Fantasy Baseball Flash

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You’ve just made one big decision: to play fantasy baseball online for fun.  A great decision, if I may say so myself!  One question you may have in mind, however, is where to play fantasy baseball and get the best overall experience.  Here, I will highlight a few of the free websites you should consider playing at.

Yahoo Sports Fantasy Baseball (http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1).  Yahoo Sports offers a great fantasy baseball game year-in and year-out.  My first fantasy baseball league was hosted by them, and I had a very enjoyable experience the first year that I played.  They offer a variety of leagues to begin (more on this in a future post), including Rotisserie (the traditional fantasy baseball league) and Head-To-Head (a fun, weekly form of fantasy baseball).  In addition, they offer a great amount of tools to help you manage your teams, including news updates and daily matchups.

ESPN.com Fantasy Baseball (http://games.espn.go.com/frontpage/baseball).  If you watch ESPN on a normal basis, you have probably seen ads advertising ESPN Fantasy Baseball.  It is one of the most well marketed games out there, and there are a lot of casual sports fans who decide to play their league on ESPN.  The website interface is easy to navigate, and ESPN constantly produces some of the freshest fantasy baseball content on the web.  Their live draft application is also one of the easiest to use, and is one of my personal favorites.  Like Yahoo, ESPN.com is a fairly stimulating website, and it also comes highly recommended.

The Sporting News “Draft and Trade” Fantasy Baseball (http://members.sportingnews.com/baseball/fullseason/dnt/home.html).  “Draft and Trade” baseball is the way to go if you are starting on fantasy baseball for the first time, and TSN offers a great free game that will keep you around for a while.  After playing leagues on Yahoo when I began my fantasy baseball career, I moved over to The Sporting News and really enjoyed their leagues.  I found that many of the owners on their leagues were active (even the free leagues), and their fantasy source content is among the industry’s best.  Nothing really distinctive about this game: it is a great choice!

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September 1st, 2008 | Tags: Websites | Category: Beginner Guide | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL