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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids in the two 15-team Tout Wars Mixed leagues.

7:31
Guest Rock: Any use for Blackmon this next week?

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Probably not.

7:32
Guest Cub: Grab Assad for 2 starts this week?

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1217 – Week 26 FAAB ft. Tyler London

9/17/23

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Waiver Wire Report (Week 26)

In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »


Big Kid Adds (Week 25)

While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with an even larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in four or more of these leagues. Read the rest of this entry »


Sunday Night Waiver Wire FAAB Chat

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: I might cut tonight’s chat a bit short as I have to deal with the news Kershaw had his start pushed back and Gavin Stone is starting instead.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids for the two 15-team mixed Tout Wars teams.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:32
lovethepod: drop Dominguez?

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Yes

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Waiver Wire Report (Week 25)

In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »


Beat the Shift Podcast – Last Weeks Episode

The Last Weeks episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

  • Last Weeks Strategy
    • Gaining in categories vs. Defending in categories
    • Marginal categories
    • Ratio categories strategy
      • Number of starters vs. number of relievers
      • Balancing with quantity stats
    • Chasing wins
    • FAAB Bidding
    • Game 163

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Big Kid Adds (Week 24)

While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with an even larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in four or more of these leagues. Read the rest of this entry »


Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids from the two 15-team Tout Wars leagues.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:31
Walt: Who are some prospects to keep an eye on that might be called up in the next couple weeks?

7:31
Austin: Hey Jeff – thanks as always for these. Desperate for steals. Any potential upcoming call-ups that could rack em up?

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Kelenic

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Waiver Wire Report (Week 24)

In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »