If you haven’t joined SimYard yet, you should check it out right now.  SimYard doesn’t end in October like most baseball.  It continues right through the off-season with a new season every month.  So far there’s more than twenty leagues in Major, AAA, and AA levels, competing for their championships and to increase their fanbase.

Bid on players, join a league, trade with other managers, claim players from the waivers list, make the championship — all of this can be yours on your custom team.  You create them.  You name them.  You decide who starts, who sits, and who gets cut.

SimYard runs right in your browser.  You can play from work, or from school.  No download or plugin is necessary.  It’s massively multiplayer, so all of your opponents will be other real people.  And they’re great guys.  I know a lot of them, and really respect them.  They love baseball, and they’re fun to compete with.

Try SimYard now.  It’s free to play pick-up games, and under $5 / month to play in leagues.

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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!

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!

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.