Let me into your mind.... - Page 2

gubaru · 06-22-2005, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?
None

What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?
If you mean video games then I'll occassionally hit gamespot and gameFAQs. If you mean baseball results, mlb.com.

What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?
none

What websites do you use to get Baseball info?
baseballthinkfactory.com, hardballtimes.com, baseball-reference.com, dodgerthoughts.com and a few other on a less frequent basis

What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?
I don't play fantasy sports.

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VoteQuimby · 06-22-2005, 12:38 PM

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VoteQuimby · 06-22-2005, 01:02 PM

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?

PC Gamer

What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?

Game Rankings.com, PC Gamer.com, Cnet.com, Game FAQs.com

What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?

Sports Weekly is by far the best as it is timely and informative and has sections on fantasy baseball as well as the real world kind. It does not come close (obviously) to the timeliness of the internet

What websites do you use to get Baseball info?

USA Today, MLB.com (good for getting stats other then year to date, for example last 7 days and last 30 days), Yahoo.com, Rotoworld.com, Rototimes.com, Fanball.com

What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?

Rotoworld.com, Rototimes.com, Fanball.com

Any other info about where a North American baseball fan gets his Baseball fix from on a daily, weekly or monthly basis is very much appreciated.

Fanball.com sends daily news reports to your email and is very informative. Rotoworld.com gives this information on their website as well (Rototimes gives the same general info as Rotoworld.com)

Bluenoser · 06-22-2005, 01:02 PM

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?

The Hockey News

Inside Hockey

In The Crease

What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?

http://www.chl.ca/

http://www.hhof.com/index.htm

http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/index.html

http://www.hockeydb.com/index.html

http://www.thn.com/en/headlines/thn.asp?cat=2&lieu=7

http://www.hockeysfuture.com/index.php

http://www.nhl.com/

http://www.ontariohockeyleague.com/hm/

http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?

http://www.whl.ca/hm/

What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?

Total Baseball

Total Ballparks

What websites do you use to get Baseball info?

http://www.ballparks.com/

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/

http://www.baseballreference.com/

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/stats/

Davey Eckstein · 06-22-2005, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?
Game Informer.
What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?
Gamespot.
What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?
Sports Weekly, Sports Illustrated, the newspaper

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What websites do you use to get Baseball info?
ESPN, MLB.
What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?
The best free one is Yahoo I think.

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rdklein · 06-22-2005, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?

PC Gamer

What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?

Gamespot.com

What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?

Houston Chronicle - Newspaper

What websites do you use to get Baseball info?

MLB.com - Baseball America

What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?

I only play fantasy football... and our league has it's own program for that.

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marky32082 · 06-22-2005, 02:56 PM

What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information?
Computer Gaming World
What websites do you use to get your your latest game info?
Gamespot.com, gamerankings.com
What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?
None
What websites do you use to get Baseball info?
baseballreference.com, baseballprospectus.com, http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter/
What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?
i've used yahoo

Any other info about where a North American baseball fan gets his Baseball fix from on a daily, weekly or monthly basis is very much appreciated.
I get my fix from watching the games and from the coverage that each game gets. One thing that separates baseball in this regard is that there are SO MANY GAMES. 162 per season + playoffs. That's like 5 or 6 times/week for 7 months! And even though a season is clearly more of a marathon than a sprint, mainstream media treats it as a sprint. This gives it an interesting dynamic to a degree not seen in most (if not any) other sports.

Qwerty75 · 06-22-2005, 03:27 PM

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What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info?

I checked the Bill James Revised Historical Abstract out of the library once -- had articles on various sabermetric topics

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What websites do you use to get Baseball info?

thehardballtimes.com (THT) -- daily game/transaction reports, very readable articles, great statistical database (updated ~weekly) specializing in sorting and analyzing info by batted ball type and Win Shares
baseballprospectus.com -- sometimes, for their stats analysis
baseballthinkfactory.org -- links to media stories from around the US (mostly), knowledgeable posters on message boards
fanhome.scout.com -- message boards per team, and miscellaneous general boards including a v. interesting one on sabermetrics that I don't have the statistical background to keep up with well. Some well-known statheads from around the 'web contribute there (tangotiger, etc.)
baseball-reference.com -- historical database
espn.go.com/mlb -- the online sports media giant
sports.yahoo.com/mlb -- cleaner presentation of boxscores

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What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around?

Not sure, as I'm not in a fantasy league, but rotoworld.com gets a lot of references throughout the 'web ...

fhomess · 06-22-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

**Devils Advocate mode BEGINS **

If thats the case, how does Baseball digest have 2.26m loyal readers (3 readers per copy apparently) that would be a little more than 750,000 copies sold per issue

**Devils Advocate mode ENDS....**

I used to read this when I was younger but stopped. My wife recently got me a year's subscription again to see if I liked it still, and I definitely did not. It seems very much geared toward the AARP crowd of which I have a long wait to become a member. This is most evident in the letters to the editor where readers write in about games they went to in the '40's and can't find the box score to. The magazine completely ignores the statistical revolution happening in baseball/baseball analysis, which in my mind, is the crowd that plays OOTP. I don't think they overlook it, I think they do it on purpose because of their readers. The articles talk about modern day players in the vernacular of 20-50 years ago depending on the author. That said, it's a perfectly reasonable market to tap. It's not a small market by any means. The type of people who would be interested in Baseball Digest would probably love the idea of someone re-simulating baseball history in OOTP whether it uses real players or is an ancestor league like TWB, but they wouldn't typically be the type to join in.

