Lead Story - 11/14/2025

SEASON 8 BOTB BUDGET PLAYOFFS

TURN OFF INJURIES !!
Playoffs start: 7am (PT) Saturday, Nov. 15
Note: The division winner takes precedence with regard to seeding.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Seeding
#1 Minnesota Twins (94)
#2 New York Yankees (90)
#3 Seattle Mariners (88)
#4 Cleveland Guardians (92)
#5 Tampa Bay Rays (85)
#6 Chicago White Sox (82) (H2H 4-3 over Orioles)

Wild Card (3 games, 1-1-1)
(6 at 3) White Sox at Mariners - Mariners advance
(5 at 4) Rays at Guardians - Guardians advance

Round 2 (5 games)
(1 vs 4/5) - Guardians at Twins - Twins advance
(2 vs 3/6) - Mariners at Yankees - Mariners advance

ALCS (7 games)
Mariners at Twins


NATIONAL LEAGUE Seeding
#1 San Francisco Giants (101)
#2 Cincinnati Reds (91)
#3 Washington Nationals (89)
#4 Arizona Diamondbacks (95)
#5 Los Angeles Dodgers (84)
#6 Milwaukee Brewers (83)

Wild Card - (3 games, 1-1-1)
(6 at 3) - Brewers at Nationals - Nationals advance
(5 at 4) - Dodgers at DBacks - Dodgers advance

Round 2 (5 games)
(1 vs 4/5) - Dodgers at Giants - Giants advance
(2 vs 3/6) - Nationals at Reds - Reds advance

NLCS (7 games)
Reds at Giants

World Series (7 games)

League Chat Box

Mays delivers in clutch, Giants win

Willie Mays drove in 4 runs, carrying San Francisco to a 6-5 victory over the Reds. | Box

Mariners can't contain Goslin, fall 6-2

Goose Goslin was on his game, knocking in 3 runs in Minnesota's 6-2 victory over the Mariners. Goslin also had 3 hits in the game. Walter Johnson was on fire, allowing just 3 hits over 8 innings for Minnesota. | Box

Johnson whiffs 11 in 3-2 win

Randy Johnson struckout 11 Minnesota batters in a 3-2 win for the Mariners. | Box

Santana whiffs 9 in 6-4 win

Johan Santana struckout 9 Seattle batters in a 6-4 win for the Twins. Logan Gilbert struckout 8 Minnesota batters in the contest. | Box

Mariners overcome brilliant outing by Ford

Hits were hard to come by against Russ Ford last night, but the Mariners pushed across enough to defeat the Yankees, 3-1. Ford allowed just 4 hits over 9 innings in the loss. | Box

9/30/2025

Need Owners - Boards

The BBOTB 1901 - 2024 needs 1 owner. We are currently Drafting Franchises for the upcoming season. We use a variety of rules designed to level the playing fields for the "Lesser Franchises", with Budget adjustments. We also use historically accurate Ballpark options for each franchise. If you like Budget, and you want to compete with best managers on PC, this league is for you.
Message sheikyerboudi or respond to this post and join the Best of the Best !!

7/29/2025

SEASON 7 DRAFT TRACKER

Deadline to Build Teams - Saturday, Aug. 9th
Season Begins - Sunday, Aug. 10th

1. Los Angeles Angels (mrbubbles1967) - St. Louis Cardinals
2. Washington Nationals (raiderbill33) - Los Angeles Dodgers
3. Chicago Cubs (rosilver) - Philadelphia Phillies
4. Arizona Diamondbacks (bodell82) - New York Yankees
5. San Diego Padres (brettphillips35) - Houston Astros
6. Seattle Mariners (expatbama) - Cleveland Guardians
7. Minnesota Twins (acecannon) - Los Angeles Angels
8. Texas Rangers (skooler1) - San Francisco Giants
9. Baltimore Orioles (dukeblues) - Oakland Athletics
10. Chicago White Sox (ndekar) - Boston Red Sox
11. Cleveland Guardians (fantasytease) - Pittsburg Pirates
12. Miami Marlins (revejb) - Chicago Cubs
13. San Francisco Giants (tribetime89) - Chicago White Sox
14. Oakland Athletics (followthesun) - Atlanta Braves
15. Atlanta Braves (dalpho8) - Seattle Mariners
16. Tampa Bay Rays (larsbullitt) - Detroit Tigers
17. New York Mets (joshbonds25) - Baltimore Orioles
18. Cincinnati Reds (bamajoe66) - Miami Marlins
19. Detroit Tigers (yankeebb) - Arizona Diamondbacks
20. Kansas City Royals (glansgruber) - Cincinnati Reds
21. Colorado Rockies (atsanbpinetti) - Texas Rangers
22. Toronto Blue Jays (bgj) - Minnesota Twins
23. Milwaukee Brewers (sws33) - San Diego Padres
24. Los Angeles Dodgers (sheikyerboudi) - New York Mets
25. New York Yankees (jpotter14) - Washington Nationals
26. St. Louis Cardinals (jimgriddy) - Tampa Bay Rays
27. Philadelphia Phillies (kingdude) - Milwaukee Brewers
28. Houston Astros (jrobandsteal) - Kansas City Royals
29. Pittsburgh Pirates (wisely1300) - Toronto Blue Jays
30. Boston Red Sox (fjs) - Colorado Rockies