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2014 Razzball Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit

February 18, 2014 | Uncategorized | 78 Comments

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Looking for a great fantasy baseball draft kit to help you draft your fantasy baseball team in 2014? Good, because otherwise you are the worst web surfer in the world.  (Did I search for fantasy baseball rankings?  Damn, I meant chicken cordon bleu recipe.)

Just like last year, the 2014 Razzball Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit is free.   MAYBE there are better fantasy baseball draft kits out there for $ (I don’t know, I don’t pay for ’em) but I can guarantee none of them are #DIV/0! times better.

Rather than make you download a PDF, we are just going to give you a bunch of links.  By keeping these as stand-alone pages, we can constantly update our fantasy baseball ratings throughout the preseason and go about our bloggy business of publishing content through ‘posts’.

Besides the below features, I want to point out that I’m in the midst of a s**tton of research designed to help players in shallow mixed leagues (10-12 team).  This is in no small part due to the awesome participation we get in our Razzball Commenter Leagues (64 leagues, 768 teams in 2013) which gives me access to a treasure trove (is there any other type of trove?) of data.  Wherever and whenever possible, I am basing my findings on actual results – not just based on my experience and preferences.

Note:  I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend joining one of our leagues to anyone who is serious about getting better at 10/12-team mixed league fantasy baseball with daily roster changes.  I write for this site and am smarter in stats than most of y’all and I am now way smarter than I was in this format thanks to 2 years of RCL play.  Think of joining an RCL as a tutoring program that will give you a leg up in your leagues w/ friends. To join a league, click here.  As of this post, we are already at 600 teams and there is a definite cap at 1,200 teams so do not dilly nor dally.

Special Features/Analysis
I am tagging all my strategy posts this year as Fantasy Baseball Snake Draft Strategy although a lot of the insights are not specific to snake drafts.  You can click that link to see all the posts that I end up vomiting out  this preseason.  Here is a sample of the topics:

Hit/Pitch Splits For Snake Drafts – What is the ideal way to divide your draft between hitters, starting pitchers, and relievers?
The Cumulative Round-by-Round Impact On Team Success – Understanding the value each round has on your team’s final results
The Impact of Maximizing Team ABs – How much of your team’s success is driven by getting 13 starting hitters in every day?
The Impact of Maximizing Team IPs – How much of your team’s success is driven by maxing out innings in leagues with a GS cap or no IP cap?

Fantasy Baseball Projections

  • 2014 Fantasy Baseball Hitter Projections and 2014 Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Projections – Updated daily.  The underlying projections are done by Steamer Projections which I feel have the BEST free (and possibly paid) baseball projections.  Just ask him.  Or him.  Or him.  So what do I add vs. what you can see in (the awesome) FanGraphs?  I adjust the playing time estimates for hitters and pitchers on a near-daily basis.  For hitters, this includes adjusting their Plate Appearance split against LHP and RHP which plays a BIG role in a player’s final results (that’s why platooning exists).  For pitchers, I add Saves, Holds, and Quality Starts.  This is as thorough a player set as you will every need in non-keeper leagues – it includes every player I project with 1+ AB or 1+ IP.  See a guy missing – let me know in the comments!
  • 2014 Fantasy Baseball Projections (Grey) – Hate algorithms or want/prefer an actual person to make your projections?  Here’s the place to go.  Includes Grey’s top 400 players and he is updating this whenever news breaks that impacts a player’s value.
  • What were the best fantasy baseball projections in 2013? (Timing:  TBD) – A thorough review of 2013 Fantasy Baseball Projections focused on how much they helped predict fantasy baseball success.  Projections service would inlcude Steamer, Baseball Prospectus (PECOTA), ZiPS, CAIRO, FantasyPros.com, Rotochamp, Steamer, Oliver, FanGraphs Fans Projections, ESPN our very own Grey Albright.

Fantasy Baseball Rankings

  • 2014 Fantasy Baseball Rankings – Written by Grey Albright, these fantasy baseball ratings bring together the exhaustive word counts of early 20th century Russian novels with the humor of late 20th century Russian comedian Yakov Smirnov.  Includes both an overall top 400 (updated through pre-season) and by position (where you’ll find all the player profiles).
  • What were the best fantasy baseball rankings in 2013? – A thorough review of 2012 Fantasy Baseball Rankings.  Includes Razzball’s Grey Albright, various ESPN Fantasy Baseball rankings (Matthew Berry, Tristan Cockcroft, the ESPN Top 300), SI.com’s Eric Mack, KFFL, the CBS Fantasy Baseball crew, FantasyPros, FakeTeams, USAToday, Rotochamp, Fantistics, etc.  No matter how much I tried, I could not figure out a way to dislodge Grey and myself from the top of the heap!

Fantasy Baseball Auction Values (Standard 5×5)

These auction values will be updated throughout the preseason in concert with playing time changes driven by MLB depth chart changes.  This is based solely on the Steamer/Razzball projections noted above (as the best quality pre-season projections).  All auction values based on 67% hitting, 33% pitching.

Fantasy Baseball Auction Values (Non-Standard 5×5)

There are so many possible permutations out there but we culled the most popular from our yearly survey.  The below are all based on 12-team mixed leagues.  They are all based on 67% hitting/33% pitching.  You can mix/match any of these hitting and pitching auction values as well as use the 12-team standard values.  For 10/14/15/16-team leagues, you may want to look at the $ differences observed vs. 12 team in the standard format to determine how to best adjust the $ figures.  (I suggest use the standard 10/14/15/16 and then adjust up/down based on the difference between a player’s 12 team standard value vs. below – e.g., a high OBP, eh AVG guy should get nudged up some if you go to 5×5 OBP).

Fantasy Baseball Auction Values (AL/NL-only – 2 catcher roster format)

These all are based on the following ‘classic’ single-league roster format of:  2 C/1B/2B/SS/3B/CI/MI/UTIL/5 OF/9 P

More Stuff

  • Fantasy Baseball War Room – A free web tool to help you on draft day using Grey Albright’s rankings/projections.
  • Fantasy Baseball Names Generator – Looking to create a funny fantasy baseball team name but don’t feel like putting in any effort.  Look no further.  Just use our fantasy baseball team name generator instead!
  • Fantasy Baseball H2H Points Calculator – We heard it loud and clear in our yearly survey that those of you in points leagues want a little more love.  Well, here you go.  We partnered with our friends over at BaseballPress who have a tool that estimates fantasy baseball points based on your custom league specificiation.  This is using our Steamer/Razzball hitter and pitcher projections.
  • Fantasy Baseball Closer Report – A look at all 30 closer positions with each reliever’s handcuffs (as in who is next in line should they suck or get injured).  Updated throughout the preseason.

 

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