Pick the Stick: World Series
Only during the World Series, once a year.
Follow one club with your friends. Pick a new starting hitter each game and compete for your league’s World Series title.
This World Series event has finished.
Your league results and awards remain available below. Pick the Stick returns for the next World Series.
- Choose optional lineup-ready and own-turn email notices when you register.
- One exclusive hitter per manager, with no repeating your own previous-game hitter.
- Saved preferences guide automatic picks before first pitch.
- Series standings use actual MLB game statistics.
You can browse public leagues. Sign in to create, join or make a pick.
Your leagues
Your leagues appear here after you sign in.
Public leagues
No public leagues are available. Saved leagues remain accessible to their managers.
Rules & scoring
- One World Series club per league, with one through nine human managers.
- Register before the lineup arrives. Automatic leagues activate when the fresh confirmed nine is ready; manual leagues wait for the commissioner to open each game.
- Each game uses that club's confirmed starting nine. Every manager gets one different hitter.
- You cannot pick your own hitter from the previous game. Every pick must leave a legal choice for the remaining managers.
- Game 1 uses a saved random order. After that, the lowest previous-game score drafts first. Ties keep the previous draft order.
- Each turn lasts 2 minutes. Before first pitch, a missed turn uses your ranked legal starters, then another legal starter, while the official source remains fresh.
- Selections lock at first pitch. Automatic picks stop then, even if the draft is incomplete. An incomplete draft pauses without invented picks or points.
- A changed lineup pauses drafting. The commissioner can restart before first pitch, clearing every selection for that game.
- Postponed, suspended and unavailable games keep their source status. Missing statistics are not scored as zero.
Points from the real game
- Singles
- +1
- Doubles
- +2
- Triples
- +3
- Home runs
- +4
- RBI
- +1
- Runs
- +1
- Walks
- +1
- Hit by pitch
- +1
- Stolen bases
- +1
- Grounded into double play
- -2
- Strikeouts
- -1
- Caught stealing
- -1
- Fielding errors
- -1
Extra-base hits replace a single. Intentional walks are included in walks once. Hitter statistics and fielding errors come from MLB; source corrections can revise scores.
The World Series is complete. League awards wait for every actual game to have final league scores. Checked Nov 4, 1:16 PM UTC.