BEGINNING OF HOBBY CAME IN '79.Byline: Daily News It started over dinner at New York's LaRotisserie Francaise restaurant in 1979 and has grown into a hobby that engages millions of baseball fanatics as well as millions of others who compete in fantasy sports A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. leagues big and small, from the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga to auto racing. Daniel Okrent Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer, editor and baseball fan. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of the New York Times newspaper. Daniel Okrent graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit. , now the public editor of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, and some friends were debating at that dinner how they could do a better job managing their favorite baseball teams than the real team officials. Thus Rotisserie Baseball was born at LaRotisserie. Twenty-five years later it has become a cult. At first participants had to keep track of statistics by hand from newspaper box scores. The advent of the Internet opened the hobby to more than the most hard-core fans. As participation grew, Internet businesses were formed that would keep track of a team's rosters, statistics and the league's standings for a fee. There are more variations and the rules have changed somewhat but the game, now referred to as Fantasy Baseball Fantasy baseball is a game whereby players manage imaginary baseball teams based on the real-life performance of baseball players, and compete against one another using those players' statistics to score points. , is largely the same as was drawn out at the New York restaurant in 1979. Competitors form a league with each person ``owning'' a team. The owners get together in person or online and draft real professional baseball players based on how the owner thinks they will perform during the season. The league's teams compete in eight to 10 statistical categories, such as batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. , pitching wins and home runs. The team that accumulates the best overall statistics at the end of the season wins the championship. |
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