Enjoying Fantasy Baseball

Spring Training is here! Pitchers and Catchers start reporting to camp, and Derek Jeter has been seen taking swings in preparation for the 2008 MLB season. I have been making a list of the top 25 fantasy baseball players, and this week I will be posting it here and on my blog The Fantasy Baseball, where I go into my decisions much more deeply. Many players have moved on to other teams which will make them better or worse. Some players in 2007 had sub-par seasons, others had break-out seasons, and others were playing in their contract season.

Ok, so this was not a good season for me in fantasy baseball at yahoo. Actually, one team finished worse than I have ever played. To the fantasy baseball player this is almost enough for valuim! I enjoy playing fantasy baseball. I have played it regularily for the last 7 years! But one team will end up in 7th place tomorrow and the other will end up in 3rd place. The 3rd place team isn't bad - I have usually finished between 1st and 4th place - I average over 100 moves a season, somebody actually beat me in player moves this year!

I have tried fantasy football and hockey, but these are not the same! Fantasy sports started with fantasy baseball, because  it is a numbers game, pure and simple! Even though hockey is my favorite sport to watch, I do not care for the fantasy hockey part of it.

Next year I will do better! There are alot of good young players reaching their prime and I will have to concentrate on these players! Most of the next month will have to be spent on studying these guys. Unfortunately, I am picking mostly seasoned players that can have a bad season or an injury! In this lens I will be looking at players, rather than strategy - I hardly initiate trades - I should, as usually the guy that does really well will have made a few trades! I will discuss this matter a little later, as it can be a bit predatory. But for the most part I will be looking at players who might do well next year, and where to pick them. I will go over these players. This year the core of my team was Albert Pujols! It should have been Alex Rodriquez - I did not realize that he was in a contract year, and players as we all know play their best in a contract year, except for Andrew Jones - he was my third pick - he had one of the worst years in his career.