Scott Wilderman’s first exposure to fantasy baseball came at the age of 9, when an older next-door neighbor invited him to be part of a simple simulation league, playing games using only a pair of dice.  His early interest in the statistics and record-keeping aspects of simulation leagues was rekindled (almost to the level of obsession) with the advent of Rotisserie League Baseball, which Scott first played in 1985. In 1994 he decided to parlay his passion into something financially rewarding by founding the league management service Total Quality Stats.  Scott had been involved in the “Industry” ever since, going on to co-found the player news service The Rototimes in 1999 and a second league management service, OnRoto.com, in 2007.
Scott ‘s primary interests lie in writing purely mathematical player projection programs which treat every aspect and component involved in player forecasting, and in models and algorithms for computing estimated player auction dollar values.
When not involved with his various Fantasy Baseball projects, Scott works as an Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, where his expertise lies in Monte Carlo methods for the simulation of electron transport, tumor dosimetry in radio-immunotherapy, and statistical methods for image reconstruction for Compton cameras.
Hey Roto Evan. I just wanted to correct your assertion that onRoto hasn’t been communicative about the data feed changes that NBC SportsEdge pushed that broke their links to the onRoto pages. onRoto has been posting about this on their site news page, which is linked to at the top of every league page. The link is here.
Your choice of stat service is personal and obviously yours. Tout Wars tried CBS back in the day, but CBS was totally unresponsive to the customization that we asked of them. Tout relies on onRoto’s amazing ability to customize formats and styles of play for different leagues. That may not be for you, but it is important for us (and clearly a lot of other onRoto customers).
Thanks for commenting about this. I’ve heard a lot of frustration since onRoto broke, and I’m not here to apologize for their PR skills. But they have tried to keep their customers up to date about the problems, and shouldn’t be faulted for not doing that.
Best,
Peter
One of my leagues moved from CBS to onroto a few years ago and a second followed. They main advantage IMO was the draft software wasn’t as prone to failure as at CBS. We were happy at onroto.com. At least until recently.
A couple of weeks ago the site stopped publishing player updates. Ironically, if I wanted more info on my MI Chris Taylor’s injury recover, I have to go to CBS for any information subsequent to 6/25. Onroto.com did post that it was having trouble with the feed, but that was a while ago. No update since and no email address provided to inquire. And, of course, no offer of reduced fees for reduced service.
I’ll be advocating for a move back to CBS (or elsewhere) for ’24 unless onroto returns to full service soon or at least tells us what’s up.
My roto league, Cromwell-Rambolan has been playing for 23 years. We have some turnover each year but our core remains intact. Awesome thanks for your work with OnRoto.com! Far and away the best in-season stat service we have ever used!