Author Archive: Paul Sporer

3/2/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Moves/News/Rumors

• Aroldis Chapman Suspended 30 Games (4:46)

Strategy Section: AL LABR

• Strengths of the AL Pool (10:00)
  • Marcus Semien email (26:35)
• Weaknesses of the AL Pool (39:17)
• Stars, Scrubs, or Middle? (45:25)
• Targets or Tiers? (47:00)
• Nomination Strategies (50:25)
• Some Good Late Buys (54:35)

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Watch T.J. Lauerman and I discuss some Spring Training breakouts and watch some OOTP16.

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2/29/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Moves

• Chris Coghlan to Oakland (4:15)
• Ian Desmond to Texas (13:40)

Strategy Section:

• OBP v. AVG Leagues (17:00)
• Preference? (17:28)
• Do we overrated OBP? (21:22)
• Players Who Get a Boost:
  • George Springer (26:15)
  • Chris Iannetta (27:55)
  • Delino DeShields (31:13)
  • Lucas Duda (37:55)
  • Joc Pederson (41:54)
  • Carlos Santana (45:13)
• Sinker Usage & Injury (52:45)

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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I don’t even know what “special cloth alert” means, but I do follow DJ Khaled on Snapchat so I say it a lot to Charlotte. And she’s just all like, wtf are you talking about now? OK then, jeez. Anyway, I’ve interpreted it as a positive based on the many special cloth alerts that Khaled has issued in 10-second bits of majesty. So now I’m offering up a special cloth alert on two power-speed hitters who have a real shot at improving upon their 2015 seasons and exploding into early-round assets.

Odubel Herrera | PHI | OF

Did you catch Herrera’s 2015? It’s easy to miss good-not-great seasons on terrible teams. Plus, he was a Rule 5 pick so he wasn’t super well-known coming into the season. He came up through the Texas org. as a light-hitting speedster with a .294/.354/.377 line, 3 HR, and 30 SB per 600 PA. He was given grades of 40 hit, 50+ speed, 50+ defense, and 20 power (35 raw). So how did he pop 8 HR – 60% more than his previous career high? Must’ve been a bunch wall-scrapers.

Orrrrr… he was a monster?

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2/28/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Moves

• Dexter Fowler to the Cubs, actually (2:10)
• Ian Desmond to Texas (9:26)

Emails

• Post-Break Players (20:02)
• NFBC First-Timer (33:20)
• Keeper Depth (40:04)
• OBP/SLG Leagues (46:26)

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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2/24/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Moves & News

• Dexter Fowler/Yovani Gallardo (4:30)
• Jay Bruce trade talks (10:04)
• Carlos Santana leading off? (13:38)
• Pablo Sandoval has a belly (16:55)
• Josh Hamilton hurt. Weird. (22:53)

Strategy Section

• Getting the Most Out of Spring Training (27:12)

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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2/19/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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• @GregAmbrosius

Interview w/Greg:

• Intro (0:00)
• Interview w/Greg starts at 7:55
• Using NFBC’s ADP data (8:55)
• ADP Costs Greg Doesn’t Like (11:50)
• ADP Costs Greg Does Like (16:05)
• What is Min/Max Pick Good For? (18:35)
• New Game Types at NFBC (22:03)
• Kentucky Derby Style Draft Slotting (27:00)
• Beat Paul Sporer league (31:45)

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You smell that? That’s the smell of spring in the air. Baseball is around the corner and draft season will be in high gear before we know it. We already ran our first set of rankings that you hopefully got a chance to check out as they were rolled out. You can either bookmark the Rankings filter which will show you all posts dealing with rankings or you can access them by position in the sidebar:

In a post later today, I’ll be covering all of our draft tools in more depth, but let’s get to what you came here for, the spreadsheet!

Not only does it contain all of the rankings from the seven of us, but we’ve also added Steamer Projections and a cross-off capability that allows you to assign each player to the team that drafted him while putting a line through his name and numbers. Thanks to Jeff Zimmermann, Tanner Bell, and Danielle Mason (Justin’s wife) for their work on this. As with our rankings, this is our first run, so we will be making enhancements where necessary. In fact, if there is anything you’d really like to see on future updates, please let us know. If it’s feasible, we’ll try to get it on there. The next update of this spreadsheet won’t come until March when we update the rankings.

Without further ado:

ROTOGRAPHS FIRST RUN RANKINGS SPREADSHEET

There was a misalignment in OF and RP in the first upload here which skewed some Steamer Projections. It has been fixed. If you downloaded before 12:58 PM Central on 2/19, please re-download. 

2/17/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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DRAFT BOARD

This is our raw feed for about 1.5 hours discussing our picks back and forth. It’s not like the normal podcast, but I think it’s still an interesting listen. Definitely let me know what you think in the comments or Twitter as I may consider something similar for other drafts I have coming up next month.

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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2/17/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Strategy Section

• LABR Talk – it’s all about the draft and not particularly segmented so no timestamps, sorry!
• DRAFT BOARD

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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2/14/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Strategy Section

• Pick a Hitter
  • J.T. Realmuto (172 ov, 10th C) v. Yan Gomes (176, 11th) (3:30)
  • Carlos Santana (187, 16th 1B) v. Byung-ho Park (188, 17th) (6:49)
  • Starlin Castro (196, 14th 2B) v. Ben Zobrist (200, 15th) (11:45)
  • Adrian Beltre (99, 9th 3B) v. Maikel Franco (106, 10th) (14:05)
  • Xander Bogaerts (60, 4th SS) v. Francisco Lindor (64, 5th) (17:25)
  • Starling Marte (24th, 7th OF) v. George Springer (25, 8th) (20:45)
  • Billy Burns (153, 39th) v. Kevin Pillar (156, 40th) (26:28)
• LABR Talk (35:28)
• Email
  • Shea – Keepers (46:30)

We have a new email address for questions: sleeperpod@gmail.com. Send your fantasy-relevant questions. You can send keeper questions, but those are much better for Twitter. Questions most likely to get selected are those that apply more broadly, as opposed to specific trade or keeper queries. However, if you do ask a league-specific question, please include the league size and categories.

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