A different look at April

It seems that over the last couple of weeks the Internet has been littered with advice on exercising patience with your roster in April. Since I’ve already taken my turn beating that topic into the ground, I thought I’d find something more fun to talk about.

[Read more...]

Five players to build your next dynasty with

By Jim Higgins

As I have mentioned before, every keeper league and every manager’s experience is different. While many people join a keeper league during the league’s inaugural season, many of us also come in as a replacement for a dud owner who failed to pay attention to his team and just let it fall apart.

I fall into the latter category. [Read more...]

Keeper Search 2010: January

Keeper Search 2010: January

By Jim Higgins

In an effort to actually come up with helpful stuff for the fantasy baseball community I am going to start a couple of series that I hope will provide insight and answer the questions the keeper league managers are struggling to find the answers to. These different series will debut over the next few weeks, with today being the debut for one of them.

I was looking at my blog stats recently and noticed that a lot of my search engine traffic comes from people trying to find out if a specific player is keeper worthy. So let’s answer that question. Below are the top player searches that have brought people to this blog and whether the player in question is keeper worthy. [Read more...]

Case study: Separating 1 from many

By Jim

This post is going to be another example from “Year 1″ in the keeper league (I have a feeling there will be many of these this year).

One of the philosophies I have played the last couple of years is punting saves. In my expansion draft I ended up selecting Matt Capps but never selected another closer to pair him with. Knowing that I will not make any serious gains in the saves category, I decided it was time to see what I could get for Capps. [Read more...]