you ever paid for sex?” - They cannot ALL Be about baseball, can they?

“Have you ever thrown out fan mail without actually reading it?” - now this will be the 10k question.  They need people to continue to watch.  The next 5 questions would be harder…

“Have you ever thrown a game to win a bet?”- Pete Rose anyone?  Why not…

“Have you ever sent flirtatious messages to anyone other than your girlfriend?” - this is assuming that he has a girlfriend.  They always throw in this question in some variation…

“Would you do anything to play another season of baseball?”

“Have you purposely beaned someone in the head by a pitch?”

Finally, for 40k, here comes Brian McNamee and reads out “Have you ever taken steroids to increase your performance?” - At this moment, we can finally see if the name is telling the truth or not.

Personally, for me, I have given up on the steroids business.  I have turned my focus to the online world of baseball.  There is nothing better than playing the game of simyard and get to manage the team without worrying about the politics of baseball.  It is just about the love of the game.

Nothing pisses me off more than paying for something and then getting spammed with ads.  You see this most commonly with television.  I pay like $75 / month for DirecTV, and almost all the channels are loaded with advertisements.  It sickens me.

A couple of people have asked me why I don’t put ads up on SimYard.  (For those of you who don’t know, SimYard is my new fantasy baseball management simulation webgame.)  The answer is, I will be charging next month to join leagues, and I don’t think it’s right to charge money for something and then make more money advertising to those people.  People are going to play my game because it’s fun and it makes them relax, and advertisements steal from that environment.

So, no ads.  That’s the way I like it.  Please, enjoy SimYard, a brand new webgame that has no ads.

If you want to play baseball on the web, there’s only one place to go: SimYard!  SimYard is a new kind of fantasy baseball.  You can sign up and make a team in minutes, and then go into the Public Fields and find an opponent.  The game takes under 20 minutes to play, and you get to choose your lineups and pitching rotation.

If you like webgames, and you like baseball, and you haven’t tried SimYard yet, then go there right now and sign up.  Seriously, you will enjoy this game a lot!