This has been quite the week for hockey metrics. On Friday, a very well-known hockey blogger, author and radio personality Sean McIndoe a.k.a. DownGoesBrown posted an article on the basic ins-and-outs of hockey metrics over at Grantland. I strongly recommend reading it even if you have a grasp for hockey metrics as McIndoe has a […]
Fantasy Hockey: Let Someone Else Pay For Goal-Scoring Regression Read More »
Is it just me, or does it feel like it’s been forever since a regular season MLB game has been played? Thanks to the All-Star break, every team was given four full days off. But, finally, the games are back. And with that comes the return of building a Star Fantasy Leagues daily fantasy baseball
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for July 19 Read More »
Prospects are baseball’s greatest mystery. Many enter the league with tons of hype and fanfare, only to disappoint. Others enter with little attention paid to them and go all Jose Iglesias on the league. The important thing to keep in mind is that prospects develop quickly. Some might take years, but others might take just
Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Rookie Sleepers Read More »
*Accumulative points are not the basis of these rankings. Week to week consistency combined with uncertainty and anticipation of changes, for better or worse, were applied to the order of the tiers. Too often at this time of the summer, we are guilty of looking forward and back at the upcoming season and prior season’s stats in their entirety. Tier 1
Fantasy Football: 2013 PPR Wide Receivers Tiers and Projections Read More »
If you read my article on Wednesday about 2-QB fantasy football auction draft strategies, hopefully you remembered me mentioning a live 2-QB auction mock draft that fellow Sports Jerk Rich Hribar and myself were putting together. We wanted to test out his 2-QB quarterback auction values and see how a live 2-QB auction mock draft would
2-QB Fantasy Football Auction Draft Aftermath Read More »
In our last installment of our MLB Biggest Losers’ series, we’ll take a look at a trio of nine-loss pitchers. There were seven starting pitchers with nine losses on their record that were considered as “qualified” in terms of obtaining a certain amount of innings pitched. I originally wanted to evaluate nine pitchers for this project, so of
MLB’s Biggest Losers Part III: All About Medlen, Harrell, and Peralta Read More »
Since there haven’t been any real changes since this week’s waiver wire rundown, I thought it’d make more sense to dedicate this week’s stock market column to some sell-high candidates that have second-half drop-off or just flat out dud written all over them. Let’s take a look at some players you will never get as
Week 16 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Second-Half Sells – Hitters Read More »
It’s been mentioned before that MyFantasyLeague.com is a great resource when it comes to Average Draft Position (ADP) data, but their ADP data is tailored mainly to the 1-QB fantasy football crowd. For those of us that draft in 2-QB fantasy football leagues, we don’t have much 2-QB ADP resources at our fingertips. At least,
New 2-QB Fantasy Football ADP (July, 2013) Read More »
