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Summary: Witty, Entertaining Book
Review: If your a first or second year player, or you've recently started your own league, this book is a perfect rules reference guide. It's easy to read, and provides rules for drafting, and conducting business throughout the season. Glen Waggoner also gives his predictions (player value) for the upcoming season. These are fair, at best. Prior year stats are given, but there's little information given about the intangibles.
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Summary: Witty, Entertaining Book
Review: This book has been surpassed by the Benson A To Z Scouting Book for rotisserie purposes. However, there are a lot of useful tidbits and funny one liners to make this a worthwhile purchase, especially during the off-season when we are baseball starved. The book is in the same format as previous years with no dramatic changes. This book is usually not as thorough or as accurate as the John Benson A To Z Guide but it is usually better than the plethora of fantasy baseball magazines that come out each year at this time and certainly is a lot funnier with all of the capsule reviews and one-liners. This book has been around the longest of all of the rotisserie books and it is probably because of the wit and humor that goes into making this.
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Summary: 2001 Version Not Worth It
Review: This is one of the weakest links of the Diamond Library. Attempts to be entertaining (sometimes) and the data base is nonexistant. The information consists of mostly repetitive one liners, most definitely not worth the money. The John Benson A To Z Book is a far better book, even though it may cost a little more. This book may have been written by "the Founding Fathers" but it will surely not help you in Rotisserie League. While I have bought and enjoyed previous versions of this book, I probably will not buy the 2002 version. Their day is done.
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Summary: Entertaining, yet not informative.........
Review: Where to begin to critique this effort of the Diamond Library (John Benson's boutique) to separate you from your money.There is a tremendous difference between publishing statistics soon after the end of the season, as STATS does with some of their books, and publishing analysis soon after the end of the season. Because this book was published in November, the player comments apparently were written before the season ended. For instance Tyler Houston's blurb mentions his Wrigley Field advantage, even though he was traded to Cleveland late in the season. None of the early off season transactions are addressed. The player comments also suffer from terminal cuteness, as the authors try to emulate the light tone of earlier editions by Waggoner et al. The current editors are just not as consistently clever, although they occasionally get off a good one-liner or pun. Nor are they as attentive. There are numerous typos in the book. These range from simply annoying misspellings, to transposing entire stat lines between players (Dave Veres for Billy Wagner, Chuck Knoblach for Jeff Kent to name two). This really limits the book's utility as a reference. If you buy the book intent on using its prices for your draft you will certainly lose. Most are unrealistic, perhaps partly due to the early publishing date. The section on minor league prospects is the most informative section of the book, and is probably a part that many readers will skim over. Essentially all of the information in this book is also in earlier editions of the same book (the rules) or appears with minimal modification in other books written or co-written by John Benson. If you have never before played rotisserie baseball, you should buy the book once, for the rules. If you are an experienced player you should look elsewhere for helpful analysis.
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