Surely, you have nothing better to do

In response to the the contraction of the PCS season, the board of directors has voted to institute a sensible alternative (final vote: 1 for, 0 against) to relieve the monotony of those summer days without baseball. On days (other than Mondays) when the Dodgers are not playing, a puzzle will be posted for your viewing enjoyment. It's a little thing I like to call "Value Over Replacement Puzzle"

The rules are simple. The puzzle will be posted at 8:00 AM. When you have a solution, E-mail your answer to the address on the sidebar and post a notification in the comments. Sound familiar? Here's the lineup.

• May 13
• June 10
• July 1
  
• July 14
  
• September 2
  

Because there always needs to be a meaningless distinction between leagues, there will be a few differences in the scoring system. When the puzzle is posted, each solver starts with 90 points, with 10 bonus points being awarded to the first correct solution. Every 15 minutes, 1 point will be subtracted from that total. A solution submitted at 10 am scores 82 points, while one submitted at 2pm scores 66, etc. If a player does not submit a correct solution before 11:00 pm, participation in the thread is still worth 10 points.

Rankings for the VORP classic will be calculated by a weighted total. The most recently solved puzzle will be worth 3 times the puzzle score, the previous puzzle will be worth twice the score, and older puzzles will be counted normally.