After a stomach bug kept me from reading anything last week, I am happy to get up back on track with the next installment of our Fantasy Book Review series here on Fantasy Ethos. I am happy announce that today's review centers around the release of Baseball Prospectus 2010 by the Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts. The last time I held a book this large, I am pretty sure I was looking a number in the phone book. That so happens to be the book's exact point. The Baseball Prospectus 2010 is meant to be an ... Read More

Handling of fantasy league funds is always difficult and is occasionally a tense part of a fantasy league. To alleviate those issues for leagues, Fantasy Sports Vault offers a neutral third-party league treasurer service. It is a turn-key solution that takes all of the fuss out of collecting league dues. For the 2010 fantasy baseball season, Fantasy Sports Vault has released a number of upgrades. Most of the changes revolve around making the sign-up process a little easier and giving leagues additional flexibility. All of these upgrades will enable more leagues to be able to use ... Read More

In honor of the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament, Fantasy Ethos will publish 65 posts in the month of March, one for every team in the tournament. This is part of a greater effort to bring you (our beloved reader) much more regular content, because I know you want it. To get to the 65 posts, I will be throwing out a few new features, some interviews, maybe a contest or two, and few more tricks that I have up my sleeve. This post is officially the first post of the 65. While some may consider this ... Read More

Trades may be the single largest cause of disputes in fantasy leagues leading to the collapse of leagues and even the demise of friendships. A cottage industry to help settling fantasy disputes has developed catering to this market with sites like SportsJudge and Fantasy Dispute. A reader sent me this screen grab from his Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball sign-up, and the lower right corner, you see a new offering: In the lower right corner it says: Yahoo! Sports Trade Review: Yahoo! Sports staff members will review all trade protests and veto trades deemed to be unfair to the ... Read More

Continuing this year's trend of the big guys stepping up their fantasy baseball game, CBSSports.com has unleashed new upgrades to its games that are bound to make fantasy baseball players happy. Whether it is free leagues, premium offerings, or high stakes leagues, CBSSports.com is making a plea to attract every type of fantasy baseball player this season. One of the big new offerings is a free fantasy baseball game. From the looks of it, it is a scaled down version of CBSSports.com's fantasy baseball commissioner (which currently goes for $159). But, it does have the premium ... Read More

Shifting away from some of the more traditional fantasy games (read: fantasy sports) for a moment, there is a small burgeoning niche market around entertainment games, and fantasy American Idol is one of the most popular ones to play. Fantasy Pop has just released its Unofficial Fantasy American Idol game. With Simon Cowell departing after this season, this may be your last chance to prove that you know a lot more about music than Simon does. Each week, fantasy players rank who they think is most likely to be the next American Idol, which conversely indicates ... Read More

The idea of running mock drafts for fantasy leagues barely existed. People would what if the first round or two, but never took it much farther than that. Then, Mock Draft Central proved that there was a market for fantasy players wanting to practice their drafting skills. CBSSports.com, ESPN Fantasy, and Yahoo! Fantasy Sports have all since followed suit, and have mock drafts available to their players. Mock drafts are a big deal now; they are such a big deal that RotoWire just acquired Mock Draft Central for at least a few hundreds of thousands ... Read More

For the longest time, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports charged for its Stat Tracker. This little feature sucked you in during Week 1 of your fantasy football season. Week 1 was free, but if you wanted that hit for the rest of the season, you would have to pay Yahoo! a measly $10. While Yahoo! Fantasy Football was "free," I knew very few players that actually paid nothing to the site. Alternatively, leagues could sign up for a Fantasy Football Plus account for $125, which gave every team member Stat Tracker, plus a few other minor bells ... Read More

In our next installment of our Fantasy Book Review series here on Fantasy Ethos, I am happy announce that today's review centers around the new 2010 Baseball Forecaster by Ron Shandler. When it comes to fantasy baseball, Ron Shandler is one of the most well-known and renown experts. Every year, he shares his thoughts and predictions for the upcoming season by publishing his Baseball Forecaster, which is now in its 24th edition. The 2010 Baseball Forecaster has its usual suite of player projections based on sabermetric tools that Shandler and the BaseballHQ team have refined over ... Read More

The concept of simulated fantasy games is new, but Yesteryear Fantasy Sports has put a new twist on the game. To play, draft a roster of historical players and play head-to-head like regular fantasy football game. However, for your players' game statistics, YesterYear's Fantasy Football's system will randomly select real statistics from a three-year window of that player's career. The game is free to play if you want an autodrafted team, or $3.99 if you would like to select your own team. Currently, YesterYear is hosting a challenge in which the top teams will get ... Read More