Winning Strategies for Fantasy Baseball Drafting

This chapter explores key strategies for drafting in fantasy baseball, highlighting the importance of catcher selection and pitching allocation in a 12-team league. It also discusses varying tactics for online versus traditional leagues and emphasizes the value of drafting the best players available, alongside late-round picks for potential breakout stars.

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I am back with with Russell Withers of armchairroto.com

Armchair Roto
- When did you start writing articles?
  - Going over your article last year using BHQ prospect list and the chance they play in MLB / make an impact
- wRC+ as a tool - The Horwitz Rule
Player Analysis
- When projections don’t agree with your analysis of said player, either with the projections being too optimistic or too pessimistic
- How do you deal with the inherent biases we have?
- Do you think we use too much analysis at points?
OC’s!
- Slow OC’s
  - Good concept?
- How to navigate 12 team and 15 team leagues at the same and transition from one to the other
- Where do the biggest shifts in values come from when reshaping the player pool?
  - Where do you tend to put more emphasis on in 12 team leagues vs 15 teams?
DC’s
- 150’s v 400’s
DC Strategies
- How can we exploit pockets of values
- Do you tend to stick to certain “build” at specific points of the draft? IE- having position players by “x” round, having all SP’s by “x” round, etc
Current ADP and the March toward March
- Will you continue to draft a target when the price increases?
Uploading Ranks to NFBC (I Never hear anybody talk about this, but I’m totally obsessed with it and I always wonder what other people do):
- Do you upload list ranks at all?
- How many lists to upload?
- How often to update and upload a new list?
- How do you use them?
- Is the ADP listed directly in NFBC draft room worth anything? ANYTHING AT ALL?