Fantasy Tip Of The Week: Baseball Vs. FootballFantasy Tip Of The Week: Baseball Vs. Football By Chris Goudey There is an old George Carlin comedy routine that talks about America's favorite spectator sports, baseball and football. The gist of the routine is the object of football is to win the ground battle in the trenches and dominate with an aerial assault, while the object of baseball is to go home. Thus football is the better sport. For stat geeks like me, however, there is no question which fantasy sport is the most fun to play. It's fantasy baseball by a mile, and the reason for that is because you can gain a huge edge over your opponents by doing the most research on your team.  Fantasy football is obviously the most popular fantasy sport around, and while it is a ton of fun to play, anyone in your league has a shot to win with a decent draft and the luck of the draw with injuries. Injuries play such a huge role in fantasy football that it really becomes a bit of a crapshoot. You only usually have 8-10 players on your team, and if your first-round draft pick bites the dust, then so do your chances of winning most likely. There are definitely ways you can keep your team afloat in football, but in baseball, one long-term injury is not going to crush your chances of winning. That's one big reason why I prefer baseball to football - less luck involved. For the number crunchers and true fantasy experts, there is no comparison between the two. There are now literally thousands of places people can go to get fantasy football information every week. Lineup recommendations, sleepers, projected weekly stats and basically any other nugget of advice you can get are available. I'm not denigrating this trend, as I will also be one of those giving you weekly advice once we get closer to football season. The problem with all this access to data is you really can't get a true advantage over your competition because everyone is looking at the same thing. I miss the old days when I used to dominate my leagues because I had the data my league-mates didn't. That's not to say I don't still win my fair share of leagues. I do win a nice percentage of them, but it's definitely not the rate it used to be a few years ago. I believe fantasy baseball will experience a similar boom in the next few years, as people who love fantasy football will want to continue their addiction year-round. Fantasy basketball should also see a nice boost. The problem for these football lovers is there isn't as much data available for them to do well in other sports. It would be similar to the recent poker boom. The poker pros are loving life right now because of all the new, inexperienced money coming into their game. For fantasy gamers like me, who have been successful at all three sports for a decade or more (almost two in my case), this should be a similar situation. I can't wait to see what's going to happen once this takes place. Baseball requires so much more work to do well, and there are limited places to get the info you truly need. If you want to become a part of this boom, there are a couple of sites you can visit that should help: BaseballHQ.com, BaseballProspectus.com, and Fantistics.com are the three I use to help separate facts from flukes. There really aren't many others out there that will give you the help you need. You can find projected stats in magazines at the beginning of the year from many sources, but a lot of those numbers are printed 2-3 months before spring training begins and aren't really a help to you as the season gets closer. The three sites mentioned above are on top of what happens on a daily basis and will keep you competitive all season. --- by Chris Goudey at WagerWeb.com on July 05, 2006
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