ROTISSERIE: The Fantasy of Baseball EVERY Day, pt. 2

Since its creation almost 40 years ago, the game of fantasy baseball has evolved in many ways—except one. Especially in the most popular commercial leagues, the concept of making roster and even lineup decisions has remained limited to one arbitrary day (Sunday in most cases) per week. This is in spite of the fact that the original reason for such a restriction has long since been eliminated. In part 1 of this investigation, we explored the evolution of the fantasy game. While the original “rotisserie” version required painstakingly copying statistics by hand from those printed in the newspaper (published once a week), the arrival of the Internet ushered in today’s era in which we not only have access to updated stats every day, but...

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