While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They get originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in four or more of these leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome and a note about next week, there is a good chance there will be no chat since I’ll be traveling for Memorial Day. I might do a limited one earlier in the day.
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Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids from the two 15-team Tout Wars leagues.
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Jeff Zimmerman:
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Need for speed: Myles straw was dropped. What do u think about him for speed. He is pretty empty otherwise
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Jeff Zimmerman: He plays and steals bases. For some managers, there will be helpful.
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BoB: What kind of bid are we looking at for Bobby Miller in ME leagues where he’s available now?
In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »
How much WHIP changed in the two “Stuff” models was almost too good to be true. In both cases, the walk rate increased as a pitcher’s stuff got better, but the hit suppression was so large that the WHIP declined.
Well I was wrong about the hit suppression. I went back and found no link to BABIP. The difference was because WHIP is on an innings denominator and a strikeout removes the chance for a Hit and Walk. An out comes down to the random chance of a batted ball. I know it’s confusing so here is an example assuming a pitcher with a 9 K/9, 3 BB/9, and .300 BABIP and throws 6 IP/GS. Read the rest of this entry »
While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They get originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in four or more of these leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »
I have a short amount of time to get this done today (son’s final track meet) so I’ll give each team a quick look and move on. I’m not going to include any stats. I might look into lineups a little more at the meet on Twitter.
My issue was that even though Bibee’s walk rate was good in 2022 (combined minor league rate of 1.8 BB/9) there were signs that his walks could be an issue once this season started. While Bibee had some luck in 3-2 counts is one issue, I’m just going to focus on Ball% (Balls/Pitches). Read the rest of this entry »
