It’s Time to Trade Someone Good
Trading can be one of the more frustrating endeavors in fantasy sports. Ridiculous trade offers seem to outnumber the reasonable by about a 10:1 ratio. There are a few explanations …
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Danny’s DFS Picks for RealTime’s Beat the Experts Challenge for June 8, 2018
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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MLB’s Ever-Evolving Interruptions
Baseball’s history is intertwined with America’s in numerous complicated ways. From racial integration to labor issues to players literally leaving the sport to fight during wartime, the sport has earned …
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Set-Up Men to Add Now
It’s never too early to start looking under the hood of struggling bullpens across the league. Dominant relievers have more roto value than ever, so it’s worth rostering these guys …
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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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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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Boring Vets Are Here to Help
Projection systems have a hard time with young players because computers can’t extrapolate 300 plate appearances into a full year’s worth of statistics with much confidence. Too many variables; too …
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What’s Not to Like About Kenta Maeda?
Ranking starting pitchers by K-BB% — strikeout rate minus walk rate — is a good way to mine for overlooked and undervalued arms. It makes sense that this stat is …
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The Case for Cheap Batting Champs
Last season’s barrage of home runs is reshaping the way we approach our drafts this year. Power is available up and down the draft board, and it’s going to take …
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Fantasy Free Agents: Running Backs and Tight Ends
Free agency is almost here and it’s time to take a look at which of your favorite fantasy players will be changing teams. In reality, some of these stars will …
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Five wOBA Outliers
This week I looked for players who are capable of vastly outperforming their current ADPs based off one particular metric: weighted on-base percentage. The point is to compare the draft-day …
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