Everyone has their own line of demarcation of when the season moves from the early going and becomes the summer grind. For some, it happens when the summer officially hits in June. For others (like myself) it is Memorial Day. The first of May is the day for many others and that is coming tomorrow. So, in honor of the coming of May, we will be abandoning the stacking strategy for today and going with the hot hand strategy.

When hitters start reaching 100 plate appearances and pitchers start reaching five and six starts, we can start exploiting some trends in performance. We will likely go back to the stacking strategy later on in the year, but I just wanted to demonstrate some flexibility in strategy, so you can see that there are different ways to skin a cat.

What the hot hand strategy aims to do is exploit inefficiencies in the market. Draftstreet sets the prices for players based on their performance and their likely performance against the team they are facing. Normally, they are pretty spot on, but occasionally they miss the boat. If you can find those instances then you can guarantee yourself a win in a double up format. Some players would be classified as more of the hunch category. They are players with good pedigrees that haven’t gotten started yet. It isn’t a guaranteed way to win, but if you guess right it can be quite rewarding.