About Sammyball


What is Sammyball?

Sammyball Diamond Simulations is an organization created to manage the operations of e-mail based baseball simulation leagues. Sammyball team owners draft players to assemble a virtual baseball team and throughout a season submit changes to lineups, pitching assignments, and defensive depth charts to adjust team performance. Several times per week, team owners receive updated game scores, team/individual statistics, and league reports via e-mail and the Sammyball website.

What is Diamond Mind Baseball?

Sammyball leagues utilize the Diamond Mind Baseball simulation computer game. Unlike traditional rotisserie or fantasy leagues, Diamond Mind Baseball incorporates many additional facets of the game to improve realism including pitch counts, fielding range, bunting ability, ballpark size, weather conditions, stats vs. lefties and righties, injuries, player durability, clutch hitting, and many more. More information is available in the About DMB portion of the Sammyball website.

What is the SFBL?

The Sammy Fantasy Baseball League (SFBL) was founded in November 1993 by members of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The SFBL preseason draft begins in October at the conclusion of the major league season and continues through December and the regular season begins in January and ends in June.

What is the SLL?

The Sammyball Legends League (SLL) was founded in 2003 utilizing the Diamond Mind Baseball All-Time Player Disk.

What's the membership cost for a Sammyball team?

Sammyball is completely free. The only requirements for membership are regular e-mail access, a love of baseball, sportsmanship, and a sense of fair play.

How much time does owning a Sammyball team take?

Surprisingly little, especially in an annual redraft league such as the SLL. An owner can be as involved or uninvolved in the draft or regular season as he/she desires since Diamond Mind Baseball includes settings to allow the computer to automatically make draft picks and/or automatically generate manager profile settings.

How much do I have to know about baseball?

Not much. In fact, I created the SLL because I wanted to learn more about baseball history myself. The all-time player disk includes players from today all the way back to the 1890's and I'm looking forward to seeing how they theoretically match up against one another when their statistics are adjusted to account for their playing eras.

Isn't it lame to code a website by hand in raw HTML using only a text editor?

Yes it is. But the website has retained its current look since 1999 and at this point, it's far easier to keep the format than to convert to something else.

Still have questions?

E-mail the czar at sammyczar@case.edu.