13 Tips for Finding the Best Fantasy Baseball League
- Look for a league where most of the managers come back year after year.
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- Find a league where managers have incentive to remain interested despite where they are in the standings. Prizes for more than just the top team might do this.
- A league that charges an entry fee will retain interest, but if the fee is too big, managers can get overly testy.
- Try to play in a local league. Sure, you can play in an online league, but if you don’t know the other managers, you take out one of the best elements of a fantasy baseball league: bragging rights.
- Perhaps most important, play with people you like to spend time with or at least don’t annoy the heck out of you.
- Find a league with well written printed rules.
- Play in a league with a strong commissioner.
- A league with at least 10 teams is best.
- Don’t play in a league where all the teams look like all-star teams. Such a league doesn’t emulate being a real baseball team general manager. A 10 team league, for example, should choose players from just the American or National League rather than a mixed league. Everybody knows the star players; it’s getting to know the bench players that will increase your knowledge of the game.
- Know the rules of the league. If you don’t want to check in on your team every day, for instance, play in a league that only allows weekly roster moves.
- An auction league is intimidating, but its more fun in the long run. Don’t be afraid of the extra work to play in an auction format.
- Play in a league that gives a trophy to the champion.
- Don’t ever play in a league where a participating manager goes to a Major League game and yells to a player: “Hey, you’re on my fantasy team.” He doesn’t care.
