FANALYTICS: Rotisserie 500, Year 2

The Rotisserie 500 game was introduced last year and taken out for a test run in two high-level leagues, in New York and Toronto. During the course of 2011, several of us wrote about the experience extensively, we surveyed the participants and analyzed the final results. In the end, we decided that Roto500 was a promising new format but needed a few tweaks.

Here is what Roto500 is all about, in summary:

Roto500 uses a single currency for valuing, purchasing and selling of players. Each team is allotted a flat $500 budget that they use for player acquisition at the draft, reserve list and in-season free agents. How those dollars are allocated is up to each individual owner.

Roto500's draft uses a hybrid snake, auction and salary...

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