Is there anyone here worth drafting? When it comes to catchers in 2019, it is a legitimate question.
We’ve watched the value of the backstop population plummet in recent years. It was not too long ago that Buster Posey was...
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Last year, we introduced a fantasy baseball game format that made best use of how BABS has taught us to build teams. It incorporated players' skills as well as risk, and pushed us into a more methodical process for roster construction.
The leagues we ran in Year...
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In past years, having a fantasy baseball draft in January would seem a bit premature. Still, by now there would have been enough trades and free agent signings that we'd have at least a general sense of how MLB rosters are shaking out. These days, it's far more complicated.
As...
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While the baseball universe waits for the always-controversial Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) Hall of Fame announcement, the fantasy industry has named its 2019 picks for the Rotisserie Hall of Fame: Adrian Beltre, Carl Crawford, Jimmy Rollins and David Wright. After we re-set...
Welcome to 2019. It’s been 37 years since we partied like it’s 1999, and 20 years since we actually did the partying. About 35 years ago today, I would have been enjoying the performance of Tom Barrasso, who was the starting goaltender on my...
In the earlier part of this decade, I embarked on a pet project to create a Baseball Hall of Fame based solely on fantasy league merit.
This is different from the BBWAA process that leads to a plaque in Cooperstown. The BBWAA awards reverence...
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Here’s hoping your 2018 fantasy baseball season has been a success. The final BABS ratings have been posted to the site.
With the completion of the fantasy season, it’s time to look back and see how I fared in 2018.
Not well.
In fact,...
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I am going to tell you right up front that this article is about First Pitch Arizona, the event that BaseballHQ.com has been running for the past 24 years. If that fact has you lunging...
With the exception of my home H2H league (where I'm currently in first place by 9.5 games) my fantasy league performance this year has been awe-uninspiring. My team has sunk to 9th place even in the BABS Baseball (BABL) exhibition, a league I designed where one would think...
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When the Florida Marlins purged their roster this past off-season, a reason given was that their cache of stars was not winning them anything. One could argue that acquiring a few pieces could have been the quicker path to contention, but other teams have had success by tearing everything down...
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