Fantasy Baseball Cafe Forums

by **WhorldPhuckinGChampions** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:32 pm

Trying to pick a service to supplement my visits here and help me when time is at a premium.

by **WhorldPhuckinGChampions** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:08 pm

by **jlm53089** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:20 pm

I wouldnt pay for free information.
I mean what will they tell you that you wont already know?
Hey start so and so vs so and so because we said so?

I mean I never thought why paying for news when it is everywhere.

by **Kingctb27** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:32 pm

I honestly wouldn't pay for anything besides Baseball Prospectus, and I don't pay for it for fantasy purposes. PECOTA is just icing on the cake.

by **BronXBombers51** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:34 pm

Kingctb27 wrote:I honestly wouldn't pay for anything besides Baseball Prospectus, and I don't pay for it for fantasy purposes. PECOTA is just icing on the cake.

Agreed. BP is the only thing I'd buy.

by **jtsandwich** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:52 pm

I understand the logic of its free info and why should one pay for it. On the other side it is a very helpful tool when getting a reasonably accurate rankings of all players. I use fantistics and ALWAYS finish in the top 3 in a 14 team league that pays out about $2300 for 1st, thus it has paid for itself many times over. Now on Fantistics you can manually change any stat which I do to about half of all the players then it recalculates there "value" of the player, nice tool in my opinion.

I believe it does help, maybe an argument would be it is cheating and I wouldn't really disagee with that notion either.

by **WhorldPhuckinGChampions** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:23 pm

Thanks for the feedback. What can I say I like to read about baseball real and imagined, but have a schedule that doesn't allow me to explore the web as often as I would prefer; thus, for me services like BP/Baseball HQ/Fantistics and the like help in that regard.

by **Ender** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:02 am

I don't know much about baseball HQ other than the book but fantistics is pretty useful from the one year I paid for it. I decided not to renew because as others have said I can get the info for free elsewhere, it just isn't packaged quite as nicely. Now if fantistics improved their draft software I could almost see paying for it, but as it is I didn't find it very useful outside of the projections which I do on my own.