Subject: The beginning of Rotisserie Baseball
Director: Lucas Jansen
I love sports, I love games, and I love thinking about what particular pro players will accomplish in a given season. So why do I no longer love fantasy sports? This documentary does a good job of explaining that to me, as well as giving me a vicarious thrill to experience the beginnings of fantasy baseball. Imagine how it must've felt before computerized box scores, before Baseball America updated its top 50 prospects every day, before PECOTA and CHONE, tabulating the week's scores by hand. Calling someone on the phone to offer them a trade. To a large degree, the 'fantasy' is gone, but the magic is still there for most.
The documentary is jazzed up by some extremely dramatized reenactments, some of which are humorous and some of which fall flat.
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