Be sure to read Part 1 here and Part 2 here!

Dominate your draft! Conquer your league! Humiliate your friends! It’s the time of year when some non-Razzball sites try to lure you into paying $19.95 by promising you success not just in fantasy baseball but in military takeover.  Destroy! Obliterate! Decimate!  I don’t know about you, but I’m turned off by fantasy baseball ads that sound more like commands from a war general than ways to improve how you look at some numbers.

There are three keys to fantasy success, and those kind of sites aren’t selling any of them.  

The first is Time Invested.  

The second is Skill.  

Before I tell you the third, is anyone else addicted to this stupid Safeway Monopoly game? I know I’m not going to win, but I keep hearing this voice inside my head saying “maybe no one else is trying as hard as you are… maybe you’ve got one of the rare pieces that they only make one of…” If you ever thought fantasy baseball was a waste of time, lady and gentlemen, I present Safeway Monopoly.  I swear I spend over an hour each week going through those annoying little stickers, all of which I already own.  Success in Safeway Monopoly is different than success in fantasy baseball. There’s no skill – anyone can lick stamps and put them on a board. There’s no benefit to the time you invest – I have some friends who haven’t won squat despite shopping exclusively at Safeway and scouring the internet to find rare pieces.  Yet, another friend of mine won $200 on it with no effort.  You know why?  Luck.  Those who win at Safeway Monopoly have one thing: luck.  And so do some fantasy baseball players. The third component to fantasy baseball success is luck.