Hello Folks, Fantasy Mike is here today, and I will be talking about my favorite fantasy baseball strategy for a 5X5 Rotisserie League. Let us remember the 5 offense categories in a 5×5 Rotisserie league are: Batting Average, Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Runs and Stolen Bases. As for the 5 pitching categories they are: WHIP (walks hits innings pitched), Earned Run Average, Saves, Strikeouts, and Wins. I believe the best fantasy baseball strategy is to study some very specific categories which I believe are very crucial to your key to victory in your fantasy baseball league. In my member ship site I will go into much greater detail concerning this area and it also breaks this down step by step for you.

This is a very special fantasy baseball strategy that will bring you great success in either a 5×5 or a 6×6 fantasy baseball league. Knowing how many total points you will most likely need to have in order to win your fantasy baseball league is something that I believe is over looked greatly.

For those of you who are participating in the same fantasy baseball league from last year there are some very simple steps which will help you achieve this great fantasy baseball strategy. The reason why you need to understand this is because you don’t want to be lacking in any of the five categories. If you can follow this very simple fantasy baseball advice it will give you a great advantage above your competition and definitely help you win you fantasy baseball league in 2010. Have a great day and I will speak with you tomorrow.

Hello Fantasy Mike here, I am going to be talking about certain players you should be targeting based on their three year trends. Three year trends are how well a player has performed in all the 5×5 or the 6×6 categories I mention in earlier posts. Certain players coming off of career years such as Mark Reynolds and Chris Carpenter you want to stay away from because they are not proven and have been injury prone over the past couple of years. Proven players are players that have a three year average close to what they performed last year. If you want to predict their fantasy baseball statistics this is something to pay very close attention to.
Fantasy baseball statistics are what drives player rankings, someone that has a good three year trend should be ranked higher overall for their in particular position. Because you can kind of write down their numbers to help you achieve the total points you need win in your fantasy baseball league.
This will also help you when you are starting to form a draft strategy. If you look at past fantasy baseball statistics posted by your favorite players which you have compiled from doing research on their there year trends you can most likely pencil in these players statistics. This will add wealth to your fantasy baseball roster immediately. Meaning you do not have to worry about searching for sleepers to draft. If sleepers is a new word to you get you to hearing it in fantasy baseball. Sleepers are players that have great potential to become the next Albert Pujols. None the less if you follow this strategy of just targeting those players that have proven three year fantasy baseball statistics you will not need to worry about looking for those all elusive sleepers.
That is how I would recommend doing your rankings and when you are looking at good fantasy baseball statistics. I would like to talk more about rankings and projections which will further help you learn how to play fantasy baseball but those are way more in depth and all just say I am a little beat from doing all this research. So with this being said if you would like find out my fantasy rankings and projections you will need to visit my website or come back to view my future posts to read all about. This is fantasy mike signing out and saying god bless.

I as I wrote yesterday, statistics are a very important thing to pay close attention to if you want to excel in fantasy baseball. Today I am going to give you some of my how to tips on how to look for those all elusive fantasy baseball sleepers I noted in my article yesterday.
Are you ready to learn one of my most secretive tip I can give you in the fantasy baseball world?
Well here we go, one of my “key indicators” for finding fantasy baseball sleepers is, you want to look at second half numbers.
You may be asking what do you mean by second half numbers? Well, when people in fantasy baseball refer to a player’s “second half numbers” it means the statistics of a player during the previous baseball season from after the all-star break to the end of the year. These stats can be easily found on a number website, but I prefer http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb this site allows you to look up players under the player tab. Then the best part is they have a tab right under the players picture you looked up called “Split Stats” it will then show you all the players stats split up in all different ways. It is kind of like when you go to the horse track where they show how a horse does in 1 mile races vs 1 and a quarter mile races or on grass vs dirt tracks.
Well now that you understand and know where to look for a player’s “second half numbers”. Let me explain what things you should target when looking at these numbers. The number one thing that strikes me is when a player has a high average in the second half of a season. This can tell you a number of things, usually good, about a player. Such as, maybe the player was a rookie and starting feeling comfortable or maybe the player was injured and in the second half became healthy etc. These are things that show some of the potential a player has also known as Fantasy baseball sleepers.
Another “key indicator” that I like to look at when I am trying to find some fantasy baseball sleepers is how the player is affected in the batting line up due to various different things. You want to think about will your player be moved up into a more favorable batting position or down to an undesirable position. This well most likely effect his runs batted in and his runs.
Well these are a few of my “key indicators” I use when I am looking for fantasy baseball sleepers. I hope this helps you out when you are searching for your own fantasy baseball sleepers and helps you further understand how to play fantasy baseball.

