Fantasy Baseball Hub 2006. Sports Fantasy Baseball. Addict Fantasy Sports. Give me the rock. Fantasy Basketball - USATODAY.com. The dynamics of dump trading. By Todd Zola, Special to SI.com, FantasyBaseball.com As teased last week, we will delve into some of the finer points of trading in keeper leagues, from both the perspective of the owner looking to win it all this year and from those building a foundation for future title.
Keep in mind all strategies discussed must be considered in context with your league's rules. The most difficult aspect to grasp when it comes to keeper-league trading is that there is no such thing as equity. There is no true answer to "Is this trade fair? " One's personal philosophy plays a major role in keeper league dynamics. The years I am vying for the championship, I do not think twice about dealing a keeper, no matter how valuable he might be in future seasons. Some believe the best way to go about trading is to tell everyone via a league-wide cattle call. You can call on league precedent to formulate offers as the market effects do not kick until later, as more teams get involved.
Expert tips on the art of trading and making the deal. By Tony Targan, www.TalentedMrRoto.com Expert tips on the art of trading and making the deal There's an autumn chill in the air here in Michigan. (Perhaps Hell has frozen over since my Detroit Tigers are in the World Series!) October is a unique confluence of the four major professional sports, as the NFL, MLB, NHL and – beginning on Halloween night – the NBA are all in season at the same time. While Tommy Lasorda is right that we're all fans of the game come playoff time, it takes a true fantasy professional to get his game face on in the preseason. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Like many owners, I love my team on draft day. When Is It Too Soon To Trade? Should you make trades before you have any real games to guide you? Poker Wisdom As in poker, it is better to deal from a position of strength than one of weakness.
Theft of the Week If you want an example of someone who is already doing his homework early in the preseason, consider the following e-mail from astute reader Charles Yun: Drafting a Team That Could Almost Nearly Win Your League. Drafting a Team – Part One By Dustin Hockensmith So we got you pointed in the right direction with Part One. You know where you pick in the draft, you know who's picking around you and you should have an idea of which players you're targeting. Now comes the hard part: executing the draft. In Part Two, we'll talk about prioritizing your players, crunching the numbers and finishing the draft on a high note to get your season started with a bang. The Early RoundsYou can probably guess that the first five rounds are the most crucial and difficult in the draft. You get to use your imagination in the later rounds, but in the early rounds you're feeling the pressure of filling all your positions as best you can.
The first round always seems to be broken down in thirds, and many times you'll do well by picking with the last of the picks in those groups. After you make this choice, you should be able to narrow your next pick down to who you should expect to be there. How to Win at Fantasy Basketball like a Winner. Manning the Bench. While there’s a ton of attention paid to starters this early in the year, the odds are that the majority of the moves that you make will be affecting your bench more than anything else. Most waiver wire pickups involve bench players, so I thought it would be worth discussing how you should look at organizing your bench. Most leagues have a varying amount of bench spots, but regardless of how many spots you have there are 2 roles that should be filled on any bench: Role #1 – The fill-in starter. This is a guy who generally isn’t worth starting but can be used in a pinch. They may be unreliable but they’ll have their share of decent games. Good examples in a 12×13 league like ours are guys like Matt Harpring, Mark Blount, even a guy like Darko Milicic. It’s also important that this guy fits with your roster so that if anyone goes down he or one of your utility guys can fill in at their position.
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East Coast Bias | Rotodatabase.com. The Fantasy Baseball Sherpa. Yesterday I had the honor and pleasure of participating in the Tout Wars Mixed League Auction, which was held at the Sirius/XM Radio studio in midtown Manhattan. It’s a 15-team league with $260 to spend on the standard 14 hitting spots and 9 pitching spots. It’s a 5×5 league - we use the standard pitching categories, but switched over from AVG to OBP last year on the hitting side. Assuming that you’re prepared for an auction, the two biggest auction-day faux pas are Purchasing players for significantly more than they’re worthLeaving money on the table at the end of the auction The first item is somewhat subjective - if I think a player is worth $30, and you think he’s worth $35, we may be using markedly different projections for the same player, or we may be using similar projections and have different ideas on how to act on that information.
