Beat the Shift Podcast – Final Two Weeks w/ Ray Murphy

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September 13, 2024

The Final Two Weeks episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Ray Murphy

First Pitch Arizona

League Updates

Strategy Section

  • Final Two Weeks of the Season
    • Is there a limit to who you might sit in the final two weeks of the season?
    • How much should you churn your roster?
    • How much should real life MLB team standings / playoff pushes factor into your roster decisions?
    • Should you take a chance on stashing a returning injured player for the final week?
    • What is the bar for dropping injured or underperforming players?
    • How much should playing decisions be based on year to date stats vs. last 30 days stats vs. projected stats?
    • Gaining points vs. defending points
      • What and when should you emphasize each?
    • FAAB
      • How to allocate your FAAB spending for the final two weeks of the season?
    • Multi-position eligible players
      • How important are they in the final weeks of the season?
      • How to best utilize your roster to take account of them

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Takeaways of the 2024 season

Looking ahead to 2025

  • Overall #1 pick choices
  • How early should you draft Elly De La Cruz?
  • Starting pitching in early rounds

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.

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murraygd13
27 days ago

I’m guessing the lower saves is strictly due to how bad Chicago is. Themselves have probably 15 – 20 saves not gotten. And then the opposing team doesn’t have another 10-15 because they get blown out so often

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