Opening Day Words of Wisdom From Your Friendly Neighborhood Thief

Finally, the longest stretch of non-trading action in fantasy sports officially comes to an end as we embark upon the 2011 Fantasy Baseball season. I’ve got huge expectations this year for you and me both. Judging from the recent poll and comments, Thief Nation is dominating basketball playoffs right now. Let’s carrry that momentum into baseball, and let’s kick it off with these five golden nuggets of wisdom.

Strategies To Rob Your Opponents Pt.2: Just Like Burger King!

OK I’ll admit it. If you send me an offer that includes me giving you a top 3 player in return, I’m gonna reject it. Heck, I won’t even consider it and I know that’s wrong, but it’s just my thing. I have an inherent bias that you simply wouldn’t give me what I’d need in return. So why would you even waste your time, my time, our trading karma, and your street cred by sending it to me? No no no son, you need to be thinking like Burger King when you send me an offer: Your Way Right Away. Check it out.

Strategies To Rob Your Opponents Pt.1: Timing is Everything

While your draft is certainly an important part of the season, it pales in comparison to the impact trading will have on your performance. It’s completely impossible to draft a team of superstars or even a team of players that start out hot and remain hot through the last day of the season. Yet through trading, if done properly, you absolutely can end up with a team full of superstars and (more importantly) a group of players that will be hot when it counts the most. The next few posts will cover some key trading strategies starting with the most important of all: timing.

How To Evaluate a Fantasy Sports Trade…

More than drafting, more than waiver wire play, more than roster management; trading is the key to victory in every fantasy sports league. Why? Because it’s nearly impossible to draft a flawless team and even less likely that you can fill all your teams holes via the wire during the season. Only through trading can a manager harness the ability to cash some of his strengths to cover the weaknesses. But therein lies the rub. How do you know if you’re getting a good deal?

Trading Strategies to Rob the Competition…

The absolute best trade you can make in fantasy sports is the one where you flat out rob the guy you’re trading with, yet he walks away thinking he got a fair deal. Pulling off such a feat has less to do with the intelligence level of your opponent and more to do with knowing the right strategies to use and following a specified framework. Today we’ll focus on three such strategies to rob the competition blind.

Fighting The Veto Power

There’s nothing worse in the world of fantasy sports than the dreaded Veto. A veto option should be used solely to thwart collusion, however all too often managers use it to thwart progress. To stop one or both teams from getting better. It’s time to put a stop to this nonsense, and here’s how…

They Call em Busts, We Call em Buy Lows

Just buying low or selling high on an #NBA player in #fantasybasketball isn’t enough. This post will not only provide some buy low opportunities, but also discuss structuring the deal so that it’s always in your favor.

The Thief in Action

This post describes my latest trade with another team in my league, a classic 2-1 deal. In it, I describe some of the methods of coercion and communication used to, for lack of a better word, bully the other manager into inking that deal. Hey, they don’t call me The Thief for nothing!

Inside The Thief’s Toolbox: Multi Player Trades

In this post I discuss the various multiple player trade offers you can make in fantasy sports, and how to structure them to your own benefit. What’s important is to make sure that you learn the process, so that when you are trading with someone else, it’s you netting the benefits not them. It’s you inking the 2-1 deal, and not the one getting two fer oned.

When a Bad Trade is Actually a Good Trade

In fantasy football, a manager’s bench players serve a great many purposes. First and foremost, it’s the breeding grounds for what I like to call ‘lottery tickets’. These are players that are ignored by the fantasy sports community, yet are in a position where if things go right, they could end up being a huge [...]

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