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Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids from the two Tout Wars 15-team mixed leagues.
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Jeff Zimmerman: I’ve got no questions, I’m trying to see what is wrong on my end.
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In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both 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. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.
The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be in the comments answering questions and discussing changes!
Focus more on tier differences over rankings differences within a given tier. Sure, the top and bottom of a tier can be discussed, but 7-10 rankings within the same tier isn’t a huge split to me and comparing them would likely come down to short-term matchups.
Aces
The cream of the crop. The pitchers who never come out of the rotation regardless of matchup.
These guys are essentially fantasy aces in their own right. Cutting them would take months (barring injury) and benching would be remarkably rare (waning skills for multiple starts + inj. concern could result in skipping a start)
Splitting hairs a bit here, but this is a smaller group between must starts and team streamers. You’re looking for reasons to start them and need a very strong reason to bench them.
These are elevated streamers where you don’t necessarily run every start, but they hit the bench when they’re not playing because they’re too talented to throw back on the wire.
We’re following up on last week’s article covering a few rookie starting pitchers. This feels like an outlier season with so many rookies making positive impacts on our fantasy baseball lineups. We’ll examine four more rookie-eligible starting pitchers, including a pair of teammates. We’ll continue examining rookies throughout the season, including advice on whether to buy, sell, or hold in keeper and dynasty formats.
This crop of rookies has now had some time to get adjusted to the big leagues, and this piece will look to check in on how they have measured up so far through the season. Less of a prediction of things to come, but more so of how much we can rely on them at this stage of their young careers. But of course, this is fantasy. So there will be a natural eye on what could be… are some guys getting the rough end of the stick, and are some getting away with it a little?
I wanted to establish a composite rating that accounted for metrics that provided a balanced view of their profile as a pitcher, balanced against their xERA. These metrics were then weighted to favor those I felt were more important and those I want to see in a pitcher. This will be split into two pieces: this one sets up the methodology, so to speak, and the reasoning behind the metrics used for the ranking. The next piece will dive into more of the nuances and any interesting cases the data throws up.
Welcome to the Daily SP Chart, click here if you’re new to get an idea of what I’m doing with these rankings.
SP rankings out todayyyyy. I know I’d said Thursday, but I blame this new game for distracting me. It’s called Chasin’ 117 and it’s amazing!! It’s not really why I didn’t have the rankings out yesterday, but it is undoubtedly a new obsession. These games are apparently on fire across the internet with basketball and football having one, too. Say goodbye to your free time! Not an ad, just a mega fan of these!
I know Framber’s ratios aren’t great right now but I don’t see it as actionable and I’m still starting him everywhere. I always link him and Logan Webb as lefty-righty versions of each other and now they’re even struggling in unison but just when we started getting nervous about Webb, he dropped 7 IP of 1-hit ball at MIL to reassure us. Hopefully Framber can do something similar against SEA and their 30th ranked offense vL.
Sasaki had a wonderful May (3.20 ERA/1.00 WHIP/19% K-BB) and has risen to must-start status for now.
Detmers has a 61% LOB rate creating a chasm between his 4.63 ERA and 3.31 SIERA, but I’m encouraged by the 21% K-BB that matches what he did out of the bullpen last year. Don’t get daunted by the ERA, you’re still getting a 1.16 WHIP and 29% K and while he might not start his ERA improvement tonight at LAD, I have confidence that he’s better than a mid-4.00s guy.
Griffin has been a revelation for WSN but the D’Backs slam lefties so I’m definitely open to skipping in 10s and could even see some sits in 12s.
Cabrera is coming off the IL but it’s from a blister so I’m more open to running him right away. The lack of a 3-x reco is more due to his modest output this year than concerns about first start off the IL in this case.
Rocker always makes me nervous but this is a good streaming spot for him. Don’t get completely duped by his 2.30/1.17 over the L30 days as it comes with an 18% K and 4% K-BB. The matchup is driving my interest here.
Ray hasn’t made it 5 IP in any of his L4 after posting a 2.76 ERA through his first 8 starts. I’d still reserve before cutting in a lot of situations, but he doesn’t have to be in your starting lineup right now.
While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even larger entry fees ($2.5K to $15K). They are named Elite leagues (previously called High Stakes Leagues), and there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain every 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 »
This series aims to help readers conduct their routine due diligence in their dynasty leagues. It makes use of up-to-date OOPSY Peak projections and my own arbitrary whims to suggest free agent adds and drops as well as trade candidates and targets. Each entry will highlight a handful of players, both prospects and major leaguers, who have seen their perceived value shift recently. For each player I will offer a “verdict,” an open-ended recommendation on how I would value the player moving forward. Forgive me as these suggestions may sometimes enter the realm of “hot takes.” Most of my dynasty leagues are 14 to 20-team 5×5 roto leagues, but this series aims to be broadly relevant for all keeper and dynasty formats. Any reference to how a player projects using the FanGraphs auction calculator uses these settings with OOPSY DC (ROS) unless I say otherwise (15-team 5×5 SV 2 C). When referencing an OOPSY Peak WAR projection, I am referencing their up-to-date peak WAR projection assuming a full season of playing time: 600 PA for hitters and 198 innings pitched for arms.
