Global Games

Charles Ho became the first Met Leaguer to capture Gold Medal honors in the Global Games competition on Wednesday night. Ho, the owner and manager of the Brooklyn Batmen MBLS franchise, finished the 2006-2007 Global Games season on top of the standings, leading the field by earning 1.3 million metros. MBLS commissioner and Oakland Mules owner-manager Brian Beck captured the Silver medal by winning 1.175 million metros, while Jeff Kuo - owner and manager of the Seattle Whales MBLS franchise - finished third with 825,000 metros to capture the Bronze medal. The three winners represented the top three metro earners over the 2006-07 games season.

For the first time this season, March Madness and the NCAA Tournament are coming to the Met Leagues. Met Leaguers will have a chance to compete against each other for valuable metros in the Met Leagues NCAA Pick'Em Contest. Every point earned during the competition will be worth 100 metros, while the overall winner will gain 200,000 bonus metros.

Instructions on how to join the contest will soon be mailed to all Met Leagues members. The tournament will get underway tomorrow - Thursday, April 15th - at 12:20 p.m. eastern time.

Two new contests have been announced in preparation for the upcoming NFL season. As with other MBLS prediction contests, each will allow owners to earn metros, which can be exchanged for sim-league cash.

In NFL Over/Under 2006, owners will select eight NFL teams and predict whether they will finish at, above, or below the Vegas preseason predicted total.

NFL Pick'em 2006 gives owners the chance to test their prognostication ability by selecting the eight division winners and four playoff wild-card teams. From those selections, conference and Super Bowl Champions are chosen. In addition, four individual awards can be predicted (Regular Season MVP, Super Bowl MVP, ROY, and Coach of the Year).

NEW YORK, April 28 - The Met Leagues and the Almighty Royal Council of Metropolitana launched two new exciting sports prediction contests this week to coincide with the start of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs.

Met League members are encouraged to participate in the 2006 NBA Playoffs Pick'Em Contest, and the 2006 NHL Playoffs Pick'Em Contest.

We'll be updating the standings -- and doling out the metros -- as these playoffs proceed.

At long last, the 2006 Met League Contest Season finally got underway today with the launch of two new Met League sports prediction contests for the new sports year. Prediction contests were one of our most popular features in the Baseball Coalition and Global Sports Coalition in previous years, and MBLS team owners strongly endorsed the idea this offseason in the MBLS Futures Survey.

Franchise owners participating in all the Met League sim leagues will have an opportunity to earn metros, which can be converted into fantasy sim league cash, by participating in the contests.