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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Note: This article is simply a preview of content that was originally published in TheFantasyFix.com’s 2014 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide. Average draft position and other data have not been updated since. You can find the draft guide here. All ADP data is courtesy of ESPN. Steamer projections are used, except in cases

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We continue our series of sleepers and rotters by reviewing the purpose of the series itself. Fantasy players in every sport are always in search of that elusive sleeper. Sometimes, finding the sleeper can be almost as rewarding as winning the championship. It means bragging rights at the next draft

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

For those joining the game late, rotters vs. sleeper is a series I began last year at this time. The whole idea is that there are a collection of players that we find proverbially unconscious in the woods. Some of them just suffered from a bad season or two and

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Success in fantasy baseball (or sports in general) depends greatly on recognizing inefficiencies in the market and in managing risk. Every good fantasy owner takes some risks on draft day. The question is whether they are intelligent risks or foolish risks. The buzz word around all fantasy sports is in

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2013 Fantasy FootballFantasy Football

For the first two weeks of 2013, Tim Wright was irrelevant to the Bucs and fantasy owners alike. He received 3% and 15% of tight end snaps, but more or less he was a ghost in uniform, living the NFL life in complete obscurity. Now, at the half way mark

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

Many leagues use different stats than the ESPN standard format of Goals, Assists, Plus/Minus, Penalty Minutes, Average Time-On-Ice, Shots on Goal, Power-play points, Goals against Average, Save Percentage, and Wins. For Fantasy Hockey owners that play in leagues with other categories, we bring you some sleepers that are near the

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2013 Fantasy FootballBrett TalleyFantasy Football

FantasyPros.com has become the place for experts to post their rankings because of the accuracy competition they conduct for the experts. We’re all competitive. It’s why we love fantasy sports, and the accuracy competition is just another way to scratch that itch. But FantasyPros has other cool features like their mock draft

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront OfficeJosh Kay

With so much attention focused on the “masses” in fantasy baseball who play in shallow 10 and 12 team mixed leagues, owners in deep leagues (18 and 20 team mixed) and the “Only” leagues are usually scrounging for information. This week we are focusing our efforts on AL-Only league owners

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2013 Fantasy BaseballAndrew MillerFantasy Baseball

In most fantasy baseball leagues bench spots are limited, and usually reserved mostly for pitchers since they’re more easily interchangeable due to playing once every five days instead of everyday like most position players. So sometimes a fantasy owner won’t have more than two or three hitters on his or

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NCAA

Midwest: #6 Memphis Critics of the Tigers have not hesitated to blast a less than stellar conference schedule at every opportunity. And while I don’t disagree with the poor product that the C-USA puts out, projecting NCAA Tournament performance based solely on affiliation and strength of schedule is unwise. Instead,

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