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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The Blue Jays' season has concluded, but do you need your next baseball fix over the long winter?
    Fans that follow the Jays know the thrill of building a team from the ground up — from scouting promising talent to developing all-stars. But what if you could experience that same excitement firsthand, managing every detail of your own franchise? That’s where Franchise Ball steps up to the plate. It’s a free online baseball simulation game that lets you become the general manager of your own team, competing in real-time leagues against other passionate baseball minds around the world.
    In Franchise Ball, you’re not just watching the game — you’re building it. You’ll draft players, negotiate trades, and fine-tune lineups to maximize performance. Each simulated game unfolds with advanced stats and analytics that reflect real baseball logic, making every managerial decision matter. Whether you prefer to model your team after the [blog team name] balanced strategy or carve out your own unique identity, Franchise Ball gives you the tools to do it.
    The experience runs 24/7, with games played daily across competitive divisions and playoff seasons. As you progress, you can develop player depth charts, scout prospects, and manage your team’s finances for long-term success. The system rewards strategy, patience, and smart decision-making — the same skills that front offices use in Major League Baseball.
    Unlike many sports games, Franchise Ball doesn’t rely on flashy graphics or pay-to-win mechanics. It's a pure test of baseball management and intellect.  You can join leagues, form rivalries, and climb the global rankings while keeping tabs on your stats through the game’s detailed dashboard. Every box score and scouting report feels like a genuine piece of baseball management history in the making.
    Franchise Ball is completely free to play, with membership upgrade options, and we're constantly listening to our community to bring new features to the game as they come in. So if you’re inspired by the way the Blue Jays rebuild, retool, and compete year after year — now’s your chance to run your own team and see if your baseball instincts can match up. Visit Franchise Ball today, start your own franchise, and take your first swing at baseball greatness.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    1. Create Your Blog
    When you click the Blogs section on the top menu, you'll be taken to a list of most the most recent entries from our community. At the top of this feed you'll see the "Create a Blog" button. Click it and you'll be asked to enter a few high-level details: the title of your blog within the site (i.e., "John's Blue Jays Blog" or something more clever/creative), a brief description, and the category it will belong to (if you're not sure, just pick "General").
    To hop on over to the blog index page now, click here.
    2. Publish Your First Entry
    Congrats, you have a blog! Now give people a reason to come check it out. On your blog page, you'll see a red button on the right-hand side, "Add Blog Entry." Click it to draft your content. Here you can either compose within the CMS, or copy-and-paste what you've written elsewhere (Word, Google Doc, notes app, etc.). You'll also be prompted to choose a category for your post (select "Use an existing entry category" and pick the one that fits best, or create a new one). You can either publish immediately or schedule it to go live in the future.
    3. Support Your Position with Stats
    We now support copying and pasting Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs stat tables directly into the site! Just pop on over to this blog and find out how to do it!
    4. Tips to Make Your Blog Look Great
    First, upload an image! Just below the blog entry area, you will see a Featured Photo bar. Grab a photo and drag it into that space, which will upload the image, feature it, and make it more likely your blog will be noticed (and commented on).
    5. Promote and Keep Blogging
    Jays Centre has a naturally built-in audience of passionate Jays fans, so your content will likely get some views on its own. But spread the word! Tell your friends to check it out and share it on your social media profiles. Keep writing regularly to hone your skills and grow your readership. Those who post consistently high-quality content in the blogs often get the opportunity to move up to the (paid) front page.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content).
    First, pop on over to Vlad's B-Ref page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guerrvl02.shtml
    Just above his stat table, you'll see Share & Export. Click and then select Modify, Share, & Export Table. Boom, you can then select what stats you want to display and which you want to remove. I've removed all seasons except the last two. I also removed team and league because "duh". Then click the big X in the top right of the yellow square and you have your filtered table. Grab that table by moving your cursor to the top left of the table (just to the left of Year in this case) and while holding down the button of your mouse/trackpad, drag toward the bottom right of the table. The table will begin to highlight in yellow as you select the cells. Grab them all and let go of the mouse/trackpad. Then copy what has been selected (control+c on Windows, command+c on macOS). Pop over to Jays Centre, start typing a comment, and paste your content (control+v on Windows, command+v on macOS).
    Season Age Team Lg WAR G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ rOBA Rbat+ TB GIDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards 2019 20 TOR AL 2.1 123 514 464 52 126 26 2 15 69 0 1 46 91 .272 .339 .433 .772 106 .337 109 201 17 2 0 2 0 5D/H ROY-6 2020 21 TOR AL 0.6 60 243 221 34 58 13 2 9 33 1 0 20 38 .262 .329 .462 .791 115 .351 118 102 6 2 0 0 1 3D/H   2021 22 TOR AL 6.7 161 698 604 123 188 29 1 48 111 4 1 86 110 .311 .401 .601 1.002 167 .422 168 363 20 6 0 2 7 *3D/5 AS,MVP-2,SS 2022 23 TOR AL 4.0 160 706 638 90 175 35 0 32 97 8 3 58 116 .274 .339 .480 .818 133 .357 133 306 26 6 0 4 6 *3D/H5 AS,MVP-16,GG 2023 24 TOR AL 2.0 156 682 602 78 159 30 0 26 94 5 3 67 100 .264 .345 .444 .788 116 .346 121 267 23 9 0 4 5 *3D/H AS 2024 25 TOR AL 6.2 159 697 616 98 199 44 1 30 103 2 2 72 96 .323 .396 .544 .940 166 .399 165 335 16 5 0 4 12 *3D5/H AS,MVP-6,SS 6 Yrs 21.5 819 3540 3145 475 905 177 6 160 507 20 10 349 551 .288 .363 .500 .863 137 .372 139 1574 108 30 0 16 31 3D5H   162 Game Avg 4.3 162 700 622 94 179 35 1 32 100 4 2 69 109 .288 .363 .500 .863 137 .372 139 311 21 6 0 3 6    
  4. Brock Beauchamp

    Jays Centre Tips & Tricks: The Feed

    By Brock Beauchamp,


    Tips & Tricks
    As opposed to the previous default state of the site, you may want to set a custom feed as your Jays Centre landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list goes on.
    First, to find your personal feed, near the top right of the screen you will see a newspaper icon in the blue bar below your user information.
    That brings you to the default view, which is Unread Content.

    Here you'll see a variety of options to tailor your custom stream to do almost anything you like on the site. I'll spare you going through each item in detail individually, as it's all quite self-explanatory. You can choose tagged content, type of content (news, forums, blogs, status updates, etc.), read/unread only, content you've participated in or started, followed content, and finally, how it's sorted.
    Depending what kind of device you're using, you can also choose Condensed or Expanded. Condensed just gives you the title and link while Expanded offers a truncated version of the content as a preview.
    Once you've decided on your changes, you can save this stream using the save prompt below. You're allowed to have multiple custom streams so name this new stream and it joins the others.
    Once you're done customizing your stream, Click Stream Options at the top right of the selection drop-down, and your choices become your default custom stream. Every time you click that newspaper or visit your stream, the selections you've made will remain in place.
    That's it, enjoy the new site!
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