Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
This is why baseball is America's Pastime. You can spend just about any summer day sitting at a ballpark eating peanuts watching a game. 162 games kind of blurs into a mess after a while, but the length of the season is a big draw for me.
Football is and always will be my first love. But baseball is awesome, too. For fantasy sports, the longer season makes baseball more a factor of your own skill and knowledge and minimizes luck. After ten straight season of poor luck in fantasy football, I pretty much mailed in this last year, and I have better things to do than to waste time on a game I no longer enjoy.
Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
Couldn't somebody who doesn't really like football that much say that they don't start watching the NFL until the playoffs?
Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
Couldn't somebody who doesn't really like football that much say that they don't start watching the NFL until the playoffs?
Like me.
I'll take it one step further... the last 3 years, the only game I saw where I watched more than a single quarter was the Super Bowl. I must say, I did enjoy wathcing the Super Bowl, though. I'll keep playing Fanatasy football only because I'm in a work league that I've won twice and I kind of feel obligated to keep playing. The draft is a lot of fun and usually makes playing the season worth it.
Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
That's usually about when I stop watching. But I'm a Mets fan, so by then I've usually got nobody to root for anyway.
Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
That's usually about when I stop watching. But I'm a Mets fan, so by then I've usually got nobody to root for anyway.
There's always a seat ready for you at Wrigley, h0rt. We're always having a party, win, lose or.... well, lose. Because we always lose. But at least we have fun doing it.
Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
Couldn't somebody who doesn't really like football that much say that they don't start watching the NFL until the playoffs?
Um yeah I guess they could but what's your point?
My point by saying that was that the regular season in baseball is too long, too many games are played and a boat load of them don't really matter. To me they play a seasons worth of games in the playoffs and thats when I'll watch. In football every game matters, sure there are exceptions, but for the most part every single game matters. If someone wants to skip the regular season of football thats fine but they're missing out. I'm not missing anything by skipping the Red Sox @ Oakland in March.
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Metroid wrote:OK maybe not half but you can lose A LOT of games...The real reason I don't care for baseball is the length of the season. I don't watch baseball until the real season starts....and by "real" I mean playoffs.
That's usually about when I stop watching. But I'm a Mets fan, so by then I've usually got nobody to root for anyway.
You can root for Met year round....just come over to the light side.
I'm in the same boat with GSOE and Knapp. I'm down to one FF league and that's only because it's with some high school buddies and we've been at it for almost 10 years. Baseball is where it's at. I'm loving this new MLB TV.
Last year I didn't pay attention very much at all to FF, except the last 2 weeks when, somehow, I made it to the playoffs. I ended up winning the championship and that just killed it for me. That shouldn't happen and I'm pretty confident it wouldn't in a competitive baseball league.
i love both FF and FB, although i think i enjoy FB more...although it can be such a grind later in the year
i still love FF for the weekly trash talk and things like that...i just dont get the same feel with FB
i'm still at 5 FF leagues and i dont see any i can cut
also, this was a heartbreaking year for me... League 1 - missed playoffs on tiebreaker. could have won twice during the season by playing Deangelo Williams. highest scoring team both playoff weeks League 2 - went 12-2. lost by 0.26 in Semi's. would have won championship had i ahdvanced League 3 - lost by 4.5 in semi's (1 Colston reception or 1 extra Colston rec yard would have kicked in a 5 point bonus). would have won title had i advanced League 4 - had a shot at division title and most points (both $$$), choked the final week. lost in quarter finals. lost 3rd place game by 1.6 points (on a Forte reception in OT) League 5 ousted in Wild Card round (cant really complain here...)
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I play both Fb and Ff and i lean more to baseball. FF to me makes the games more fun to watch and it makes trash talking fun. Its also something fun to do on a Sunday/Monday. I just cant stand the stupid losses where your projected to nearly double your opponent and the opposite happens . Its too much based on luck and an injury in the 1st Q can desrtroy your whole week. If im going to take something seriously and put something on it I want to have more control of it based on draft prep, waivers, ect. Not - O my best #1 pick is going against the #1 D guess i have to bench him ( i know dont bench studs but even studs get shut down a few times a season and leads to a lost week). Baseball is more drafting a balanced team. If a stud goes down on tuesday- swich with a strong bench/ww player and with your other picks you still have a good shot if your teams strong. It is a grind and can even be seen as a mini-job at sometimes but thats why I love it. You determine the outcome of your team, not random factors that happen in FF. I love FF for the excitement level and will always play it but never too seriously. In baseball its tough, but if you watch little factors such as: Pitchers setting up batters, situational play, where each player has to go on each play, ect. Theres so much going on even when "nothing" is even happening. Both sports have thier own stregths and are my two favorites but as far as fantasy I go with Baseball
A Fleshner Fantasy wrote: Couldn't somebody who doesn't really like football that much say that they don't start watching the NFL until the playoffs?
Like me.
I'll take it one step further... the last 3 years, the only game I saw where I watched more than a single quarter was the Super Bowl. I must say, I did enjoy wathcing the Super Bowl, though. I'll keep playing Fanatasy football only because I'm in a work league that I've won twice and I kind of feel obligated to keep playing. The draft is a lot of fun and usually makes playing the season worth it.
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by knapplc » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:38 pm 
I'll keep playing Fanatasy football only because I'm in a work league that I've won twice and I kind of feel obligated to keep playing. The draft is a lot of fun and usually makes playing the season worth it.
. Its too much based on luck and an injury in the 1st Q can desrtroy your whole week. If im going to take something seriously and put something on it I want to have more control of it based on draft prep, waivers, ect. Not - O my best #1 pick is going against the #1 D guess i have to bench him ( i know dont bench studs but even studs get shut down a few times a season and leads to a lost week). Baseball is more drafting a balanced team. If a stud goes down on tuesday- swich with a strong bench/ww player and with your other picks you still have a good shot if your teams strong. It is a grind and can even be seen as a mini-job at sometimes but thats why I love it. You determine the outcome of your team, not random factors that happen in FF. I love FF for the excitement level and will always play it but never too seriously. In baseball its tough, but if you watch little factors such as: Pitchers setting up batters, situational play, where each player has to go on each play, ect. Theres so much going on even when "nothing" is even happening. Both sports have thier own stregths and are my two favorites but as far as fantasy I go with Baseball
