Beat the Shift Podcast – Predictions Episode w/ Howard Bender
The Predictions episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Howard Bender
Strategy Section
- Early drafting (January/February) vs. Late drafting (March)
- Pros & cons, advantages & disadvantages, differences
- Average draft position (ADP)
- Our player shares in the 2025 draft season
- Players we drafted early but not late
- Players we drafted late but not early
- Our most drafted players
- Players we didn’t plan to draft, but did
- Players we planned to draft, but didn’t
- FAAB
- What are you looking to accomplish in the first FAAB period?
- How do you evaluate players for the first FAAB period, and early on in the season?
- How much does a player’s hot performance in the opening week influence your FAAB bidding?
Predictions
- Bold Predictions
- Player predictions
- Team predictions
- Baseball event predictions
- Awards Predictions
- MVP
- Cy Young
- Rookie of the Year
- Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
- Playoff Predictions
- A team unlikely to make the playoffs that will
- A team likely to make the playoffs that won’t
- The worst team in baseball
- Board bet !!!
- Pennant winners
- World series winner
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.