Fantasy Baseball Generals

Fantasy Baseball Warfare is a great matter to a nation; it is the ground of death and of life; it is the way of survival and of destruction, and must be examined.–Sun Tzu

Baserunning strategy, and "Infield in" redux

June 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Last night’s Mets-Phils game was extremely painful to watch, and even more painful for Endy Chavez. For those of you who don’t know, the Mets squandered 6 innings of shutout ball when Heilman gave up a 3 run job on a 1-2 count in the top of the 7th. The Mets rallied in the next […]

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Roto and Babies - What to Do?

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

First of all, I would like to thank Pat for the invite to contribute to this site. After many years of head-to-head combat in Roto it is nice to be on the same side for once. It’s like Sylar and Peter Petrelli teaming up for a smackdown. And yes, that will be first of many […]

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Collective Action and The First Overall Pick in the Draft

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

You will see this type of analysis often over the next few days, but I wanted to comment on it from the strategical side. To sum up: here is a list of the pitchers taken first overall in the draft with their win totals in the majors:
Luke Hochevar (2006) zero–he is underperforming in the minors […]

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Taking Stock - Catchers/1B

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Since my “Taking Stock” Post of a few days ago, I’ve poked into 5th place in the standings, and honestly I cant figure out why. Often these gains are blips in the stats, but hopefully I will consolidate the gain in the standings and my team will really start to perform.
Lets look at my catching […]

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