What is your favorite fantasy sport to play?

What is your favorite fantasy sport to play? Feel free to explain in the thread.

Tough to pick for me, but I had to go with baseball. I’m involved every single day from April until September.

football for me for two reasons.

One, it’s the first Fantasy sports game I ever played, and it was back before the internet. So, all stat calculations were done by hand, so we kept things pretty simple. I’ve always liked the rules from that first game, because scores tended to be similar to real NFL games. No fractions of points, and you could get a 23-20 score.

Two, football is now so easy to play via the web that it’s almost impossible not to play with my friends. You can put as much or as little effort into it. Whatever you want. The free software takes care of everything.

Baseball for me. Basketball, hockey, then football.

Baseball for me, for the reasons dalej42 mentioned.

My real favorite fantasy sport involves Halle Berry and a feather boa, but I should probably leave it at that. :smiley:

I cut my teeth on basketball, so I think it’s natural that I like that sport the best.

Baseball is also very good. I admit that I’m an action junkie; I like having games going on 7 days a week.

Football is a distant 3rd. There are just too many problems with it to make it a rewarding fantasy experience.

football if done right (no defensive players, limited roster size, limited league size, etc.) is the pinnacle of fantasy sports. with only 16 games, you live and die with each ticker update. you actively cheer for players like santonio holmes to stretch out for that extra yard because you need him to top 100, and your entire sunday is spent doing millions of calculations to see if you’re still on top.

you don’t have this in basketball or baseball. those things are ULTRA MARATHONS. 82 games? 162 games?! setting your roster weeks at a time? it’s just too much of a chore. you don’t cheer for an extra rebound like you cheer in football for that extra yard.

soccer is surprisingly fun for the same reasons football is fun but on top of that, it’s limited with in terms of scoring. you’ve only got goals and assists. no yards. no interceptions. no sacks. no fumbles. nothing. just goals and assists. but, i kind of like the curveballs that a rogue sack or an errant interception does to the point total. it makes the game that much more interesting.

hockey is exciting because fo the limited scoring methods, but it gets bogged down in the marathon season as well.

Baseball, for exactly the reason that pancakes3 hates it, and loves football. I don’t like rooting against players or teams, especially if they’re my players or team. Because baseball is so long, Zach Greinke having a bad day isn’t as devastating, or watching Mark Teixeira blast 3 HRs not as detrimental. There’s very little luck in fantasy baseball, while it’s rampant and near-dominant in fantasy football. Being fastest to the waiver wire isn’t indicative of your fantasy skill - it’s indicative of being near a computer at the right time. On a week-to-week basis, I’m no more active in baseball than I am in football. You can set your lineup for the week on Sunday and be done with it, keeping track of potential pickups during the week just like you do in football.

Fantasy baseball is fantasy perfection, and there is really no argument against that.

Baseball. I love having games to follow every day, and I love the relatively lesser role of luck compared to other fantasy sports (as things will even out a lot more over 162 than over 14 “regular-season” fantasy games or, god forbid, any individual playoff game in football). Also, baseball is a lot LESS intrusive into my time than football is - I find it much less of a pain to spend literally two minutes every morning checking my scoring and lineup, than the average “waiver process” or what passes for one in most football leagues (though thankfully that is slowly changing to “free agent pickups locked during games” across the board).

Also, a 24 round baseball draft with 16-20 teams is fantasy draft perfection.

The only argument for fantasy football is that you like (or perhaps even need!) random variance.

Baseball for numerous reasons, the most important being I just like baseball better. Baseball is about finding the best players (per fantasy rules), while success in football is more dependent upon reading coach’s minds and predicting injuries than identifying talent. Football is harder to root for too, half the time a receiver makes the catch I can’t tell until after the play if it was my guy.

I’m just glad that I’m not the only one that prefers baseball.