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Playing With Numbers: Reassessing value

By A.J. Mass
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 4, 2008

Although it's been said many times, many ways, most people tend to ignore the most important factor when playing fantasy baseball: We do not play with names, we play with numbers. In a standard 4X4 league, you do not get any extra points for having a first-ballot Hall of Famer on your roster as opposed to a no-frills player getting his first chance at a starting job. All that matters is how many hits, how many home runs, how many RBIs and how many stolen bases a player accumulates over the cours ...

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