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

Five Players–Texas Rangers

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Five players from the Texas Rangers.
Coming down the stretch, we have only 2 teams left after the Rangers. This looks like another difficult team to write about as players have either gotten enough coverage from this or other sites (Hank Blalock), or are just boring and not worth mentioning (Frank Catalanotto). So here goes… […]

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My (Mike’s) Points League Draft

March 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Patrick’s points league posts motivated me to analyze my own points league draft.
To me, points leagues are the easiest leagues to prepare for. With every stat converting into the same currency (points), it’s much simpler to determine rankings than calculating values for a 5×5 roto league. One of my first posts here dealt with […]

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The Mixed League Team

March 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here is my roster, with comments.
There was one more item that mattered to me when drafting my team and that was risk management. This year I decided to try using the Baseball HQ reliability scores when deciding between roughly equal commodities. So when discussing the players I will list their reliability score where it […]

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Tags: Buchholz · Cabrera · Crawford · McGowan · Teixeira · draft strategy · mixed league · snake drafts

My Mixed League Draft and "Leverage"

March 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I recently did my mixed league draft and here is my team, with comments.
One dicta of conventional wisdom that I rail against is the idea that you should not target specific players. That is hogwash; I almost always target specific players and often will get them. When you see the team I drafted in […]

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