Fantasy Baseball Draft Research / Reference Tools

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » March 22, 2004, 4:11 pm

Hey , i thought any people who are interested in Fantasy Baseball could use this thread to perhaps exchange information that we may find useful.

since few (if any) of us will probably be in competition with one another perhaps we won't be afraid to drop some knowledge.

I basically have used magazines and the Sporting News pay service ($20 /yr), as well as the CBS SPortsline resource available to our league.

I guess i'm jsut looking for something that is a little better at giving good information and evaluating players. I haven't been that pleased with any of the above.

And we can all just talk about general strategies and shit....whatever.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » March 23, 2004, 3:27 am

ESPN draftkit

Compare stats by position and all sorts of goodies.

Low profile, high impact

Not necessarily sleepers. But a list of damn good producers for your team, that aren't ranked high enough for you to even see them.

My personal secret draft tip. In a head to head league, sacrifice some big name bats, and get the best pitching you can. Most, if not all head to head leagues use a 10 category scoring system, 5 hitting, 5 pitching. But the pitching categories go more or less hand in hand. If you've got an ace or two, you're going to have lowest era, highest k's, most wins or saves. That's 4 or 5 categories of 10 right there.

Every year I go for the most ruthless bullpen and just a simply stable lineup to keep me in, while the pitchers pull off the win. It's worked pretty well so far, I've finished 2nd 3 years in a row now out of a 12 team league.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 23, 2004, 9:22 pm

Fantasy Baseball isn't my specialty but I won with pitching. I wound up with Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling during the Diamondbacks world series winning year. That pretty much locked up K's, ERA and Wins for me.

You've got to grab one good Saver as well.

I found Baseball takes a lot more time than Football to stay on top of things during the season for Fantasy Leagues although there seem to be more trades involved which makes it fun.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » March 29, 2004, 12:07 am

Why doesn't someone Commish a league for the Vault? I only know the baseball players that are on the news or on cereal boxes but I'd play just so I can talk trash.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » April 5, 2004, 9:29 pm

I managed to draft one hell of a bullpen

We'll see how well my leet strats work this year.

well, scratch that..one of the kids in our group decided to commish this year, and fucked the whole league up by only allowing weekly lineups. (meaning you can only edit your lineup until monday, and then it stays for seven days at which point you can have another lineup)

So now we start another league with the same teams and start draft this week and begin week2. I've also noticed he eliminated a trade deadline, which I don't like...it allows people that didn't make it to playoffs to dump off their talent to their friends or whatnot.

Fucking pisses me off. You don't fuck with my baseball.