Top 4 ways to enjoy Fantasy Baseball
Written on February 27, 2008 by Joe Ayala
1. Play with friends. I don’t play in online leagues any more. I like to know who I’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) 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 league constitution here. It is adapted from Corey Schwartz’s old constitution. If you have never done an auction draft before then you really haven’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.
3. I know some people who like don’t like playing fantasy baseball using the rotisserie system, because the teams that are in the lower third don’t have a chance to catch up to the leader. That’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.
4. The best way to enjoy fantasy baseball is have an offline draft. With all of today’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.
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