Bitten by the Injury Bug
A sad fact of the beautiful game of baseball and our beloved derivative fantasy baseball is that sometimes, the players get hurt. No one ever wants injuries to occur, and …
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Some Spring Stats Matter
We are getting close to the start of the MLB season (thank goodness!), and fantasy managers are doing last minute drafts. So I want to take one more chance to …
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‘Twas the Night Before Draft Day
Keeper-league draft strategies for a salary-cap draft vary greatly from the strategies you need for a snake draft in a redraft league, and can be confusing for beginners. While there …
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Deep Freezes and Cold Cuts
Managing your freeze list and making final freeze-or-cut decisions is in many ways the defining difference between a keeper league and a redraft league. By this point, you should know …
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Starting Pitchers: Better than Expected
Similar to hitters, traditional pitching metrics get all the focus in fantasy baseball when the advanced stats have proven to be more indicative of future success. The game has moved …
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Belt Wars
Although it is probably my least favorite subject to write about, I’ll need to give you a little bit of personal background for the necessary context of this deep dive. …
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Players with Profit Potential
I’m going to focus this week on looking ahead to the upcoming season, in particular, paying attention to players who I think could FINALLY break out after years of hype, …
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Player Pool Overview
Understanding positional depth will give you an advantage when putting together your draft strategy. It is a concept which may be foreign to some inexperienced drafters. Knowing what will be …
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Points League Hitter Values
While many roto and category fantasy baseball leagues adopt standard 5×5 or 6×6 scoring, I’ve always been a proponent of the simpler points leagues because of the more balanced approach …
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Talent versus Opportunity
Targeting and acquiring the right players for your keeper-league team is one of the most essential parts of building a franchise that is competitive year after year. Last time, we …
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Where LABR and TGFBI Disagreed
Two down, two to go, one still in progress. That sums up the state of my 2021 fantasy baseball draft season with the most challenging draft, the Tout Wars 15-team …
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The Most Important Fantasy Baseball Trade
Back in May of 1994, when I met the woman who would become my wife, I had been playing fantasy baseball for a couple of years. Our first date was …
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