Return of the Home Run Derby (2025)!

[Southpaw19]

Announcing the 2025 Home Run Derby!

Hello and welcome to the official announcement for the 2025 Home Run Derby game that has been played over at Northside Baseball's Forum! If you’re reading this on NSBB, welcome back! If you’re reading this on Twins Daily or Brewers Fanatic - Hello and consider this your official invitation to play our 2025 Home Run Derby!

If you are reading this as someone who played in the 2024 season, you might be asking yourself Didn’t you say you were retiring from running the game? Well you would be correct. I did announce that. Then immediately after the season ended, I realized that I already had the itch to get the next season’s data pulled together and update player transactions to their new teams. I’ve officially decided to return to the game I love to run and this is the announcement for the 2025 season.

I also hear you asking Well, why did you retire in the first place? Another good question. Here’s the story: I want more participation! I want to get more players involved! That is when this game is at its most fun - because having just 10-11 players is not as fun when I was forced to use “ghost teams” just to get the scoreboard to 20 teams. This is where you come in!

I am working with Brock Beauchamp to get the word out as much as we possibly can, in order to generate re(new)ed interest in this great and fun game. We are “crossing the streams” for this campaign, and we are opening up the participation to multiple forums.

If you are reading this and you have not played before, it is a form of “fantasy baseball” but without the day-to-day need to check your roster. There are no fantasy points for statistical offense, with the exception of Home Runs, of course!

To read up on everything about the Home Run Derby, you can visit this Wiki site here. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I have been running this game since 2006-2007. I’m still in the process of updating the rules pages, along with the groups/tiers for the upcoming 2025 season.