The Savvy Guide to Fantasy Sports

By Mike Harmon

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0790613131
• ISBN13: 9780790613130
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Indy-Tech Pub
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

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expert instruction on all kinds of fantasy sports

Fantasy sports is an area of online game-playing that is booming, like the other video games it is related to have in recent years. Harmon--a staff writer at Yahoo Sports doing columns covering many of the fantasy sports--does a manual for play which is comprehensive and in-depth, but also well-focused and reader-friendly. Each of the major sports fantasy games such as football, baseball, and auto racing as well as lesser-played sports of cricket, soccer, and also reality TV shows (similar to the sports) are dealt with in individual chapters. These chapters include many short sections so readers can learn about improving skills in the particular, complex, multifaceted games one step at a time, as if "having a good friend by your side." A chapter "Ask the Experts" includes tips from others experienced players and recognized names in the field. In Harmon's enthusiasm, readers recognize a shared keen interest; and his knowledge will help players at any stage develop greater prowess.

All You Want to Know About Fantasy Sports

Your chances of ever being able to manage a team in the NFL are pretty slim. And it seems that that the only way you'll manage Allan Border, Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting on the world champion Australian team in in your fantasy world. Well, why not, this is a fantasy even your wife won't mind. From nowhere a very few years back, fantasy games now have something like 20 million participants. I first found them in football, but now they are in just about any sport you can name and some activities (reality TV shows). Mike Harmon was one of the first sports writers to pick up on fantasy games. At the time he was working for Yahoo and was able to participate in the very beginnings of the game. In this book he describes the different types and styles of leagues so you will know which league fits the way you want to play. Oh yes, the Australian world champs play the game of cricket. Yes, there's fantasy cricket.