Twitter Fantasy League, June Edition: Rookies

Throughout May, we debuted something called the Twitter Fantasy League. It's like any other fantasy game, really: you get some friends together, draft a few players onto your squad, give your team a silly name and compete for meaningless bragging rights in a game that requires more luck than skill. 

We play with a month-long season, with players drafting three tweeters from a pool of 20-30 who match a certain theme. As they tweet, you rack up points based on the categories below. In honor of the MLB Draft, we've declared this month's theme to be "Rookies." The draft pool featured 26 players with rookie eligibility in their sport's current or most recently completed season (i.e. guys like RGIII and Trever Bauer count, but not Nerlens Noel or Geno Smith).

Feel free to play along and leave any scoring or rule suggestions in the comments -- we're making the rules up as we go along. Our own Molly Fitzpatrick is the defending champ. Stay tuned, and we'll update you as the rest of us desperately attempt to dethrone her.

Here's the lowdown on the basic rules, our player pool and the result of our draft.

Scoring:

Positives

• A picture of something they ate: 1 point (If tweeted using instagram, 2 points)
• Asking a question about the city they're visiting: 1 point
• Trash talk directed toward a player or team: 3 points
• Trash talk directed toward a member of one's own team: 5 points
• An inspirational quote/life lesson: 1 point
• Trying to make a hashtag happen: 1 point
• Shoehorning in a hashtag: 1 point
• Accidental tweet (egregious typos, half-formed sentence, etc): 5 points
• Name dropping: 1 point
• Twitter convo with another famous person: 2 points
• Instagramming or tweeting a picture with another famous person: 3 points
• RTing a fan making a funny comment: 2 points
• Being hacked: 20 points
• Tweeting during a game: 5 points
• 'Mic Drop': 10 points

Negatives

• A political tweet: -1 point
• Inside joke: -1 point
• More than one "lol" in a tweet: -2 points
• Twitter syntax error (using punctuation in a hashtag, etc): -1 points
• RTing a fan who blatantly asked for an RT: -1 point
• Being fined for a tweet: -20 points
• TUI (Tweeting Under the Influence): -2 points
• Shameless Promotion: -1 point (with a cap of -10 per week)
• Claiming they were hacked when they clearly weren't: -10 points

Draft Results:

Matt Christopher's Nightmare -- Dakota Gardner

Andre Drummond, center, Detroit Pistons
Tyshawn Taylor, point guard, Brooklyn Nets
Thomas Robinson, power forward, Houston Rockets

Team #WOHLO -- Dan Wohl

Kendall Marshall, point guard, Phoenix Suns
Chandler Jones, defensive end, New England Patriots
Tayler Hill, guard, Washington Mystics

J.R. Smith and Sons Plumbing Co. -- Ian Kay

Robert Griffin III, quarterback, Washington Redskins
Trevor Bauer, pitcher, Cleveland Indians
Britney Griner, center, Phoenix Mercury

MyCousinTweeter -- Matt Monagan

Danica Patrick, NASCAR driver
Jae Crowder, forward, Dallas Mavericks
Lavonte David, linebacker, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Jackie Robinson Onassis -- Molly Fitzpatrick

Dion Waiters, shooting guard, Cleveland Caveliers
Elena Delle Donne, guard/forward, Chicago Sky
Russell Wilson, quarderback, Seattle Seahawks

Free Agents

-- Dakota Gardner and the Cut4 Staff