Beware Grum, that's how it starts. A small league here, an attractive payout there. Hmmmm, well this season's done, sure, I have time for this sport. Next thing you know, it's a year round obsession. Sooo many teams, so much invested. Not just the American Corporate Way, but the American Way, My Way. And sure, regrets, I've had a few, (mostly involving a professional athelete named Lindross!). So screw MLB, I will take my $ a find plenty of other hands held out for them.
A small league here, an attractive payout there. Scoresheet has no financial reward for winning your league, other than a chintzy little trophy. I don't play in any roto leagues, and I definitely don't play where prize money is on the line (as that can lead to collusion). Next thing you know, it's a year round obsession. Oh, it still is. I don't know too many other people in my circle of friends that surf the web for Arizona Fall League results and Dominican league stats... Sooo many teams, so much invested. There is a gentleman I know of that has 7 different Scoresheet teams (in different leagues). That's just crazy.
The Supreme Court ruled many years ago that compilations of public information are legal and in fact can be separately copyrighted if effort is made in the organization of the facts. I'm pretty sure the precedent is from Westlaw, the company which made the books of court decisions which themselves became used as citations in decisions (that is, the specific volume and page numbers from the books became the official way to cite previous case law). So I don't see how MLB can make this claim stand up if it came to trial. Then again, the American legal system has surprised me time and time again.
Crazy? Crazy like a fox! Especially in leagues that have $$ payouts, (are there any others?). The more teams the more chances. As for collusion, that's just another word for "competetive edge". Yeah, that's the ticket. And if MLB does come down on this, (they shouldn't win, but in the ju$tice $y$tem of ours . . . ), we'll, (the leaguers), will take our $ elsewhere. Anyone up for some Strat-O?
Baseball Prospectus The bad memories are still there... I play exclusively with Yahoo so I don't think this will affect me. There is a gentleman I know of that has 7 different Scoresheet teams (in different leagues). I think you should check to see if his brain is okay because seven teams in Fantasy baseball is just insane.
I can't believe that I wasted my time reading your post. Then I can't believe I wasted more time writing a post in response to your time wastery post. And now I realize how wasteful it is to continue writing on wasteful writing. My god - I've become that which I despise. Oh, Mistress Irony - your sword is sharp and precise.
I love fantasy baseball and stuff, but this is not a big deal
I'm guessing it was worth enough of your while to make a post. And if your fantasy baseball league folds because it can't use any stats from MLB, then I'm guessing it'll be a "big deal" to you at that point.
I play fantasy sports- but I dont see the point of spending money on my team. Its only something I do for fun- I just cant get that serious over a game about a game. Its rediculous.
Not sure I can support MLB on this, unless, St Louis Sports is getting a down load from an MLB run stat service, as opposed to say inputting all the numbers by hand (God, am I really old enough to remember sitting with USA Todayonce a week to manually update all the teams in the league I was commish for?) MLB, theoretically at least, can lay claim to compiled stats up to the point they are published, after that, I would think that they then fall into the public domain as historic fact. Of course, the small leagues could do away with names and teams would be populated with CF1 or SP4....Hmmm, MinnSP3 went 6.1 innings last night, 6 hits, 4 walks, 7 K, 1 WB, 4 ER
The small leagues would not have to do away with any player names or team names. Just pictures, and team logos. Thats the way I understood it.
