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Fantasy Baseball

For most re-draft leagues, the trade deadline has passed, and you’re stuck with your roster or waivers/FAAB. In dynasty leagues (like on Ottoneu), you still have another week or two to make some moves. Those of you not contending for the top prize this year, it’s an important time as

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Fantasy BaseballFix Audio

Alan Harrison (@TheFantasyFix)  joined by Justin Vibber (@JustinVibber) on episode 16 to discuss some reactions and overreactions from Opening Day and potential closers to target on the waiver wire or via FAAB. Lastly, Justin and Alan discuss Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball, the general ins-and-outs, some of the in-season team management strategy and

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Fantasy Baseball

Hot on the heels of my first Ottoneu draft was my second one. If you missed my first review, go back and have a read (especially if you don’t know about Ottoneu). A brief summary is it’s a Fangraphs based platform for dynasty leagues so if you want to start

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Fantasy Baseball

This past week has seen a surge in Ottoneu drafts, including the two I am in. We all know no one cares about your fantasy team but given the stark differences I experienced in my two drafts, this should act as a good opportunity to pass on some advice and

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Fantasy Baseball

The Fangraphs and SABR linear weights point formats most of us play on Ottoneu closely correlates with weighted on base average, or WOBA. Thankfully, the “expected statistics” section at MLB’s Baseball Savant offers us an x-WOBA, which uses exit velocity, launch angle and historical data to “tell the story of

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Fantasy Baseball

Very late on a Sunday evening in the spring of 1995 I received a phone call with news that left me jazzed for months to come:  my extravagant bid of nearly all of my season’s free-agent acquisition budget, which was placed by leaving a message on an answering machine if

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2015 Fantasy Baseball

Dead in the middle of football season I received an email gauging my interest in taking over a dynasty fantasy baseball team. Although I was knee deep in targets and yards per carry type metrics, the idea of diving back into fake baseball in December appealed to me. So I

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