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 »

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 this year 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 »

7:32	Jeff Zimmerman:

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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 »

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

Guest: Sara Sanchez

Catching Up

• Las Vegas
• Eclipse
• Red Sox Opening Day
• Softball
• High School Baseball

Strategy Section

• Starting Pitcher injuries
  • Velocity related?
  • Does MLB have a problem on its hands?
  • How should we alter our fantasy strategy?
  • Sholuld we be spedning more or less draft capital on pitching?
• Cold Starts to the season
  • When to bench?
  • When to drop?
  • How to tell injury from a cold start?
  • What stats to look at to determine bounceback?
  • Hitters vs. Pitchers

Underperforming Pitchers – How to handle?

• Griffin Canning
• Josiah Gray
• Louie Varland
• Bailey Ober
• Miles Mikolas
• Kyle Gibson
• Max Fried
• DL Hall
• Jesus Luzardo
• Luis Castillo
• Blake Snell
• Jameson Taillon
• Jordan Montgomery
• Carlos Rodon

Underperforming Hitters – How to handle?

• Nick Castellanos
• Riley Greene
• Jorge Polanco
• Jose Abreu
• Andrew Vaughn
• Francisco Lindor
• Mitch Garver
• Henry Davis
• Andrew Benintendi
• Whit Merrifield
• Victor Scott II

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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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 this year 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 »

7:32	Jeff Zimmerman:

Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 got 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 »

7:31	Jeff Zimmerman:

Read the rest of this entry »