Beat the Shift Podcast – Live Episode from First Pitch Arizona 2021

The Live Episode from First Pitch Arizona 2021 of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Derek Carty

What’s new in THE BAT X for 2022?

Strategy Section

• Risk
  • How to deal with injury risk
  • How to discount for binary risk
  • Low risk players / consistent players
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Categorical Risk
    • Who would you rather draft – Bo Bichette or Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?
  • Replacement Level Risk
    • The risk of paying up for a super elite catcher (Salvador Perez / J.T. Realmuto).
  • Ace Pitcher Risk – Should you draft pitchers in the first few rounds?
  • Stacking Risk – Doubling up in one league vs. spreading out in two different leagues
• Auction
  • Spread the Risk vs. Stars & Scrubs
    • League depth matters
    • Grab value in every price tier
  • The value at the corner infield position
  • The Joey Votto nomination strategy

First Round of 2022 Drafts

• Undervalued players in the first round
• Overvalued players in the first round
  • Derek Carty is very down on Walker Buehler
• Players that won’t be drafted in the first round, but should

Live Q&A

• Which is worse – Overpaying for a player, or leaving money on the table in auctions?
• Anthony Rendon for 2022
• Elite catchers – Positional Scarcity vs. Market Premium
• Budgeting / Money distribution in auctions
• ATC minimizes parameter risk
• Planing auctions by positions & price points
• When you should ignore projections, and buy a player that you “like”

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

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