Fantasy Baseball

2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

Welcome back to the Daily Double Switch here at the Fantasy Fix. For those who aren’t yet Daily Fantasy baseball players at DraftKings, head over there via this link and join. DraftKings gives you $50,000 to draft eight hitters (one at each position) plus two pitchers. When you join they will double your initial

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With the 2014 season officially a lost cause for the defending World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox front office made it clear they were looking ahead to the future after trading ace Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes to the Oakland Athletics for Yoenis Cespedes early yesterday morning. That qualifies as

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In this piece, I’ll be reviewing one of my favorite strategies to identify starting pitchers to consider trading (or “selling high,” as some continue to refer to it) or avoiding on the trade market for fantasy baseball in 2014.

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

Wade Miley dug himself quite a hole in April, posting a 5.36 ERA and allowing opposing batters to post a .349 wOBA against him. Pitching that poorly in April assures two things: either your line will never look good or you’ll have to pitch really, really well the rest of

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2014 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy BaseballFix Audio

Below is a podcast with me discussing daily fantasy strategy for the day. It’s only six minutes long. Click the link to take you to the player. I discuss the starting pitchers with the highest projected point totals and the ones who are the best value for their price. I

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

It’s rare that we see a mid-season trade with proven commodities, All-Star-quality commodities no less, at the forefront of a deal. Typically deals like this involve minor-league compensation, and it’s safe to assume that’s what most had expected here, as Boston scratched Jon Lester from his scheduled start on Wednesday

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The 2014 Major League Baseball season is roughly two-thirds of the way finished with each team having completed at least 104 games and fantasy baseball is entering the stretch run. Pressure is mounting and with each win, or in our case amassing specific statistics, they become all the more crucial

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

There is nothing more frustrating than being stuck in the middle. The Cleveland Indians are stuck in the middle. They made it to the playoffs last year during the last week of the season and they are standing in nearly identical shoes this year. They are competing with the Royals

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The St. Louis Cardinals acquired right-handed starting pitcher Justin Masterson from the Cleveland Indians in exchange for Double-A outfielder James Ramsey today, according to Peter Gammons.

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to Trade Deadline Eve here at the Fantasy Fix. I’m sure most fans have hopes for something underneath the trade deadline tree this year for their team. In daily fantasy sports, everyday can be Christmas if you are lucky enough. As most of you know, we started the year

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

Welcome back to the Daily Double Switch here at the Fantasy Fix. For those who aren’t yet Daily Fantasy baseball players at DraftKings, head over there via this link and join. DraftKings gives you $50,000 to draft eight hitters (one at each position) plus two pitchers. When you join they will double your initial

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The second wild card has thrown a monkey wrench into the whole trade deadline process. It’s even caused some people to propose pushing the non-waiver deadline back into August. The problem is that too many teams think they are still in the hunt when the deadline comes this Thursday. The

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Fantasy Hockey

Fantasy Hockey

The Fix always has a full breakdown of significant NHL slates for our Front Office subscribers, but now we’re also going to be highlighting a few value plays for everyone on most days with big NHL slates. Below you’ll find three or four players who are cheap and undervalued in

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Brett TalleyFantasy HockeyFront Office

Below I’ve got a discussion of the best matchups and potential stacks of the day followed by player rankings for Tuesday’s 10-game evening slate of DraftKings contests. At the bottom of the post I’ve embedded my research chart for the day. Here is just a snippet of an old chart I’ll use to explain

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Fantasy Football

2015 Fantasy FootballBrett TalleyFantasy FootballFantasy Football Salary Cap AnalysisFront Office

Below are positional rankings for the 17-game early slate of DraftKings contests on Saturday with some commentary along the way. Keep in mind that salary has a huge impact on a player’s ranking. Matchup Chart Below is a matchup chart I create each week that includes information from Vegas and information on

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2015 Fantasy FootballFantasy Football

Another week of NFL action is behind us and thankfully we didn’t lose any major players to serious injuries. In fact, fantasy owners can expect a few players to return in the coming weeks as the PUP list has been vacated. Teams now have 21 days to evaluate players and

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Fantasy Basketball

Fantasy Basketball

This week’s tips for value players on the cheap start with a former second overall pick, and finish up with the youngest player in the league, who just needs minutes to establish himself as a fantasy force. Marvin Williams So, What’s Going On with Marvin Gaye (true story, look it

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Fantasy Basketball Tyreke Evans
Fantasy Basketball

In today’s scout-speak lexicon, the word “potential” is mostly HOLLOW. Even talents with 1% realistic star potential get attached with the dreaded tag. However, every now and again that tag actually undersells a player’s package of skills and projected destination… and Anthony Davis is that player. A can’t miss talent

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Fantasy Basketball Jimmy Butler
Fantasy Basketball

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday…but now that it has passed, you know what that means: it’s time to go shopping…shopping the waiver wire of course. Before we get into that though, let’s do what so many do this time of year and say what we’re thankful for.

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Nate Robinson Let me first say I am not a fan of Nate. Not after the 2006 dunk comp where he robbed Andre Iguodala and then wasted what seemed like hours of my time trying to throw down what (admittedly) was a really nice dunk. Robinson is probably the finest

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