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Title: FANTASY SPORTS TO LAUNCH FIRST HOT ROD FANTASY GAME.
Publication: Multimedia Publisher (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 2002
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This fall, millions of online users will play fantasy football games on SportsLine.com, ESPN.com, Yahoo! Sports, and other sites. ... Read more

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Title: Fantasies fulfilled.(Sports Biz)
Author: Stewart Schley
Publication: ColoradoBiz (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
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Volume: 32Issue: 9Page: 93(1)

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Online fantasy sports remains a growing, if relatively small, paid content category. However, more and more online programs are free, while print and TV programming related to fantasy sports is proliferating. ... Read more

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THE AVERAGE READER IMPROVED 3 PLACES IN THE STANDINGS! Nothing validates the value of this book more than actual results. We surveyed people who purchased the book directly from the publisher's website and the average reader did improve significantly. On the site is a screenshot of a reader's three teams that came in first place in each of his different leagues. Does this book offer magical tricks that will befuddle your opponents and lift you to victory every time? No, but having a strategy will improve your odds within your league - that is for sure. Fantasy Baseball Strategy is a practical guide to putting together a strategy that works best for you. If you think you know it all already, this book probably is not for you. If you could use some good ideas and a book that gives you a framework for creating advantages for your team, this book will help.Winning your 2005 fantasy baseball league is much more than just uncovering bargains at your draft or auction. You have to do more than just sign up for a league, buy a magazine and show up. You need a clear strategy to guide your every move throughout the season, allowing you to create advantages over your competition at each step of the way. This book is for you if you want those advantages in your league.You will discover how easy it is to create:- Draft and Auction Strategies- Trading Strategies- Free Agent Strategies- Keeper Strategies- Valuation Strategies- Management Strategies- Competitive StrategiesNo cookie cutter "strategy" that can be conveniently summed up in an acronym will help you consistently dominate your league. You need to devise a customized, comprehensive strategy that fits your style, your league, and your competition. Fantasy Baseball Strategy is your guide to easily forming that strategy. If only your favorite Major League Baseball team had this kind of advantage!Download Description
Over 10 million people participate in fantasy baseball leagues each year and will spend an average of $120 to gain any advantage over the competition. This book shows how to create a comprehensive strategy, customized to the specific league. Readers will dominate their leagues with strategic advantages throughout the year. ... Read more

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If you know nothing about fantasy baseball
This book may be of help to a raw beginner, but even then be warned that it's mostly about auction leagues.

Not for Head to Head and only for Auction
This might be useful in going up against newbies, or the moronic.However, if you are in a long term savvy league (like me) there is nothing here to gain.I'll save you money - trade for marginal value.Ta da!All the valuations are geared towards a roto auction draft.It is useless for snake drafts and his psychological tricks theory applies poorly to online leagues where communication is strictly by email.Also, the system does not account for Head to Head leagues where those ten homers in the first month mean nothing at the end of the season.To be fair, he does dedicate about five sentences to Head to Head in the book - all to say his theories apply just as well.I'll just read the Baseball Prospectus next year and end up first in both my leagues (again) without this tripe.

Great for first time auction drafts
Read this in prep for my first auction draft to get a handle on the differences between that and the regular snake drafts I always played.Offered great insight on objective ways to evaluate and rank everybody.Also good chapters on strategy as well to help avoid pitfalls during auction.Recommended as a good read for anyone venturing into (or are already in) auction drafts.

THE BEST BOOK EVER FOR WINNING YOUR LEAGUE!
I can't tell you how valuable I found Henry Lee's book!After mainly floundering in our 12-team league for 12 years, I followed Henry's strategies for our draft and was in the top three all year, only to drop to fourth on the last day of the season.If you want a strategy that will catapult you to the top, look no further.Henry is the REAL DEAL!I highly recommend this book and Henry's spreadsheet to anyone who wants to win it not just be in it.Thank you, Henry!

Not particularly advanced or new
If the author truly has a PhD in astrophysics, as suggested by one reviewer, he must have a Bush speechwriter as a ghostwriter since most of the book is at about an 8th grade level.

This book will help you only if you are a fantasy baseball novice, and you play in the same type of shallow mixed type league as the author.Or if you are an 8th grader.

Otherwise the strategies presented within have all been done before, and often written about more clearly and in greater detail by earlier authors.

