Fantasy Baseball
The Hall of Fame Index: The Adventures of Sweet Lou Whitaker
In continuing with the theme of the last several articles. The Hall of Fame Index demonstrates a few things clearly, but none more prominently than the fact that those that vote for the Hall of Fame don’t necessarily know a Hall of Famer when they see one. The whole notion
The Undrafted All-Star Team
We head into the All-Star break at a time where so many team’s will consider themselves in contention for a playoff place. That will mean some interest moves before the end of the month as it’s a case of who will blink first and look to bolster their team for
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Midseason Awards
The all-star break is always a good time to take stock of where everything has gone. Usually there is some drama as to where the awards go and there has been drama this season, but it may not translate into the awards themselves. This season has seen some players come
The Weekly Standard: All-Star Snub Edition
We are used to looking at the best position player, starting pitcher, and relief pitcher on the fantasy market, but it is that time of year where everyone comes out with their list of all-star snubs. I’ll join in with the fun and pick one player at each position (plus
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Three to Add, Three to Keep, Three to Drop– First Basemen
As the season goes along, the demands of a fantasy player change. Real baseball is heading for the trade deadline and fantasy players have the same considerations. There are fewer and fewer surprises, so keeping track of who will surge in the second half and who will wane in the
2017 Fantasy Baseball, Week 14 Preview
Before we get going with the Week 14 preview, I need you to cast your minds back a few weeks, all the way back to the Week 10 preview. You may recall that I had to write the piece on the Thursday as I was going away for the weekend.
2017 Fantasy Baseball: The Weekly Standard
We come to another edition of the weekly standard. There is a standard operating procedure in radio that assumes that the listening audience turns over every 15 minutes. We will do the same here and assume most of the people reading are new to the series. The idea is to
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Positional Power Rankings– Second Base
We have brought you the catcher and first base positional rankings. Today we will bring you second base. The idea was to use a crude but unique statistic I like to call adjusted offensive value. It combines batting average with secondary average to emcompass everything a player does offensively. You
The Double Dong Daily Fantasy Baseball Podcast: June 27, 2017
Welcome to the 100th episode of the Double Dong Daily Fantasy Baseball Podcast hosted by Ryan Noonan and Broc Miller presented by TheFantasyFix.com! Ryan and Broc typically bring the goods three times per week here at TheFantasyFix.com (as well as iTunes and Stitcher) for the daily breakdown of the MLB slates for daily fantasy baseball.
2017 Fantasy Baseball, Week 13 Preview
As you regular readers will have seen, illness has prevented me from making much of a contribution the last couple of weeks. Hampered by the fact every time I typed 50 words I would be out of breath for 10 minutes, I have been neglectful. However, my rehab assignment went
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Three to Add, Three to Keep, Three to Drop– Catchers
Everything old is new again and just in time as there have been some major changes to the catching landscape in fantasy baseball. Of course, major is probably an overstatement as two players were DFA’ed and one was sent back to the minors. Those players were long since dropped in
2017 Fantasy Baseball: The Weekly Standard
We started the weekly standard series a month ago to highlight the very best position player, starting pitcher, and relief pitcher available. Of course, we installed a few parameters to keep us honest and to be more helpful to you. First, we limit the pool to players that are available