Help Across the Board
Despite one third of the season being completed, it’s still extremely early and players’ performance has been as volatile as ever. Quality names emerge with every completed game and pouncing …
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Early Buy Low Candidates
It happens every season without fail. Stud players experience sluggish starts and their fantast managers begin to panic. In a normal season, attempting to buy such players at a discount …
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Working the Wire
We’re over a week into the enigmatic mess that is the 2020 MLB season and the early going has been rife with surprise performers. An outfielder with an ADP of …
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Know Thy Format
This past Thursday my home league decided to kick-off the 2020 MLB season by holding our draft on opening night, and below you’ll find pick by pick analysis of my …
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Quality Contact
The goal of fantasy baseball is simply to accumulate as many points as possible, or at least more than your opponent during a weekly matchup. Please keep in mind my …
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Calibrating for the Short Season
Fantasy Baseball isn’t easy. It’s so much more than drafting a team and setting a line up once a week on Sunday evenings. You can’t put in the minimum effort …
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Missing Bats
Continuing our theme of alternating hitters and pitchers, this week we’ll investigate pitchers’ BB% and K% as we did last week with batters. There are a few different approaches to …
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Walk Like a Man
There are three main ways for a trip to the dish to end without a ball being put in play: a walk (BB), strikeout (K) or hit by pitch (HBP). …
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Understanding Fielding Independent Pitching
ERA (earned run average) is familiar to all baseball fans. In 2019, the league average ERA was 4.51. Starting pitchers with an ERA under 4.00 and relievers under 3.00 are …
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Hitting Regression Candidates
Every season is rife with players whose actual numbers differ from their expected stats. These deviations can stem from a variety of factors, including limited at bats, unfavorable metrics or …
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The Effect of an Abbreviated Season
It’s been over two months since the 2020 MLB season was set to begin back on March 26 and, especially with the recent announcement that the NBA will resume play …
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Points Leagues: Know Thy Scoring System
Last week, some under the radar points league players were highlighted while touching on the general principles that walks are underrated and stolen bases aren’t as important compared to roto …
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