How Deep is Your Love (for First Basemen)?
I finished my NFBC Main Event this past Saturday. No two drafts are alike, and nothing is like the 15 Team NFBC with sharks sprinkled throughout each league. In addition …
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Christmas Comes on St. Patty’s Day in Vegas
Christmas came on St. Patrick’s Day, and while Santa brought me some cool gifts (Clayton Kershaw and Christian Yelich), he also left a whole lot of coal (Chris Davis and …
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Last Year’s Or This Year’s Bums
The ‘Last Year’s Bums’ concept has served me well over the years. Recency bias sometimes weighs recent performance disproportionately, especially if we know of certain circumstances that contributed to the …
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Domingo Santana Might Not Find a Starting Job, But We Found His Biggest Fan
I don’t like commenting on other teams’ picks, but I’ll make this one exception. Saturday night it was raining in Southern California (don’t tell Albert Hammond), so I decided to …
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What IS Best Ball?
As any regular follower of mine will know, I play in a lot of mock drafts. Mocks are fantastic practice for the real thing, in addition to being a lot …
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ADP: A Deceptive Process
I admit it. I watch. I sneak a peek. I check it out. I’m not embarrassed about it at all. It’s a guilty pleasure. I also know, however, that it’s …
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Moving On Up: Catchers No Longer Automatic End Game Selections
Clearly, Taylor Swift doesn’t play fantasy baseball. Her most recent song, End Game, goes like this, “I wanna be your end game; I wanna be your first string, I wanna …
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Eight Late NFBC Draft Champions Picks (After 600)
If you are playing in a deep ultra league, or some fun crazy format that allows for a fantasy baseball roster and bench the size of the Donner Party before …
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NFBC Main Event Tips
The NFBC 15-Team Main Event kicks off in about four and a half weeks. Which makes this a good time to review some general guidelines that have served me well …
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Kenley Jansen: Fantasy Gamechanger
With the eighth pick of the third round of the NFBC Main Event, I select … Kenley Jansen, relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A relief pitcher in the …
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Eight Interesting NFBC Champions Picks
Greg Ambrosius, founder of the NFBC, induced a cluster of friends — who happen to be among the best fantasy players I know — to complete in a 50-round NFBC …
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FIP Your Wig
Sabermetricians commonly preach regression to the mean, and to that end FIP is used as a common indicator of regression candidates. Some prefer xFIP because that stat attempts to ‘normalize’ …
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