Prop Picks

A list of questions about one game that are not just who wins: who scores first, will there be a home run, total runs over or under 8.5. Everyone answers the same sheet, each right answer scores, and most points wins. A tiebreaker (total runs) settles a tie.

Almost every library question grades itself from the official MLB play-by-play, the same feed Event Bingo marks itself from: the result and the score, home runs, doubles, triples, steals, errors, double plays, walks, the first batter and the first pitch, extra innings and walk-offs, and named players’ hits, home runs, RBIs, strikeouts and outs, with the names on player questions filled in from that game’s announced starters rather than typed in by hand. A question decides as soon as it can (a home run in the 3rd settles “Will anyone homer?” right then); no, under and head-to-head questions wait for the final out. A question you write yourself, and a couple of judgement calls like a replay overturning a ruling, the commissioner settles with a tap.

Yes. That is the player props option, and you choose game props, player props or both when you create the sheet. A player question is written against a ROLE rather than a name (“the home starter”), and the real name fills itself in from the announced probable pitchers: “Will Freddy Peralta strike out at least 5 batters?”, “Who records more strikeouts, the Brewers starter or the Rays starter?”. That is what makes it work for a SERIES. Game 1’s pitcher is not Game 4’s, and each game asks about its own. Until a starter is announced the question stays off everybody’s sheet and counts against nobody, so no one is marked short for a question they were never shown. If a starter is scratched before picks lock, the question is rewritten with the new name, that one answer is cleared and everyone who answered it is emailed to re-pick. Nothing else on their sheet is touched. You can also type a name in yourself, and once you do we never overwrite it.

As often as they like until the sheet locks at first pitch. After that, the server refuses any change and the last saved answer stands.

Yes. Write a yes-or-no question, a pick-one question with your own answers, or an over/under with your own line, and set the points. Save a good one to your library for next time.

Baseball today, with a pack for the World Series. A game that is not on our schedule can be typed in and graded by hand.

Yes. Choose "A series" when you create it and one contest covers every game: its own questions for each game, each game locking at its own first pitch, a tiebreaker for every game and for the series, and winners for each game, the series or both. People can join after Game 1 and play the games left.

Nothing. Prop Picks is free on every plan, including Free, with no limit on how many people play.