Talk:Fantasy baseball

message: Early in the article, it is stated that fantasy baseball is the most popular fantasy sport.  Later in the article, it says fantasy football is the most popular.  Neither is referenced.  I deleted the statement stating baseball is the most popular.  I can intuitively say with 99.999% confidence that football is more popular; if you can prove otherwise more power to you.
--2S 06:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularity? 

message: It'd be good to have a quick review of draft types.  I can get to it later this week unless someone else wants it.
What about adding salary cap to the types of fantasy games?--Gavinturner 01:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Content

message: Dec 3 2007
I added a paragraph about Jack Kerouac's play and copious documentation of an apparently private version of fantasy baseball starting ca 1931 or 1935 at latest. Perhaps this mention should be in the Pop Culture section but I dont know whether fantasy baseball is mentioned in any of his stories; if not it wouldnt in be Pop Culture awareness but it's definitely historical.  
Here is material for a citation: I viewed an exhibition including lots of Kerouac FB materials at the Library last Thursday November 29, 2007. My information is from Curator Isaac Gewirtz's essay in "Fantasy Sports," part 8 of Gewirtz' brochure for the exhibition "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On The Road," November 9, 2007 - February 24, 2008.  
Jayhawker53 15:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Content==  ==history

message: Dec 3 2007
Further regarding Kerouac's fantasy baseball, I also nominate a link to the NYPL press release for the exhibition, which includes one line on Kerouac's fantasy sports: "Kerouac's minutely detailed fantasy baseball and horse racing materials, which he created as a boy and played with throughout his life, will also be on display." 
http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Jayhawker53 15:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: I believe you gotta add [FantasyBaseball.com] in your links section. You must find time to visit this site daily. Great projections and very accurate. Player profiles, depth charts, etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.253.232.173 (talk) 19:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that these sites are among the best for information about fantasy baseball, but I wish www.fantasybaseballhub.com looked more professional. Because of their homepage it is going to look like "link spam" to other wikipedia editors.  I am not affiliated with either site. LloydSommerer 12:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fantasy Baseball Cafe and Fantasy Baseball Hub should both be included in the links section. Both of these sites are free, require no registration, and offer excellent information. They seem to meet the guidelines for external links while others currently listed may or may not. Anthony 16:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with Lloyd.  Fantasy Baseball Hub looks like a spam site.  If they were to eliminate the dozens of banner ads, they may get better consideration.  The current external links are sufficient.  mjconnor10 19:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a fair point about the advertisements.   WP:EL does advise against external links with, I quote, "objectionable amounts of advertising".  In this case, it is pretty objectionable when you consider how much scrolling past ads you have to do, just to get to the content.  --SubSeven 06:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Personally I would support fantasybaseballhub.com for inclusion but not fantasybaseballcafe.com.  Fantasybaseballhub.com is a launching point to a lot of good resources which seems to be acceptable under WP:EL as it is essentially a web directory.  However, fantasybaseballcafe.com seems to be a hardcore strategy site for serious players.  Being that Wikipedia is not a game guide/strategy guide/how-to, I don't see how this link adds anything to the encyclopedic value of the article.  SubSeven 22:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Please stop making sockpuppet accounts. --SubSeven 03:00, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is either a sockpuppet or a meatpuppet account.  Both of you have asked various times for external links to JoostSwap and RotoStuds  and have no other contributions to Wikipedia.   --SubSeven 22:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And I see from WHOIS lookups that JoostSwap.com and RotoStuds.com are both registered to one John S Crowley!  Imagine that! --SubSeven 22:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think it should be listed.  And a simpler URL: http://fantasy.mlb.com/ -- Win777 (talk) 21:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link nomination 

message: The bulk of this article seems to confound "fantasy baseball" with "rotisserie baseball."  While the latter is doubtless the most popular of the fantasy games, there are others out there that have their devotees. I would hope somebody could add a section about some of those alternatives, and how they differ from roto.  I have in mind in particular Scoresheet Baseball and Diamond Mind Baseball.  I haven't played those games, so I can't write the entries here, but I know some people who do.--Mack2 22:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other fantasy baseball games 

message: See RotoHog article.
*RotoHog Fantasy Baseball Website  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.32.84 (talk) 08:21, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link Nomination 

message: Hey,
Maybe adding this link would be good?:
http://www.virtualstock-exchange.com/Home/Sportpredictionmarket/tabid/4916/Default.aspx  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.197.8.28 (talk) 08:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't recommend it as WP isn't here to advertise sites.  Montco (talk) 20:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  link 

message: I reverted several recent history edits, not because the additions to the history section were bad, but because they (seeming systematically) removed all of the Fantasy Baseball references from before the mid 1980s. I don't have any reason to think that the additions themselves were incorrect (though they, like most of the article were uncited), but it seemed suspicious that so much history was removed. Of course, feel free to correct me if I am mistaken about those edits. LloydSommerer (talk) 03:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent history edits 

message: Suppose that the "Cincinnati Reds" are to play a head-to-head format game against the "Chicago Bears." How exactly is the final score of this match calculated?
75.186.5.185 (talk) 00:59, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game play == vague 

message: There's a good E:60 show on ESPN relating to the history of fantasy / rotisserie baseball.
Also, some other sites that are out there should be noted - www.rotoworld.com (part of NBC Sports) supplies a lot of the fantasy guidance used by several publications, and CBS' Sportsline has a big following.  Also, there are Fantasy articles and TV shows not referenced here.  I am not sure how to update this information but it said to go here first so I thought I would ask - I can help once I have tools and permission!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.61.225 (talk) 03:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional External Links for the article 

message: In fantasy baseball, there are two common scoring methods - head to head, and rotisserie.  With head to head scoring, you compete every week against a different player, in specific statistical categories such as home runs, wins, RBIs, etc.  Rotisserie on the other hand is a season long endeavor, where you are ranked against every other player in those scoring categories.  Finishing first in a category is worth a certain amount of points, as is second, third, etc.  The person at the end of the year with the highest overall score is the winner.  Therefore, Fantasy Baseball and Rotisserie baseball are not interchangeable terms, as they are mistakenly used in this article.  I'm going to see how I can modify the info to fix this.Timtempleton (talk) 19:58, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two scoring methods 

message: Substituted at 14:19, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Baseball assessment comment