Eugene Church · 06-22-2005, 03:35 PM

I just use websites:

Baseball-Reference is by far #1...I use it to get my players ratings for my historical leagues...it is invaluable...it is so good and so helpful, I am going to donate $100 to it...wish anyone of you who use it regularly would consider supporting it financially, too.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Very distant seconds: BaseballLibrary...Baseball Almanac
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/play...hp?p=wilsoda01

ESPN.com for sports scores...Baseball Tonight to see the highlights (it is too fast moving and too VH1 in style...wish they would tone done the music and screen changes, the graphics and overly cute commentaries...it is so overproduced that it is irritating).
http://espn.go.com/index.html

Minor League Baseball for coverage.
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/index.jsp

LogoServer for sports logos research...to get ideas for custom made logos for my leagues.
http://www.logoserver.com/

Sports Nicknames....for nicknames for my teams in OOTPB.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/9735/

SportsLogos.net...a great site for logos and uniforms ideas for MLB and fictional OOTPB leagues.
http://www.sportslogos.net/

06-22-2005, 12:38 PM	#22
VoteQuimby Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 36	Test __________________ The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin Last edited by VoteQuimby; 06-22-2005 at 01:02 PM.

06-22-2005, 01:02 PM	#23
VoteQuimby Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 36	What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information? PC Gamer What websites do you use to get your your latest game info? Game Rankings.com, PC Gamer.com, Cnet.com, Game FAQs.com What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info? Sports Weekly is by far the best as it is timely and informative and has sections on fantasy baseball as well as the real world kind. It does not come close (obviously) to the timeliness of the internet What websites do you use to get Baseball info? USA Today, MLB.com (good for getting stats other then year to date, for example last 7 days and last 30 days), Yahoo.com, Rotoworld.com, Rototimes.com, Fanball.com What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around? Rotoworld.com, Rototimes.com, Fanball.com Any other info about where a North American baseball fan gets his Baseball fix from on a daily, weekly or monthly basis is very much appreciated. Fanball.com sends daily news reports to your email and is very informative. Rotoworld.com gives this information on their website as well (Rototimes gives the same general info as Rotoworld.com) __________________ The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin

06-22-2005, 03:35 PM	#30
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,983	I just use websites: Baseball-Reference is by far #1...I use it to get my players ratings for my historical leagues...it is invaluable...it is so good and so helpful, I am going to donate $100 to it...wish anyone of you who use it regularly would consider supporting it financially, too. http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Very distant seconds: BaseballLibrary...Baseball Almanac http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ http://www.baseball-almanac.com/play...hp?p=wilsoda01 ESPN.com for sports scores...Baseball Tonight to see the highlights (it is too fast moving and too VH1 in style...wish they would tone done the music and screen changes, the graphics and overly cute commentaries...it is so overproduced that it is irritating). http://espn.go.com/index.html Minor League Baseball for coverage. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/index.jsp LogoServer for sports logos research...to get ideas for custom made logos for my leagues. http://www.logoserver.com/ Sports Nicknames....for nicknames for my teams in OOTPB. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/9735/ SportsLogos.net...a great site for logos and uniforms ideas for MLB and fictional OOTPB leagues. http://www.sportslogos.net/ Last edited by Eugene Church; 06-22-2005 at 03:41 PM.

06-22-2005, 01:02 PM	#24
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,207	What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information? The Hockey News Inside Hockey In The Crease What websites do you use to get your your latest game info? http://www.chl.ca/ http://www.hhof.com/index.htm http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/index.html http://www.hockeydb.com/index.html http://www.thn.com/en/headlines/thn.asp?cat=2&lieu=7 http://www.hockeysfuture.com/index.php http://www.nhl.com/ http://www.ontariohockeyleague.com/hm/ http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php? http://www.whl.ca/hm/ What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info? Total Baseball Total Ballparks What websites do you use to get Baseball info? http://www.ballparks.com/ http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/ http://www.baseballreference.com/ http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/ http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/stats/

06-22-2005, 02:56 PM	#27
marky32082 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago Posts: 283	What printed publications do you use to get the latest game information? Computer Gaming World What websites do you use to get your your latest game info? Gamespot.com, gamerankings.com What printed publications do you use to get Baseball info? None What websites do you use to get Baseball info? baseballreference.com, baseballprospectus.com, http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter/ What are the biggest and best fantasy baseball sites around? i've used yahoo Any other info about where a North American baseball fan gets his Baseball fix from on a daily, weekly or monthly basis is very much appreciated. I get my fix from watching the games and from the coverage that each game gets. One thing that separates baseball in this regard is that there are SO MANY GAMES. 162 per season + playoffs. That's like 5 or 6 times/week for 7 months! And even though a season is clearly more of a marathon than a sprint, mainstream media treats it as a sprint. This gives it an interesting dynamic to a degree not seen in most (if not any) other sports.