The Most Realism and the Most Fun!

Do you think that middle relievers, good defense, and a manager's strategies all play an important part in real baseball? Well, so do we, and that is why we designed Scoresheet Baseball so that your fantasy team plays complete games, at-bat by at-bat.

The problem with other fantasy baseball systems that just add up 'points' is that the better baseball team often doesn't win. In those stat-adding games a few categories like stolen bases are overemphasized while entire areas of baseball, such as creating batting orders, sacrificing, pinch hitting, platooning, fielding, setup men, etc., are ignored. At Scoresheet we don't decide that a home run is worth 4 'points', and pitcher win is worth 2 'points'. Instead, your Scoresheet team will play complete ballgames based on that current week's major league box scores, and using your managerial strategies. The results are so realistic that Baseball Weekly asked us to simulate an entire major league season for one of their feature articles. The San Francisco Chronicle said "Comparing Scoresheet Baseball to other fantasy games is like comparing chess to checkers." For the last twenty years, we have constantly upgraded and fine tuned our game program. We are proud to say that our team owners continue to tell us (and their friends) how fun and realistic our game is.

Each Scoresheet at-bat, our computer calculates the chances of a base hit, home run, out, error, etc., based on the actual performances of your game's batter, pitcher, and fielders that week in the majors. For example, the better a batter hits that week in the majors, or the more hits per 9 innings that pitcher gave up that week, the higher the probability of a hit in that Scoresheet at-bat. Based on those probabilities, our computer then determines the outcome of each at-bat. Similar formulas apply for extra base hits, walks, strikeouts, etc. - virtually every official baseball statistic is used in a Scoresheet game.

We are avid baseball fans, and have tried to include all of the subtleties that make baseball such a great game. But the computer handles all the details; your managing is actually quite simple. For instance, since fielding range numbers are generally hard to find, we include them for every player in the draft packet we mail you. Some of the finer points that make our game the most realistic are listed below.