The thrill of the Greatest Teams bracket tournaments
What if the Greatest Baseball Teams of All-Time met in an NCAA basketball style bracket tournament? Single game elimination. You lose, you go fishing. You win, you live to play another day and advance towards the championship game.
We just completed the first ever DYNASTY League Baseball Online Greatest Team bracket tournaments and the experience is like playing “Game 7” everytime you play. One word best describes it “Thrilling”.
Does the best team always win? Maybe, maybe not. Amongst the 70 Greatest Teams, any team could win the bracket and that is part of what makes it all so fascinating.
Above you can see the screen shot of one of the Elite Eight tournament brackets. 1982 Milwaukee won all three of it’s games on clutch, heroic, drama filled, thrilling HR in the late innings by the likes of “stormin” Gorman Thomas and Ted Simmons. I was managing Milwaukee and faced off in the Championship vs. 1998 New York managed by Carmine Turso and I felt like it was 1982 all over again with Harvey’s Wallbangers punishing pitchers with their 216 HR.
One of the new very cool features just added to the bracket tournaments is the ability to follow every game of the tournament in real time. The scores update automatically and when you click on the scores you see the in-progress box score and game summary. Click on the team and you see updated Batting, Pitching and Fielding stats for that team in the tournament.
Our first Greatest Team bracket was played by DYNASTY League Baseball Online architect Jamie Hall and myself in a Final Four matchup. Below is a screen shots of a first round matchup between 1979 Pittsburgh and 1982 St. Louis. 1982 St. Louis won in a thrilling late inning comeback, but was overpowered by 1975 Boston’s offense in the Championship final.
There also is a new Manager ranking system coming. As you win and lose games and hopefully win Championships, you will accumulate points based on your performance. Each franchise will have 10 Managerial levels that you can reach named after actual franchise Managers. The Yankee franchise will have the coveted Billy Martin, Joe Torre and Casey Stengel levels to reach.
You’ll be able to experience the “thrill” for yourself by signing in at dynastyleaguebaseball.com
Greatest Teams bracket Tournament schedule
Sunday
1P ET
Sweet 16
4P ET
Sweet 16
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
Monday
1P ET
Elite 8
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
Tuesday
1P ET
Elite 8
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
Wednesday
1P ET
Elite 8
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
Thursday
1P ET
Elite 8
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
Friday
1P ET
Elite 8
4P ET
Elite 8
7P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight ET
Sweet 16
Saturday
10A ET
Sweet 16
Noon ET
Sweet 16
2P ET
Sweet 16
4P ET
Sweet 16
6P ET
Sweet 16
8P ET
Sweet 16
10P ET
Sweet 16
Midnight
Sweet 16
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