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Title: Rotisserie League Baseball: Official manual and A to Z Scouting Guide (2003) by Glen Waggoner, John Benson ISBN: 1880876574 Publisher: Diamond Library Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.3
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't be deceived
Comment: Don't be deceived. This is not the Benson's A TO Z GUIDE of years past, which featured thousands of players (including virtually all minor leaguers with a shot at the majors), along with detailed scouting reports and statistics. Instead, this previously indispensable Roto-resource has been restructured and merged with Glen Waggoner's Roto rulebook. To make room, hundreds of players have been cut and the information pared back. Now, it features only major leaguers and high profile prospects with much briefer scouting reports.
If you'd like to see this book published in the old format next year, make sure you complain to John Benson and Diamond Library Publishers as I have .... In the meantime, you can try Ron Shandler's BASEBALL FORECASTER 2002 ANNUAL REVIEW, or John Sickle's STATS MINOR LEAGUE SCOUTING NOTEBOOK 2002 if you want something that focuses on prospects only. Shandler's analytical tools have probably surpassed those used by Benson's people anyway. Benson seems to be treading water while Shandler's projections and strategy recommendations have been growing more sophisticated.
Rating: 2
Summary: Ho-hum bios make one-great book run-of-the-mill
Comment: There is a voluminous amount of sources for information on fantasy league baseball available to fans, especially with the advent of the Internet. What used to set Rotisserie League Baseball apart from the rest was the irreverent, witty bios on the players. It was the closest thing to laugh-out-loud literature one could find on the National Pastime.
Alas, someone must have approached the authors and told them that the book needed to be more serious in light of previously said sources. The result is a bland concoction of stale statistics and rookie projections. Given the fact that a book needs more time to publish than does a magazine, it is rendered irrelevant.
Said to say, I believe I've purchased my last edition of Rotisserie League Baseball.
Rating: 4
Summary: Book is a good start to the 2003 season
Comment: If you grab this book expecting to get the latest news on player movement, position battles, and up-to-date player values, you will be disappointed. If you are a person who thinks you know it all about rotisserie baseball strategy, you, too, will be disappointed as this book spends a great deal of time talking strategy for off-season, draft day, and in-season. I personally enjoyed the read on strategy and am constantly reminded of areas I must stay focussed upon. The player profiles are thin and the player dollar values can be debated, but this book is written in the 4th quarter of 2002. We are a long way from Spring Training, so I use this as a starting point in the 2003 season and will use my favorite web-sites and projections for draft preparations. I do recommend this book for the average rotisserie baseball player, as its strategy discussions are valuable, and its player discussions are a good start. For the fanatic, don't buy this book and get disappointed. Instead, look to Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster 2003 Annual or Baseball Prospectus for all the analytical player information you can shake a bat at.
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Title: Baseball Forecaster 2003 by Ron Shandler ISBN: 1891566032 Publisher: Shandler Enterprises, LLC Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Future Stars: The Rookies of 2003-2004 by Tony Blengino, John Benson ISBN: 1880876582 Publisher: Diamond Library Publications Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Major League Scouting Notebook, 2003 Edition : Major League Players and Prospects by Thom Henninger, Jim Henzler, Tony Nistler, Sporting News ISBN: 0892047054 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2003 by Gary Huckabay, Chris Kahrl ISBN: 1574885618 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Baseball America's 2003 Prospect Handbook by Baseball america ISBN: 0684019302 Publisher: Baseball America Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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