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2024: Hitters to Avoid
This isn’t going to be a piece that says – don’t draft that guy in fantasy baseball this year with an ADP of 326. There’s no use for that. Instead, this article will focus on hitters who I deem to be too costly on draft day (for a variety of reasons). *NOTE… ADP numbers for Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2024: Hitters to Target
We all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the players you Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
MLB Averages to Know – Pitchers
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to pitchers in 2024? We will answer that question by looking back at the completed 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click on Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
MLB Averages to Know – Hitters
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to batters in the coming season? We will answer that question by looking back at the 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.69 – 1B, Categories, TE
Kyle Elfrink & Ray Flowers host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. New Owner, New Ace - BAL strikes big with Corbin BurnesMIL gets DL Hall Boras a Giant Pain New Categories for Fantasy Baseball 1B - The Rookies: Schanuel, Manzardo, Mervis. NFL TE - Where to draft…
2023 Review: K%-BB% & Workload
It only seems like every third article I write for pitchers is about strikeouts, but I do comment on them a lot. Here’s another article that focuses directly on the strikeout and the walk. This is about as basic as we can get with our analysis, but the fact is that strikeout and walk rates Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2023 Review: High K, Low BB, High GB, Arms
It’s triangle of pitching time. What the heck am I talking about? If you are looking for a shorthand way to view pitchers, a down and dirty way to say thumbs up or thumbs down, this is what you should be looking at. You want strikeouts.You want to avoid walksYou want ground balls. First off, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.68 – AVG, 1B & TE
Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. Tuesday - get rid of Wins … Wednesday, - get rid of saves … Today? Get rid of batting average! 1B - Who might make the jump into the top-12 this year? Nathaniel Lowe, Ty…
2024: What is Tiering & Why Does it Matter?
Tiering is a fairly standard procedure in fantasy sports, or at least it should be. Here’s a quick refresher on what it is and why you should be employing it at the draft. As I noted in a previous article, having a top-overall list isn’t useful on draft day. The simple reason is that the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2023 Review: The Strikeout From All The Angles
The strikeout is a thing of beauty. It’s clean and often speaks to the dominance of the hurler, so let’s wrap up our look at that result by taking a gander at this thing from a myriad of angles by putting it all together. We will review a myriad of categories that deal with the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.67 – 1B, Saves, Injuries
Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. Corey Seager undergoes surgery. A New Day Soon in Baltimore? The Role of Saves of 2024 - should they be replaced? First base... The 2023 Letdowns - Rizzo/Abreu/Tellez/Bell. NFL TALK Geno still…
Categories to Add in Fantasy Baseball in 2024
There are two camps in fantasy baseball. Well, there are obviously more, but there are two main groups as I see it. Group 1: The traditionalists. Some folks have been in a fantasy league with their best friends, their coworkers, their spouses for 27 years and they simply aren’t going to change a thing since Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Should We Remove Batting Average From Fantasy Baseball?
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. He tackles batting average in this piece – and old, outdated and pretty meaningless number in 21st century baseball. Give me a shot to explain why Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.66 – First Base, Wins, NBA Talk
Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. Jorge Polanco on the move to SEA. TOR adds some veteran pop - Justin Turner. Adios to Wins in fantasy game? 1B - 2023 Suprises and the outlook for 2024…
Should We Remove Steals in Fantasy Baseball?
Ray Flowers poses the question – should we remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball? He tackles the stolen base in this piece and asks, even with the huge uptick in thefts last season, should we adjust how we record player value in the stolen base category in fantasy Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Should We Remove Saves From Fantasy Baseball?
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. He tackles bullpens and the save in this piece. Straight up – saves suck if our goal is to measure effective pitching out of the bullpen. Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
MLB Best Ball Basics
The goal of the Best Ball articles will be to educate, inform, and provide projected ADP. You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.65 – SB, 1B, Problems w/Baseball
Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. Super Bowl 58 Set KC continues to be the class of the AFC - Mahomes vs. JacksonSF storms back in the Bay - CMC and Deebo. Niners' D struggles. What’s Wrong with Fantasy…
Should We Replace Wins In Fantasy Baseball?
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. In this piece he takes aim at the venerable win category and asks – should we remove it from fantasy baseball? The short answer is – Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Ideal H2H Setup
I don’t play H2H fantasy baseball anymore for reasons I discussed in a previous piece, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have strong opinions about what the ideal way is to set up a H2H league. We shall see if you agree with my thoughts – and I honestly believe you should. *The views Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2023 Review: MLB Park Factors
Years ago, we knew a place was a good place to hit or not. It might have been our anecdotal take from games we saw. Maybe it had to do with the distance of the fence from home plate. It might have been because that is just what everyone in the media said. Now, we Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2024 MLB SABERMETRIC PRIMER
SABERMETRICS DEFINED Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence focusing specifically on statistical information. The term itself is derived from the acronym SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), which comes from the group of baseball historians who were the originators of most of these “fancy math” equations (the term was coined by the most Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Sports Daily, Ep.64 – NFL Playoffs & MLB Talk About Drafting
Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink host FSD, M-F at 11am EST. The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Product is live! Covers now through the Regular Season. Further discussion about the NFFC situation. NFL TALK Pacheco and Deebo Status Championship Weekend Preview with Tyler Buecher How to the Lions defeat the Niners and the Chiefs beat the Ravens? ATL and CAR…
2023 ADP vs. Fantasy Baseball Production
A review of 2023 ADP and resulting production; using consensus draft values across league hosts, we create a larger picture.