What is Fantasy Baseball?

I have been asked a question lately about fantasy baseball, and a lot of you may not know what it is. Here is a explanation of Fantasy baseball:

There are 2 kinds of fantasy baseball: roto and head-to-head.
I will explain roto, the kind of league I am in right now:

After you get a team and do the draft, the League manager will have a set roster size and stats to keep track of. Once you set your rosters (who is starting and sitting) before the season, the computer will keep track of stats for all your starters. Here is an example for offense: say that one of your league's stats is Homeruns, and my team has 13 at the end of the month. Say that out of 10 teams, I have the 3rd most, so I would get 7 points (1st would get 10, last would get 1, etc.) and the same for the rest of the stats. If you go to the standings, all the points are added together for every stat, and the team with the most points is in first.

If your team, or any other, passes someone else in a category by getting a better number in that category, they gain a point and maybe a place in the standings. If a team has the same number in a stat, each team gets a half point. The total number of points possible is the number of teams times 10.

I hope this has helped at least one person understand fantasy baseball better.

Champ Bailey League: week 1

After one week in the Champ Bailey League, the standings look like this:

JOHN LYNCH DIVISION:

Pirate #55 1-0
Team Wilson 0-1
Austin Rattlesnakes: 0-1

REGGIE BUSH DIVISION:

Cape Cod Crazy Cookie Monsters (charlie) 1-0
Beantown Bruisers 1-0
Antartica Penguins (Dirk) 0-1


Pirate #55 had the most points, as he beat Team Wilson 198-191.

4 teams make the playoffs, so a team doesn't have to have a great record to get in.
Here are this week's matchups:

Bruisers vs. Cookie Monsters
Penguins vs. Team Wilson
RattleSnakes vs. Pirate #55


The MVP was probably Frank Gore because of his late surge, which pulled Pirae #55 ahead from a 191-all tie.

Keepers

by Charlie


I know it's only early in the season, but some time this season, the question will come up for almost every fantasy football owner: Who are my keepers?"

I've already started to tackle the issue with my own team (http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/clubhouse?leagueId=429111&teamId=1&seasonId=2007) and selected Peyton Manning and Laurence Maroney as the first of my 4 keepers. Here are some other possibilities for keepers on my team:
-JaMarcus Russell: he's too good a player in college to not have at least one good season
-A.J. Hawk: A young line-backer with lots of potential
-Brady Quinn: The only question is will he start next year.
And now I have my top ten overall keepers, even though no one can keep all of these:

-Peyton Manning: still in his prime
-Vince Young: He's just warming up....
-Reggie Bush: Have you seen this guy play?!?
-Laurence Maroney: He's such a great RB, and he's still young
-A.J. Hawk: What I said above
-Frank Gore: He still has at least another year of domination
-Jay Cutler: Dubbed the next John Elway
-Joseph Adai: With defenses afraid of Manning, he'll have a lot of room to run
-Matt Leinart: he's taking a little longer than Young, but he's getting there.
-Alex Smith: same story as Leinart



Thanks for reading, and our week 1 Fantasy update is coming soon.

First entry

Welcome to the Fantasy Owner's Insight with 2 veteran fantasy football and baseball owners. We will each post an article every week and an update on our fantasy team. We our each in a fantasy football league (6 team, H2H) and a baseball league (Roto, 10 team) together. Here is the links to our leagues:

http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=429111&seasonId=2007

and

http://games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=88455

Our teams are the S. Louisville Ligers and Louisville Ballers for baseball and the Cape Cod Crazy Cookie Monsters and Antartica Penguins for football. We will start our articles later this week or next week.