Now that we’re into August, fantasy baseball teams in traditional rotisserie-style leagues are heading into the last full month of the season with a chance to make a run for first place. In head-to-head leagues, the playoffs are starting soon, meaning now is the last chance to make a meaningful impact on your roster.
The only rule of thumb for teams heading into the playoffs in 2012 is to avoid starting a Houston Astros pitcher. Since June 28, Houston only has 4 total wins, especially embarrassing considering that 14 pitchers have had more wins than that in that span. Other than that, August is a weird time in fantasy where a lot of success hinges on picking up players on teams in the middle of a pennant race.
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Kyle Lohse
Why Are We So Obsessed With Fantasy Sports?
Guest Blogger Mitchel is Back to Give His Take
I’m a big fan of fantasy sports.
I play fantasy football with some buddies from my freshman floor, the boys from back home and I have a keeper fantasy basketball league, and I even play fantasy hockey: lockout edition, where each week some friends and I try to guess which Canadian city will suffer the greatest loss in economic productivity due to depression stemming from the lack of hockey being played. We tried it with American cities too, but then we remembered that no one cares.
Fantasy sports are addictive. When games aren’t being played, there are scores to be reviewed or moves to be made. There are trades, adds, drops, finding sleepers, finding snorers. When games are going on, I find myself refreshing the browser every few minutes to see if one of my guys has racked up points. Winning is very important.
It’s weird to me how “fantasy” has become a brand name for this totally contrived type of competition — fantasy this, fantasy that. I could tell you that I have a fantasy league for kids in my history class, and you could guess pretty much what I mean. A couple people and I would “draft” other students and then receive points every time one of our “players” answers a question, adjusts her bra, or picks his nose.
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