Fantasy Sports

They're like crack to a sport management major with General Manager aspirations, and that would pretty much describe me. Its become apparent to me, I'm hooked. For those don't know, fantasy sports are an online game where you take all the players in a given team sport, usually baseball, football, or basketball and place them in a draft. Team owners (people like me) then choose which players they want, and make additions and deletions throughout the season to create their team. The players accumulate real life stats, like home runs in baseball, or rebounds in basketball, among others, and those are considered the scoring in order to depict the success or failure of one's team. Its fun as a major sports fan and someone that wants to have a sports related career to try to manage and put together the team that will win your league's championship when pitted against your peers. It allows for many strategic decisions of what stats your team may need along the way, and what players are available, through adding or trading to give you the boost you need. It also allows for a lot of trash talk, something I really tend to enjoy. My friends and I get into it, and that's what makes it fun. We're all at least fairly knowledgeable, so its competitive and a fun way to apply our sports fandom. Being in tune with your players and what you're doing helps give a greater appreciation of players and teams that may not be around you as well. For instance, I may live in Cleveland, but since I have Gerald Wallace, I have a major interest in him, and in turn, the Charlotte Bobcats. So there are some goofy bonuses to this practice of fantasy sports, but they're bonuses nonetheless. So this is just basically my ode to fantasy sports. I play the 3 major sports including a souped up version of baseball that I just got in to, which is kind of the inspiration for this post. Perhaps a more specific post about that league will come some other time, but for now, I just wanted to introduce the wide world of fantasy sports, and why I, and many other fans have grown to love them. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the merits right now, but that's all that's coming to mind right now. Feel free to add anything you can think of out there.

-Hype