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While many of us sports fans were enjoying the NFL playoffs these last few weeks, the MLB Hot Stove League turned up the heat recently with a couple signings, a big trade and an international free-agent. All of this is well and good for Major League Baseball, but more importantly, how do these moves impact fantasy baseball (and NFBC) owners?
Jan 27 2012 12:00am
Jan 27 2012 12:00am
Most managers in auction-format leagues can name a time in which they had either spent too much on a player during an auction, or conversely, didn't spend enough on that player who was coveted pre-auction. In today's column, we explore the concept of "auction fever," or the tendency to over-bid in auctions, and how it may affect the auction-format fantasy baseball manager.
Jan 20 2012 12:00am
Jan 20 2012 12:00am
However, fantasy players can salvage one benefit from all the rancor over how to divide up millions (or even billions) of dollars. After all, at least some of the issues owners and players tend to squabble over, like competitive balance and freedom of player movement, are also concerns for fantasy leagues. This past fall's NBA negotiations yielded one such nugget for fantasy owners to consider: the concept of "amnesty," which found its way into the final collective-bargaining agreement and has already resulted in a couple star players finding new homes (like the pictured Baron Davis).
Jan 16 2012 12:00am
Jan 16 2012 12:00am
Veteran fantasy owners know that identifying position scarcity is as important as finding stolen bases on Draft Day. If you don’t identify the positions without depth before your draft you will definitely be the last one standing without a chair when the music stops.
Jan 8 2012 12:00am
Jan 8 2012 12:00am
The biggest news of the baseball off-season for fantasy owners came during the heart of the football season when we learned that Ryan Braun (OF, MIL) had tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). The potential 50-game suspension of the National League’s reigning MVP rocked baseball and dramatically changed the early rounds in fantasy baseball.
Jan 3 2012 12:00am
Jan 3 2012 12:00am
The Astros are coming! Or: the Astros are leaving! What to do? What to do?
Dec 23 2011 12:00am
Dec 23 2011 12:00am
Dec 9 2011 12:00am
Everyone goes into the off-season these days looking for the next great Sleeper. Unfortunately, by the time Draft Day rolls around everyone has identified those sleepers. So now the key isn't FINDING those sleepers, it's knowing WHEN to draft those sleepers.
Dec 3 2011 12:00am
Dec 3 2011 12:00am
This has the potential to be a very solid rookie class and fantasy owners would be wise to put these 8 players on their Cheat Sheets:
Nov 9 2011 12:00am
Nov 9 2011 12:00am
Did you ever consider that WHERE you draft from plays a big factor in how you handle that draft plan? Do your player evaluations allow you to win from any spot? I hope so.
Nov 1 2011 11:00pm
Nov 1 2011 11:00pm
The last pitch of Major League Baseball's 2011 regular season was barely in the books when the 2012 season officially began in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC). It's a tradition in the NFBC for 15 die-hard owners to start the next season with an email draft the day the off-season begins.
Oct 25 2011 11:00pm
Oct 25 2011 11:00pm
While many of us sports fans were enjoying the NFL playoffs these last few weeks, the MLB Hot Stove League turned up the heat recently with a couple signings, a big trade and an international free-agent. All of this is well and good for Major League Baseball, but more importantly, how do these moves impact fantasy baseball (and NFBC) owners?
Jan 27 2012 12:00am
Jan 27 2012 12:00am
Most managers in auction-format leagues can name a time in which they had either spent too much on a player during an auction, or conversely, didn't spend enough on that player who was coveted pre-auction. In today's column, we explore the concept of "auction fever," or the tendency to over-bid in auctions, and how it may affect the auction-format fantasy baseball manager.
Jan 20 2012 12:00am
Jan 20 2012 12:00am
However, fantasy players can salvage one benefit from all the rancor over how to divide up millions (or even billions) of dollars. After all, at least some of the issues owners and players tend to squabble over, like competitive balance and freedom of player movement, are also concerns for fantasy leagues. This past fall's NBA negotiations yielded one such nugget for fantasy owners to consider: the concept of "amnesty," which found its way into the final collective-bargaining agreement and has already resulted in a couple star players finding new homes (like the pictured Baron Davis).
Jan 16 2012 12:00am
Jan 16 2012 12:00am
Veteran fantasy owners know that identifying position scarcity is as important as finding stolen bases on Draft Day. If you don’t identify the positions without depth before your draft you will definitely be the last one standing without a chair when the music stops.
Jan 8 2012 12:00am
Jan 8 2012 12:00am
The biggest news of the baseball off-season for fantasy owners came during the heart of the football season when we learned that Ryan Braun (OF, MIL) had tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). The potential 50-game suspension of the National League’s reigning MVP rocked baseball and dramatically changed the early rounds in fantasy baseball.
Jan 3 2012 12:00am
Jan 3 2012 12:00am
The Astros are coming! Or: the Astros are leaving! What to do? What to do?
Dec 23 2011 12:00am
Dec 23 2011 12:00am
Dec 9 2011 12:00am
Everyone goes into the off-season these days looking for the next great Sleeper. Unfortunately, by the time Draft Day rolls around everyone has identified those sleepers. So now the key isn't FINDING those sleepers, it's knowing WHEN to draft those sleepers.
Dec 3 2011 12:00am
Dec 3 2011 12:00am
This has the potential to be a very solid rookie class and fantasy owners would be wise to put these 8 players on their Cheat Sheets:
Nov 9 2011 12:00am
Nov 9 2011 12:00am
Did you ever consider that WHERE you draft from plays a big factor in how you handle that draft plan? Do your player evaluations allow you to win from any spot? I hope so.
Nov 1 2011 11:00pm
Nov 1 2011 11:00pm
The last pitch of Major League Baseball's 2011 regular season was barely in the books when the 2012 season officially began in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC). It's a tradition in the NFBC for 15 die-hard owners to start the next season with an email draft the day the off-season begins.
Oct 25 2011 11:00pm
Oct 25 2011 11:00pm
