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If you look up crapshoot in the dictionary, the word saves should be there right next to it. Saves are one of the most difficult statistics to predict in Fantasy baseball.  Closers are one-inning specialists who in most cases, throw as hard as they can to get three outs and as a result, often run into arm trouble. There are a grand total of five closers pitching for the 30 teams in MLB who began 2016 as their team’s undisputed closer and completed the season in that role without missing any time for injury. Inexperienced…

MLB Offseason Moves With just under a week until baseball is upon us again, draft season is in full swing. As dedicated fantasy players, we typically spend the time we should be spending with family or working, researching players and who we are going to draft. There’s a whole lot that goes into assessing and ranking players. An important factor that we have to take a look at is what the rest of the player’s team looks like. Obviously, players get sent all over the place throughout the offseason, so it’s important to take a…

Nick Senzel Rookie Profile As I see it, there are three ways how to decide whether a player is going to be good or not – statistics, watching him play on the field, and what I do. I call it scouting from a distance. I take the player stats (season/career) as my base and then if I like them, I start researching the player. I look at his build, face, position compatibility (whether he fits the profile of the position he plays and whether that position is a position of need for the organization he plays for), read articles,…

Year after year, most teams in a fantasy league get that random 12th round pick or waiver wire pickup that just explodes and becomes one of their top players. With the NHL season winding down and most fantasy leagues in their playoffs, I thought I'd look back and pick some players who went from sleeper pick to fantasy stud. Every fantasy league is different in its own way, so I've chosen some of the more popular categories from which to make my selections, in addition to using draft positions from Fantrax. When we consider…

39-year old Tom Brady was the 7th quarterback taken in the 2000 NFL Draft, which continues to amaze me.  Last year he became the first quarterback in NFL history to win 5 Super Bowls as a starter.  To me, he is the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL, sorry Joe Montana.  Brady has played in 237 games (235 starts) in his first 16 years in the NFL and he has completed 5,244 of 8,224 passes (63.8%) for 61,582 yards with 456 TD passes and 152 interceptions.  Those 61,582 yards passing and 456 TD passes are both 4th in…

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…

NFL Draft Needs 2017 This is a look into the pre and post free agency positional needs of every NFL team by division with most of the bigger names off of the board. There is also a view of key additions and losses that may have caused or filled needs. AFC North Baltimore Ravens Pre-FA: WR, EDGE, FS Post-FA: WR, EDGE, T Key Pickups: Tony Jefferson SS; Brandon Carr CB Key Losses: Elvis Dumervil OLB; Ricky Wagner RT Breakdown: The Ravens need to find a solution at receiver. Breshad Perriman hasn't played a full season…

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…