USSSA Pride
NPF Fantasy League is Launched
The NPF Fantasy League allows fans to draft a fantasy roster of 17 players. Participants are vying to choose the best line-up to perform during each week of the NPF season based on the team they have drafted. Points are accumulated based on a points system that rewards participants through live player performances and the player statistics accumulated. A participant begins by drafting players by position (two catchers, four pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, etc.) Each week participants can change their lineup based on the players drafted.
Fans have two different draft options. Those options include joining the public NPF Fantasy League, which will pit participants against other NPF fans and NPFFL participants throughout the country, or creating a private league to compete against friends and/or colleagues.
“We are very much looking forward to launching this product for the 2012 season,” commented NPF Commissioner, Cheri Kempf. “Fantasy Leagues are incredibly popular for nearly every sport in the world and the NPF should be a part of that. We hope this will involve fans with our teams and players in a way they have not previously been able to experience, but will surely appreciate.”
Participants will have the rosters of the four affiliate NPF franchise clubs to choose from which include the Akron Racers, Carolina Diamonds, Chicago Bandits, and USSSA Florida Pride. Each NPF team is allowed a maximum of twenty players, so the player pool available for the NPF Fantasy League will include eighty total athletes.
The 2012 season begins June 7 and runs through August 19. The season includes 88 total games of competition prior to the Championship Series held this year at the Ballpark at Rosemont, in Rosemont, IL August 26-29. All 88 games will be streamed live and available through team and league websites. On June 23, two games are set to be streamed live on ESPN3, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Title IX.
To draft an NPF Fantasy team, participants can go to the Fantasy League Page on the NPF website. The NPFFL is the first fantasy league created for fastpitch softball and was developed by Pointstreak Sports Technologies Inc., especially for the National Pro Fastpitch League
About USSSA Florida Pride:
The USSSA Florida Pride is a professional franchise in the National Pro Fastpitch League that is owned and operated by USSSA. The amateur organization of USSSA has multi-sport coverage and encompasses teams and players from the United States and abroad.
About NPF:
National Pro Fastpitch is headquartered in Nashville, TN. The league, created to give elite female fastpitch players the opportunity to pursue a professional career in their chosen sport, has operated since 1997 under the names of Women’s Pro Fastpitch (WPF) and Women’s Pro Softball League (WPSL). NPF is the Official Development Partner of Major League Baseball in the category of women’s fastpitch softball since 2002.
About USSSA:
The United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA), headquartered in Osceola County, Florida, USSSA is the World’s Largest Multi-sport Athletic Organization. Founded in 1968, USSSA has grown to over 3.7 million participants, competing in 13 nationally sanctioned sports including Baseball, Fastpitch, Slow Pitch, Karate, Basketball, Soccer and more! For more information on USSSA and to register your team visit USSSA.com. Also be sure to visit USSSAToday.com for the latest USSSA News!