Limited Audience: Accessible Fantasy Baseball?

From: "Kane Brolin" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW Mailing List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:12:17 -0500

Hi, everybody. 

For those among us who tend to be both nurds and baseball fans--(a scary 
combination)--it's almost time to begin participating in fantasy baseball 
leagues in 2009.  For those who are not familiar with this dubious pastime, 
it's a way for those interested in the individual performance and statistics of 
major league baseball players to create fictional teams in a league environment 
that roughly simulates the decision-making process of a ball club's general 
manager, who creates and "fields" a team that is made up of actual MLB players 
and competes against other general managers operating in the same, agreed-upon 
fictional league. 

For the past five years, I've participated in a fantasy league enabled by 
Yahoo!'s Web  platform.  But unfortunately, Yahoo! has made it impossible for a 
blind JAWS user to pre-rank players that a fantasy owner wants prior to the day 
of a draft, which usually ddefines the beginning of a fantasy season by 
assigning players to their various teams.  Yahoo! actually has taken away this 
functionality by deleting some classic versions of its Fantasy Sports pages.  
This pre-ranking process is usually very important, making up a key element in 
a team owner's strategy. 

What other platforms out there (e.g., ESPN.com, MLB.com, etc.) do support all 
facets of a blind fantasy owner's preparation and operation of a team? 

Any thoughts on this will be very useful as I pick a league and a platform that 
is different this year.  If you don't feel that this topic merits distribution 
to the whole list, I understand.  Please send to kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxxx 

To all those who don't give a rip about this, thanks for your indulgence. 

Kind regards, 

-Kane

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