MLB Primers Fantasy Articles
By Justin Mason on January 21, 2025
Most people play in typical fantasy baseball snake drafts where you take turns selecting a player one pick at a time. However, the original and best way to play is the auction or salary cap draft format. Let’s dive into … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Salary Cap Draft Primer (2025)
By Corey Pieper on January 17, 2025
Some fantasy managers love the traditional aspects of the rotisserie format for fantasy baseball, while others want something that most closely resembles the most popular of the fantasy sports — fantasy football. In this case, they turn to points leagues … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Categories League Draft Primer (2025)
By Chase Davis on January 15, 2025
The fantasy football season has ended and it’s time to turn our attention again to fantasy baseball. Before we put fantasy football completely on the back burner, let’s explore a fantasy football draft strategy: Value-based drafting (VBD). Fantasy Baseball Research … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Value-Based Drafting Primer (2025)
By Tim Kanak on February 21, 2024
Standard fantasy categories may be considered outdated to some. However, the majority of leagues still play using the standard 10 categories of BA, R, HR, RBI and SB offensively and then for pitching W, K, S, ERA and WHIP. There … read more »
Continue Reading MLB League Trends & Impact on Fantasy Baseball Player Values (2024)
By Pat Fitzmaurice on February 9, 2024
Pay up at the corners, lay back in the middle. That sums up my infield strategy for 2024. In my positional overviews of first base and third base, I recommended an aggressive acquisition strategy, Both of those positions are top-heavy … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Draft Rankings, Tiers & Strategy: Second Basemen (2024)
By Kelly Kirby on February 4, 2024
In a traditional 5×5 fantasy baseball league, the hardest category to predict may be Wins, but the hardest category to draft accurately is Saves. Typically, closers come in three or four tiers, with Tier 1 being the group that has … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Saves + Holds Leagues Draft Primer (2024)
By Mick Ciallela on February 2, 2024
The Major League Baseball season (and the fantasy baseball season by proxy) is a marathon, not a sprint. That is part of the beauty of the game, but it can also turn managing a team into a chore. That is … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Best Ball Draft Strategy & Targets (2024)
By Pat Fitzmaurice on February 1, 2024
Fantasy baseball managers don’t have catcher strategies; they have catcher stances. They have a preferred way to address the position, and they take the same approach year after year. Changes to your stance on catchers are rare and momentous — … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Draft Rankings, Tiers & Strategy: Catchers (2024)
By Austin Lowell on January 30, 2024
A quality start or “QS” is a statistic that gets recorded when a starting pitcher lasts six innings or more while allowing three runs or less in a game. Forty years ago, throwing six innings or more was hardly noteworthy, … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Quality Starts Leagues Draft Primer (2024)
By Justin Mason on January 29, 2024
If you have never played in a Draft and Hold league, they are 50-round drafts where you are stuck with your drafted team the entire season. That means no waiver wire pick-ups or FAAB. Draft and hold leagues have become … read more »
Continue Reading Fantasy Baseball Draft & Hold League Strategy & Advice (2024)
