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2015 Fantasy Baseball: Deep League Digging, Week 14
View image | gettyimages.com With the All-Star break just a week away, this is a great time to stock your team up using your league’s waiver wire. In deeper leagues, it’s important to add players who are on recent hot streaks and capitalize on them before they’re scooped up. As per usual,
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Off The Beaten (Base)Path — Hitter’s Edition
View image | gettyimages.com I don’t even know what a ‘Sleeper’ is any more. I do know that it’s an overused term in our game and one that’s really hard to define. With so many different league sizes and scoring formats, it’s hard to classify any player as an under
2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Second Base Over/Under
View image | gettyimages.com As we continue on the over and under train, we should throw out a few general reminders. The numbers you see for each player constitute the three year averages as expressed over 150 games played. Often times, the aggregate gives us a very good idea of
2015 Fantasy Baseball: It’s Never Too Early — Second Basemen
In the last edition, a reader wrote in and asked about Buster Posey’s ranking among first basemen. As it turns out, a number of players are eligible at multiple positions. Choosing which position to list them at can be a tricky proposition. Most of the time they are listed where
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Breakout Players — Center Fielders
Center field is easily the glamour position in baseball. If you don’t believe me, then simply look at the preseason rankings. The top player on the board was a center fielder and two of the top five guys were center fielders. Of the top six performers at the position this
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Real Offensive Value — Second Basemen, Part I
We continue the yo-yoing through positions when we move to second base. We saw how different first base was from catcher and now we move to the other extreme with second basemen. For those that haven’t checked out this series before today, we are chiefly concerned with a statistic called
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Rickie Weeks Conundrum
About 90 years ago, a relatively young Yankees first baseman seemed on the path to a long and prosperous career. Coming into the 1925 season, Wally Pipp was coming off of two consecutive 100+ RBI campaigns. He had three other 90+ RBI seasons to his credit before that point. There
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Dumpster Diving — Second Base Part One
This is the third week we have done the dumpster diving series and each week we alter our approach a little as needs arrive. Second base is full of under the radar guys, so we will be dividing this position into two separate articles to help fantasy fans peruse through
2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 9th, 2014
It’s another day and another daily fix on the docket. One of the great things about daily fantasy baseball is that it allows you to tinker with your strategy from day to day. That’s also the best reason to come here to the Fantasy Fix for your daily fix. With
Total Run Index: Substitution Value – Second Basemen
Past is prologue. The past is the best predictor of the future, but there is no perfect predictor of the future. So, when I think about total run index (TRI) and its use in fantasy sports, I have to consider the limitations. For anyone that studies sabermetrics, there are two