If you are desperate to spend 20 bucks on this book, send it to me, and I'll send you the book and 10 bucks change.Otherwise you would be better served to read older books by John Benson, Alex Patton, Art McGee, Ron Shandler, and Pete Golenbock.Many of the editions are old or out of print but can be picked up for a few bucks either on Amazon or Alibris. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Sporting News, published by Sporting News Publishing Co. on March 11, 2005. The length of the article is 530 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fantasy source.
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 11, 2005
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 229Issue: 10Page: 58(1)

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Non Sport Cards magazine. Volume 1, Number 1. July 1993. Premiere Issue. Fantasy Issue. Lots of articles, etc. on the Non Sport card hobby. ... Read more

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Pretty, but useless
This is a very good looking book, well-written in the sense of being very readable, but there's really very little in it.It doesn't have enough basic stuff to be useful for beginners, and doesn't have anything advanced in it to separate it from the pack.All in all, there are two or three magazines published every year that offer all the same stuff and much, much more.

The chapters are all very, very short, some as short as a two pages.Some of his key theories are palpably absurd.My favorite:load up on rookie running backs, ANY rookie running backs, because "it may not pay off every season, but when it does the dividends can be astronomical."He then helpfully adds that this strategy is particularly good in a keeper league.(It's almost like that commercial that airs from time to time where the guy tells the rookie, "don't worry about top running backs, they'll be there later on, and don't be afraid to grab your kicker early.")

Another one of his grand theories is to "beware of free agent wide receivers".He gives a list of examples that didn't work out, while acknowledging two that did (Joe Horn, Jerry Rice in Oakland).One of his points in this chapter is on Andre Rison.He strongly suggests, without actually saying, that Rison's success in Atlanta was due to the run-and-shoot offence, and not because he was an elite talent.His conclusion is based on the fact that when he left Atlanta for Cleveland, he tanked.

More compelling in my view is the fact that despite seven different starting QB's, and two different head coaches, Rison had a five year stretch that is better than anybody in the Hall of Fame (with the possible exception of Lance Alworth).That, and his four consecutive all-pro selections suggests to me at least that maybe he WAS a pretty talented player.

When things like this are combined with his muddled chapters on draft stragety, it makes me think that Mr. Schimanski really doesn't know very much about either real football or fantasy football.At the same time, there are some ideas here worth exploring; he just grossly simplifies EVERYTHING.Even his caution of FA wideouts has some merit, if he were to just look at it in a bit more depth.Eg, there is a difference between someone cut because he's too old (Tim Brown), someone cut because of cap problems (Keenan McCardell), someone whose contract expires and goes somewhere where he's a better fit (Joe Horn), and someone whose contract expires and goes somewhere where he's a horrible fit (Alvin Harper, Az Hakim, and a cast of thousands).

But, until a book with that level of analysis gets written, stay away from this one and stick to the magazines.

Highly Recommended
The book says: "strategy, not cheat sheets win championships".It is so true.You need to have STRATEGY for how you draft your team and how you manage it during the season and this book delivers on both. ... Read more

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Not everyone gets to play Major League baseball. In fact, not everyone has played Little League or even pick-up games. But everyone can play fantasy baseball--and it seems as if almost everyone does, with the huge boost the game received via the Internet. Fantasy Baseball is the greatest thing to happen to baseball fans since the invention of the sport itself, according to Michael Zimmerman, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fantasy Baseball. You are the one with all the power--you are the owner, general manager, and manager in a league of your own. See how to draft real major league players to form your own team. Use real stats from each real season. Use your own money.And if you win, you own the right of all rights: bragging. And if you stink? You have only yourself to blame.

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A personal memoir of the author
This book was not a complete waste of time. You do learn about theauthor's experience in a particular type of fantasy baseball league, but itleaves a lot to be desired. He does not really instruct the reader in howto make themselves a better fantasy baseball owner. This was my first yearin fantasy baseball and had to really learn as I went. This book was not abig help. I could find out how to play from the rules of the game I played.I need a book that covers various types and variations of fantasy leagues,Challenge, Roto, 5X5, Sabermetrics, and fantasy point types. If you are newto fantasy baseball I guess it gives you a look at one owner in one league,but you really have to talk to other owners, and read all kinds oftip-sheets and articles on ESPN.com and other fantasy sites. It's a lotbigger world than the author lets you in on.

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Title: Draft cram session: fantasy source.
Author: Roger Kuznia
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 229Issue: 13Page: 77(2)

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Title: Fantasy source.(fantasy baseball)
Author: Rob Hurtt
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 25, 2005
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 229Issue: 8Page: 82(1)

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Title: Fake diamonds: how fantasy baseball is ruining the real game.
Author: Amy Sullivan
Publication: Washington Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 5Page: 27(3)

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Title: Fantasy source.
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 18, 2005
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
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Title: Fantasy source.
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Title: Fantasy source.
Author: George Winkler
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 25, 2005
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Volume: 229Issue: 12Page: 59(1)

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Title: Fantasy source.(Fantasy)
Author: Roger Kuznia
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Title: Fantasy source.
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