Friday, January 5, 2007

Welcome To Fantasy IR

Welcome to the greatest timewaster since http://www.intellectualdelinquent.com/ATARI.htm

Who are we? Just interested citizens. What's the point? Well, whether it's your comps or the job market, all of us are always trying to keep track of what's going on in International Relations. One way to do this, cause all kinds of trouble, and have some fun at the same time is to devise a game. That and some of us are obsessed with fantasy football. Thus, enter Fantasy IR League.

Rules post is below, feel free to consult that for further details. Two requests we make. First, if you are interested in playing, or curious about this, feel free to leave a comment. Like the IR Rumor Mill, we do moderate comments. Or email us at irfantasyleague@gmail.com. For now, we're building this. We're scheduling an IR Fantasy Draft for July, and the season will open with the 2007 American Political Science Association conference in Chicago, and run through the next August. You draft two tenured faculty and three untenured, and the only guidance there is you can't draft yourself.

We appreciate any comments, suggestions, queries you're willing to offer, and think this could actually be a hell of a lot of fun.

Thanks,
The IR Fantasy League Team

Scoring

Following are the scoring rules for Fantasy IR.

You build a team of five academics. You may have two tenured, and three non-tenured/tenure-track academics on your team. If a non-tenured academic receives tenure while on your team, you may hold onto her, but if you cut her from your team, you must replace her with a non-tenured academic.

There are three categories of points in Fantasy IR, as follows below. Please feel free to discuss this scoring system in the comments section.

Publications
Books
(legend: sole author/co-author/editor/chapter author)
Published by Cornell, Cambridge, or Princeton University Press during year of play
50/20/10/5
Published by another University Press during year of play
25/10/5/3
Published by a non-University Press
20/5/3/1
Reviewed in Foreign Affairs or the APSR/Perspectives
5 (7 for feature-length review)
Reviewed in the New York Times
10
Reviewed in the Washington Post, Economist, LA Times, or Wall Street Journal
7
Articles
(legend: sole author/co-author)
Published in APSR, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, or International Organization
50/20
Published in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, European Journal of International Relations, World Politics, Millenium,
25/10
Published in another peer reviewed scholarly journal, Foreign Affairs, or Foreign Policy
15/5
Published in a non-scholarly journal
7/3
if the article generates responses/letters in the year of play:
in APSR, International Security, International Organization
10
in PS, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, European Journal of International Relations, World Politics, Millenium, International Studies Quarterly
5
Op-Eds
(legend same as articles)
New York Times
10/7
Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Times of London
5/3
all other op-eds
1

Conferences
APSA Paper presented (beginning of game year)
10
APSA Panel chair
7
APSA Panel discussant
5
ISA Paper presented
5
ISA Panel chair
3
ISA Panel discussant
2
MPSA/other conference Paper presented
3
MPSA/other conference Panel chair
2
MPSA/other conference Panel discussant
1

Tenure/Chair/Hire/Position
(legend: T1/non-T1. We define "T1" as one of the top 16 schools in the William and Mary study on IR, available at http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/intlpolitics/teaching/surveyreport.pdf specifically on page 25. The schools are Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, Chicago, Yale, Michigan, Berkeley, UCSD, Cornell, MIT, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Ohio State, and Minnesota. Depending on comments from the rabble, this list may change.) These are event-based on the happenings during that year - a new tenure, a new chair position, etc.
Make Tenure
50/30
New Job (accept offer)
20/10
Endowed Chair
30/15
University Dean/Provost
25/15
Department Chair
20/10
Promotion (other than tenure)
20/10
Dissertation Advisee Placed at
10/5

Bonuses
Named APSA President
100
Named ISA President
70
Grawemeyer Prize
100
Selected for a Government Job (US/foreign)
(cabinet level/subcabinet level/working level)
30/10/5