Maintaining a fantasy baseball team throughout a season is a very laborious task, which is one of the reasons fantasy football has become a much more popular sport (since its so much simpler). With its new game, BlitzPick Baseball is trying to make playing fantasy baseball with your friends just a little bit easier. Each week, a new challenge is issued to league members, where they select one of five players at each position to be on their team. One more important thing, BlitzPick Baseball is played completely within Facebook.

League commissioners have the option of using BlitzPick’s recommended settings or can create their own custom challenges. The ability to create the custom leagues can lead to some hilarity–all-convict week anyone? More importantly, it gives league runners the ability to customize the league to the league participants and keep the names as familiar as possible, which helps participation!

Playing with friends is always the best way to keep a fantasy league interesting. By tapping into the built-in social network of Facebook, BlitzPick has made it easier for fantasy players to sign-up their friends (it’s just a few clicks that most Facebook users should be used to making) and get thriving fantasy league. Further, by building BlitzPick on top of Facebook, it is able to take advantage of the viral nature of Facebook, with wall postings and alerts visible to non-BlitzPickers.

There is definitely a market for much more casual fantasy games that appeal to (potential) fantasy players. The number one reason I hear from people about why they do not play fantasy baseball is that it too hard and takes too much time. Blitzpick has created a game that can be played in five minutes and leaves the fantasy player with a slate of players to root for each week. That is something just about anyone can stomach.

BlitzPick is the brainchild of Chris and Becky Carella, who have formed Super + Fun to launch their new game. Becky is an experienced social game developer, while Chris is an Emmy award-winning producer and game designer. The two of them definitely have the street credentials in order to launch a successful social media game.

The only question that remains to be answered is, “Can they successfully launch a social fantasy sports social media game?” I would like to wish the best of luck as they attempt to find out.