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Rotisserie baseball is a fantasy game where participants act as general managers and field managers for a virtual team. Teams are built through a draft or auction, selecting real major league players. The performance of these real players, based on their accumulated statistics during the actual baseball season, determines the outcome of the fantasy league. Key statistics used include batting average, home runs, runs scored, runs batted in, pitching wins, saves, earned run average, and walks plus hits per innings pitched. Managers can adjust their rosters by dropping or acquiring players as the season progresses. The game originated in 1980 and has since evolved, with many modern versions played online.12

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