Good on paper
| Friday, February 27th, 2009 | --Sean |
When you're looking for the origins of fantasy sports, it seems to always trace back to paper. Instead of vast corporations bending hundreds of servers and thousands of lines of code to your will, you'd wake up in the morning, grab the Sports section, and go to work. Box scores, pencil scratches, and napkin arithmetic were the name of the game, and despite the ink stains on your fingers and the dead trees in your wastebasket, the national obsession flourished. Yahoo! Fantasy Sports (available here) grew out of a desire to smooth out the tedious parts and bring a math-heavy game for stats nerds to millions of people who just want to cheer on their favorite player, but even we get nostalgic for paper sometimes. Our newly published Fantasy Baseball '09 Draft Guide, the first magazine ever produced by Yahoo! Sports, is hitting bookshelves in March, and it's chock full of every single prediction, stat, and insight we could wring out of our horribly overworked fantasy experts in the face of a ridiculously aggressive magazine-production timeline. Use it to dominate your friends on draft day. Use it for casual bathroom reading material. Use it as fuel for a trash can fire if you forget to pay your heating bill. Because sometimes, there's just no replacement for paper.
(take that, Amazon Kindle!)