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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1990

few years ago, some
Rotisserie League
baseball devotees
faced an awkward dilemma:
How to fill those miserable,
empty months between Oc-
tober's last pitch and the an-
nual April player draft.
Witness the birth of fan;
tasy football.
Not surprisingly, the fan-
tasy sports concept has taken
hold. There are now fantasy
leagues based on all four ma-
jor team sports — baseball,
football, basketball and
hockey — and even one that
uses weekly tour stops on the
pro golf circuit.
Although it lacks the wide-
spread popularity and
statistical intensity of
Rotisserie baseball, football
could become the next fan-
tasy sport to take off, accord-
ing to Doug Dovitz, who is
about to embark on his se-
cond season going for the
make-believe end zone. (After
the Rotisserie baseball
season winds down, of
course).
In fact, a number of daily
newspapers have launched
play-at-home fantasy football
games for readers this fall.
"It's really kind of in its in-
fancy, but the possibilities
are there," Dovitz said. "Last
year we just used the basic

the Michigan Baseball Con-
federacy League, the game is
both an outlet for him as a fan
and a way to reach his son.
"He collects baseball cards
and this allows me to take an
interest in his hobby that I
might not have otherwise,"
said Goodman, also of West
Bloomfield.
Brett afficianado Cohn said
Rotisserie League Baseball
has heightened his know-
ledge and affection of the
game he has enjoyed since
childhood. "It just grows on
you. It really teaches you to
appreciate the nuances of
baseball," said the 39-year-old
sports enthusiast.
A sales representative for a
local appliance store chain,
Cohn has fielded a Rotisserie
team for the last four sum-
mers. This year, though, he's
in a new league, which he
helped form. Competition in
his previous league was get-
ting a little cut-throat and the
entry and transaction fees
were becoming too high, he
said.
His Cohn Heads — league
names and team nicknames

rules, but I think there's the
same room (as baseball) to
develop variations that will
make it more interesting."
Baseball number-
crunchers like Dovitz ap-
parently have a difficult time
leaving simple, yet workable,
rules alone. For example, he
said, he'd like to see his
league adopt a bonus when a
quarterback throws for 350
yards as opposed to a measly
100 yards, even if both efforts
generate the same number of
touchdowns.
The basic concept in fan-
tasy football remains the
same as Rotisserie baseball,
though. Team owners draft
NFL players and tabulate
their teams' success based on
the players' actual
performances.
Unlike the elaborate point-
standings in baseball, most
fantasy football leagues
match teams head-to-head on
a weekly basis.
"It's easy. You don't need a
stat service to keep track of
how you're doing," Dovitz
said. "And with games most-
ly on Sunday afternoon, you
don't find yourself chasing
down late box scores from the
West Coast either."
No, just reach for a
calculator every time Barry
Sanders touches the ball. 1=1

are often chosen with humor
in mind more than baseball
tradition — did rather well,
he said. "They were first (out
of seven teams) earlier in the
season," and finished third.
Cohn's new league is
unusual because it uses Na-
tional League players. Most
Detroit-area leagues are
based on American Leaguers
so that participants can draft
the hometown Tigers and
other players with whom
they're more acquainted.
Although gambling attracts
some to Rotisserie baseball,
drawing up your own rules is
one of the best things about
the activity, according to
players. And the guidelines,
especially those involving
player transactions, can get
pretty complex, not to men-
tion costly.
Most leagues follow the
same basic guidelines to
judge player performance.
There are four offensive and
four pitching categories: bat-
ting average, home runs,
RBIs and stolen bases in the
one and wins, saves, ERA and
hits plus walks allowed per