Unlike any other baseball famtasy game I know of, BBM mirrors real life BB on a daily basis in an almost uncanny way. A BBM manager can have as much control over his team as sees fit. Managinf the bullpen, setting lineups, setermininf which players toi oppose certain pitchres, just as real life MLB managers do. And so much more. Even defense plays a major role in the games as it does in real life. The best managers try to have well balanced teams and a keen eye on the minors to grab those hot prospects as they make it to the show. The bottom line is that BBM is a game of problem solving and isn't that exactly what occupies MLB managers during ther season. Dealing with DL'd players, slumping stars, overworked bullpens, etc, etc. That's what we BBM managers do all season long. It's awesome!!!

Best game out of town, hands up.

LOL Slim.  Hilarious!

Jason

Guys, Josh specifically asked that these types of comments be left in other clubhouses.  This clubhouse is intended to compare the benefits and attractions of BBM compared to other games.  Please be neighborly and delete your posts.  Heck, copy and paste them somewhere else; but not here, please. 

I ran across BBM for the first time in either '91 or '92. I've had at least one team every season since as well as some winter league teams.

The season starts with what many refer to as "the 8 days of Christmas" because of the 8 day draft. Checking your draft results as soon as you wake up to see if you got what you wanted and adjusting your draft plan for the next round based on your new draft position evokes similar enthusiasm.

When I've been involved in other fantasy leagues (such as ESPN, Yahoo, mlb.com, stats.com) BBM was always the first site I'd check to start the day as well as the last one I'd check before going to bed during the season. The others just didn't hold the same attraction for me and I never played any of those leagues two years in a row.

BBM has been modified over the years to provide many changes that have been requested by the manager community. It has been vastly improved from the product first offered on Prodigy which was the best product even at that time.

BBM probably won't be right for everybody but if you try it I wouldn't be surprised in 2029 to be reading your post on how you've been playing every season since you first started in 2010. 

   TBo

I have played BBM for 19 years and every year, I look forward with great anticipation for the beginning of spring training which means another great BBM season is just a few short weeks away.  If you are a fantasy baseball player, you absolutely owe it to yourself to experience Baseball Manager, the most realistic and addictive game on the internet.  Every day for at least 6 months, you will be challenged to make the same type of decisions as a real life manager as well as acting as General Manager.  Be prepared for a drafting experience which is unequalled by other fantasy games.  Every day for 8 days, you will draft a different position.  You will rank the players in the order which you determine.  The player's salary will be determined by how you and the other 9 managers have ranked the players (from best to last).  We call this experience the 8 days of Christmas.  BBM is famous for this! 

BBM goes far beyond the simple points accumulation of rotisserie type games.  BBM uses real life baseball statistics from the previous night's games, depending upon which version of BBM you are playing (Lightning, Express or Ultimate).  Each day, you will be provided with a personalized front page which will applaud you for having won your game or will perhaps challenge you when you have lost a game.

Should you ever have any question at all about BBM, be assured that the Diamond Club includes many managers such as myself who have played this game for a long time.  We are always willing to answer any question you may have and it is a great place to not only increase your knowledge of the game but it is a great place to make friendships.  I think you will like what the DC has to offer.

These are just a few of the many, many reasons why I have played this game for 19 years and will continue to do so.   

I've been playing BBM since its first year on Prodigy, but before that I was a baseball fanatic in that I'd play a full season of the board game, All-Star Baseball. I'd keep scorecards for each game as well as up to the minute stats. We had leagues in our neighborhood that lasted all summer. OK...I'll admit, I'm 70 years old and probably have played a lot of games you youngsters have never heard of....BUT....in my lifetime, there has never been a more realistic baseball game that BBM. Intellivision was fun, but BBM is about as realistic as it gets.

If you love baseball and stats; if you love testing your mind against 9 others in the league, who love baseball and stats as much as you do....grab hold and come along for an experience that will give you more fun for the money than any other entertainment value I can think of. BBM truly is "one of a kind"!

Come join us if you like competition where you truly have to think....Chess doesn't hold a candle to BBM. :)

Warren-

I like lots of what I read here!!

TBo - your puppy must have grown a bit since you put that photo up years ago!!

I was such a fanatic about fantasy baseball that, before finding BBM in the Prodigy days, I organized an "Earl Weaver Baseball" fantasy league.  Any one out there ever played Earl Weaver Baseball, the video game?

We had 10 teams and started with a 40 game season.  We set the computer for "pitch of decision" (you came up with a "count" 3-0, 3-2, etc., and on the next pitch something happened) and a "live game" would take about an hour to complete.  We managed to get to an 80 game season by having the computer play half the games.

In the "live" games, you not only prepared a lineup, but you could hit and run, bunt, "set" the fielders (move the fielders in or out or left or right) before the pitch, steal and call for pitchouts.  We had a live draft before the season for classic and modern players that used their stats from a particular season - it was great fun.  Probably the funniest thing the computer did was to send "Earl" out to argue with the ump on a close play - of course who always lost the arguments!  TheRev