Yesterday I had one of those moments in fantasy baseball…hunched over my Kingman League team roster, trying to look at things from every possible angle. The kind of situation where I had to finally get up and take a walk.
See, yesterday Barry Bonds supposedly worked out for the Red Sox. I’ve also seen this reported […]

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In our inaugural East Windup Chronicle fantasy league the team run by yours truly, the Ulsan Fish Hooks, recently nabbed Dodger phenom Clayton Kershaw with the No. 1 waiver pick. It’s not an understatement to say Jackson Broder (No. 2 waiver pick) was crushed. After a two week surge that saw his team climb from […]

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As Yahoo! svengali Andy Behrens recently detailed in his latest Roto Arcade column, this year’s annual Kingman league draft turned (devolved?) into a five day long bloodbath, at times resembling a virtual reality show of 30-40 year old journalists and fantasy baseball geeks with laptops trapped in the Mock Draft Central website for days.  
The draft–featuring a handful […]

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Join me on a trip back in time, to a time when personal computers and electronic mail were still relatively new, Roberto Kelly manned the outfield at Yankee Stadium, and Ozzie Guillen ran to his position, his mouth…closed.
The year is 1992 and the New York Times has just published an article called Personal Computers; fantasy […]

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Update: Found someone. Thanks to everyone who emailed.  
Two people in our ginormous 20-team Yahoo! fantasy league have jumped ship due to work and school obligations. We filled one spot from a waiting list, but we have one additional opening. 
We’re drafting this weekend starting at 10 p.m. EST Saturday (11 a.m. Sunday in Korea/Japan). The league includes […]

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Here’s a fantasy baseball perspective I can get behind. This is Razzball, who I linked to earlier in the week, deconstructing the myth surrounding the taking of starting pitchers early in your draft. Razz argues that pitchers are usually as valuable commodities as hitters, using data drawn from both their own player rater and ESPN’s […]

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Here’s a handy tool for fans of projections — MLB.com has created a composite of “SEVEN different premium and free projection systems from across the web” into one spreadsheet.
Now, they don’t name the seven projection systems, so for all we know it could be Bill James, CHONE, ZIPS and Billy Baum and the dartboard […]

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As I mentioned before we’re going to do an East Windup Chronicle fantasy league. If you’re a reader of this site how about joining up? There’s no money involved (Jackson slams fist on keyboard) and the idea is to keep things fairly casual and fun. Even if you don’t have a ton of experience playing […]

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Since Aaron has been smitten with a nasty case of food poisoning and is back in the states where people periodically do things besides check the internet, I’ll be doing the catcher evaluations solo this time around.
Drafting catchers in fantasy is sort of like going to a family function filled with relatives you’ve met […]

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Oh yes, roto drafting season is upon us and I recently had the chance to offer up my goods, er, participate in a 5×5 12-team draft that will be used by Yahoo! fantasy baseball columnist Andy Behrens for some upcoming joints. We’re going to play it out as well.
As is always the case, readers, if you […]

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So far Aaron and I have covered Second Base and Shortstop, and now for no good reason we move to First Basemen next. Last year, Prince Albert was the unanimous #1, but put up subprime numbers. How far will he slip this year? And what about Aaron’s irrational dislike of Prince Fielder, undoubtedly caused by […]

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Jackson: Alright, since we’ve spent time discussing the relative value (or lack thereof) of Yankee middle infielders, let’s move to the other side of the bag and talk about second basemen, which is always a dilemma because of the scarcity of top producers there. In our Kingman league, Robinson Cano has been the catalyst for […]

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Many years ago I had a girlfriend from whom I hid my passion for fantasy sports. This led to some truly Three’s Companyesque moments with me, in Chicago, where said girlfriend lived, speaking on the phone in code with a friend in the Bay Area who I co-managed a team with, saying “yes” for “start” […]

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It’s a bit early to talk about this already, but this year I’ve been finding the NBA so tedious and after reviewing the results of an experts draft recently, I got that giddy, baseball’s-a-comin’ feeling and coughed up a list of 21 players that seemed to slip a bit lower than they should have. I’ve […]

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Very cool piece written by John Walsh, who here presents his annual baseball arm analysis, which, as much as I tried to poke holes in it as I read it is a great study.
Basically he takes the five most crucial situations when a throw from the outfield is important. Then, by usuing play-by-play data he […]

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A piece via Hardball Times had me doing some funny thinking today about the ethics of Fantasy Baseball Drafting. Entitled Mitchell Report fallout: Fantasy ramificiations (Part 1) the article goes on to advise readers how to handle the steroid scandal when draft day rolls around.
Morality
Hopefully this doesn’t apply to any of you, but I know that […]

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