Gint-A-Cuffs Official Scoring Rules

Since quite a few bloggers have already expressed an interest in participating in a 2009 Allen & Ginter battle, I would like to try and find a way to involve anyone who wants to participate. That way, this will truly be war!

It would work like this:

Deadline to enter: Monday July 6th (before the release, so no one can open a box, and then decide to enter)
How to enter: Leave a comment on this post, stating that you are in, and name your favorite player and team.
How to achieve victory: Based on the scoring criteria below (still a work in progress), do the math and figure out how many points your box is worth. You must scan & post all cards that are worth positive points, as well as your total box score. Whoever gets the highest total box score is the Gint-A-Cuffs grand champion. We'll have to figure out a prize for the winner. I could probably make them a custom Ginter card, sort of like if you had "cracked the code" last year.

OFFICIAL SCORING (still being tweaked)

BASE CARDS
0 base card
+1 Favorite Team base card
-1 Yankee base card

+2 Favorite player list base card (Nick Markakis, Grady Sizemore, Tim Lincecum, Joe Mauer, Chipper Jones) MORE PLAYERS TO BE ADDED AS PEOPLE SIGN UP
-1 points if we pull base card of ....Eric Byrnes, Bobby Crosby, Scott Olsen, Jeff Clement, Kenji Johjima, Tom Gorzelanny
+2 Beard & Mustache Champion base card
+3 YOUR favorite player base card

-1 points for pulling the base for Suez Canal, Milky Way, Old Faithful, Electron (because what the hell are you going to do with that)
+5 Short printed base card (301-350?)
+1 FOR ANY BASE CARD OF YANKEE ON "FAVORITE PLAYERS" LIST

MINI CARDS
0 for base

-1 Yankees
+3 Beard & Mustache Champion mini

+1 Mini of player on your favorite team
+3 Mini of player from "favorite players" list (see above)
+5 Mini of YOUR favorite player

+2 Mini A&G back

+3 Mini black border

+10 Mini no number
+7 Mini short print (301-350?)

(Combine points if it qualifies for multiple categories (mini "favorite player list" with A&G back = 7pts)
DIVIDE BY 2 FOR ANY MINI CARD OF YANKEE ON FAVORITE PLAYER LIST

NATIONAL PRIDE INSERTS

+2 Player from your favorite team

+4 Favorite player list
+6 YOUR favorite player

-1 Yankee
SUBTRACT 1 FOR ANY YANKEE ON FAVORITE PLAYER LIST ex: Jeter: +4 (Favorite List) minus 1 (Yankee) = 3pts

OTHER INSERTS

+5 World's Biggest Hoaxes

+7 Creatures of Legend

+5 National Heroes

+3 Brian Kong Baseball Highlight Sketch cards
+10 Inventions of the Future

HITS

+8 Relic
+12 Short Printed Relic (usually non-baseball)

+15 Autograph
+15 Silk
+25 Group A Autograph
+25 Rip Card

+100 Cut Signature
+200 DNA Relic
+5 N43 Box Topper
+8 Cabinet Card Box Topper
+10 N43 of player from "favorite players" list
+20 N43 of your favorite player
+20 N43 Relics
+30 N43 Autographs
+50 N43 Autograph Relic
+75 Michael Phelps Autograph Boxloader

MULTIPLIERS FOR "HITS"
x2 If any of those pulls are of a player from your favorite team

x5 If any hits are of players on the "favorite players" list (see above)

x10 If it's YOUR favorite player

-5 points if we pull a hit of ........Corey Paterson (Relic), Eric Gagne (Relic), Jered Weaver (Relic)
DIVIDE BY 2 FOR ALL YANKEES HITS, INCLUDING "FAVORITE PLAYERS LIST"

IF YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER IS A YANKEE, YOU GET FULL POINTS FOR THAT PLAYER ONLY. ALL OTHER YANKEES ARE WORTH NEGATIVE POINTS, OR HALF AS MANY POINTS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

IF THE YANKEES ARE YOUR FAVORITE TEAM, THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, AND YOU MUST ACCEPT ANY AND ALL PENALTIES FOR ALL CARDS THAT ARE NOT OF YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER.

Favorite Players List
Nick Markakis
Joe Mauer
Brian Roberts
Tim Lincecum
Jay Bruce
Evan Longoria
Grady Sizemore
Adam LaRoche
Derek Jeter
Adrian Gonzalez
Hanley Ramirez
Joey Votto
Chipper Jones
Geovany Soto
Mariano Rivera
Clayton Kershaw
Dustin Pedroia
David Wright
Josh Hamilton

If there are any suggestions or changes to the scoring system, feel free to speak up. I'm all ears on this one. It would be cool to decide on a system that everyone is comfortable with in the next couple of days. For all the O's fans out there, including myself, there doesn't appear to be a single autograph in this set for us, and the only relic appears to be of Melvin Mora.

Yankees fans may claim the scoring system is unfair. So is the Yankees payroll, and the rest of us have to deal with that.