I do play for money (not in all of my leagues), but I don't pull out a second mortgage, so to speak, for high stakes games. Strictly small money for me. A big payout would be nice, but I have yet to meet anyone who's struck it rich playing fantasy baseball.
I'm setting up a yahoo "free" league with some friends this year. $5 buy-in with a $60 reward for the victor. That way, it's practically free, but a pretty nice little compensation at the end for the winner.
BTW: we're almost all college students, so $60 ain't too shabby.
All for fun, i allready work for a living i don't want fantasy baseball to turn into a chore worrying if it will cover the electricity this month or not
I ONLY play for money. Play in two very serious, same owners year after year straight leagues. One league usually has about $6000 in the pot to be split 50%,25%,15% and 10% and the other is less expensive with usually around $3000 in pot to be split with same ratio.
when i started out, i played free leagues to learn...but afterwards, it is just not worth it to put in so much work into fantasy sports without rewards. nowadays i can say it is worth it just to play money leagues to enjoy a competitive season and avoid deadbeat teams...surprisingly there still are deadbeats in pay leagues but much less.
Money puts a whole different twist to the game. Our pot gets to around $3000 in a 10 team keeper league. It's EXTREMELY competitive and you cannot find anyone remotely good on waivers.
A little money is still fun but when you can win $1000+, it is a nice little bonus for a job well done. Very rewarding.
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by eftda » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:20 pm 
