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 »

7:30	Jeff Zimmerman: Those are the winning bids from the three 15-team Tout Wars leagues. I just found out the league labeled “Tout-12” has 15 teams.

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

Guest: Sky Dombroske

Introduction

• Tout Wars H2H
• Head to Head format
• Not having an injured list
• Mike Trout injury

Strategy Section

• Hot Starts
  • What metrics should you look at to determine if hot starts are for real?
  • Using pre-season players projections based partially on prior injured seasons
  • Which do you believe more – hot pitcher starts or hot hitter starts?
  • How quickly to act on picking up hot players off of the waiver wire?
    • How much should you pay in FAAB?
  • Trading
    • Trading for a hot player
    • Trading away a hot player
  • How long do you keep rolling with hot players in your active lineup?
    • Hitters vs. pitchers
  • How to know when a player has “cooled off”

Hot Start Hitters – How to handle?

• Elly De La Cruz
  • Process vs. Results
• CJ Abrams
• Marcell Ozuna
• Tyler O’Neill
• Colton Cowser
• Brice Turang
• Alec Bohm
• Taylor Ward
• Starling Marte
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Isaac Paredes
• Brandon Marsh

Hot Start Pitchers – How to handle?

• Shota Imanaga
• Ranger Suarez
  • Name Game
• Jose Berrios
• Nick Lodolo
• Reed Garrett
  • What league size / depth should he utilized in?
• Erick Fedde 페디
• Zack Littell
• Jack Flaherty

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 »

7:34	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 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 »