Some of us like our Fantasy Baseball War Room’s like we like our women, so I would’ve thought Grey would’ve went with the old school one. Oh, well. If you’re not cool with the new fantasy baseball war room, here’s your alternative — the downloadable Excel spreadsheet. This was original author and innovator Lou Poulas’ introduction, “While Grey and Rudy do a great job of breaking down everything you need to know for 2013 Fantasy Baseball, drafts still trip me up. I’ve been lamenting my inadequacies from the past 3+ years which resulted in an inordinate amount of time number crunching in Excel. My quest – a draft day “war room” that allowed me to keep my finger on the pulse of the league while minimizing my effort. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to keep track of more things as opposed to fewer.”
Presenting the free 2013 Fantasy Baseball War Room. It’s an auto-updating Excel workbook that keeps track of all the necessaries:
- Color Coded Dashboard that “crosses off” selected players.
- Team by Team analysis of players taken, players left.
- Real time projected totals, along with real time projected league standings.
- Goal Tracking Dashboard
- New for 2013: Color Coded Tiers in the Dashboard Tab. This includes comments inserted at the beginning of each tier from Grey’s rankings.
A quick look into the document: John Hassett added notes 4+5 on the Notes Tab under user steps. It just explains how to add a player and a note about when the pitching and hitting totals update. The pitching and hitting totals look like they are broken until each team has at least one hitter and one pitcher. I used this tool for my first draft about 5 years ago and I have been consistently winning leagues ever since. If you are someone that hates dealing with excel, I feel for you. I was the same way but in all seriousness, War Room is very easy to use. I am almost certain that once you use War Room for one draft you will continue to use it year after year. Razzball is the best source for fantasy baseball information that I have ever used. The combination of humor and analysis is unmatched. I created this document this year as a backup to Grey’s War Room so there may be some bugs and/or mistakes that I have made. If you see anything that needs changed/updated, just leave me a comment below and I will fix ASAP.
This year’s version has been slightly customized to Razzball:
- The Players page lists players in order of Grey’s top 400 for 2013 fantasy baseball with Grey’s projections. Grey’s auction values will be added to a different War Room document that will be added very soon.
- Goal Tracking has been pre-loaded with temp targets for “What it takes to win a 12 team fantasy baseball league.”
- The “Dashboard” displays players by position in order of Grey’s rankings.
- The ‘Team Rank’ box (League Standings) is limited to no more than 12 teams. Projected ‘Batting Totals’ and ‘Pitching Totals’ extend up to 25 teams.
- Up to 25 players may be drafted per team (allocations set by the user via the ‘User Input’ page).
- I have left the spreadsheet ‘unprotected’ so you may overlay with your own projections if you like.
The value of the War Room, for me, is to load the picks of a draft to determine which categories I am falling short in. In this manner, I can keep adding/deleting targeted players until I consistently get a strong team.
Click on the ‘Notes’ tab for instructions for how to load league team names, etc. Put questions and comments in this post and I’ll do my best to answer them.
Download the 2013 Fantasy Baseball War Room (newest Excel, optimal download) <–Snake Draft
Download the 2013 Fantasy Baseball War Room (Excel 2003; some formatting might be lost) <– Snake Draft
Download the 2013 Fantasy Baseball War Room <–Auction Draft (newest Excel, optimal download)
Download the 2013 Fantasy Baseball War Room <–Auction Draft (Excel 2003; some formatting might be lost)
