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Fantasy baseball is a game whereby players manage imaginary baseball teams based on the real-life performance of baseball players, and compete against one another using those players' statistics to score points. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Statistics play an important role in summarizing Baseball performance and evaluating players in the Sport. It is the oldest form of fantasy sports, and arguably one of the most difficult and time-intensive due to the 162-game season of the MLB and the inconsistency of players. A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie roto or owner simulation is a Game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the

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History

Early forms of fantasy baseball were sometimes called "tabletop baseball". One of the best-known was the Strat-o-Matic, which began publishing in 1963 a game containing customized baseball cards of Major League Baseball players with their stats from recent seasons. Strat-O-Matic is a Game company based in Glen Head New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A baseball card is a type of Trading card relating to baseball usually printed on some type of Paper stock or card stock Participants could then re-create previous seasons using the game rules and the statistics, or compose fantasy teams from the cards and play against each other. The landmark tabletop game Pursue the Pennant debuted in 1985 and took baseball board games to much more realistic levels of play to incorporate ball park effects, clutch hitting and pitching and many other nuances of the game. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Fantasy baseball was the theme of Robert Coover's 1968 darkly comic novel The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., which dealt with themes of creationism and playing god. The Universal Baseball Association Inc J Henry Waugh Prop is Robert Coover 's second novel published in 1968

Copious materials accessible since 2006 in the Jack Kerouac Archive at the New York Public Library show that Canadian-American writer Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) played his own form of fantasy baseball starting quite young and continued developing and playing this perhaps private version of fantasy baseball during most of his life. The New York Public Library ( NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of America's most significant Research libraries. Jack Kerouac ( March 12 1922 &ndash October 21 1969) was an American Novelist, Writer, Poet, and At the Library from November 2007 - February 2008, an exhibition on Kerouac's life and works includes several display cases of Kerouac's highly detailed fantasy baseball records, including charts, sketches, and notes.

The landmark development in fantasy baseball came with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Magazine writer/editor Daniel Okrent is credited with inventing it, the name coming from the New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Francaise where he and some friends used to meet and play. Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American Writer and editor. The game's innovation was that "owners" in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores. In other words, rather than using statistics for seasons whose outcomes were already known, the owners would have to make similar predictions about players' playing time, health, and expected performance that real baseball managers must make.

Because Okrent was a member of the media, other journalists, especially sports journalists, were introduced to the game. Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league. The 1981 Major League Baseball strike was the fifth work stoppage in Major League Baseball since the 1972 Major League Baseball strike

Rotisserie league baseball proved to be hugely popular, even in the 1980s when full statistics and accurate reporting were often hard to come by. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The traditional statistics used in early Rotisserie leagues were often chosen because they were easy to compile from newspaper box scores and then from weekly information published in USA Today. In competitive Sports, games or matches are often summarized in a box score USA TODAY is a national American daily Newspaper published by the Gannett Company. Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores. USA Today Sports Weekly is a weekly magazine that covers Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, NCAA baseball and . Local papers soon caught up with USA Today's expanded coverage.

The use of statistics like pitchers' wins and RBI are often scoffed at today by members and followers of the Society for American Baseball Research who prefer to use objective evidence, especially detailed baseball statistics to measure player's performance. A win is a Statistic in Major League Baseball credited to the Pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown New York, in August 1971 Statistics play an important role in summarizing Baseball performance and evaluating players in the Sport. Sabermetric thinkers argue wins and RBI often misrepresent the performance of players, since they are largely influenced by "outside" factors like run support and bullpen support (for wins) and runners on base (for RBIs). Sabermetrics is the analysis of Baseball through objective evidence especially Baseball statistics.

The advent of powerful computers and the Internet revolutionized fantasy baseball, allowing scoring to be done entirely by computer, and allowing leagues to develop their own scoring system, often based on less popular statistics. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks In this way, fantasy baseball has become a sort of real-time simulation of baseball, and allowed many fans to develop a more sophisticated understanding of how the real-world game works. Simulation is the imitation of some real thing state of affairs or process

Fantasy baseball has continued to grow [based on recent studies from the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA. org)], but has been overtaken by fantasy football as the most popular form of fantasy sports. This is primarily due to the fact that some of those sports, such as Football and Auto Racing, only play once a week, making it easier for a person to make adjustments, since they do not have to check their team every day.

Rotisserie baseball game details

Player selection

Rotisserie leagues and their descendants typically draft teams before the season begins (or very shortly thereafter). One approach is to hold an auction, whereby each owner has a fixed amount of money to bid for players, and he must fill his team's roster within his budget. "Auctioneer" redirects here For the DC Comics supervillain see Auctioneer (comics. Another approach is to perform a serpentine system draft of available players until all teams are filled. The serpentine system is a method employed in the organization of a Competition to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools

In either case, the skills of the team managers come into play in the "preseason" by their knowledge of the talent and ability to forecast the performance of Major League Baseball players and prospects for the coming season. Toward that end, they draw on a great variety of sources of information, including tout sheets by various forecasters, who predict the coming season's performance and the likely overall "value" (often in terms of auction dollars) of the Major League players.

