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XB3
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:02 pm    Post subject: Someone explain fantasy baseball to me Reply with quote

I understand and play fantasy football, but don't know anything about fantasy baseball. I'm considering getting into it next season. Do you have a 25 man roster? Is it alot of work to be involved? Is it a league play like FF?

Someone fill me in. Idea
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Someone explain fantasy baseball to me Reply with quote

XB3 wrote:
I understand and play fantasy football, but don't know anything about fantasy baseball. I'm considering getting into it next season. Do you have a 25 man roster? Is it alot of work to be involved? Is it a league play like FF?

Someone fill me in. Idea


There are a whole bunch of different ways of playing fantasy baseball, but I imagine the basic principle is much the same as fantasy football [which I know nothing about!] - put together a lineup, and how they do determines the standings. The most common scoring system is what's called "rotisserie". In this, there are (usually 10) categories, both offensive and pitching, decided before the season. For example:

Offensive: Runs, RBI, HR, SB, BA
Pitching: W, Sv, K, ERA, WHIP

The performances of the active players in your roster in these categories are tallied. The fantasy team with the WORST performance in each category gets one point; the next worst two, and so on up to the best team, who will get most points [the actual number depends on the number of teams in the league - it'd be ten points in a 10-team league]. The points from each category are added together, and the team with the most overall points at the end of the season is the winner.

Variations included head-to-head, where your scores in each category are pitted against only one other fantasy team in a week. The team who has the best results in the category gets one point - so in a week, you might get 6.5 points, if you win six categories, lose three and one is tied. Again, best total at season end wins [some leagues offer playoffs, over the last few weeks of the year].

The other main scoring system is points-based, where your active players get points for various actions. Single = 1 pt; double=2; hitter strikes out = -1; complete game by pitcher = 5 etc. These points are added together for your players, and again, these can be tallied over the course of a year, or played head-to-head.

Usually, a league will have minimum/maximum limitations on, for example, games played or innings pitched. Some leagues allow roster changes every day, while others require you to "set" your roster for a given week, and you can't change it after the deadline, even if your star shortstop breaks a leg on Monday morning. Like most fantasy sports, it will be as time consuming as you want it to be - daily roster changes are obviously more intensive than weekly ones.
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shoewizard
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are some links


http://fantasy.sportingnews.com/voices/brendan_roberts/20011130-p.html

http://www.rotowire.com/baseball/101/basics.htm

http://www.sportsblurb.com/baseball/fb101/intro.asp

Many sites offer public leagues....CBS, ESPN, Sporting News, and many many more.[/url]
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fantasy baseball is dreaming that Maria Sharapova is your teammate, and you get to shower with her after the games.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is she 18 yet?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, she's 19. I'm perv-legal.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shoewizard wrote:
Is she 18 yet?


Date of Birth: April 19, 1987


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd hit it till she couldn't grunt anymore
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeez, I had no idea she was only a month older than me...
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zephon wrote:
Jeez, I had no idea she was only a month older than me...


Got a thing for older women? Wink
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Prosopis
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am looking for a league to join. If anyone has one feel free to pm me.
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