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About
Where the name comes from
It works like a home run derby, but for team names and logos. Every team goes head to head, and the top 64 meet in a bracket.
Why this exists
The offseason is long, and there is nothing to watch until spring training. This is something to argue about in the meantime.
Minor league teams have the best brands in sports. Come on, Jumbo Shrimp? Trash Pandas?! Rumble Ponies?!
How it works
- Every matchup is two of the 120 affiliated minor league teams, picked by the server, so nobody can choose who their team faces. Most pairs put a team with fewer votes so far against one with a similar rating. About one in ten is fully random, and you won't see the same team again for the next few matchups.
- Each vote counts as one head-to-head result, scored with Elo, the rating system from chess. Every team starts at 1500. The winner's rating goes up and the loser's goes down, and an upset moves them more than an expected result.
- New teams settle faster. Until a team has 20 counted votes, its rating moves in bigger steps (K of 40, then 24), and the rankings mark it provisional.
- Ratings are recomputed from the full vote log every time, so every vote is scored by the same rules, even if the rules change later.
- To keep it fair, votes cast too fast to have looked at both logos don't count, each browser session and each IP address has a cap on counted votes, and matchups use one-time tokens with rate limits to make it hard for scripts to pick their spots.
- You can view the rankings after 15 votes, so you vote before you see what everyone else thinks.
- When the head-to-head phase ends, the top 64 by rating are seeded into a bracket.