Beat the Shift Podcast – Format Episode w/ Frank Stampfl

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January 7, 2022

The Format Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Frank Stampfl

Tout Wars Congratulations

Strategy Section

  • Drafting Strategy based on fantasy format
    • Rotisserie leagues vs. Head-to-Head Points leagues vs. Head-to-Head Category leagues
      • One win vs. full category score
    • Waiver wire leagues vs. Draft Champion/Draft & Hold Leagues
    • Roto leagues vs. Best ball leagues
    • Trading leagues vs. non-trading leagues
    • Deeper leagues vs. shallow leagues
    • 1-Catcher leagues vs. 2-Catcher leagues
    • Large vs. small bench size
      • Having IL slots vs. no IL slots
    • Daily lineups vs. weekly lineups
    • Overall competition vs. standalone leagues

Player debates

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Mailbag

  • Waiting until the 5th round for staring pitching as a strategy in 2022 drafts

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

 

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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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dezremember
2 years ago

So psyched to listen to this podcast. Ariel and Frank combined! Excellent.

Question for you, sirs Ariel and Reuven – would you have any (fantasy) baseball book recommendations, particularly those with an analytical bent to them? I’ve loved The Process, The Only Rule is it Has to Work, Moneyball, and a whole slew of narrative reading stuff, both fiction and non-fiction. Any baseball literature you personally like?

And thanks again for the work. So awesome how the fantasy community in general is just churning out tons of offseason content this year. Mock drafts, podcasts, articles…fantastic stuff.

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Ariel Cohenmember
2 years ago
Reply to  dezre

Enjoy the show!!!

If you haven’t read Fantasyland by Sam Walker, you should. That was one of the first books I read when I started getting into fantasy. It isn’t exactly an analytics heavy book, but you’ll see them talk about it. If you know the folks in the industry, you’ll know quite a few of the characters in the book, including Nando.

Of course, the Baseball Forecaster put out by Baseball HQ is really a must have each year. That’s a completely analytics driven yearly handbook.

Lots of great content out there. Thanks for reading and listening to my work!

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