Beat the Shift Podcast – Auction Championship Episode w/ Mike Mager
The Auction Championship episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Mike Mager
Strategy Section
- NFBC Strategy
- What sets the NFBC apart from others?
- Key components to winning
- Evaluating players BEFORE looking at projections
- Which is more important – the draft or in-season play?
- What goes into lineup setting?
- How do you prevent overthinking decisions?
- Are there certain category statistics that you need to solidify early in the year?
- Are there certain category statistics that you can wait on and pick up in-season?
- How does strategy change year to year?
- Auction planning
- Today’s game
- Pitching strategy in today’s game
- Are there sleepers anymore?
- Waiver Wire / FAAB
- Interaction with the current week’s lineup setting
- Putting in the time
- Fantasy partnership
- What makes a successful fantasy partnership?
- Splitting up tasks
Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
Buy/Sell/Hold
- Hot Players
Waiver Wire
Pitcher Preview
Injury Update
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Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Ariel is also the winner of the 2020 FSWA Baseball Article of the Year award. He is the creator of the ATC (Average Total Cost) Projection System. Ariel was ranked by FantasyPros as the #1 fantasy baseball expert in 2019. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Ariel is a member of the inaugural Tout Wars Draft & Hold league, a member of the inaugural Mixed LABR Auction league and plays high stakes contests in the NFBC. Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Ariel Cohen is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He is a Vice President of Risk Management for a large international insurance and reinsurance company. Follow Ariel on Twitter at @ATCNY.