Articles from The Fantasy baseball Generals

What Is The Most Important Auction Principle?
2007-12-17 08:21:00
When dealing with auctions against tougher competitors in continuing leagues there is one characteristic that is paramount. When it comes to auctions in leagues with tough competition and where the same owners are involved year after year, it is of vital importance that the Fantasy General cultivate one area of strategy that is usually overlooked. What is the most important characteristic ...

Knowing Your Enemy
2007-12-12 08:28:00
Looking at what you can do to examine your decision making process. This year I have to admit I am particularly depressed. Not only did I return to work after vacation (depressing in itself) football is winding down, baseball is far off and now there is the possibility that there will be no new TV shows to tide me over until February! I already am starting to feel the pangs of not seeing new ...

Stats in the Balance
2007-11-30 09:35:00
One shortcoming of a standard 5x5 setup: imbalance. Last year, as we inaugurated our league with a more-or-less cookie-cutter setup on a free online host, we used the classic 5x5 for our head-to-head matchups: R, HR, RBI, SB, and AVG on the hitting side, and W, SV, K, ERA, and WHIP on the pitching side. These categories provide a fine enough introduction to the basic terms of fantasy baseball, ...

A Note to Readers and Latest Hardball Times column
2007-11-29 11:02:00
I will be going on vacation until 12/12 so I won't have any posts until then. This would be a good time to go back into the archives for some of our older stuff! And who knows, maybe the con-contributors may have a post or two. If you are looking for my latest hardball Times column, it is posted herein. Latest Hardball Times Column ...

Divide and Conquer?
2007-11-21 09:07:00
What are the costs and benefits of adding divisions to your fantasy league? We have taken some time to discuss keepers and trades in planning for the next year in our young fantasy league, all with an eye toward keeping the league as competitive and fun as possible for all teams from top to bottom. I will be talking more in the future about bread-and-butter items like these, as well as about ...

Bottom Feeding for Pitchers
2007-11-19 13:31:00
Examining my NL pitchers and who should be kept for 2008. As usual, I pursued a "stars and scrubs" strategy when dealing with my NL pitching staff. There are legions of articles dealing with this the stars and scrubs model, so I won't delve too deeply into it here. But the aspect that bears discussion is the tactical execution of the strategy. In my high stakes league it is very difficult to ...

A Reader's Keeper Question-Braun, Pedroia or Lincecum?
2007-11-14 09:37:00
Answering another reader's keeper question on these three players. A reader posed the following: he is in a 12-team mixed league, with two keeper slots. Each team can keep two players and can keep two rookie players (those that were rookie eligible in 2007) by replacing their ninth and tenth round picks with the kept rookie players. Which do you keep? To me clearly the answer is Braun and ...

Not Even One Vote???
2007-11-13 12:48:00
One of my free agent pickups got completely hosed in the AL ROY voting. Which of these two pitchers do you prefer? Which do you think had a better season? Is there any great difference here? The seasons are almost identical except in a few respects; K rate, xERA and Wins. But by any account, if you were choosing who had a better season or which season you would prefer you would be hard ...

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