As the title indicates, this is intended to be a fantasy baseball blog that will "hopefully" offer some assistance in stealing, or "vulturing" those crucial extra points that mean the difference between a Champion and an also-ran. I'll have a few guest columnists stop by and try to incorporate their work, and hopefully you'll find at least some of the articles useful.
My credentials that support you listening to me are fairly mundane in expert circles but I'm working on building credibility through submissions to more substantial sites. I've been playing fantasy baseball since 1999 and have won 6 championships in both rotisserie and head to head, all under the Yahoo format. I recently finished first in a highly competitive 12 team h2h dynasty league and tenth in a 12 team dynasty rotisserie league (a rebuilding year as I transitioned my keeper core from an average age of 31 to 26). In 17 fantasy seasons I have finished out of the money 3 times.
My main philosophy when playing fantasy baseball is that winning is 20% luck, 30% preparation, and 50% learning your other managers. Any manager can prepare enough for a good draft. Any manager can get lucky picking up the next Jose Bautista off of the free agent wire. To contend year in and year out you need to be able to do both of those, and modify your team to counter any problems that crop up. Which they will. The best deals I've made would never have been consummated unless I initiated the trades, and the art of the deal is my favorite part of fantasy baseball. We'll deal with everything here, but the main focus of the blog will be to try and preclude disaster, and also how to mitigate and overcome it. The first article will go up tonight and I'll try and just jump in from there, but for now I'll leave you with this quote:
"A salesman sells you something that you want. A good salesman allows you to buy something that you need."
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