Unlike many newer fantasy leagues, Rotisserie baseball closely mirrors a real baseball league, with complicated trades, a limited number of owners and no player allowed on more than one roster at a time. Flinn, a software developer in Vermont and an avid Rotisserie player, published a book about Rotisserie baseball as a managing editor at Bantam Books in the 1980s. Okrent, considered the Abner Doubleday of Rotisserie baseball, said Rotisserie leagues and the later fantasy games have created a wider market for the profusion of statistics that more and more precisely evaluate the productivity of players. The Internet has geometrically expanded the availability and variations of statistics that have captivated fans ever since bubble gum met baseball cards. It drives me into a rage.
Statistics are the DNA of baseball.
To say that statistics are not at the center of baseball is like saying that notes are not at the center of music. Some professionals find some of the Internet-enhanced slicing and dicing of baseball numbers a bit much. This led to an inevitable row. Ruth was too slow. He could have been a designated hitter.