Strategy

Alex Patton’s American Dream League Draft Sheet

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Patton $ on Disk Page

Alex has posted his bid prices for the AL only 4×4 American Dream League as and Excel workbook, as a way to show how he distributes draft inflation in clumps rather than in proportion. Of perhaps even greater interest are his quicknotes about players and how things went in the draft. Alex is leading the ADL in the still nascent season by close to 30 points, so there may be something to all this. And they’re free.

While you’re there, if you’re looking for software to help organize and sort your upcoming draft, you’ll get a chance to buy Patton $ on Disk 2006.

Alex Patton’s Notes for Masochists

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Masochism Archives

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.

CREATiVESPORTS > Buster H. Esq. on Stolen Bases

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CREATiVESPORTS > Baseball Articles > Outside the [Batter’s] Box > Teeners are better than O’fers

I wish he’d applied his findings a little more rigorously to the real world model, and made some effort to list this year’s guys (that team isn’t going average pick 84 this year), but this is a worthwhile strategy to prepare for.

This Week’s Model: Ask Rotoman @ mlb.com

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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!

Todd Zola on Position Scarcity

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Mixed Nuts – Articles

There has been a bit of discussion about position scarcity recently, as there is every March really. Along the way I remembered this interesting series (there is a part III, which can be found at http://www.mixednutsleague.com/nuthouse3.shtml). Todd is one of the mastersball.com posse.
One of the reasons I remembered it was because it got me thinking about this issue and looking into it further. But more about that later. For now, reading Todd’s story is a good place to start.

Two Yankees

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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.

Tips for newbies

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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.

Strategies of Champions: Rotoman Regulars 2005

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Ask Rotoman » Strategies of Champions: Rotoman Regulars 2005

Anthony Beaulieu won the 2nd Annual Rotoman Regulars League, and with some encouragement from me wrote a Strategies of Champions piece about how he put together his winning team. Confusion about the due date and some last-minute ads nudged the piece out of the magazine, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth a look. I don’t think anything teaches us more about strategy than learning what actual champions did to win their league.