PLAYOFFS…? You read that right; the fantasy playoffs are right around the corner. For those of us who partake in those formats, we share a brotherhood of excitement and heartache. How many of us have trailed all week, just to pull out a win on Sunday? How many have been on the opposite side of […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Can you believe it’ll be August this week? How time flies…especially during the Summer. It seems like the All-Star Game was just a week ago! The next big day on the calendar for most of us fantasy ballers is our league’s trade deadline. Now’s the time to beef up your roster for the playoffs or […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? WAAAAYYYY back in April, I did a piece on torpedo bats and barrels. If you remember, torpedo bats were all the rage during the first couple weeks of the season so we looked at early barrel rates (BRL%) to see if we could find something useful for our Points league teams. Today, we’re going to […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?We made it through another week, and now the All Star weekend is right around the corner. Last week, I gave you the top 200 hitters across the major scoring formats for the first half of the season. Those were appropriately called our “First-Half All Star Hitters”. At the time, I promised I’d do the […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?For all my fellow Points League enthusiasts, welcome to another wonderful Monday afternoon. With the All Star game a few short weeks away, we’ve entered the home stretch of the first half of the baseball season. I’m talking to all you Roto players out there. For the Head-to-Head players, we’ve already passed the middle pole […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?A belated Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, granddads, step-dads, and even all you dads-to-be in the future. I’m writing this on Father’s Day, and I just finished the time-honored tradition of dads teaching their sons a lesson. That’s right, my son wanted to take me on in a game of driveway hoops. He […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?If you know me by now, you know that I like to revisit analytical topics covered in the past to see if the findings carry forward. I’ve written on pitcher values a number of times, mostly during draft season. In those cases, I looked at projections for what are considered by many as the most […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? May we never forget! Today is a day of reflection and remembrance above all else. Please be sure to take time today to honor and mourn our fallen heroes. Don’t let them be forgotten. Nothing I put on virtual paper today will come close to doing justice to remember those who make the ultimate sacrifice […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? We’ve approached the 50-game threshold and we’re starting to see movement in players. No, I’m not talking about trades. I’m referring to the phenomena each season where slow-starters begin to heat up and fast-starters remind us they are not superstars (yet). So, for this week’s Points-league analysis, we’ll identify those players on the rise and […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Last week, I dropped my top 150 hitters for the rest of the season. By all accounts, it went over pretty well. Together, we saw a number of players come in ranked higher than our preferences, and some were ranked lower than our eyeballs tell us. Formulas and predictions are rarely perfect, but it does […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Today I’m dropping what many of you have asked for – my Points league’s top 150 hitters for the rest of the season. Well, technically, you asked for my rankings, but this is close enough. I’ll be the first to acknowledge, I’m not really a general “rankings guru” like many in the industry are…or attempt […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?After a week off to spend some much-needed time with the fam over Easter, I’m back and ready to get back to work. The last time we saw each other, we looked through a number of advanced analytics to determine which contributed best to scoring points. We did find one, remember “Kumite”? If not, you […]
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