Archive for Waiver Wire

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 »


Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: A note. Over the next two weeks, this chat might move times or not happen. I will try to let everyone know. Next week I have a friend coming through on a cross country trip and I’m not sure when he’ll be here.

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: The next week, I have a wedding to go to. There is a good chance the chat doesn’t happen that Sunday as a drive back.

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the winning bids from the three 15-team mixed Tout Wars leagues.

7:34
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:34
Kelly: Scherzer available in my 15 team NFBC. Max bid approved?

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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 14)

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 13)

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

7:29
Jeff Zimmerman: Heads up. I keep losing my internet so I might disappear at times.

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are tonight’s 15-team Tout Wars winning bids.

7:31
Guest: Would you prefer Vientos or Miranda in an OC?

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: I comes down to needs with Vientos getting a power bump and Miranda more for AVG

7:32
Bill Warts: Thanks for the chat, Jeff! 13 team mixed need HR and steals equally. Would you cut either of Friedl or Ward for Jesus Sanchez?  Thanks.

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