Who Am I.....

My name is Al O'Harra,
I am 47 years old and a Christian Minister that spends most weekends joining together couples in love. It is truly the best job in the world. While they may not always stand the test of time. The day that they are married is always one of the best days of their lives and I enjoy being a part of it.

I am a registered marriage officiant in New York and most of my weddings are in New York and New Jersey.

I have a beautiful wife, a 28 year old daughter, a 24 year old son, and a 4 year old daughter.

I built from scratch and own two fantasy sports website known as Fantasy Sports R Us and Extreme Fantasy Sports Leagues. Eight years ago, I put together what has now become the number 1 expert fantasy baseball league in the country- The Fantasy Sports Invitational Challenge. The FSIC hosts separate 12 team leagues for the American and National league. I only play the National League and won it in 2007 and 2008 against some of the best competition in the country.

I am a semi (I do not make my entire income here) professional poker player in Atlantic City. I also built and own an affiliate poker website known as All Online Poker Sites. Thus far in 2008, I entered a tournament sponsored by a Delaware radio station, WJFK 106.7, at the borgata on May 29th and I won it. Check out the cool sterling silver bracelet they gave me on the picture. I also took 9th in event 5 of the WPT Borgata Poker Open. But I must admit that most of my poker money is made playing cash games.

I intend to utilize this blog to teach a few things. While I dont know all that much, what I do know, I know very well. So visit me every few days.

Fantasy Baseball Auction Leagues Have Improved

Baseball is now over 15 years old on the net. But you know whats new on the net, fantasy auction draft software that works. When auction software hit the net about 5 years ago, it flat out did not work. You would make a bid for $100 when you only had a $1 left in your budget and it put the pickup through. lol. What a nightmare. If you have interest in playing an auction league on the net, check these out.

Some Good Fantasy Sports Leagues

I guess I am an NL-Only Rotisserie League guy cause I played that game for so many years. I always played 5x5 Roto with what is known as the classic roto catagories. We played with the following 5 offensive and 5 pitching catagories.

The offensive catagories were:
1. Batting Average
2. Home Runs
3. Runs Batted In
4. Stolen Bases
5. Runs Scored
The five pitching categories were:
1. Wins
2. Saves
3. Earned Run Average
4. Ratio- which is Walks+Hits/Innings Pitched
5. Strikeouts

So of course, classic rotisserie baseball was the first game I put on Fantasy Sports R Us when I designed it. I must admit I was very surprised when my favorite game, NL-Only roto, proved to be a specialty game. Mixed league rotisserie dwarfed it in popularity.

While FSRU charges today is the same as it was when it began filling leagues for the 2002 season- $150 per team- In 2007, it added the same game at a bigger team cost- $300 per team- and bigger payouts. While I had little exposure to head to head baseball, the popularity of this up and coming game made that a must add on the site as well in that first year. While head to head was the norm in fantasy football, it was a relatively new game that took off with the younger players around 2000.