Archive for March, 2014

The FanDuel Daily Grind 3-30-14

On the Board
1. A rehash of basic FanDuel strategies
2. Notable Potables
3. Real, actual players for tonight, tomorrow
4. An operational note

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Daily Fantasy Strategy — March 30 — For Draftstreet

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Well, okay, baseball was technically “here” last weekend, but for all intents and purposes, today marks the official start of baseball season.

With it comes the start of daily fantasy games…tomorrow. Patience. With a fresh season on our hands, it’s worth going over a few strategic points before we dive in for the first week of daily fantasy.

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Roto Riteup — Presented By DraftKings: March 30, 2014

Opening Day — at least in the northern hemisphere — is now here! Stick with the Roto Riteup, brought to you by DraftKings, for relevant fantasy baseball news from yesterday and picks for today. The Daily Five will be an ongoing subsection of the Roto Riteup where Zach Sanders and I will recommend certain players that we see as good picks that day. In order to play, you sign up for free and then select your 10-man roster and spend as much of the allotted $50,000 filling up your lineup card.

On today’s agenda:
1. Clayton Kershaw to the disabled list
2. Rajai Davis‘ value
3. Jenrry Mejia to the rotation
4. The Daily Five

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Catcher Tiers — April 2014

As we get ready to start the 2014 MLB season on American soil this Sunday, it’s time to break out the Positional Tiered Rankings for the first month of the season. I started with the RotoGraphs Positional Rankings and then added in statistical history, projections and my own thoughts for each player and grouped them together to house similar value levels with each other. It’s a helpful tool to use for trading purposes as you can gauge just how much value you may be giving away or getting back in a deal. Here’s how I’m seeing the catcher position this year: Read the rest of this entry »


Surprise! It’s Jesse Chavez!

In the course of human events, there aren’t many things worse than late spring training injuries.

Wars? Pandemics? Human-enslaving robots? Broken hearts? Male bike shorts? People who microwave fish at work? These things are all very bad, but they are not worse than late spring training injuries. So it has been a tough couple of weeks in baseball, as fans and fantasy owners have watched pitcher after pitcher go down. Good ones, too. Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy and Patrick Corbin and Jarrod Parker and Aroldis Chapman and Josh Johnson. Now even Yu Darvish and Clayton Kershaw and Doug Fister. Some of these are worse than others, and certainly Chapman’s was more jarring than your run-of-the-mill Tommy John surgery, but they are all significant blows on the eve of the season nonetheless.

We can wallow in our collective self pity, or we can attempt to pick up the pieces and move on. This is where Jesse Chavez comes in. Kind of. Maybe.

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The FanDuel Daily Grind 3-29-14

Today’s Episode
1. A word from our sponsor
2. What is this?
3. FanDuel scoring
4. FanDuel league types

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Roto Riteup: March 29, 2014

Soon. More baseball is coming soon. We were teased with a taste of real games already, but now the season will be upon us shortly.

On today’s agenda:
1. Carlos Quentin may open the season on the disabled list
2. Lingering wrist issues for Mark Teixeira
3. Grady Sizemore named starting center fielder
4. Doug Fister to open the season the DL
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The All Waiver Wire Pitching Staff

So your league drafted a month ago and you wound up with Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy, Jarrod Parker, and Patrick Corbin. You’re all set!

Dr. James Andrews has been busy this Spring, and the starting pitching corps have been noticeably thinned as we stagger towards opening day. Not only has there been a rash of ligaments exploding, we’re also hearing about a bad back from Clayton Kershaw, a stiff neck from Yu Darvish, balky groins for Francisco Liriano and Homer Bailey, a bum toe from Hyun-Jin Ryu, and a bad everything for Mat Latos . Zack Greinke’s calf hurts. Matt Moore got hit in the face. Doug Fister strained his latissimus dorsi. Cole Hamels is thrilled to even be able to throw a baseball right now. And then there’s whatever is going on with Mike Minor.

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The FanDuel Daily Grind: 3-28-14

Kicking Off the Grind

If you play daily fantasy baseball or tinker with your traditional fantasy team, knowing park factors is a part of success over the long haul. FanGraphs Guts! has all kind of factors, but I prefer to focus my attention on the Basic, HR, and HR by split factors. Winning in a daily fantasy league tends to depend on home runs more than other types of production (at least on the offense side).

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This Is Why We Can’t Have Elite Things – Thoughts From An Expert Auction

Every auction is different, but the one constant in any given auction is that things can go careening off the rails in an instant. Last night, I participated in an experts’ auction along with a group of writers from Yahoo, RotoWire, Razzball and more. It is a 14-team rotisserie league with 27-man rosters, an innings cap of 1,450 and a standard $260 auction budget, with on-base percentage instead of batting average, and saves plus holds instead of saves. You can check the league out for yourself right here.

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