A few years ago a regular scanned all of the non player profile pages of Alex Patton’s roto ouvre. They were posted for a time at rototouts.com, but when I let that site lapse I didn’t get them reposted until this week. They’re classic, funny, smart, sometimes exciting and sometimes aggravating. I can’t think of a better place to get into the murky theoretical issues in fantasy baseball, and haul them out into the daylight. Prosit.
Ask Rotoman
Questions and answers
Major League Baseball : This Week’s Ask Rotoman
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Fantasy
The new one is up over at mlb.com, with a perhaps too-lengthy look at league differences, a survey of the big bounceback candidates, an attempt to find this year’s Jon Garland, and a little chatter about Mark Prior.
New Version of Patton $ on Disk
A weekend of bug squishing led to the release of an updated and improved Patton $ on Disk.
The program includes updated projections, bid prices from me and Alex Patton for 4×4 and Mike Fenger for 5×5. It is a great program for sorting lists and pricing players in the traditional 4×4 and 5×5 formats. The ease of updating projections and prices, the auction manager with bid values and all that make it useful for smaller mixed formats, too, but the pricing is not adjustable.
There is also an Excel worksheet with all the data available, and text and Word files will be out tonight.
The price: $25.
This Week’s Model: Ask Rotoman @ mlb.com
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Fantasy
The subjects? Huff v. Wilkerson. Cabrera v. Wright. Good drafting v. bad drafting. With chatter about Matt Cain, Troy Glaus and Jeremy Hermida. Don’t miss it!
Patton $ on Disk
Software for Player Evaluation and Drafting
Alex Patton has been selling his evaluation, projection and auction software for many years now. It is a very useful tool for pricing and listing players in a variety of league formats, and enables you to tweak projections (endlessly if you want), running what if strategies and honing your draft-day lists.
New this year, you get my projections, updated each Friday through this month, and bid prices. Patton and Rotoman, a pairing perhaps more Cass Elliott and Dave Mason than Eminem and 50 Cent, together again for the first time.
Two Yankees
Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
The new one is up. Sheffield or Jeter? Jeter or Sheffield? Is this a tossup? What makes a freeze? Is Clint Barmes a dear? Plus some chatter, all over at mlb.com.
Where did I see this before?
Yahoo! Sports – Fantasy – Draft Day Dilemma: Abreu vs. Bay
I just happened upon this Brandon Funston story at Yahoo. It’s part of Funston’s Draft Day Dilemma series, which kicked off with that chestnut, Pujols or A-Rod? What is striking here are the cascade of similarities to an Ask Rotoman story I wrote for mlb.com last week.
I’d be shocked if Funston was cribbing from me, the venues are simply too public, but point this out so that Ask Rotoman readers don’t waste their time reading what is in essence the same story twice.
Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
It’s out, and features talk about starting a keeper league, choosing between Jeff Mathis and Ryan Doumit, and defense: does it matter? As well as a little chatter.
The Wrong Address
I often wish I lived in a world where details didn’t matter much. But they do.
In January askrotoman.com moved from a very nice but underpowered host to a nice and powerful host (Dreamhost), and some email addresses and their forwards went missing.
Right now you can reach mlb@askrotoman.com (to ask questions) and peter@askrotoman.com (to ask questions and to comment on the Guide).
If you sent a message in calendar year 2006 and didn’t receive a reply, chances are this screw up is why. Please send again.
Peter
Rating preview guides from best to pests
The Baltimore Sun’s Childs Walker ranks The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2006 “The Best” of the preview magazines, though I can’t believe he thinks the other magazines are better looking. Still, i’ll take it.