Advice & Links
Sat Mar 9, 2013
Three great catchers.
Johnny Bench and Thurman Munson up top, and Randy Hundley to the right. Awesome!
Newbie Advice
Here's a newbie story for you. We had a no-show to the draft prior to the 2008 season. So, we let the kids (Ty, Justin, Myles) draft their own team for the first time. They called themselves the Chicago Cub (dop) and they loaded up with Cubs on their team. We oldsters guffawed... until the All-Star break. The kids were riding high and in first place. Now, both the real and fantasy Cub collapsed in the second half, but the point is that even newbies can compete in fantasy baseball.
The boys drafting for the first time in 2008
There is only one rule for newbies: relax and have fun.
Other than that, print a list of players, ranked by whatever, and bring it to the draft. When you draft, we'll help. After 14 rounds, you'll want to have a complete team (9 hitters and 5 pitchers). In the later rounds, you can draft a bench. No problemo.
Some links
First, here are the big daddies. The biggest sites have advice, rankings, projections, etc.
Our Yahoo league is another good source. Go to our page (baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/letsplay3) and click on players.
Here are some specialty sites that I really like:- www.razzball.com - This is my favorite fantasy baseball site. The Razzball guy is interesting and really funny!
- Fantasy 411 MLB - I like this page becuse it has composite season projections. Composite projections take the guesses from multiple sources and publish an average. Fantasy 411's composite is the average of 10 different "experts". Very nice.
- Fantasy Pros - These guys have composite projections too. There's also a nice cheat sheet and other info.
Many of these sites have "cheat sheets". That's a nice newbie option... all your players on one page. You can google "fantasy baseball cheat sheet" to get a zillion options as well.
Magazines are a lot of fun, if you want to drop $7-8. I have never paid for a website's stuff.
enjoy... yow, bill