Season 2026
Thirty years and counting
An opening note on what these fantasy baseball posts will and won't be — and why the league still exists.
Fantasy Baseball
Thirty years of misadventures.
Dispatches, post-mortems, and slow-motion grievances from a fantasy baseball league that has somehow survived three decades with mostly the same men. No newsletter for this one — the posts live here for anyone who wanders in.
Season 2026
BBL 2026 Auction: Day 1 Recap
In which grown men spend imaginary money on real baseball players, an inflatable chicken achieves immortality, and the Quibbler attempts to determine who "won" a process that is only half finished.
Season 2026
The Quibbler Sits Down With the Machine
The Quibbler Sits Down With the Machine An exclusive interview with The QuiBBLes -- the AI that has simulated your auction 10,000 times and has opinions about a
Season 2026
The Quibbler is Back -- And It Brought a Robot
After a prolonged hibernation -- what some of our less charitable readers might call "giving up" -- the Quibbler is back. And we brought reinforcements. You see
Season 2022
The 75th Smitty Anniversary Draft
For some of us, this was the 28th year to purchase a BBL baseball team. For me, it was my 24th year attending a fantasy baseball auction with a ton of great peo
Season 2020
2019 BBL Season in Review
The Hall of Fame auction was one for the record books. Let's see how the Quibbler did in its projections. The Quibbler said: 14. Pastries 13. Blue Moon Odum 12.
Season 2019
BBL Auction Review - 2019 the "Hall of Fame Draft"
There can be no other name for this BBL Auction other than "The Hall of Fame Draft". Cotton and Pepper did an outstanding job as journalists reporting on this m
Season 2019
Hot Tub Time Machine - 2018 BBL Projected Standings
The staff of the Quibbler went on strike shortly after the 2018 BBL draft (aka the "Greatest Draft Ever") and did not post its annual post-auction projections.
Season 2019
Observations from LABR NL-Only Auction - 2019
The LABR NL-Only Auction took place on Sunday, March 3, 2019. Let's see how the "experts" approached some interesting positional questions in the National Leagu
Season 2019
BBL Projected Keepers 2019
The BBL season is upon us and keepers are due in 14 days. Let's take a look at projected keepers for each team and some interesting potential choices. Since I d
Season 2017
Top Ten Hitters According to CBS Sports
Wow, what a start to the BBL season. We are a month into the season and we have some very surprising offensive performances. Historically, pitching fluctuates g
Season 2017
Predictions vs. Reality - BBL 2016
BBL 2016 was pretty good from a predictions standpoint. The Quibbler predicted the following teams within 2 spots of their actual finish: HooDoo Cats, Cocky Spa
Season 2017
BBL Auction Review 2017
Congratulations on the Champ for his amazing BBL 2016 title! Viva la Spainards! But, can he defend the title for BBL 2017...aka "Burning Man" BBL? The BBL did n
Season 2016
BBL 2016 - One Surprising Offensive Player for Each Team
This article will point out a player for each BBL team that has made a surprising impact on the offensive side of the ledger. We are not pointing out obvious ro
Season 2016
2016 BBL Auction Exit Interviews
12 BBL teams completed the exit interviews. The two teams that did not complete the survey will be fined 10 FAAB dollars or just live with the shame of missing
Season 2016
2016 BBL Auction Review
Congratulations to Al's Pals and Blue Moon Odum for their 20th anniversary BBL auction. An amazing achievement by two great owners. Expansion is rare in the BBL
Season 2016
"The Spirit of Opening Day" - 2016
No matter where you are, or what you are doing...today is opening day and you will think of baseball and the start of the BBL season. No matter where you finish
Season 2016
Grading the Keepers - BBL 2016
The 2016 BBL Keepers are set and the ratings are in. The teams are rated on "net profit" which means the difference between the published "value" of a player ag
Season 2016
Meet the TeeBeeDee's
The BBL expanded this year to an unprecedented 14th team. How will that impact the league? We can only imagine Stars and Scrubs will take on a new meaning this
Season 2016
Remembering the Champ - 2015
As was stated by our esteemed BBL elder, Cocky Spainards: "The Greatest Champ Ever took down his third title in unprecedented fashion." Here is an excerpt from
Season 2015
BBL Week Seven - The Critter
The Critter Earl's Squirrels are struggling! We always try to help our the great BBL owners with some handy advice. Matt Latos throws a pitch that no one else i
Season 2015
BBL Week Five
The Spainards are the Floyd Mayweather of the BBL The Cocky Spainards decided that enough was enough and put 12 points between their top spot at 80 and The Sund
Season 2015
Bryce Harper Says "Quibbler - Schmibbler"
First and foremost, we are much more high-brow than that fishwrap the "Quibbler" so we are not sure why players are still tying us together. None of that matter
Season 2015
BBL Week Four
Week four of the BBL starts to separate the men from the boys. Only 2.5 points exist between first and fourth place. It is getting exciting! State of the Standi
Season 2015
BBL Week 3
BBL Week 3 The State of the Standings Finally, a contender steps up and gets within 3 standing points of the Presumed Champ (Cocky Spainards). The Spainards are
Season 2015
2015 BBL Auction Exit Interviews
11 and 1/2 teams completed the exit interviews for the 2015 BBL Auction. You will understand the 1/2 as you read the results below. Nitros What was your strateg
Season 2015
Duffman
The first BBL trade (post auction) is in the books. On its face, it appears the Sundance Kids got the better of the low-end roster shuffle because Parra should
Season 2015
BBL FAAB Week 2
Musings on the FAAB Purchases for Week 2 of the BBL season, along with some interesting tidbits on the previous week in the BBL. TDA Down, TDA Down! The Cocky S
Season 2015
2015 BBL Auction Review
2015 BBL Auction Review Below is a review of the 2015 BBL Auction for each team and the projected winners in reverse order. The projections are based on my indi
Season 2015
BBL Shadow Draft 2015
BBL Shadow Draft 2015 The 2015 BBL Draft was clearly the "best draft ever" interesting to say the least. After two full days of drafting, thirteen teams have fu
Season 2015
Opening Day 2015
THE SPIRIT OF OPENING DAY by Greg Shea Today you'll dig in the closet for your glove and snap a ball into it while sipping your morning coffee. Today you'll dri
Season 2015
The Keeper Discussion of 2015
The debate on "Special Keepers" within the BBL reveals a divide between Union purists, advocating for player freedom, and Confederate property advocates who support retaining players as "kept men." De