The Fantasy Baseball Sherpa

Hi everyone!

Now that the 2008 baseball season is over, I wanted to share some exciting news with you - for the second year in a row I was the winner of SportsBuff.com’s fantasy baseball league for fantasy industry experts! My score also placed me in the Top 10 overall among all of the participants in SportsBuff.com’s fantasy baseball leagues - in many cases the fans do know more than the industry experts!

There were 33 other teams in the contest - other participants included Bob Radl of Sandlot Shrink, who writes very informative fantasy football and basketball analysis and obviously knows a lot about baseball too, and Scott Pianowski of Rotoaction.com, who also writes a highly informative and entertaining blog called “Closing Time” for Yahoo.

This particular contest was a salary cap game. It’s always interesting to debate whether these games require more skill than the more widely played rotisserie and head-to-head style games. Salary cap games typically require more in-season roster adjustments, but make it easier to replace an injured/underperforming player with a player of equal or greater ability. Rotisserie and head-to-head games typically put more emphasis on preseason player analysis and projections. From my perspective both are endlessly fascinating.

Thanks to SportsBuff.com’s Jeff Thomas and his team for putting on this contest year after year and giving those of us in the fantasy industry a chance to strut our stuff. I’ll be back again next season looking for a threepeat!!!

Until next time,

The Sherpa