I’m sure you’re all familiar with what fantasy baseball is – but just in case you aren’t I’ll quickly explain it.

It’s exactly as it sounds – a fantasy league. You are the owner/GM – you pick the players you want in your team – sometimes from a pool with no restrictions, sometimes in a draft format where only one person in each league can have each player.

How they perform for you depends on how they perform on real life. It’s not some kind of video game or management simulator – fantasy baseball is based on real life performances and will stretch over the course of a whole season.

Understand? Okay great – let’s talk about Daily Fantasy Baseball and what the difference is.

Now first off – there are a lot of sites that carry Daily Fantasy Baseball. Daily Fantasy Sports are hot, and we’re seeing more sites crop up every day. You want to be careful with all these sites – only go with reliable sites. The two we would recommend are DraftKings and
FanDuel.

For this example we’re going to be using DraftKings.

So you head on over to DraftKings and register an account. You then go and view their list of daily fantasy baseball tournaments. The entry amounts range from FREE all the way up to over $1,000. It suits everyone.

We’ll pick a relatively cheap one – the $2 tournament with a $6,000 guaranteed prize pool. It has a maximum of 840 entries but if not enough people sign up it will STILL have that $6,000 prize pool.

The rules for daily fantasy MLB is that out of all the games being played that day, you will pick 10 players. You need to also pick from at least 3 different teams. You pick the following roster positions: P, P, C, 1B/DH, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF.

The fantasy points you get are the following:

Hitters:
Single: 3 points
Double: 5 points
Triple: 8 points
Home Run: 10 points
Run Batted In: 2 points
Run: 2 points
Base On balls: 2 points
Hit By Pitch: 2 points
Stolen Base: 5 points
Caught Stealing: -2 points

Pitchers:
Inning Pitched: 2.25 points
Strike Out: 2 points
Win: 4 points
Earned Run Allowed: -2 points
Hit Against: -0.6 points
Base On Balls Against: -0.6 points
Hit Batsman: -0.6 points
Complete Game: +2.5 points
Complete Game Shut Out: +2.5 points
No Hitter: +5 points

So that’s how the fantasy points are distributed for daily fantasy baseball. You and everyone else competes with the players that you chose based on their real life performances – then at the end of the day you have the potential to win some cash.

Using this $6k guaranteed tournament as an example, you can get paid if you finish in the top 750 people which is pretty darn good. Only 3450 people are allowed in it. 451st-750th gets you $4. It’s then tiered prizes all the way up to $500 for 1st place.

The best thing to do is to sign up at BOTH DraftKings and
FanDuel. See – both of them run various contests and promotions and freerolls and guaranteed tournaments – you are best to mix and match, choose the best tournament each day etc. Then you are on their mailing list and will get notified of any of the big daily fantasy baseball promotions they have.

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