# Need a new fantasy baseball service **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 26, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496 "2009-02-26T11:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/1 "2009-02-26T11:30:47Z")
Any suggestions? We’d been using Team Tracker by RotoTimes but they shut it down and are pointing users to FanBall. I have a trial thing going with them bit it’s almost impossible to evaluate until there are some actual stats available. Our league is very basic. We don’t need any “real time” ability. Our commissioner makes all of the roster changes but he has to be able to do it retroactively as of the beginning of each month. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/2 "2009-02-26T13:29:42Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Any suggestions? > > We’d been using Team Tracker by RotoTimes but they shut it down and are pointing users to FanBall. I have a trial thing going with them bit it’s almost impossible to evaluate until there are some actual stats available. > > Our league is very basic. We don’t need any “real time” ability. Our commissioner makes all of the roster changes but he has to be able to do it retroactively as of the beginning of each month. Can I ask why you make your commissioner do so much work? Or why you limit yourselves to monthly transactions? Both Yahoo and ESPN offer excellent fantasy baseball leagues, and they’re free. They’re highly customizable and easy to use. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/3 "2009-02-26T19:26:33Z")
Also, it sounds like you might be in a fairly non-traditional league. If you could describe it, we might be better able to direct you to what you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/4 "2009-02-27T16:16:15Z")
Non traditional ?? We’ve been doing it pretty much this way since 1986. Unfortunately one of the owners refuses to use a computer so we get his transactions by voice mail while everyone else submits there’s by email. All transactions the same day are subject to a coin flip to break ties. Once he is able to, Commish has to evaluate them and make changes to rosters retroactively. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/5 "2009-02-27T22:01:43Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Non traditional ?? We’ve been doing it pretty much this way since 1986. > > Unfortunately one of the owners refuses to use a computer so we get his transactions by voice mail while everyone else submits there’s by email. All transactions the same day are subject to a coin flip to break ties. Once he is able to, Commish has to evaluate them and make changes to rosters retroactively. Well, assuming you’re using standard categories, I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to do it on Yahoo. Everyone can make changes themselves (except for your technophobe luddite manager), and the commish would only have to make roster changes for himself and the other guy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/6 "2011-01-24T12:50:59Z")
We ended up using Fanball for two years … but they announced that they are shutting down. Has anyone used Rotowire ? I think their baseball version is MLBCommish11. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-new-fantasy-baseball-service/487496/7 "2011-01-24T17:00:35Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Unfortunately one of the owners refuses to use a computer so we get his transactions by voice mail while everyone else submits there’s by email. Huh. So he has to rely on you guys to tell him how he’s doing in the league? You always tell him that he lost, right? Right?