ROTISSERIE REVISITED: Sweeney for 2015

(This is one in a series of articles this spring at BaseballHQ.com to "Re-visit" a few unorthodox Rotisserie strategies, especially in light of the pitcher-heavy lean to the game. How do these decade-old strategies hold up? Read on. —Ed.)

Introduction

As pitchers and catchers report, a lot of fantasy owners start wondering if there’s a new LIMA Plan to be had—a different strategy they might use to assemble a winning roster, and as a happy side effect to surprise and amaze their competitors. BaseballHQ.com has already run a few articles about some of these unorthodox strategic approaches.

One of the most famous alternative strategies is the Sweeney Plan, a radical double-punting strategy that actually won a well-known experts’ league,...

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