Fantasy Baseball
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Right Field VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com This marks the end of the VORP revisited series. With the end comes this one piece of advice: it is dangerous to use any one piece of information exclusively during your draft. Statistics are tools. If you follow them down the rabbit hole, you usually wind
2015 Fantasy Baseball: (My) Guys to Make Sure You Draft
View image | gettyimages.com I’m a proponent of ingesting as much information as possible when it comes to establishing my fantasy baseball rankings and valuations. Projections, ADP, consensus rankings, and opinions of people I trust all have their place in building my thoughts and opinions of players. When the dust
2015 Fantasy Baseball: LEEG Experts Draft Recap and Waiver Wire Review
LEEG Draft Recap On March 4, I participated in a Fantasy Baseball Experts League draft – the League of Extraordinary Expert GMs (LEEG) – hosted by Ron Vackar of FantasyAssembly.com. The Fantasy Fix will be represented by the team of Scott Barzilla and myself. Each week we will provide a recap
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Center Field VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com We come to the end of our VORP soon (RF will be the last edition) with a slight variation of our organizational structure. Many of you have had your fantasy drafts already, but for those that haven’t it isn’t enough to simply rank the players at
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Left Field VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com As you might imagine, outfield is one of the deepest positions in any fantasy draft. The trouble is that different leagues treat outfielders differently. Some of them consider them collectively while others break them down by their individual positions. Here we will break them down by
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Shortstop VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com As we continue our journey through this VORP series, we get to maybe the most difficult position to pick on the diamond. Shortstop might be shallowest of all the positions on draft day, but that makes for good opportunities if you know more than your opponents.
2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Outfield Preview Podcast
Ryan Noonan and Gerard Martin are back to talk outfielders. They talk about the perception of the outfield position in terms of how deep it is, how awesome Miami’s young outfielders are, and help you find some late value to round out your rosters. Listen below, or find it on iTunes or
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Staff Rankings Roundtable Discussion
View image | gettyimages.com I think it’s a good practice, regardless of the application, to try and improve yourself and learn something new every single day. It’s difficult to learn when you think you know it all. With that very thought in mind, I work with a lot of really
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Addison Reed and His Potential Replacement
View image | gettyimages.com This post was written by Rich Migliorisi exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com. Playing the closer game has much to do with avoiding the wrong pitchers as it does picking the right ones. Heading into the 2014 season, I discussed Addison Reed’s injury risk. And despite those red flags, he managed to
2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Starting Pitchers You Almost Have to Draft
View image | gettyimages.com I love FIP. Or at least I did until xFIP came along and improved the predictive power of defense-independent pitching statistics (DIPS). Because home run rates generally fluctuate from year to year, xFIP applies a league average home run rate to all pitchers, which makes xFIP