Support Our Site

Donate online

League Sign In

 USERNAME

 PASSWORD

Forget login?
Create New Account

Scouting Tools

Scoring Leaders

Position Rankings

Qualified by Position

Draft Rankings

2007 Player Projections

Player Rater

Player Matchups

Statheads Store

Statheads on Cafe Press Cool products for the serious Stathead! New products added!

Statheads Fantasy Baseball: Overview

Registered users are allowed an unlimited number of teams that may be in public leagues (by auto assignment), or in private leagues by invitation. All private leagues include full league administration and team owners can play again together for following seasons with all new rosters. Public leagues may choose an admin to manage the league business and subsequently return as a private league. In addition, we provide all leagues sabermetric and filtered statistical data and player evaluation tools. Private leagues may re-draft full rosters each season or return team rosters with a core set of players (keepers) carried over from the previous season. Private league admins are free to manage their own special rules (allowing off-season trading, for instance) or use alternate types of drafts, so long as these activities fit within the Statheads game system.

Our game is not the traditional roto or weekly head-to-head play found elsewhere. Our leagues play a head-to-head schedule of 120 games each season, styled on the major league home and away series format. We use the daily MLB results to generate fantasy point scores for players in each starting position. For example, hitters get points for total bases plus runs scored, steals and RBIs (and subtract points for negative actions). Each match day has an assigned starting pitcher from your team's pitching rotation, and his most recent qualified start is scored for that match. The team with the higher score in the match gets a win, their opponent a loss, just like in real baseball.

Team owners manage full rosters with backups at each position. If a match is scheduled on a day when a starter is not playing, his backup is used (or an alternate substitution, with the goal that every team accumulates points for nine hitters in each match). Owners manage a rotation of four starting pitchers with a fifth starter used as a backup; starters are used in order according to the assigned slot for each match (Tuesday's starter may be SP1, and Wednesday's starter SP2, and the corresponding pitcher from a team's rotation is used for these matches). Teams also have a bullpen and score points based on their daily performances as well.

Registered users have access to our complete gameplay rules (covering the draft and keepers systems, specific scoring formulas, playoffs, free agents and more). Registration is available during open registration before each fantasy season.