

I later revived the idea for SSG, adding the rule that all your other players had to come from the same season as your Big Fish. While I now play almost exclusively the Single Season Game, I created Big Fish Small Pond as a Classic league–the idea was that you had a $50M payroll, the lowest possible, yet had to spend at least $20M of it on one player. Tell us something about the format, and what it is about the format that you find appealing? You’ve created numerous Custom Leagues, in particular, the Big Fish(es), Small Pond leagues. Previously I played a lot of APBA from 1970 into the 90s, and then a little fantasy baseball, including Bill James FB.

I’ve been an Imagine Sports customer since beta testing. I first played this at the ESPN site, but I have no memory of how I found out about it. When did you start playing DMO and how did it first come to your attention? I’m into baseball history, collecting stuff (books, comic books, records/CDs), pop culture nostalgia in general, and hiking.

I’m 63, married, and I’m a Library Technical Assistant with the King County Library System, living in Enumclaw, Washington, which I describe as halfway between Tacoma and Mount Rainier. Tell us something about yourself: age, occupation, marital status, where you live, and interests (apart from DMO, of course). This month we’re visiting with Joey (jopabe) Beretta, creator of (amongst others) the Big Fish(es), Small Pond leagues.

We’ll be featuring one of these in this space each month. There are franchise leagues, progression leagues, captains leagues, high and low salary cap leagues, “rags to riches” leagues, alphabet leagues, place of birth leagues … the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.ĭiamond Mind Online would not be the same if the Community did not include some of the most clever and prolific creators of Custom Leagues. But if you want to try something different, Custom Leagues – created by customers – are there in abundance. If you want to play in a tried-and-true format and create your team right now, standard leagues (Classic and SSG) are open to the public 24/7.
