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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids in the three 15-team mixed Tout Wars leagues

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:32
JoeG: Could Graterol be in the mix for Saves when he gets the call ? Also Drew Rasmussen if Fairbanks gets traded ?

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: I don’t think so on either one

7:33
Honkus Wagner: Any speculation on Morel’s playing time? feel like this is in prep to trade Yandy and he’s the 1B going forward with Caminero at 3rd

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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 18)

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 17)

While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and there are ten of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers 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 five or more leagues. Read the rest of this entry »


Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids in the three 15-team Tout Wars teams.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:33
Seth: Are River Ryan and Jose Soriano pretty much the same value? Figure Soriano is closer to an innings cap and Ryan might only last a start, but has higher upside?

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: I’d go with Ryan

7:33
Jeff: River Ryan or Robbie Ray ROS? Ws/ERA/WHIP/Ks/SOLDs 10-team roto league

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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 17)

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 »


Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Not Tout Wars FAAB results since the leagues will run their FAAB on Wednesday

7:31
Daniel: Add Lawrence Butler for Trevor Larnach? Other option is add Butler for DJ LeMahieu and wait for IKF to return for DJs spot. AL Only. Thx

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Take a chance on Butler

7:32
Eric: Ignoring coors, would you take toglia or Lawrence butler? H2h standard categories

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Toglia

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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 16)

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 15)

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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and there are ten of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers 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 five or more leagues.

Note: After a few weeks with some pop-up starters, just a couple made this week’s list. Read the rest of this entry »


FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 15)

Jeff is away this week, so I have been called up from Triple-A for the spot start. This article approximately follows his methodology, focusing on players available in most leagues at the start of this week. The players are ordered for redraft leagues roughly by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. I tend to put a lot of weight on recent playing time trends and popular rest-of-season projections, including the various systems published at FanGraphs, and my own system. I play in a lot of NFBC 15-teamers, so that’s the context I have in mind when writing this.

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Big Kid Adds (Week 14)

While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and there are ten of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers 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 five or more leagues.

Note 1: The number of obvious moves are way down this week. While there were a couple of high-cost guys, there was a lack of options after them. Read the rest of this entry »