It can be difficult to go back to a standard five category league after experiencing total points. There are so many things that those basic formats don’t encompass. Even adding walks (our sixth category) doesn’t quite tell the whole story. So, when you see these players ranked you have to

Total points is taking over the fantasy baseball community and for those of us seamheads, it is isn’t a moment too soon. When you add points for all positive events and deduct for negative events you encompass more of the player and you cease to be a slave to single

Live drafts and auctions have few things in common, but the main thing they have in common is that the winning players are able to find undervalued players and avoid overvalued players. So, we are taking one last look at the pre-auction values for players at every position to determine

Everyone loves rankings this time of year. Valentines Day is the unofficial beginning of draft season for fantasy baseball. There are mock drafts galore on most of the major sites and preseason magazines are coming out with their picks. Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA projections are about the most accurate in the

As we continue with our first base series we have to address one of the problems with evaluating first base in general. First base happens to have the most designated hitters assigned to it and we will see an example right off the top of the bat. Some platforms relegate

The AL MVP debate is in full swing. You have the so-called defending champion of each of the past five seasons in Mike Trout. He currently leads the AL in wins above replacement (WAR) and has done that in every season except 2015. Yet, he has only taken home one

The Chicago Cubs have been the consensus favorites to win the 2016 World Series since the start of spring training, but major league baseball’s best team have hit a bit of a rough patch in the last week. The club most often compared to the ‘98 Yankees have been struggling

The vast majority of the action from the last week happened on Wednesday night. Two pitchers turned in legendary performances that you often see only once in your life at the ballpark. Max Scherzer tied a long-standing major league record with 20 strikeouts of the Detroit Tigers. The fact that

The Detroit Tigers went from first to worst in 2015. Whenever that happens, you can usually blame injuries and a bad bullpen. They certainly had their fair share of both as both Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez went down for stretches last season. However, the bullpen was also a considerable

View image | gettyimages.com This is the second installation of the “Where are they now?” series. Obviously, catchers have seen a rash of injuries and unexpected bad play, so that edition had much more to offer for a series about disappointments. First base has been rather stable in comparison, so