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With starting pitchers, it’s all about wins, strikeouts, and innings pitched so that the best plays for a rotisserie team are not necessarily the same as for a points team. We’re not concerned here with ratios such as WHIP and ERA except in how they might impact a hurler’s ability to pitch deep into starts and exit with a win. There is a wide range of starting pitchers available in every price category for the Fantrax Salary Cap challenge games, and most fantasy managers will choose starters from across the salary spectrum…

Choosing your outfield is one of the key undertakings for any competitor in the Fantrax Salary Cap Challenge games. The Fantasy salaries for 2017 have rendered an enormous number of outfielders playable choices for your squad. Because we are charged with selecting six Fantasy outfielders for our active roster each week, how you elect to play the outfield position will – to a great extent - dictate the potency of your overall hitting. With 18 position players on your active roster each week out of a total of 28 spots, your…

Fantrax Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy Dedication and Sacrifice. That's what it all boils down to really. How much time are you willing to dedicate or sacrifice to this Fantasy Baseball? You really have to start there as your number one fantasy draft strategy in any fantasy league. You will find that how well you do is dependent upon the amount of time and research you are willing to put into it. Your fantasy draft is the very beginning of this endeavor, and as with any beginning, your level of success will directly…

Underrated Fantasy ADP Targets After sifting out all of the noise regarding sleepers, breakouts or bold predictions, those who draft effectively use average draft position (ADP) as a guide to player’s values. While these should not be indicative of when to take a player, it provides a basis of relative cost. Using the premise of a 12-team draft, seven targets were identified contingent upon meeting the criteria of proving worth the plunge of a pick after the 20th round, so an ADP above 240. These players will appear in…

10 Worst NHL Contracts When the NHL decided to implement a salary cap after the 2004-05 lockout, there were bound to be some bad contracts. One would think that eventually general managers would get the hang of it and stop handing out absurd amounts of money to players who don't live up the expectations. Naturally, there are expensive contracts in the NHL that are well worth the price, but it's the bad ones that stand out, and there have been so many bad ones that it is tough to narrow it down to just 10. When considering…

5 Bounce Back Fantasy MLB Players Some of us remember the huge build-up before the release of Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace. Some of us then remember the extreme letdown when leaving the theater and hoping that someone could use a Jedi mind trick to make us forget the movie and the in particular, the character Jar Jar Binks. Fantasy Baseball players may have had a similar feeling when examining their teams from previous seasons and identifying players that were supposed provide an impact, but did not. Let’s take a…

Five Players I Would Not Draft...Even If You Paid Me Before listing these five players, I will preface the article title by saying a) If you did, in fact, pay me we could negotiate terms on ANY player b) The players in question that I would not draft are in proportion to their value and rank and c) This is for a one year league not a dynasty league, using the standard 5X5 twelve team league format. Now it is time to unveil the not so (albeit all good players and in one case a borderline superstar) fabulous five: 1.…

The hot corner offers an embarrassment of riches for the 2017 season. There are potentially cost-effective choices across the salary spectrum at this position, and Fantasy managers can find big boppers as well as salary cap savers that will enhance their Opening Day roster. Implications for Roster Construction If one assumes 5 starting pitchers on the bench that – together with the 10 pitching slots (starters and relievers) in your starting line-up – that leaves space for 26 hitters (or 25 should you choose to use a fifth…

As is customary in these types of articles, I suppose we need to define the term "Breakout." One person's breakout might be considered another person's "sleeper." To others, it could mean a Jacob DeGrom type of emergence from relative prospect unknown to borderline fantasy ace. While the latter is harder to project than the former, for my purposes, it is much simpler than either. The list below represents who I believe will show dramatic improvements over previous performances and expectations. The only criteria is that they…

Taking over a Dynasty team is one of the most daunting tasks in fantasy sports..