Fantasy Baseball 101

The regular NFL season is over so that means the fantasy football season is over and the fantasy baseball season has begun.  Sure, some of you might play fantasy basketball and some of you even play fantasy hockey (at least our Canadian readers), but for most of us, the end of fantasy football season means [...]

It’s what you’ve been waiting for.  We are now releasing the official Fantasy Baseball Dugout video which promotes our fantasy baseball tips and our Baseball’s Hottest Wives segment.

Based on the phenomenal success of BallparkBob’s Top 50 Baseball Movies, which was picked up by ESPN and NESN to name a few, BallparkBob introduces BallparkBob’s Top 100 Sports Movies of all-time. What makes for a good sports movie? A movie with a memorable line that people still quote today is an important criteria.  ”Yo, [...]

If you are the National League representative in the World Series, the guys you don’t want to face are Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero.  No surprise there. Hamilton had a OBI% of 19.4%, good for sixth in the MLB this year amongst players with at least 486 plate appearances.  Guerrero was not far behind at [...]

Don’t blame Carlos Gonzalez  for the Colorado Rockies demise this year.  When it comes to driving in runs with runners on base, Gonzalez did his job. “Others Batted In Percentage,” or OBI%, is a stat that measures the rate at which batters drive in runners on base, given the opportunities presented.  It’s a far more realistic stat than [...]

Being the commissioner of a fantasy baseball league is not an easy task.  The hours are long.  You often manage a bunch of crybabies.  And, the pay: it sucks. Hopefully, you’ll have the rules laid out so that there aren’t any disputes during the season that you have to rule on, but there’s always one [...]

Some advanced fantasy baseball leagues use a pitcher innings limit.  This means that the total innings that your staff can pitch is limited.  Once that total innings pitched is reached, your statistics are locked in for the season. The most common amount of innings pitched limit appears to be 1250 per season, although the Fantasy [...]

It’s just about the All-Star break.  It’s the time of year when MLB teams decide if they have what it takes to make a run for the pennant or if they are better off trading veterans for youngsters that may help in the future. It’s the same thing with fantasy baseball.  If your fantasy baseball [...]