Bleg: What Would Be Your Preferred Lineup Article?
Every week, I write an article looking over lineups before the weekend FAAB and waiver wire adds. While I find it useful to go through each line and take notes on each team, I wondered how helpful they are to readers. I examine each team, find changes, and note them. I feel the article may be too long, with around 60 total bullet points. I’m thinking of some possible changes. I can’t add much more because the article is already quite time-intensive to write.
- It’s fine, don’t change a thing.
- Should I go with just the top-10 movers (up or down) with more details on the players involved?
- The same top-10 list, but keep the descriptions brief.
- Highlight (i.e., bold) the top movers in the normal article?
- Just one bullet per team?
- Any other suggestions?
Thanks for any of your suggestions.
–Jeff
Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR twice, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.
Maybe it should just be one bullet per team if a platoon situation arises or is removed. And then if there is any new addition to a lineup or removal from one.
But no need for a player shifting a spot in the lineup or a player being in so many games in a row unless it was quite unexpected.