Featuring picks and comments by Rob Dudek Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet daily baseball leagues Yesterday we warned you not to pay big bucks for Roy Halladay and called his mound opponent Matt Harvey our best bet of the night. As one of Doc’s biggest fans and former neighbors, it was sad to see him working so hard with such poor results; he needed 99 pitches to get through four mediocre innings. [Read more…]
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet daily baseball leagues The NBA has the night off and all eyes will be on Michigan and Louisville in their NCAA championship showdown. Traditional basketball leagues are down to the wire, and there’s no daily hoops action, but our attention has already turned to baseball for fun and profit. [Read more…]
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet daily baseball leagues Consider the entire MLB schedule before picking players. Sunday is getaway day for teams (and umpires) so scoring is sometimes suppressed. It also happens that a lot of aces are on the mound today for their second starts of the young season. There aren’t many opportunities for hitters. [Read more…]
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet daily baseball leagues Pitchers are only one-third of your roster in daily leagues — two SP spots and one P — but it seems like at least half the strategy revolves around them. [Read more…]
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet daily baseball leagues In a first for this basketball site, we’re turning our attention to baseball. The fantasy seasons overlap nicely and I am more of an “expert” on the diamond than the hardwood. [Read more…]
There are a lot of factors to balance in trying to determine what fantasy players to target during drafts, and it does sometimes feel like juggling cats. One of the markers that is sometimes unremarked, but that is helpful to use when studying players for drafting in fantasy is to look at what players did in the second half of the year before. This is particularly useful in predicting performance in the upcoming season for three reasons: players are likely to
I’ll do a quick hit on the latest fantasy blockbuster before talking about auction drafts today, as promised. Love the One You’re With The big news in fantasy in the last 24 hours is Kevin Love‘s injury. Kent broke down exactly what it means in this morning’s Fantasy Spin but I wanted to add a few words more of caution. A broken hand or a wrist injury can cause players mechanical problems that linger far longer than the expected time for healing.
Yesterday, Kent posted the results of our Elimination Roto Draft (and here is part II), a 20-team league with a wonderful quirk that Jeff, Kent and I are all members of. This is my first year in Elimination Roto for basketball but I’ve participated in a similar baseball league. The format imposes a couple of unusual constraints on drafting, but generally the lessons we can draw from this draft are similar to those for normal roto drafts. I wanted to draw three