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We "so-called experts" need a better way to say, "Jones is a better player in real baseball than he is in fantasy."

The whole "real baseball" just seems awkward to me - but maybe that's just me.

Any ideas?

that player could be described as...

the anti-fanti

reality star

Ecksteinian (in honor of david eckstein)

All glove no love

Stat gnat

Rotocero or rotozero.

That's tough, Todd.
Guys like Brendan Ryan, Marco Scutaro, and even Chipper Jones mean so much more to their teams than they do to their fantasy teams. We all know what is meant by 'Better real player than....', so even awkward, it gets its point across.
I've described these players before as 'Real rich and Fantasy poor' before, but I didn't know if it was 'gotten' by the readers. I think some thought I was talking of a guy like Scutaro or Chipper's contract than what he means to the Braves over a fantasy team.
I'll give that one some thought....

Now that I think about it, a 'Real Good, Fantasy Bad' player gets the point across better than 'Real Rich, Fantasy Poor' player.....
Or, if we want to be more of a smartass, we can just call him a Real good player, and leave it at that.
Probably not enjoyed by the masses, especially when that Real good player does not fill any statistical categories and readers bombard you with 'What were you thinking?' E-Mails.

I agree Todd. And while you're at it Dough and Q, can you come up with a better word than fantasy. It's not a fantasy, it's a grind, and we're banking on real players. Rotisserie is out too unless we're using chickens.

A 'Swear to God' real conversation with my Grandson, Wade, this morning...

(Grandson is immersed in Lego building)

Me-
Whatcha building there, Kid?

Wade-
A farm.

Me-
Cool! What kind of animals are going to be on your farm?

Wade-
All I have are pigs.

Me-
So I guess it'll be a pig farm.

Wade-
Is there such thing as a pig farm?

Me-
I know for a fact there is.

Wade-
Where is one?

Me-
Idaho.

Wade-
Can we go to it?

Me (laughing)-
Nah, you'd be bored.

Wade-
Why?

Me-
Because after an hour, you'd be tired of the pigs.

Wade-
Well, we could leave then.

Me-
No.
Because me and the owner would have to talk about our fantasy baseball worlds for at least a few hours.

Wade-
THAT would be boring!

For me, it's the "real" part as if what we do is fake.

I've used "Jones in better in MLB than roto", something like that.

As for "fantasy", Ron Shandler has tried to coin fanalytical, which I actually think is kinda cool, but didn't catch on.

The whole rotisserie thing is a different story, Can you imagine what the game could be called if the Founding Fathers opted to have lunch at a different establishment that fateful afternoon?

The NFBC uses 5x5 Quizno style scoring....

ToddZ wrote:The NFBC uses 5x5 Quizno style scoring....

On the other hand, 'The NFBC uses Hooters style scoring' adds a little to the whole fantasy thing.
So glad they didn't go to Chuck E. Cheese....

DOUGHBOYS wrote: On the other hand, 'The NFBC uses Hooters style scoring' adds a little to the whole fantasy thing.

Hooters and baseball hand in hand......I like it.

DOUGHBOYS wrote:

ToddZ wrote:The NFBC uses 5x5 Quizno style scoring....

On the other hand, 'The NFBC uses Hooters style scoring' adds a little to the whole fantasy thing.
So glad they didn't go to Chuck E. Cheese....

Standard 5x5 Hooters? Hmmmm....maybe you are on to something there....

KJ Duke wrote:I agree Todd. And while you're at it Dough and Q, can you come up with a better word than fantasy. It's not a fantasy, it's a grind, and we're banking on real players. Rotisserie is out too unless we're using chickens.

It didn't really have any name at first.
I didnt like the 'ROTO' that Okrent and buddies attached to it, so when forming our first home leagues, we called it 'Stat Ball'.
We had both football and baseball 'Stat Ball' leagues.
If I remember right, 'Fantasy' was the word they used to replace 'Roto' so that Okrent and buddies could not get a piece of the proverbial copyrighted Roto-fantasy pie.

DOUGHBOYS wrote:

KJ Duke wrote:I agree Todd. And while you're at it Dough and Q, can you come up with a better word than fantasy. It's not a fantasy, it's a grind, and we're banking on real players. Rotisserie is out too unless we're using chickens.

It didn't really have any name at first.
I didnt like the 'ROTO' that Okrent and buddies attached to it, so when forming our first home leagues, we called it 'Stat Ball'.
We had both football and baseball 'Stat Ball' leagues.
If I remember right, 'Fantasy' was the word they used to replace 'Roto' so that Okrent and buddies could not get a piece of the proverbial copyrighted Roto-fantasy pie.

I was just thinking as I'm reading thru this we could just shorten it to FanBall. But, uhhh, no. That's no good.

DOUGHBOYS wrote:

KJ Duke wrote:I agree Todd. And while you're at it Dough and Q, can you come up with a better word than fantasy. It's not a fantasy, it's a grind, and we're banking on real players. Rotisserie is out too unless we're using chickens.

It didn't really have any name at first.
I didnt like the 'ROTO' that Okrent and buddies attached to it, so when forming our first home leagues, we called it 'Stat Ball'.
We had both football and baseball 'Stat Ball' leagues.
If I remember right, 'Fantasy' was the word they used to replace 'Roto' so that Okrent and buddies could not get a piece of the proverbial copyrighted Roto-fantasy pie.

Funny. My first leagues we did not want to call it a "Rotisserie" league. We did not want to be copy-cats. So we came up with something different, new and original. We called ours a "Hibachi" League. We were so clever.