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seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

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Toilet Rascal

Comptroll The Forums posted:

What's the beat way for a total moron to get into fantasy baseball? I understand baseball stats and everything but I have no idea how any part of fantasy baseball works.

There's 2 major types of fantasy baseball: rotisserie and head to head. Roto is basically where your team is ranked points based on your team's collective stats, and you're assigned points based on how well you rank compared to the other teams in your league. Head to head is similar to fantasy football, in that each week you play against a different opponent, and compete on different stats. Most leagues have basic stats for AVG, HR, RBI, SB and R for hitting, and W, ERA, K, S, and I think WHIP for pitching. Of course, custom leagues can modify which stats they play with. Roto is the most popular, but I find H2H more fun.

ESPN and Yahoo have public leagues you can join, too.

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seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

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Toilet Rascal

Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:

Heresy time!

I was taught this by goon Skaboomizzy:

When you're keeping score of a game at a ballpark, set up your scorecard as

VISITOR BATTERS | HOME BATTERS
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HOME PITCHERS | VISITOR PITCHERS

So that you can easily add up the batting stats on the same page and jot them in below, rather than flip back and forth.

This actually makes sense because the visiting team hits first against the home pitcher.

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