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Fantasy Baseball Basics

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Senior Fantasy Baseball Expert Shawn Childs gives you an in-depth look at some Fantasy Baseball basics and reveals some guidelines to follow when building your roster.

Fantasy Baseball is a great game especially for a sports fan who loves to watch baseball. A season covers about 180 days over 26 weeks. Most of my experience in the Fantasy Baseball market has come in rotisserie style leagues. This type of league has ten categories to earn league points with five coming from batters and five from pitchers. Here is a list of the ten categories:

Batting Average (BA) – Each team adds up their total hits divided by the number of at-bats by their starting players to come up with their overall team batting average.