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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Major League Baseball : News : Mark Newman
MLB.com’s Mark Newman asked me to kick in some tips for new fantasy baseball players. 10 to be exact. I gave him 11 and he appropriated the last one, which is to have fun. Reading them over now I wonder if I missed some.