1965 Steve Hamilton

RP4

1,915,461

via proxy, ff09 selects 1964 Dave Giusti, RP7 $482,988

I can skip ahead and pick

1963 Bill Dailey RP2 3,714,465

Posted by schwarze on 8/1/2022 8:21:00 PM (view original):
Oh man... don't get me started on the early days of Rotisserie Baseball.

This is pre-internet. I ran both A.L. only and N.L only 12-team leagues and I would manually input the stats from the USA Today every week (remember those Tuesday sports editions with all the stats?) I would tabulate the weekly stats on the computer (anybody remember Lotus123?) by substracting current YTD totals minus last weeks' YTD totals. (I was good with spreadsheets very early on). Folks would call Sunday night and leave a message on a dedicated 2nd phone line with their weekly moves.

Same with me, but I got started in 1982. My first pick in this draft was one of my top picks in our first Roto draft: Alan Trammell. In auction format, I think I spent 90% of my funds on Trammell, Jack Morris, Willie Hernandez and Mike Boddicker. The Tuesday USA Today was the gospel. During the week, the daily Washington Post couldn't arrive fast enough. Anyone ever buy a second newspaper in the afternoon to pick up the west coast scores? I could go on and on, but my footnote to this story: 9 of the 12 original owners are still going strong after 40 years! We have made many tweeks to the original 4X4 rules like we've been playing 5X5 for about 20 years. Love it!

1968 Joe Hoerner

RP6

1,741,163

I believe I can jump in now:

1980 Joe Sambito

RP3

3,367,111

1982 Rollie Fingers

RP5

2,619,275

Posted by njbigwig on 8/1/2022 10:23:00 PM (view original):

Sorry about that, Chief.

Posted by redcped on 8/1/2022 10:31:00 PM (view original):

Posted by njbigwig on 8/1/2022 10:23:00 PM (view original):

Sorry about that, Chief.

All good. Just trying to navigate the minefield.

Posted by midknight on 8/1/2022 10:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by schwarze on 8/1/2022 8:21:00 PM (view original):
Oh man... don't get me started on the early days of Rotisserie Baseball.

This is pre-internet. I ran both A.L. only and N.L only 12-team leagues and I would manually input the stats from the USA Today every week (remember those Tuesday sports editions with all the stats?) I would tabulate the weekly stats on the computer (anybody remember Lotus123?) by substracting current YTD totals minus last weeks' YTD totals. (I was good with spreadsheets very early on). Folks would call Sunday night and leave a message on a dedicated 2nd phone line with their weekly moves.

Same with me, but I got started in 1982. My first pick in this draft was one of my top picks in our first Roto draft: Alan Trammell. In auction format, I think I spent 90% of my funds on Trammell, Jack Morris, Willie Hernandez and Mike Boddicker. The Tuesday USA Today was the gospel. During the week, the daily Washington Post couldn't arrive fast enough. Anyone ever buy a second newspaper in the afternoon to pick up the west coast scores? I could go on and on, but my footnote to this story: 9 of the 12 original owners are still going strong after 40 years! We have made many tweeks to the original 4X4 rules like we've been playing 5X5 for about 20 years. Love it!

Our league (AL only) started in 1987 and I was commissioner because someone got me the book. Lotus 123 for first 2 years, then we bought software and floppy disk mailed from Florida (??) every week. The good old days, indeed. FYI, the league is still going strong on CBS Sportsline.

That pick of 82 Fingers is the clincher for my choice this round (this is why I hesitate giving proxies if there are still a few picks before me, I hate to commit before I see what happens). . . . mpitt has his 1988 so give me RP5 1988 Edwin Nunez $200,221

I don't think it's going to get to me tonight. I will check back in the morning.

I too shall bail. Until tomorrow...

1968 Pat Jarvis

hope i didn't hold anything up today. was at the lake all day with limited service. checked in on my phone but too hard to draft from my phone at this point in the draft!