Beat the Shift Podcast – Outfield Episode w/ Jeff Erickson

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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

Mailbag

  • Fringe outfielders with playing time upside
  • Possible outfield sleepers
  • Lane Thomas

Final outfield thoughts

  • Know your targets
  • Value late
  • Draft unique profiles early

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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