I've now see Howie twice this spring, and both he and Rollins both look ready, and comfortable playing together as a double play combo

I never cease to be amazed by what I see in these leagues and drafts.

Just earlier this afternoon... a guy in one of the yahoo leagues I am commissioner in. "I can't draft live, the Walking Dead is on".

Christ, I posted the draft date February 4!!! You just figured out that the Walking Dead would be on? I pay bills for two households.One will not sell. One we live in. I am on disability. My wife has been laid up from knee surgery and because she pays in $500 a month for health insurance, has not earned a dime in six weeks yet somehow we have cable and a DVR.

But he can't draft because he has to watch the Walking Dead.

Sounds like the show is ALL ABOUT HIM!!!!

AL only draft WEdnesday

We have a 23 players roster. I have $178 dollars left and 16 more players to draft

Trout and Miggy are both available to be drafted. I could probably get both for $80.

Would it be worth having $98 left for 14 players?

do you guys ever punt categories in roto?

thinking about not even worrying about saves, but making it up with nothing but starters and loading up on wins and k's

12 team league
take a 0 in saves, 10's in both wins and k's, then middle of the pack in ERA and WHIP, say 5 each

conservatively, thats 30 points.

right now my pitchers are gray, duffy and smyly.

The good closers are already being kept, leaving me with options like mujica
, boxberger
, nathan
, clippard


street and perkins are out there, but I'm not sure I want to pay for them.  I think I can do just as well with a bunch of lower priced starters and then build a good offense to offset saves.  

Draft tonight.  

Pretty much what I expect at the bottom of the barrel in 12 teamers as far as starters now. And, I think I would rather go with the guys you have, and in that order, vs. a lesser than closer. So, punt away my good man, and, I will try my best to check in and check back here to see if I can help again, but no promises, as the old work in box is still a mini mountain.....

would like to have the hamilton and matusz picks back

matsuz was a panic after i went too long to choose a player, and hamilton was supposed to be bid up a little bit

overpaid for bourn because my "bid" button wasnt taking my click, so i kept clicking on it

hopefully, i can trade a catcher for an OF. i fucked up and thought dejesus was OF eligible

I left $7 on the table, but we have $100 for free agent pickups.  We bid on them every week and are awarded Monday mornings.

To anyone who plays or was thinking of playing in single day fantasy leagues, I hope you will find this article helpful.

One of the most difficult things about getting started with DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports) is you often can't fully understand the advice you're trying to absorb. There is a whole new world of lingo and not all of it is pretty. Glossaries are boring and no one has the patience to read them, so I'll try something different today.

The Good

You will soon learn that there isn't much better than overlay in a GPP (Guaranteed Prize Pool). GPPs are tournaments or cash games that are guaranteed to run no matter if they fill or not. Overlay is created when there are seats in a tournament left open. For example, the MLB Sac Fly on FanDuel is slated for 40,229 entries and pays the top 7,010 spots (17.4 percent). If the tournament only ends up with 35,000 entries the same number of people win the same amount of money. But, instead of needing to finish in the top 17 percent, you now need to finish in the top 20 percent. Your odds improve simply because not enough people signed up.

The cash games I mentioned above are games where your odds of winning are close to 50 percent and the payouts are close to 1-1. Some typical cash games are 50/50s (half the constestants nearly double their money), double ups (nearly half the contestants double their money) and head-to-heads (you vs. one other player). One strategical difference between tournaments and cash games is stacking.

Stacking involves getting as many hitters as possible from one game into your lineup. Ideally you would do this against one of the worst pitchers of the day. The idea is that if that team scores a bunch of runs, you should score a bunch of Fantasy points. Of course the downside is that your team can bust out just because of one game. This illustrates the point that you'd rather take on more risk with a high payout in tournaments, where you're looking for higher floors in cash games. As a beginner, cash games are much safer for your bankroll.

Bankroll management is the most important thing to understand for a new DFS player. Your bankroll is the amount of money you've made available to play. I would suggest that a brand new player play no more than 10 percent of their bankroll in the beginning and that they focus most of that on cash games. Once you've established yourself these rules get a little more flexible, but you should always have a plan for how you're going to manage your bankroll and you must stick to it.

The Bad

One thing you may have noticed above is that it doesn't seem like all of the money from a given contest is being paid out. That is because of the rake. Rake is a bad thing because it takes away from the prize pool and the bigger the rake is the worse it is. You can figure the rake of any event by taking the total entry fees minus the prize pool. One of the worst places for rake is in qualifiers or satellites.

These events offer a low-cost way to try to qualify for tickets to larger events that you may not be able to afford. In theory that sounds nice, but in practice these types of contests can destroy your bankroll. Your odds of hitting a qualifier are low and the odds of turning that ticket into a winner are even lower. For the poker crowd, playing satelittes is a little like betting on runner-runner after the flop.

As a new player you may be referred to as a fish, which may not make sense until you realize that the best players are often referred to as sharks. If you're going to play head-to-head contests, it is best to avoid matchups with these players unless you want to fully understand the analogy.

The Ugly

One of the ugliest moments in all of DFS comes at lineup lock, especially on nights with late breaking news. Baseball is much better than basketball in this regard, but you still need to be prepared that the best laid plans can go awry with a couple of late announcements. The benefit of FanDuel is that there is no late swapping. This means that when the first game of the contest starts all lineups are locked. In other words, you can't change a player out that starts at 9 p.m. if the 7 p.m. game has already started.

Minimum Salary plays can be the key to a big score. No batter on FanDuel will be priced below $2,200, but finding a $2,200 player that performs gives you more money to pay up, for pitcher. Paying up for pitcher is nearly a requirement, especially in cash games. The one thing you don't want to do is fall in love with these cheap plays. Some people may be tempted to play three to four so that they can afford Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw. As a rule the more minimum salary plays you have the better your odds of busting out.

Finally, a tournament can get very ugly if you're a one-lineup player that likes to enter tournaments that allow multiple entries. At this point most of the high-dollar payouts allow players to enter up to 10 or more different lineups. You are at a severe disadvantage if you enter a tournament like this with 40,000 lineups and you've only taken one crack at it. For a beginner who only wants to play one lineup, I'd definitely suggest playing in tournaments that allow no more than one entry per contestant.

This is the tip of the iceberg, but hopefully gives you a decent base to start with when it comes to the language of DFS.

My sympathies to anyone who still owns Joaquin Benoit this morning. Those not in leagues that count holds that is.

Who saw this move coming? Who knew?

Yeah! And beware of "old gas cans" originating from Detroit...LOL

bigD - keep or release ervin santana in an al only keeper league?

feel better soon D

I hear you. I've been dealing with a bad back the last week. sucks

more time for fanduel however lol