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)

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Draft order

Draft order for 2026:

1. Janny, Bay City
2. Brad, Killer Maltese
3. Troy, PTBNL
4. Griff, Lollygagger
5. Max, Friday Night Starter
6. Anthony, Ronsby Swanson
7. Kyle, Southern
8. Jay, CRYO TED
9. Ed, Boston
10. Dan, Broken Bat (newbie)
11. TY, Philly
12. Eric, Vatican City
13. Chris Commish, KGG
14. Rob, Breaking Beard
15. Bob, Killer Rabbit
16. Bill, DG

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

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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

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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!

• Week 1:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Southern Rocket, 4.9)
• Week 2:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Philly Dollar, 5.7)
• Week 3:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Naperville, 4.5)
• Week 4:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Southern Rocket, 5.1)
• Week 5:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (CRYO TED & Ronsby, 5.2)
• Week 6:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Killer Maltese, 4.2)
• Week 7:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (CRYO TED, 4.1)
• Week 8:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (CRYO TED, 4.7)
• Week 9:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Joliet JazzCat, 5.1)
• Week 10:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Vatican City, 3.3)
• Week 11:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Friday Night, 4.6)
• Week 12:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Southern Rocket, 4.4)
• Week 13:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (Philly Dollars, 4.9)
• Week 14:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (PTBNL, 4.1)
• Week 15:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   TOTW  (KGG, 2.6)
• Week 16:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (Naperville, 4.4)
• Week 17:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (CRYO TED, 4.3)
• Week 18:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (Boston, 3.9)
• Week 19:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (CRYO TED, 5.6)
• Week 20:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (Naperville, 4.0)
• Week 21:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (Southern Rocket, 4.6)
• Week 22:   standings   ~   averages   ~   rankings   ~   heatmap   ~   TOTW  (Philly Dollar, 3.5)

Final Standings

22 weeks...the regular season.

All-Star Team

The LP3 All-Star team is the best player at each position by Yahoo rank:

LP3 2026 MVP:   Pete Crow-Armstrong (cub), CRYOGENIC TED

Owner selfies!