Scott from Roto Experts interviewed Hojo about his fantasy football team. Hojo talks about doing the stats by hand. You kids have no idea how spoiled you are…we had to wait until Monday’s USA Today get stats….when Prodigy (a precursor to AOL) came along and we could get sorta boxscores by 7:30pm it was amazing.
I’ve been playing for 20 years. Zero championships! (3-0 early in 2010).
Rotoexperts.com has a second video about David Wright’s team.
Do you think the Mets get mad when players on their team get hurt?
Thanks to Scott for sending over!
hey now, shannon. some of us kids know how good we have it!
my dad’s been running our rotisserie league since 1988 (i received my own team at age 9…and won the championship! that ’93 title was unfortunately my only title to date). i remember him (and me, starting around age 6)feverishly waiting for that tuesday (we’re NL only. so mondays were AL, tuesdays NL) USA Today. when we got prodogy, it was only a minor upgrade, because by that time, my dad had written a program on our old MS DOS computer to imput the numbers to grab the standings. he did the first three years….BY HAND!
how far it all has come. it actually kind of bums me out that most 20 somethings don’t understand the roots. everyone reading this: good read “fantasyland” by sam walker!
Yeah our guy did all the stats by hand.
We also had a great rule that online leagues need to adopt.
Defense took OFF points off the opponents score. So instead of “Vikings Defense” getting 11 points for my team it took 11 points off my opponent’s score. It made the numbers more NFL like.
These kids today I’ll tell ya…