Fantasy Baseball

[guitarmy21b]

I've never played it before(or FF) but I think I'm wanting to try next season, seems like it could be pretty fun and more challenging and rewarding than fantasy football. Anyone interested? I think between the guys here and all the other various MLB fans on SportsHoopla(mostly Giants) we could get enough people together to form a league.

 

[huskers1217]

The huskers have a league. We also had another one too last year

 

[romeo212000]

I might be up for it.

 

[powerchord86]

I joined a FBB league last year for the first time and I thought it was lots of fun.
I am now trying FFB for the first time and it's just not as fun imo.

 

[guitarmy21b]

The huskers have a league. We also had another one too last year

What rules do y'all play by?

I joined a FBB league last year for the first time and I thought it was lots of fun.
I am now trying FFB for the first time and it's just not as fun imo.

It seems like it'd be more fun. With Baseball you got a longer season, and more areas to judge a player on. Seems like every FFB conversation is something like "Should I start this guy vs this defense, or this guy vs this defense" but in baseball you can take into account what a player's stats are vs the SP, LHP/RHP, day/night game, home/road games, etc...just seems more managerial.

 

[JTEGGER]

I've never played it before(or FF) but I think I'm wanting to try next season, seems like it could be pretty fun and more challenging and rewarding than fantasy football. Anyone interested? I think between the guys here and all the other various MLB fans on SportsHoopla(mostly Giants) we could get enough people together to form a league.

I've been playing for years. But let me warn you....if you want to be competitive it's a lot of work. Specifically head 2 head leagues. Roto leagues aren't quite as much work. Comparing fantasy football to fantasy baseball is like comparing checkers to chess. I would love to play if you get a league up though.

 

[guitarmy21b]

I've been playing for years. But let me warn you....if you want to be competitive it's a lot of work. Specifically head 2 head leagues. Roto leagues aren't quite as much work. Comparing fantasy football to fantasy baseball is like comparing checkers to chess. I would love to play if you get a league up though.

What kind of league do you prefer? I think I'm up to the task, hell all of us here on the Rangers board are obsessed with stats lol

 

[gregrey972]

I love FBB and would definately join a league with people from here as we all do seem to be knowledgeable enough to make it very competitive! I actually like the Head to Head competition, but you have to check it just about everyday, which I like though

 

[jta4437]

I love FBB and would definately join a league with people from here as we all do seem to be knowledgeable enough to make it very competitive! I actually like the Head to Head competition, but you have to check it just about everyday, which I like though

I prefer roto b/c I don't always have time to tweak my team everyday

 

[guitarmy21b]

Can you choose to tweak your team as much as you want in the roto leagues? I'm not sure which one I would prefer, but I'm down for either.

 

[bone3421]

i like roto,,,,h2h you just have to keep up with it everyday,,,,roto you can get by checking once to twice a week(i still check about once a day) but roto is easier for beginners and in h2h you can fall out of it fast if team is slumping early in the year

 

[bone3421]

Can you choose to tweak your team as much as you want in the roto leagues? I'm not sure which one I would prefer, but I'm down for either.

usually in roto leagues you can have unlimited moves ....but you limit the pitching to 200 starts so you can combat streaming(adding/dropping SP everyday to get wins,k's)

 

[bone3421]

that is only starting pitching...if you go over your starts you still get credit for your RP stats

 

[guitarmy21b]

So a league can only be 10 teams? Doesn't that mean every team ends up being pretty stacked?

 

[romeo212000]

Bumping this up. Espn has their fantasy baseball system up now and we could use it. I've never done it before so I could use some coaching, but I would think this would be fun.

 

[bone3421]

yeah....soon they will have the "draft kit" up and if you havent played probably should read it thru ..........then do a few mock drafts and should be set

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

I've only used yahoo for baseball.. (which just opened today too)

I'd probably be down. I've been a commish for a few leagues...so I could set one up if yall wanted? (site of your choosing as well)

 

[bone3421]

guess we should also decide if ya'll wanna do h2h or roto......


i will go ahead and throw a vote down for---roto---

 

[romeo212000]

guess we should also decide if ya'll wanna do h2h or roto......


i will go ahead and throw a vote down for---roto---

I don't know anything about it so you guys will have to fill me in.

 

[bone3421]

Fantasy Baseball 101: Roto Versus Head-to-Head Leagues: Fan Guide - Fantasy - Yahoo! Sports