Why Fantasy Baseball Trumps Fantasy Football (And Every Other Sport, For That Matter)
It may or may not be apparent to you, but I absolutely love playing and blogging about fantasy baseball. I mean, what game can give the owner/blogger like myself a legitimate reason to watch anywhere from six-ten games per night?
Okay, I’ll admit that at times, it can be hard to keep up with my teams AND blogging at the same time. But fantasy baseball is far superior to fantasy football for many reasons.
First, fantasy baseball takes an incredible amount of strategy, thinking, and analysis. No successful fantasy baseball owner can beat the game on his/her own. While the same is also true of fantasy football, most of the strategy and thinking comes at the draft, as well as the Thursday or Friday before the weekend’s games. Fantasy baseball owners participate in daily management (for the most part), and the 162 game managing simply turns lazy fans off to the fantasy baseball game.
With that added dimension of true strategy and thinking, fantasy baseball owners are rewarded justly for their efforts. Log in everyday and manage your roster, and you will probably be better off than that owner who hasn’t logged in for the past 130 days. Most often, this is not true of fantasy football owners. Some owners can simply draft a team and forget about it, stealing wins and usable players from the owners that really care.
Another benefit to playing fantasy baseball is that there are a LOT of games (NO WAY!). If you were to turn on your TV and watch MLB baseball every night on ESPN, ESPN2, or any like network, you could probably view every MLB team at least once. The same cannot be said of the NFL: though there are many different games on your local networks, many fans won’t get the opportunity to see several NFL teams play at all over the course of a season.
With daily scores, come daily surprises and lots of great plays. This has more to do about baseball in general than fantasy baseball, but it is really great when you can turn on your television and get online to find new scores and news essentially every day. Over the course of a normal NFL week, many news reports focus on previews and reviews, as well as the occasional Chad Ocho Cinco story or injury report.
Even though the game may be tougher, fantasy baseball easily trumps fantasy football as the better fantasy game. Though fantasy football can provide bursts of excitement on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights, fantasy baseball is an exciting game that will really help you grow in your love for the national pastime.
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September 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
i played fantasy baseball for the first time this year and i have to say this was completely different than fantasy football. i knew that it would be tough but not this tough. very strategic and competitive stuff
September 10th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Lebron James plays basketball, that is why fantasy basketball trumps fantasy baseball. Pick Lebron James and the league is done. Or something like that.
I feel like this can’t be done with fantasy baseball. I mean you can pick CC Sabathia and probably win the league, but it just takes too much work, ya know?