A L E V E L A B O V E
Events
A Level Above Championship Series: 2008 Season
To qualify for year-round ALACS prizes, it is required that you participate in six events per year; if you play in more than six games, you will use your ALACS scores from your best six games to form your year-round score. Each game has its own prize pool and required buy-in. The following games are organized by 2008 start date.
Game #1: NCAA Men's Tournament Pool
Buy-in: $10 per bracket (max of two per person)
Dates: March 20th – April 7th
Details: March Madness may be the most captivating sporting event in the world – three weeks, 65 teams, millions of brackets, and the rare competition that provides equal intrigue to casual and obsessive sports fans alike.
Game #2: Fantasy MLB
Buy-in: $55
Dates: March 25th – September 31st
Details: We run a highly competitive, 14-team 5x5 rotisserie keeper league with an auction draft that is way, way too much fun. If that last sentence meant anything to you, there is currently a waiting list in hopes of possibly forming a second ALA Baseball league for the 2009 MLB season.
Game #3: PGA Majors Competition
Buy-in: $10
Dates: The Masters (Augusta, Georgia), April 10th-13th -- US Open (Torrey Pines, California), June 12th-15th -- British Open (Royal Birkdale, UK), July 17th-20th -- PGA Championship (Oakland Hills, Michigan), August 6th-10th
Details: Participants will select a foursome for each major from four different tiers of golfers based on worldwide rankings. Any golfer in the world is available for selection, but once you use a golfer for a major, you can not use that golfer again for another major. Scoring will be based on what place your golfers finish the tournament in.
Game #4: NBA Playoff Pool
Buy-in: $10
Dates: April 19th – mid-June
Details: 2008 is hopefully the first of many years when a highly competitive league (or…western conference) will make this competition pretty exciting. As a tie is a legitimate possibility in a 16-team bracket competition, participants will include the number of games that they expect each series to last.
Game #5: NCAA Football vs. Spread
Buy-in: $25
Dates: late-August – late-December
Details: Each week, the Commish will select 15 different games involving teams in the AP Top 25. Everyone makes their picks against the Vegas lines. Prizes will be awarded based on cumulative W/L record at the end of the year.
Game #6: Fantasy NFL
Buy-in: $55
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: NFL Football is unquestionably our country’s most popular fantasy sport; ALA Fantasy Football will host as many 12-team leagues as is possible based on the number of participants who would like to play. E-mail alafantasysports@gmail.com if you’d like to get in on the 2008 Fantasy Football season.
Game #7: NFL Survivor Pool
Buy-in: $55
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: Each week of the NFL season, participants pick one winner from one NFL game, regardless of the spread. If the team you pick loses, you're out of the pool. Here's the catch: You can only pick an NFL team once over the course of the season (so, for example, if you pick the Patriots to beat the Dolphins in Week 1, you can't use the Patriots as your pick again for the rest of the year). Last man standing gets the prize pool (with additional prizes possibly distributed depending on the number of participants). A simple concept with incredible potential; each week, the Commish will send out emails listing the most popular picks and other relevant information, so that in addition to rooting for the one team you've picked to win, you also get to root against the teams that everyone else in the league has picked. Good times for all.
Game #8: NFL vs. Spread
Buy-in: $25
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: Everyone spends the season making their picks against the Vegas lines. Prizes will be awarded based on cumulative W/L record at the end of the year.
Game #9: Fantasy NBA
Buy-in: $55
Dates: October 31st, 2008 – mid-April, 2009
Details: Currently, ALA runs a 14-team, nine-category rotisserie league. There is a good chance a second league will be added next year (not necessarily another rotisserie league). Please e-mail alafantasysports@gmail.com if you’d like to participate in the 2008-09 Fantasy NBA season.
Game #1: NCAA Men's Tournament Pool
Buy-in: $10 per bracket (max of two per person)
Dates: March 20th – April 7th
Details: March Madness may be the most captivating sporting event in the world – three weeks, 65 teams, millions of brackets, and the rare competition that provides equal intrigue to casual and obsessive sports fans alike.
Game #2: Fantasy MLB
Buy-in: $55
Dates: March 25th – September 31st
Details: We run a highly competitive, 14-team 5x5 rotisserie keeper league with an auction draft that is way, way too much fun. If that last sentence meant anything to you, there is currently a waiting list in hopes of possibly forming a second ALA Baseball league for the 2009 MLB season.
Game #3: PGA Majors Competition
Buy-in: $10
Dates: The Masters (Augusta, Georgia), April 10th-13th -- US Open (Torrey Pines, California), June 12th-15th -- British Open (Royal Birkdale, UK), July 17th-20th -- PGA Championship (Oakland Hills, Michigan), August 6th-10th
Details: Participants will select a foursome for each major from four different tiers of golfers based on worldwide rankings. Any golfer in the world is available for selection, but once you use a golfer for a major, you can not use that golfer again for another major. Scoring will be based on what place your golfers finish the tournament in.
Game #4: NBA Playoff Pool
Buy-in: $10
Dates: April 19th – mid-June
Details: 2008 is hopefully the first of many years when a highly competitive league (or…western conference) will make this competition pretty exciting. As a tie is a legitimate possibility in a 16-team bracket competition, participants will include the number of games that they expect each series to last.
Game #5: NCAA Football vs. Spread
Buy-in: $25
Dates: late-August – late-December
Details: Each week, the Commish will select 15 different games involving teams in the AP Top 25. Everyone makes their picks against the Vegas lines. Prizes will be awarded based on cumulative W/L record at the end of the year.
Game #6: Fantasy NFL
Buy-in: $55
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: NFL Football is unquestionably our country’s most popular fantasy sport; ALA Fantasy Football will host as many 12-team leagues as is possible based on the number of participants who would like to play. E-mail alafantasysports@gmail.com if you’d like to get in on the 2008 Fantasy Football season.
Game #7: NFL Survivor Pool
Buy-in: $55
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: Each week of the NFL season, participants pick one winner from one NFL game, regardless of the spread. If the team you pick loses, you're out of the pool. Here's the catch: You can only pick an NFL team once over the course of the season (so, for example, if you pick the Patriots to beat the Dolphins in Week 1, you can't use the Patriots as your pick again for the rest of the year). Last man standing gets the prize pool (with additional prizes possibly distributed depending on the number of participants). A simple concept with incredible potential; each week, the Commish will send out emails listing the most popular picks and other relevant information, so that in addition to rooting for the one team you've picked to win, you also get to root against the teams that everyone else in the league has picked. Good times for all.
Game #8: NFL vs. Spread
Buy-in: $25
Dates: September 4th – late December
Details: Everyone spends the season making their picks against the Vegas lines. Prizes will be awarded based on cumulative W/L record at the end of the year.
Game #9: Fantasy NBA
Buy-in: $55
Dates: October 31st, 2008 – mid-April, 2009
Details: Currently, ALA runs a 14-team, nine-category rotisserie league. There is a good chance a second league will be added next year (not necessarily another rotisserie league). Please e-mail alafantasysports@gmail.com if you’d like to participate in the 2008-09 Fantasy NBA season.