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[bryant]

Sports Illustrated recently launched a new fantasy baseball game. It complements their existing fantasy baseball game, I suppose. It’s called Baseball Challenge: Salary Cap Challenge.

Yep. It’s a fantasy baseball game that sells itself with the salary cap. As a Celtics fan laboring under the emotional weight of the Vin Baker trade, I find this painfully depressing. It doesn’t look like it’s really that different than any other fantasy baseball game — salary caps are nothing new in that world — but did they have to sell it as the “Cripple Your Team For Years With One Stupid Guaranteed Contract Challenge”? (Rephrasing mine.)

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

How about that historical baseball game Sports Guy was always raving about? That sounded like fun and it had a de facto salary cap. You have to pay for that game, though.

Do you have a team at this SI game?

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

It's not even a real salary cap or a real limited-resource league - they simply say 'players are worth x. We'll change their value each week, but that's okay because you have to repick your whole team every week.' Plus, if you have a 10-player league, all 10 guys can have Barry Bonds so long as they pay for him.

It's much more entertaining to play a multi-season roto league using auction rules instead of drafting in turn - then you get the joy of 'i'll spend 40 of my 270 cap dollars on Mark Prior.. now I'm locked into that for three years' and so on.

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

At lunch today, I saw Lego Antoine Walker and Lego Paul Pierce figures for sale (little lego men painted appropriately, not some giant bust made of 10,000 blocks like they do for star wars characters) and immediately thought a) of you and b) wondered if they modeled the Antoine Walker one with a basketball permanently attached to his shooting hand.