Unfortunately, the second item is objective - either you’ve spent all your money at the end of an auction, or you haven’t. I had a choice to make. Success and Failure Rates of Top MLB Prospects - Royals Review. Over the last decade, Major League Baseball organizations have treated top prospects as their most valuable commodity. They are inexpensive (at least for the first six or seven years) and they can produce genuine star players. But of course they can also give rise to failure, lots and lots of failure. Every organization has several prospects that tantalize with scouting reports of potential success, but it seems like they often disappoint. Failure of top prospects is extremely common. At the same time, many top prospects become good, or even great players. So, based on historical precedent, what can we expect from various kinds of highly regarded prospects? I attempted to answer this question by looking back at top 100 prospects from prior years and see how well they performed in the majors.
Methodology For the population of top prospects, I used Baseball America’s top 100 prospect lists from 1990 to 2003. I should make a quick note about language. Other Relevant Studies Conclusion. TheMeXiKaN's Theory of YAHOO Auto-drafting; How to pre-rank! This is in response to the general perception that Auto-drafting is inferior to live drafts. Given, Live drafts are more exciting, but Auto-drafts present a more strategic and calulated way of getting the best team possible.
Pre-ranking for an autodraft can actually be fun and interesting, but to do it right is time consuming. I actually feel that with the right amount of time spent pre-ranking, you can get an even better team than in a live draft. There is an art of pre-ranking players; firstly, tiers are of the utmost importance. This year, i found a pattern while pre-ranking that allowed me to organize my list very coherently: I noticed that for each player, i had 2 other guys that belonged right in the same bracket, so my list was actually a bunch of smaller 3-man tiers.
This strategy also solves one of the biggest problems of Auto-drafting: choosing too few/too many of one position in a row. In my main money league this year, we had an auto-draft for the second year in a row. Finding good pitchers on waivers... On Fantasy Baseball Trading. On Fantasy Baseball Tradingpublished May 18, 2005 by David Luciani An overwhelming majority of recent questions submitted to my "Ask David" email inbox have been related to potential fantasy baseball trades. I'm not just talking about trades in the sense you might think as a trade is simply an exchange of one or more players for another player or players, meaning that every time you drop a player from your roster and pick up a replacement from the free agent pool, you are in essence making a trade. Whether you're dealing with a human trading partner or have your selection of the players no one else has picked, trading is a key ingredient of fantasy baseball success in virtually every league in which you will play.
This week, I'm going to focus specifically on trading, both with real opponents and with the free agent pool, and I'm going to incorporate examples from the actual questions you all have sent for consideration for the column. Isn't that remarkable? Bloomberg Sports. Daily Baseball Data. Fantasy Baseball - Daily 5x5 Rotisserie Forecasting tool : FantasyNews.CBSSports.com.
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The printing industry is one out of a million kinds of manufacturing industries that have enjoyed the munificence of modern technology in recent times. So many inventions in the printing world have made the process more enhanced. One of such inventions is “thermal paper”. It is one of the most dazzling inventions the printing industry has ever come across in its history.
The most primitive thermal papers were developed by the NCR Corporation And 3M. This was done using dye chemistry and metallic salts correspondingly. One major problem with the NCR Corporation technology is that the images created on their papers usually fade away too quickly though it was a preferred choice in the market. Characteristic Features Thermal paper has a curling nature. It is very sensitive to damage and therefore is covered with protective layers. It has thermal coatings where it is coated with chemicals. Advantages Disadvantages. Fantasy Roundtable - Stat Chat. Razzball is hosting the Roundtable this week. I figured that we’re known as the class clowns so I’d surprise them all with a statty question. Here it goes… What sabermetric or alternative statistic (e.g., Ground Ball ratio, Contact Rate, etc.) do you find to be highly over or undervalued for fantasy baseball player valuation purposes?
Brett Greenfield – Fantasy Phenoms I think that BABIP is a highly overvalued statistic for analyzing a pitcher and I’ll tell you why. Certain pitchers tend to consistently have low BABIP’s, such as Chris Young of the Padres. BABIP, in general, is a stat that favors the fly ball pitcher, too. In fact, in looking at the 20 pitchers with the lowest BABIP’s from 2008, 90% of them were pitchers who favored the fly ball.
The 10% that were in the top 20 that induced more ground balls than fly balls, yet still had a low BABIP, should be considered lucky. BABIP can be useful when combined with other statistics, but when used by itself, can be deceiving. 1. Put me in coach, but spoonfeed the gameplan to me! Help a fantasy baseball n00b not embarrass himself while not drowning in information. I'm a fan of baseball, but I don't really know the players beyond the stars and studs. I figure getting involved in fantasy baseball will help with that. But, I don't have hours and hours available every night to pour over statistics and sports news.
