Draft hitters. Every home run scores its distance in feet.
A home run league where quality counts as much as quantity. You draft a team of hitters and every home run they hit scores its Statcast projected distance: a 450-foot shot is worth 450 points, a 340-foot wall-scraper is worth 340. No lineups to set. The team with the most feet at the end of the season wins.
Long Ball is FanRanked's season-long home run league, and it also runs as a postseason league. Every format is on the fantasy baseball leagues page. Entries are free.
How it works
Join with the host's invite link and claim a team. Rosters are set at the draft.
Draft hitters in a snake draft (live or slow, the host picks). Pitchers are not in the pool.
Every home run by one of your hitters scores one point per foot of its Statcast projected distance.
Every regular-season game counts. Postseason games do not.
Home runs count from the end of the draft (or Opening Day, if later) through the league's Season End date.
Each week the team with the longest home run of the week gets a 50-point bonus.
The standings are the sum of feet. Most feet wins.
Scoring
Home run distance: 1 point per foot (Statcast projected distance).
Every home run counts, no minimum distance.
If Statcast has no distance for a home run (inside-the-park, tracking miss), it scores 400 feet.
No multipliers during the regular season.
Longest bomb of the week: +50 to that team.
These are the default numbers. A commissioner can change any of them before the league opens, and the Rules tab inside every league shows the numbers in force.
The fine print
Distances come from Baseball Savant and usually land one to four hours after a game ends. Totals show as provisional until then, and Savant sometimes revises a distance overnight; the ledger updates when it does.
Ties break by most home runs, then by the longest single home run.
The weekly bonus compares actual distance among home runs that score. A tie goes to the earlier home run.
A hitter's home runs count for whoever has him rostered at the time. Feet already banked stay with the team that banked them.
Rosters are set at the draft. No in-season moves, FAAB or trading.
How to play it well
Average distance matters as much as home-run count. A 30-homer hitter who averages 420 feet beats a 35-homer hitter who averages 385.
Park and exit velocity drive distance. The draft board shows each hitter's average and longest home run this season.
Health is the whole game with no lineups: a hitter on the injured list scores nothing.