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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.)

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[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.