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Daily Fantasy Baseball Strategies



This is a pretty broad topic, so I’ll just try to keep it brief and simple. The best daily fantasy baseball players try to project what each MLB player will score in each of a daily league’s games, and then try to build the highest projected scoring team that will fit under the salary cap. It’s both as simple and as complicated as that. Some players use advanced mathematics and statistics to project fantasy baseball scoring and some just have it all in their head from years of following Major League Baseball. Let me go over a couple of strategy topics.

Let’s take a typical 450-point ranking cap league as an example. Since player costs are ten times their average fantasy points scored per game, if you use all 450 points indiscriminately, you will have a team that scores 45 fantasy points on average. When you use some skill to your selections, your average score should be even higher. The structure of your fantasy team is an important consideration. Top pitchers can cost up to 225 points or more, and low-end pitchers can cost 100 points. If you go with a 225 point pitcher in a 450 point cap, you are planning on getting 50% of your fantasy score from the starting pitcher position. If you go with a 100 point pitcher, you are planning on getting less than 25% of you fantasy score from your pitcher. These are considerably huge differences. If you are more adept at handicapping hitters than starting pitchers, you may want to spend your cap money on top hitters versus a top pitcher. If you really know starting pitchers, you may want to do the opposite. The point is the most important decision you make may be how much to spend on your pitcher because that has a lot to do with the texture of your daily fantasy baseball team.

February 15 2011 | The Beef About Fantasy Football | Comments Off

Daily Fantasy Basketball Draft Strategy



Here are a few more daily fantasy basketball draft strategies depending on the draft method of the contest.

Salary Cap Contest

For this draft type, you pay the actual cash salary for the player for that game. Since the NBA salary system hugely favors the veterans, you end up with a bunch of overpriced veterans and underpriced rookies with this daily fantasy basketball cap method. In general, you will want to try to figure out who the top fantasy scorers will be that day regardless of the cap value. Include the top 2-3 scorers on your team. This may cost a lot, but do not worry. There will be some obvious underpriced players in the pool. Chris Paul, Kevin Martin, and many other young players are way underpriced. You will need to put 3-4 of the obviously underpriced players on your team. After putting the projected high scorers and the vastly under priced players on your team, you just find the best value you can get for the last position or two you need to fill. These contests will not be decided by the obviously underpriced players that everyone will have. They will be decided by who can better map out the top scorers that day, and who can plug in the last one or two spots on the roster the best.

No Cap Contest

The No Cap contests allow you to draft any team that you want without any cap restrictions. Players are sorted in the pool by their ranking cap values. The players most likely to score the most points on average are listed at the top. In general, you would want to pick your fantasy team from the top of the draft pool. You find your edge when you can identify players farther down on the list that will outscore the top players. Since most will be selecting from near the top of the list, and if you can find the one or two players down further who will score more, you can get an edge. Also, you pretty much have to pick the top fantasy scorers like LeBron or Kobe. Even if they are facing an unfavorable match-up, it is still likely they will outscore the others on the list.



February 15 2011 | The Beef About Fantasy Football | Comments Off