What is Fantasy Sports?

Fantasy Sports is not just a game it is a phenomenon! Millions of people worldwide enjoy this interactive highly competitive game every day.  As popularity of Fantasy Sports grows hundreds of thousands new participants enter the game for the first time every year- Just like you!

Why is Fantasy Sports so popular?

Count the reasons - It's challenging. It's thrilling. Most enjoy the excitement of competing against family, friends and strangers, the fun of bragging and good-natured trash-talking, the thrill of a triumphant victory and the lows of an agonizing defeat. For the novice, Fantasy Sports is a great way to learn the game. It even makes being a fan much more enjoyable. But most important, Fantasy Sports is just plain FUN!

We know you have plenty of questions and we know you need immediate answers. RotoAmerica.com’s Fantasy 101 will provide you with these answers and will offer you the basic skills to be a successful Fantasy Sports player. This tutorial is designed to give you a quick startup of what you need to know and how to implement a strategic plan to fully engage in the competitive management of your team. We will give you the tools and trade secrets of the industry that will set you on track to a blazing winning streak! RotoAmerica.com is committed to providing Fantasy players with the best possible experience … always the best, always the fastest, always on the cutting edge – We make you better faster-that's our goal and our promise.

How does it work?

Fantasy Sports is an assortment of games where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners' teams based on the individual statistics generated by actual or “real” players or teams of a professional sport (i.e. Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Golf, and NASCAR). If a professional sport exists there is a Fantasy Sports League game to be played.

Fantasy Sports mirrors Professional Sports in that Professional Sport’s actual performance statistics are utilized by the Fantasy Sports player to make decisions that affect the selection and management of his or her Fantasy team.

Although this RotoAmerica.com’s Fantasy 101 tutorial currently focus’ on Fantasy Baseball only, the principal basics generally remain the same for all other Fantasy Sports. Fantasy Baseball currently has the second largest number of players- second only to Fantasy Football.

Fantasy Baseball

Fantasy Baseball is a game where players manage imaginary baseball teams based on the real-life performance of Major League Baseball (MLB) players, and compete against one another using real-life players' statistics to score points. A professional Major League Baseball player’s statistical performance during the regular playing season is converted to points. This conversion is typically manually calculated by a “League Commissioner”. (Note: A more complex conversion of compiled statistics to points uses computer modeling).

Objective of the Game

The objective of Fantasy Baseball is to score more cumulative points than your opponent and win the League Championship. Fantasy Baseball is simple and easy to learn and takes only as much time as you would like to spend. Fantasy Baseball simply makes it more fun to be a fan!

It is important to note that as people spend more time playing Fantasy Baseball, they like to add wrinkles and nuances to the traditional game. There are many options and variations to playing Fantasy Baseball which we will cover in a later section. While tweaking the game can be fun and make the game more exciting- sometimes the variety of choices can be a little daunting to the newcomer. Don't worry! Things are really not as difficult or confusing as they may seem. There are several ways to enjoy the same game - but the concept is always the same: have fun and enjoy friendly competition.