Early Season Observations
We’re only about two weeks into the MLB season, but don’t things feel just a little bit… different? Players bundled up in 32-degree weather. Rainouts, snow-outs and the occasional Friday …
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Touts Slow to Adapt to New FAAB Routine
Well-known leagues like Tout Wars and LABR are not just venues for industry names to compete for bragging rights – though that is certainly a part of the allure for …
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Some Offers are Better Left Unmade
Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder a lot. If I go to the mall, I look at what some people are wearing and wonder if they actually chose said clothes, …
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Tout Wars Daily, Cycle 1, Week 1
Suddenly a spate of DFS contests are indeed kicking into gear. You can play against me with the fun and flexible rosters at Fantasy Draft and RealTime, you can play …
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Mining for What is Available (Week 2, April 8, 2018)
Man, a week into the season and I would not say I am panicking, but going into Monday my LABR squad — holding a solid last place — has an …
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Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
Patience. I’ve been preaching it for as long as I’ve been dishing out fantasy baseball advice. Patience has always been one of my strengths as an owner. I rarely get …
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Inside injuries: MLB Injury Roundup- Week 1
Delino DeShields OF, Rangers: left hamate fracture The Rangers won’t have DeShields for around 4-6 weeks after suffering a hamate fracture in his left hand. He already underwent surgery, and …
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Standings Scrambles
I admit to being both a control freak and somewhat compulsive, which to many of you might smack in the face of the laid back Berkeley Zen hippie personna I …
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REALTIME Creativesports 2.0 DFS Challenge Picks for April 6-Update
Want to take on the Creativesports 2.0 staff, braino-y-braino, at DFS? Well, you can indeed at RealTime Sports, matching up against my Creativesports 2.0 mates and me, and get some …
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Second-Tier Starters Off to Fast Starts
I targeted a number of starters over the second and third tiers this year, and the early results have been pretty, pretty good. In some drafts I did grab one true …
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“Common Sense” Rule Change Made Far Too Late
In this column, the (usual, but not always) subject is rules. Rather than reference generic situations, I try whenever possible to offer illustrations from leagues in which I play or …
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Don’t Believe Everything that You Hear
Closers are tough to figure. Every year, between 10 and 15 closers lose their jobs. These are closers that you and I drafted. Of course, the converse of that is …
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