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February 12, 2007, 07:51 PM ET
BP-Kings is Back

by Nate Silver

Last year’s Scoresheet Baseball-based “celebrity” fantasy league, dubbed “BP-Kings” league after participants King Kaufman and Peter King, is returning for a second season. BP will once again make a donation to the charity of the winner’s choosing, but — let’s be honest here — we’re hoping to have a lot of fun and settle a few arguments along the way.

While Dave Cokin tries to defend his AL Crown, we have a few changes in store. Firstly, Kings will be switching over to a keeper format, allowing Kevin Goldstein and PECOTA to take their prospect mettle to the mat. Secondly, we’re moving to unique a 24-team, split AL/NL format that allows interleague trading, but no interleague play until the World Series (just like the good ol’ days).

Confirmed participants include:

• Rico Brogna, former Major League player
• Albert Chen and Jacob Luft, SI.com
• Dave Cokin, ESPN-920, Las Vegas
• Jeff Erickson, Rotowire.com
• Kevin Goldstein, Baseball Prospectus
• Rany Jazayerli, Baseball Prospectus
• Dave Kaplan and Mike Ferrin, WGN
• King Kaufman, Salon.com
• Eric Karabell, ESPN Fantasy
• Peter King, Sports Illustrated and HBO
• Will Leitch, Deadspin
• Josh Levin, Slate.com
• Jeff Ma, ProTrade
• Ben Murphy, Baseball Prospectus
• Rob Neyer, ESPN.com
• Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
• John Perrotto, Pirates beat writer for the Beaver County Times
• Cory Schwartz and Mike Siano, MLB.com
• Joe Sheehan, Baseball Prospectus
• Nate Silver, Baseball Prospectus
• Jenn Sterger, SI.com and jennsterger.com
• Sam Walker and Nando DiFino, Wall Street Journal and Fantasyland
• An anonymous executive of a Major League front office

Look for more articles and updates forthcoming from league commissioner Ben Murphy as the draft gets underway.

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