ROTISSERIE: Roto500: Ch-ch-ch-changes

Springtime in New York City—70 degrees, birds are singing, sidewalk cafes are full of hungry diners. What better way to spend the afternoon than sitting in a dark, noisy Irish bar drinking Guinness and drafting a fantasy baseball team? At least 11 other people shared this belief, so we got together in Manhattan to carry out the second annual draft in the NYC Roto500 league.

As a test league, we incorporated some rule changes that were instituted at the end of the 2011 season, as well as others that were put in place during the off-season.

Background:

As discussed in the 2012 Forecaster, Roto500 was created by Ron Shandler in 2011 in an attempt to “update” the original Rotisserie format, now in its fourth decade. Besides updated...

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