Pitcher Tendencies: To Start or Not to Start?

Rookies and Veterans of the Fantasy Diamond, take heed upon this advice. Unlike football or basketball, unlike hitters or closers, we almost always have a choice when it comes to our starting pitching. Particularly if you play in a league without Minimum Innings, but really, even if you do, you still have a choice. And [...]

Endgame is Here

First, a big shout out to Cory Weekes who bought me a beer over the weekend. With thoughts of warmer weather in mind, I went with a nice Corona, and had it over the weekend while shopping for a new place to live for our upcoming move. I’m happy to report we’re finalizing the lease [...]

GUEST POST: Mike From Minn. Has Something to Say!

—– Ahh,the ides of March….wait, what the hell does that mean? Well — it means fantasy baseball starts with 15 other teams in my league holding out the false hope of beating me. It means fantasy basketball winds down with me still crapping all over myself trying to figure out how to even compete (it wasn’t [...]

Two ‘Don’t Forget About Me’ Players

A couple days ago I posted about the ‘Once Was’ players. This was a group of guys that used to be superstars, have since fallen off the cliff, and people tend to chase them hoping for a return to the good ole days. Well today I have a new batch of guys, two in particular, [...]

Draft Recap

Listed below are the prices I paid for players on my team, and some other notables that I included. I’ve already made my first trade of the season, dealing Yovani Gallardo for Shin Shoo Choo, a deal I like a lot. Evan Longoria – 42$ – I took Longoria as my first acquisition. It was [...]

An Epic Weekend and A Work In Progress

All I can say is WOW. My 2010 live (in person) auction draft proved to be everything it was billed to be. I’ll give you a synopsis of events, list out my final roster at the bottom, and follow up tomorrow with photos and prices paid for players (I don’t have that info with me). [...]

The Big Weekend

And so it begins, the Big Weekend of my 2010 Baseball Draft. I’ve been fielding emails and phone calls from most everyone in the league regarding two topics: how excited they are, and how awesomly prepared they are with cheatsheets, spreadsheets, and fortune tellers. Everyone is going to have to bring all of their information pretty [...]

The No. 13 Seed I Picked to Go to The Sweet 16, and Why…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a double digit seeded team is going to make the sweet 16. I’m no college basketball history buff, but apparently (per the guys on ESPN and just about everywhere else) this is as sure a thing as you can get in the NCAA tourney. I guess the standard [...]

The “Once Was” Players

No group of players garner more attention on draft day (outside of the top two tiers) than a group I like to call the “Once Was” Players. Each season as draft day approaches, I like to generate myself a short list of “Once Was” players to keep handy, and make sure I use their attention [...]

2010 Baseball Player Rankings

Baseball Player Rankings are live! Thanks for bearing with me through the process, but it is officially done. Just a few pointers about the rankings first. For starters, you’ll notice three columns, rank, last week rank and rank score. The most important one to focus on is rank score, as that will tell you the [...]

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