I certainly don't expect to win. But I don't want to be the laughing stock of the league either. What are the best resources for me to spend maybe an hour or two per week? For what it's worth, my league is one of the freebie 5x5 rotisserie leagues on cbssports.com. Major League Leaderboards » 2008 » Pitchers » Pitch Type Statistics. What It Takes To Win Posts: Fantasy Baseball - RotoAuthority.com. By Tim Dierkes [March 5, 2012 at 10:16am CST] Our annual What It Takes To Win series attempts to estimate the stats you will need to place fourth in each of the ten roto categories in a 12-team mixed league with 14 hitters (2 catchers), 9 pitchers, 3 bench spots, and 2 DL spots. Aiming for fourth in each category might seem like a lame strategy, but if you pull it off you'll have 90 points and a good shot at winning. Looking at info from various 2011 leagues that followed the above format, here are my estimates for 2012: Offense .270 AVG271 HR (19 per hitter)1071 RBI (77 per hitter)1092 R (78 per hitter)187 SB (14 per hitter) Pitching 3.54 ERA1.21 WHIP1328 K (190 per starter, assuming 62 Ks per closer)99 W (15 per six starters, assuming 4 W per closer) 101 SV (33 per three closers) Offense is similar to last year, but pitching continues to improve.
In my projections, about 21 starters meet filters of an ERA below 3.60 and WHIP below 1.23. By Tim Dierkes [April 13, 2011 at 1:59pm CST] Offense. FakeTeams - The Key Source For Incisive Fantasy Sports Analysis. Fantasy Basketball Tools. There goes a high, hard one. Roto Savants. T.h.e. R.o.t.o.F.e.e.d.. Bill James Online. The Hardball Times. Daily Baseball Data Blurbs. Sports internet radio shows and Fantasy Baseball internet radio by Jeff Erickson | BlogTalkRadio. Give Me The Rock. Baseball Card Bust. Baseball Forecaster: Fantasy baseball analysis, player projections and winning strategies. MLB Trade Rumors. Roto Authority Fantasy Baseball. How to Have Fun...and WIN...at Fantasy Baseball. Fantasy Baseball - Useful Fantasy Baseball Links. Baseball Musings. Top Ten Mistakes on Draft Day. Fantasy Baseball Article The Top Ten Mistakes On Draft Day (By John Page Guest Writer for Sport Fanatics Fantasy Sports on 1-4-06) It's cold, wet and windy, and you know in your heart that a snow storm is waiting on the Horizon.
All is not lost, for the Hot Stove League is warming up. The calendar now reads January. How do we Win a Fantasy League? Every year we have our Player Rankings and enter the Draft. 10- Arriving late for the Draft: I ask why? 9- Alcoholic Consumption: Hey, have a beer. 8- Privacy: For some this isn't a big issue. 7- Know the League Rules: Good leagues will have a Commissioner that will make the Rules available before the draft. 6- Silence is Golden: Unless you are eating or calling out your pick, I suggest keeping your mouth shut. 5- Position Eligibility: This is a rule in most leagues you MUST study up on before the draft. 4- Injuries: Perhaps the hardest part of a draft are spring training injuries. 1- Must select an Ace Pitcher with in first 3-4 rounds. Five Draft Day Tips Not To Be Missed. Fantasy Baseball Article Five Draft Day Tips Not To Be Missed (By David Edward Burke Guest Writer for Sport Fanatics Fantasy Sports on 2-16-05) 1.
Know what it will take to win each category and draft accordingly The most valuable piece of draft day advice I can give you is very simple, but often overlooked--know what it takes to win each category in your league and draft accordingly. Look back at your leagues from year's past or a league with comparable rules that you may not have been in and figure out precisely how many runs, rbis, home runs, strikeouts, saves etc. it will take to finish at the top of every category and keep those numbers in mind when you draft. 2. Every year most fantasy owners make a huge mistake. 3. Saves and stolen bases are the red-headed stepchild categories of fantasy baseball. 4. 5.
I have never seen any fantasy basketball team that includes Shaq win in any league that includes free throw percentage--because Shaq is a category killer. Fantasy Baseball Draft Tips. Sports Articles Fantasy Baseball Draft Tips (By MDI of Sport Fanatics Fantasy Sports on 12-15-2006) 1. Be prepared, be prepared, be prepared. You can never prepare too much for your fantasy baseball draft. If you want to enjoy the league and be competitive, make sure you are prepared for your fantasy draft. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategies. Making Contact and Margins of Error. Baseball Notebook.
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