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		<title>Top 4 ways to enjoy Fantasy Baseball</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe Ayala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  Play with friends.  I don&#8217;t play in online leagues any more.  I like to know who I&#8217;m playing Fantasy Baseball with.  It makes the message board more exciting, the draft more intense, and adds a lot more laughs.
2.  Do an auction draft.  Man, I love auction drafts in Fantasy Baseball (and in Fantasy Football) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.  Play with friends.  I don&#8217;t play in online leagues any more.  I like to know who I&#8217;m playing Fantasy Baseball with.  It makes the message board more exciting, the draft more intense, and adds a lot more laughs.</p>
<p>2.  Do an auction draft.  Man, I love auction drafts in Fantasy Baseball (and in Fantasy Football) it adds so much more to the draft.  It is a bigger challenge you have to keep up with salaries and filling up your team.  In the league I play in we have $260 salary cap and a 25 man roster.  You have to have at least $1 per player.  You can check out our <a href="http://joe-ayala.com/dugout/viewtopic.php?t=1" target="_blank">league constitution here</a>.  It is adapted from <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/feed/podcast/c1261158.xml" target="_blank">Corey Schwartz</a>&#8217;s old constitution.  If you have never done an auction draft before then you really haven&#8217;t had fun at a draft.  Oh one key note is that when all teams need players equals amount left ($1 per player) we switch back to a normal snake draft.</p>
<p>3.  I know some people who like don&#8217;t like playing fantasy baseball using the rotisserie system, because the teams that are in the lower third don&#8217;t have a chance to catch up to the leader.  That&#8217;s why some people prefer head to head leagues.  Well a way to make things count for those who are losing is make it a keeper league.  In a keeper league, teams can trade higher priced players for cheap young prospects so the teams that are currently losing can prepare for the future.    This provides a nice way to keep things interesting all season long.</p>
<p>4.   The best way to enjoy fantasy baseball is have an offline draft.  With all of today&#8217;s technology, what is an offline draft?  An offline draft is where a bunch of friends, hopefully, get together and have a baseball draft.  If you combine all these 4 ideas you should have a great fantasy experience.  </p>
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