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Six Swingers to Avoid

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May 8, 2014

I recommend avoiding swingers. They’re a…complication. I like to keep my life simple and tidy.

When it comes to fantasy baseball, we’re usually looking for our hitters to contribute in just five statistics. Around these parts, we know there is a host of peripheral statistics to evaluate quality of performance to date and expected performance going forward. One of my favorite peripherals is swinging strike rate (SwStr%). Whilst gazing upon the swinging strike leaderboard this morning, I realized the list was topped with six players I would really like to avoid. Maybe you would like to know about players I’m avoiding.

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The Daily Grind: 5-8-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 8, 2014

Agenda

  1. How to use the Factor Grid
  2. DFS Picks
  3. Fish Friday
  4. Table Talk

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The Daily Grind: 5-7-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 7, 2014

Agenda

  1. Renovations complete
  2. DFS of the Day
  3. Thin Thursday
  4. Table

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The Daily Grind: 5-6-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 6, 2014

Agenda

  1. Do your taxes
  2. DFS Picks
  3. Wednesday Watch
  4. Table

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The Daily Grind: 5-5-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 5, 2014

Agenda

  1. Factor Grid Under Renovation
  2. DFS for today
  3. Tuesday Plays
  4. Table

FanDuel has unleashed the World Fantasy Baseball Championship; a week-long, $5,000,000 celebration of Fantasy Baseball in Las Vegas! The WFBC has something for everyone, from the $250,000 single-entry championship, to the live $3,000,000 DFBC Final in Las Vegas.

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The Daily Grind: 5-4-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 4, 2014

Agenda

  1. Double Park Factors
  2. Sunday Sauce
  3. Monday Plays
  4. Table

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The Daily Grind: 5-3-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 3, 2014

Agenda

  1. Playing the numbers – the hot hand
  2. Today
  3. Tomorrow
  4. ToTable

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Three Pitchers Who Do Not Pass the Eye Test

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May 2, 2014

Yesterday we discussed four players who passed the eye test. In other words, my amateur scouting opinion is in agreement with their early season numbers. In the hands of an amateur, the eye test can only take us so far; data is still going to be king. Even so, there is value in knowing how a player looks on the field. Chris Coste was briefly quite good, but he never passed anybody’s eye test. So when he went from 33-year-old stud to 34-year-old dud, nobody was surprised.

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The Daily Grind: 5-2-14 – Presented by FanDuel

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May 2, 2014

Agenda

  1. Multi-Entry Tournaments
  2. DFS Picks
  3. Saturday Sauciness
  4. Table

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Four Players Who Pass the Eye Test

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May 1, 2014

In my daily column, I’ll occasionally mention a specific player does/does not pass the eye test. When I say a player passes the eye test, it means I’ve watched him play and he “looks” like a fantasy stud. If I say someone does not pass the test, I’ve identified some worrisome factor.

In other words, I believe scouting has value in fantasy baseball. Unfortunately, I am not a scout. Nor am I a quant. I have a little of both skill sets due to my playing career through college, intense training program, thousands of hours of baseball watched, and academic background in Economics and basic Statistics. So it makes sense for me to try to combine both skill sets to better my fantasy rosters.

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