LetsPlay3 2026

It's the 20th anniversary of LetsPlay3. Thanks to Grok for the cool logo.

Let's play three!

thanks...yow, bill

Yahoo league setup

Here are the (boring) steps I take to get the Yahoo league ready before the draft.

Finalize teams - Once all 16 teams are on board, I tell Yahoo to "Finalize Teams" so that I can setup our divisions and schedule and draft and all. Read on!
Set divisions - Divisions only impact the schedule. We have 16 teams, and there are 21 weeks in the regular season. You play most teams in your division twice and teams outside your division just once. Teams drafting in odd numbered spots (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15) are placed in the Spicy division. Teams drafting in even spots are in the Mild division.
- Important: Divisions have no playoff impact.
- Divisions don't show up in the standings because Yahoo shows the 2025 standings until we the 2026 season gets rolling. (shrug)
- Here's the Yahoo screen setting the divisions, divisions2026.jpg
Shuffle the schedule - Randomize the schedule for grins
Online draft - Set the draft order. Set the draft style to non-snaking.
- Here's the Yahoo screen for this, yahoo_draft_order.jpg

Draft day/time

The online draft will be:

Sunday March 15 @ 3:00 pm (central)

Draft order

Draft order for 2026:

Janny, Bay City
Brad, Killer Maltese
Troy, PTBNL
Griff, Lollygagger
Max, Friday Night Starter
Anthony, Ronsby Swanson
Kyle, Southern
Jay, CRYO TED
Ed, Boston
Dan, Broken Bat (newbie)
TY, Philly
Eric, Vatican City
Chris Commish, KGG
Rob, Breaking Beard
Bob, Killer Rabbit
Bill, DG

Go old school and print your LetsPlay3 Draft Sheet, draft_sheet2026.pdf

Draft research

Here are some of my favorite fantasy baseball websites (in alpha order):

Baseball Savant, baseballsavant.mlb.com
CBS Fantasy Baseball, www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball
FanGraphs, www.fangraphs.com
Fantasy Pros, www.fantasypros.com/mlb
Pitcher List, www.pitcherlist.com
Razzball, baseball.razzball.com

Draft results

Here are your 2026 LP3 draft results, 3 rounds at a time:

Rounds 1-3, draft_results1.png
Rounds 4-6, draft_results2.png
Rounds 7-9, draft_results3.png
Rounds 10-12, draft_results4.png
Rounds 13-15, draft_results5.png

Finally, here are the results for our slow draft: Rounds 16-20...coming soon.

Rounds 16-20, slow_draft.pdf

Season stats

I heart season stats. I copy-paste our boxscores each week into a spreadsheet and then create some extra stats that may be interesting/helpful to LP3 owners (and millions of fans).

Step one: Here's the boxscore data, season_data.pdf

Step two: Fiddle with the data and create these stats each week. Go!