Difficulty aside, I was SO excited a couple years back to join my first fantasy baseball league. Was a $500 buy in, so the stakes were high - it mattered. My team was well in the hunt most of the season.It was the most boring thing I have ever watched. What is great about fantasy football imo are two things: (1) The fact that watching a football game for fantasy reasons is FUN - things can happen at least 1/2 of the time in your favor, when your player is on the field. Especially a stud player. Can be almost as exciting and enjoyable as watching your home team place. In baseball, you have 4-5 chances a game, each of which takes a minute or so. In the end, its like watching paint dry. I LOVE watching a baseball game, and the stats are very fun to examine, but they are damn boring to watch "occur" outside of the context of the game, and winning/losing that game. (2) Head to head. Perhaps if I were in a head to head baseball league it would be a little more fun, but it seems almost every league is roto style which just takes all the immediate fun of winning / fear of losing out. It takes away the importance of setting the lineup. Ok, you miss out on a HR in baseball. Pick the wrong guy in football, a 8-5 season becomes a 7-6 season and you miss the playoffs.I know many love it, and I wont take anything away from them. For me, however, fantasy baseball was one of the more dissapointing endeavors of my life.
