FANTASY SPORTS:is a kind of sports that lets you to be owner, general manager, and coach of your own sports franchise with incredibly realistic simulations and a live online draft. They are one of the most prominent sports these days. Fantasy sports have interested people from every hook and corner of the world. It is a kind of sport that gives you full freedom to choose your players and make your team according to your wish. Fantasy sports are often criticized by writers especially those that are linked with the team sports or those who focus on statistics. Fantasy sports are also known as Fairy-Tale sports and Owner Simulation. The definition of the Fantasy sports defines that it is, “A hobby league in which fans draft players and compile statistics from game scores based upon how well the real players perform in real games. You are the owner, GM, and Coach all in one”. Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey has Fantasy Sports. More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports. Among all of the fantasy sports fantasy football is most popular one.

FANTASY BASEBALL : Fantasy baseball is a game in which the players handle visionary baseball teams based on the real-life performance of baseball players, who compete among themselves using those players' statistics to score points. It is one of the oldest and most popular forms of fantasy sports. Fantasy Baseball is a game that allows you to become owner, general manager, and manager of your own team without the multi-million dollar expansion fee. The fantasy baseball in the early times was sometimes called “tabletop baseball”. One of the best-known was Strat-o-Matic, which published a game containing customized baseball cards of Major League Baseball players with their stats from recent seasons. Participants could then re-create previous seasons using the game rules and the statistics, or compose fantasy teams from the cards and play against each other. Fantasy baseball is played like normal baseball it is too played by the players but here one has the choice to choose ones players and make there own team. Fantasy Baseball PLUS is a full-featured game that allows commissioners complete control over their league settings and scoring options. It includes StatTracker™, Draft Kit, Scouting Report, expanded research & analysis, and prizes for league winners.

HOW TO PLAY, RULES, WHY AND WHERE I CAN PLAY: Fantasy baseball is so interesting to play and allows freedom in choosing players, and playing that is also called Your League, Your way letting you control scoring, roster etc. Public and Custom leagues are available. The main thing used while playing fantasy baseball is the knowledge of the ratio and proportions. One must be having good knowledge of mathematics and statistics. A few terms used in fantasy baseball are hit (H), double (2B), triple (T), homerun (HR), runs batted in (RBI), base on balls (BB), strikeout (SO), and stolen base (SB). The best part of the game that is my favorite is that here you yourself are the manager of your own team. The information is used as the source of data for the player wheels. A player wheel is constructed for each player. It is construction is based on the probabilistic outcome of a player’s performance each time he comes up to bat. Generally when a batsman plays he hits a single, double, triple, home run, or he walks, strikes out, flies out or grounds out. Hence the player wheel is also divided in 8 sections based upon the last season records of that player that is the number of times he hits each one of these events occurred is compared to the total number of times the player came up to bat. These ratios are renamed to their decimal equivalents and are then converted to degrees. A circle is then divided into the eight sections based on the number of degrees in each section. Using a spinning device, the player wheel becomes a tool to be used when students play the Fantasy Baseball games. Co-managers will spin each wheel in the order of their line-up and move their players (chips) around the bases based on the label in the section where the spinner lands. During the game, a record is maintained of the number of outs and the number of runs. The innings can be decided according to the ones convince as the game can be limited to 2 or 3 innings as per ones convince. Depending on the amount of time you can devote to the tournament, you may have to limit games to 2 or 3 innings. You may also want to divide the teams into 2 leagues where each team plays every team in its league. The team with the most wins in each league will play each other in the Fantasy Baseball World Series. Mostly the game is played with the help of internet. Besides being an interesting game it is too a money earning game that allows a person to earn money while playing as a pool of money is collected that is later distributed to the winners at the end of the season.

IMMINENT PLAYERS/RANK HOLDERS: The players in the fantasy baseball also have a winning and loosing record. The best player is always seen on the top position. There are number of imminent players playing for the fantasy baseball infact all the baseball players are there for choice. Giambi and Griffey took home the Comeback Player of the Year Award in their respective league, while Sosa and Piazza saw their numbers drop even more. Curt Shilling had an interesting season in 2005.  Tim Stauffer pitched shutout ball for three innings Friday night as the Padres topped Team Korea 7-1 in an exhibition. Khalil Greene and Bobby Hill had three hits apiece for the Padres.