baseball league created for Boy Scout troops nationwide.

A website designed to help baseball novices learn about the game.

An online system for baseball fanatics to create virtual leagues, become general managers of their own teams,
draft real players, and-through the use of databases that compile players' statistics throughout the season-
compete against other teams within their fantasy baseball league.

A special edition created by most baseball magazines and published during Spring Training. In this issue,
sportswriters state the strengths and weaknesses of each team and make predictions about the final standings
in both leagues.

There are a number of teams available to choose from in a fantasy baseball league. Participants bid on teams
and buy their clubs with real or fake money.

In fantasy baseball, participants play the roles of owner and general manger of their own baseball clubs.
They choose their rosters-usually through a mock draft-from among active MLB players. Players' actual
statistics during the season determine how well each fantasy team performs.

Usually the Baseball Rulebook is consulted to determine team ownership.

Participants choose a favorite team from among the real Major League Baseball teams and compete against
other members of the league. They determine the players' statistics through an elaborate board game
played every Friday evening.

They are active MLB players. (Fantasy leagues using active minor league or college players are also possible
as long as accurate, up-to-date statistics are readily available.)

Ballplayers have the right to withdraw from a fantasy league.

"Players" on a fantasy ball club don't have to be baseball players. Anyone can be chosen by the FBL
participants to fill out the fantasy team roster.

Ballplayers drafted by a fantasy team are paid a weekly stipend to participate in the fantasy league.

There is no formal relationship between fantasy baseball leagues and MLB. Fantasy teams use major league
baseball's statistics. This is the relationship between the two and is the key to MLB fantasy baseball.

Although Major League Baseball does not own fantasy baseball, the Baseball Commissioner has closely
monitored all official fantasy baseball leagues since 1966.

Major League Baseball owns the rights to fantasy baseball.

Fantasy Baseball is the official owner of MLB.

Fantasy baseball participants follow the MLB scoreboard in real-time. Based on the performances at the MBL
games, statistics on each player are evaluated and scores are recorded accordingly.

Scoring runs is not part of a fantasy baseball game.

The participants in a fantasy baseball game bet on each player-s performance. Whoever did a better job of
predicting which players scored the most runs will win the game.

No runs are recorded, but at the end of the MLB season, the fantasy baseball owner having the most players
from an MLB World Series champion wins the league championship.

You have to be of legal age in your state to play.

You have to be an employee of an MLB team.

Virtually anyone can join either for free or for a fee depending on the organizer.

You have to be a member of Fantasy Baseball USA.

Fantasy Baseball originated in "La Rotisserie Francaise," a New York restaurant in 1980. It was there that
the classic rotisserie scoring system was developed. This system has been adopted for scoring fantasy baseball.

It is the name of one of fantasy baseball teams.

It is the name of the French fantasy baseball league.

It is a complicated scoring system developed in France for fantasy baseball. It requires the use of a
rotisserie oven and a desktop computer to extract player statistics.

This is an alternate scoring system used to determine wins, losses, or ties in each individual category against
one another on a monthly basis.

This is an alternate scoring system used to determine wins, losses, or ties in each individual category against
one another on a weekly basis.

This scoring system is used when two fantasy baseball teams are tied when competing for the division title at
the end of the season.

This scoring system totals all individual player statistics at the end of the season and then compares those
numbers against other players from other teams in each category.

Unlike MLB, fantasy baseball participants don't draft players. The participants are assigned their players by
sportswriters on their hometown newspapers.

The organizer of the draft makes sure all players are available to pick their players on the fantasy baseball
Internet site. It works on a "first-come, first-served" basis.

An online auto-pick draft is available for each team. Afterwards, participants are notified by the Baseball
Commissioner as to which players have been selected for their team.

There are numerous ways for participants to draft players. Some use an auction-type draft. In this method,
teams are budged a certain amount of "money" and then draft players based on their actual salaries. This is
most often done in a "round robin."

From the start of the MLB season to the end of the World Series.

From the start of the MBL season to the end of the regular MLB season (not including the playoffs or the World
Series).

It starts with the playoffs and ends with the final game of the World Series.

The period of the playoffs only.