Some leagues allow teams to keep some players from one year to the next, allowing savvy owners to build fantasy dynasties. These leagues are often referred to as "Keeper Leagues. " Keeper leagues have the same people in them, and owners keep their players, unless any off-season moves are made.

Many leagues allow teams to trade with each other during the season, as well as to replace players who get hurt or stop performing well with players from the pool of those who are not presently owned. However, some leagues prohibit such in-season "free agent" replacements, feeling that the game is more interesting when teams must live and die by the quality of their draft.

Also, at the league's discretion, there are only so many free-agent moves that a fantasy team can make per season, and a team may not just "drop" all of their players if they are not progressing well during a season. The free-agent limit is also sometimes used to limit the so-called "pitch-and-ditch" tactic, a method of play in which a manager drafts a free agent pitcher with the intention of using him in only one game before replacing him with a pitcher who is scheduled to start the following day.

Stakes

Many fantasy leagues are played for money. Owners ante up an entry fee at the beginning of the season and may also be charged for in-season activity such as trades and "free agent" acquisitions. The pool of money is collected and then distributed to the winner(s) at the end of the season. Most often, however, these are games in which the main reward is bragging rights or the participants' sense that they not only know how to assess baseball talent but also how to play the fantasy game in all of its dimensions including perhaps above all the selection of real baseball talent.

Game play

The statistics compiled by the players from each team are then ranked by category, and the team with the highest cumulative rank at the end of the season is determined to be the winner.

The original Rotisserie League used the following statistics:

This is often called a "4x4" league (4 hitting stats and 4 pitching stats). Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively In Baseball, an at bat ( AB) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including Batting average, On base In Baseball, a stolen base occurs when a Baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the Pitcher is delivering the ball to Home plate A win is a Statistic in Major League Baseball credited to the Pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead In Baseball, a save (abbreviated SV or S) is credited to a Pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances In Baseball statistics, earned run average ( ERA) is the Mean of Earned runs given up by a Pitcher per nine Innings pitched In Baseball statistics, Walks plus hits per inning pitched ( WHIP) is a sabermetric measurement of the number of baserunners a Pitcher In Baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H) sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches A base on balls ( BB) is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in Baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during Many leagues adopt a "5x5" format, with runs and strikeouts (as a pitching statistic) added, respectively. In Baseball, a run is scored when a player advances safely around first second and third base and returns safely to Home plate, touching In Baseball or Softball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by SO or K) occurs when a batter receives three strikes Still other leagues are "6x6", most commonly adding OPS (OBP plus SLG), and holds. In Baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP (sometimes referred to as on-base average ', as the statistic is rarely presented as a true Percentage) In Baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is a popular measure of the power of a hitter. A hold (abbreviated HLD or H) is awarded to a Relief pitcher who enters the game in a save situation that is one of the following However, the "6x6" format does not have a standard or consensus set of categories to use. Other modifications to the rules include a minimum number of at-bats and innings pitched; teams that do not make the minimum were awarded last place in the respective categories.

An alternative head-to-head system states that each team competes against only one team each week. At the end of the week, each team tallies wins and losses based on whatever criteria are set by the league. There are three basic forms of head-to-head leagues (often referred to as "H2H"):

Opponents are dictated by a round-robin system. At the end of the season, the team with the best win-loss record is the victor.

Many head-to-head leagues also feature playoffs over the last 3-4 weeks of the MLB regular season. A set number of teams make the "postseason" and play a single-elimination tournament to decide a victor.

Strategy

Correct implementation of the LIMA plan will allow for the majority of a team's budget to go toward offensive players, whose statistics are relatively more easy to project. In Baseball statistics, home runs allowed per 9 innings pitched ( HR/9IP or HR/9) or home runs allowed per nine innings (denoted by

The LIMA plan is thought to be better suited for AL- or NL-only leagues, as opposed to mixed (AL and NL) leagues.

Fantasy trade referees

The growing popularity of fantasy baseball has created a need for fantasy baseball trade referees. Owners of fantasy teams often trade players, and often those trades incite disputes within leagues. Third party websites provide fantasy players a place to have their trades reviewed by a panel of experienced fantasy players. Decisions are rendered based on the specifications (number of teams, statistical categories, etc. ) of the players' leagues.

In addition, many fantasy baseball service providers offer suggested guidelines for reviewing and determining the appropriateness of any given trade.

New formats

RotoHog provides a new fantasy baseball format that combines a traditional points-based competition with a liquid market that is used to facilitate real-time player trading. RotoHog is a budget-based high-roster-turnover style Fantasy sports game with sports team management simulations for Baseball, Basketball, American The RotoHog game eliminates the need for fantasy trade judging by having team owners buy and sell players on a trading floor instead of negotiating trades directly with other owners.

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