Beat the Shift Podcast – Outfield Episode w/ Jeff Erickson

by Ariel Cohen

February 18, 2022

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

Guest: Jeff Erickson

Strategy Section

Playing in multiple leagues
- How does the draft preparation differ between leagues?
- Knowing the market of each individual league and creating specific game plans.
- Does strategy alter by playing in multiple leagues?
  - To what extent should you diversify the players taken in each league?
- Keeping track of multiple leagues in season
- Waiver wire in season
  - Start with the shallow leagues
  - Using information from leagues with an earlier FAAB time slot for leagues with later ones
- How to prioritze leagues in late summer
  - Learning from leagues that are lost
The impact of the current lockout on drafting
- Closer prices
- FAAB early season
- Mono leagues
  - Actuarial goodness for Ariel

Outfield Player pool

The depth of OF in 2022
The impact of player platoons
The impact of player injuries

ATC Player Discussion

You Aren't a FanGraphs Member

It looks like you aren't yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren't logged in). We aren't mad, just disappointed.

We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it, we'd like to point out a few of the good reasons why you should become a Member.

1. Ad Free viewing! We won't bug you with this ad, or any other.

2. Unlimited articles! Non-Members only get to read 10 free articles a month. Members never get cut off.

3. Dark mode and Classic mode!

4. Custom player page dashboards! Choose the player cards you want, in the order you want them.

5. One-click data exports! Export our projections and leaderboards for your personal projects.

6. Remove the photos on the home page! (Honestly, this doesn't sound so great to us, but some people wanted it, and we like to give our Members what they want.)

7. Even more Steamer projections! We have handedness, percentile, and context neutral projections available for Members only.

8. Get FanGraphs Walk-Off, a customized year end review! Find out exactly how you used FanGraphs this year, and how that compares to other Members. Don't be a victim of FOMO.

9. A weekly mailbag column, exclusively for Members.

10. Help support FanGraphs and our entire staff! Our Members provide us with critical resources to improve the site and deliver new features!

We hope you'll consider a Membership today, for yourself or as a gift! And we realize this has been an awfully long sales pitch, so we've also removed all the other ads in this article. We didn't want to overdo it.

Click Here To Become a Member