The best, most realistic baseball sim is back again! I originally reviewed “OOTP” back in 2014, and in the four years since, the game’s AI, graphics and realism have only gotten better. You can manage or general manage practically ANY team in professional baseball from rookie ball to the big leagues to foreign leagues, … Read more
Over on Facebook, in the Effectively Wild (Baseball Prospectus daily podcast) group, there is currently a discussion of music-oriented fantasy baseball team names. Here are some of my suggestions so far: Four Non-Bonds (if you think your team might be “one-hit wonders”, I suppose) ChiCarGo (25 or 6 to 4 ….. would be a weird … Read more
Its Hot Stove time … and we just got through with a Presidential election, so its the perfect moment to present you with some politically-relevant fantasy team name suggestions: Electoral Hershiser College Government Subsidygordon Presidential Pardonsutton Watergates Brown Majority WHIP Rennie Senate The Georgia Impeach Unearned Runoff Matt West Wing Vida Blue Room SenatoriiHunter Oval … Read more
With Opening Day (stateside) coming up, the last of the fantasy baseball drafts are taking place. There are many types of drafts to take part in, but perhaps the most challenging is the auction draft. Well, the VORG wondered if you could make the auction draft even MORE challenging (and/or nerdy) by requiring participants to … Read more
In what is seemingly a strenuous attempt to get young girls interested in fantasy baseball, a company called “A View from My Seat” teamed up with the usually well-regarded CBSSports.com to produce an app called “Baseball Boyfriend.” Here is the gist, as described on the app’s page on CBSSports.com: Baseball Boyfriend is a single draftee … Read more
Wednesday will be February 1st, and a couple of weeks after that, we’ll have pitchers and catchers reporting. Its a time of anticipation and joy . . . Spring Training (even though, technically most of the training occurs during the last weeks of Winter, but I digress). Many of you have started to think about … Read more