In this article I will help you with a easy to understand summary about how many total points you need to win your fantasy baseball league. First step is figuring out how many total points won your particular fantasy baseball league last year. This brings me to something very important the rules of your league. This means the type of categories your league uses and how they are scoring them. If your league is using hits you need to know how many hits you need to have in a total year to win. For example if your in a 5×5 league and there is ten teams if you have the most hits you will be in first place for that category and then you will receive 10 points, one point for each person in the league. So you will need to find out what categories your league is doing. Then you will have to go back to each category’s history and write down the total amount that it took to win. Once you establish how much the total amount necessary is to win each category you can start looking at players that will help you achieve the amount you’re looking for.
However, this is a slippery slope because you want to make sure you are balanced. You don’t want to be lacking in any one category. This is a key to having a good fantasy baseball team. If you were to only look at let’s say a pitchers strikeouts and ignored the rest of his stats then you may find yourself with a team that has a very high Earned Run Average because your pitchers might come first in the strikeouts category but they might all give up a lot of homeruns as well. This is something you have to be very careful about when you are doing your draft. Another situation that may help out with this problem of an unbalanced team is as follows. If your team you draft is heavy in homeruns meaning that you will most likely come in first for this category, you may need to look for a player that is an expert in stolen bases to help stabilized your team. This makes sure your team is not lacking in any one particular category.
This is my expert advice on fantasy baseball league scoring. I hope these examples worked out can help you with your fantasy baseball league’s scoring style and a strategy to help master it. These are tips that I have learned over the years of playing and tweaking with my fantasy teams.

Hello folks, fantasy Mike here today to speak with you about fantasy baseball player rankings for the 2010 fantasy baseball season. I believe my way is the best way to setup your 2010 rankings because it took me ten years of trial and error while competing in tough leagues to put together an extremely successful ranking system.

My website talks more about my very important key indicators that I look for which help me setup my one of kind fantasy baseball player rankings. The way in which I depict what is important will enable you to draft that superstar in the 5th round while he still will be putting up those 1st round numbers for your fantasy baseball team. I don’t want to go into great detail telling you what my key indicators are that I look at when I am putting together my fantasy baseball player rankings because that is one of the key features I will be going over on the forums of my website.

Fantasy baseball player rankings in magazines are not always set in stone and once you buy the magazines they will be outdated. The great thing about my fantasy baseball player rankings is that I will be updating the rankings until APRIL 4TH which is baseballs opening day. One of the main things I look for during spring training is guys coming off surgeries. I’m looking for guys that might have hurt their hamstring, example Jose Reyes or other pitchers that didn’t pitch a full season. Another example is last years Brandon Webb. If these players perform well they could get moved up in my fantasy baseball player rankings. This great fantasy baseball advice and much more including sleepers and projections will be available in the following days to come.

Okay, as I promised you guys I was going to talk about the offensive side of the baseball and some of my opinions on Carlos Gonzalez and a few other sleepers. So, here we go lets get started. Let me first talk about my general opinion on how to find good fantasy baseball sleepers. I like to look at how guys finished the previous season, post all-star break and those players who excelled in every 5×5 and 6×6 category. In this article I will be giving you my opinion how I find my fantasy baseball sleepers. I will be talking about 2 of my favorite fantasy baseball sleepers in 2010, one will be from the outfield and another from the infield.
Like I noted in my early post Carlos Gonzalez is one of my favorite fantasy baseball sleepers. I like him because if you look at his power to speed combinations. He had 12 homeruns and 11 stolen bases and his on base percentage was .384 all post all-star break. This all means he has a promising fantasy baseball season in 2010. If he can produce like he did post all-star break you might be looking at a 30 homeruns and 30 stolen bases. These are surprising very good numbers for someone who will be going in late 11th or 12th round, which is demonstrated on most fantasy mock draft sites across the internet.
As I promised here is another, Howie Kendrick, is another one of my special hits for a sleeper in the 2010 fantasy baseball season. I believe he will be a great player for the up coming season because if you look at his batting average and his on base percentage he has above average statistics with a .358 and a .391 respectively. Again if he can just carry this over in this season he will be one of the top performers at second base this year. Hence, become of the most sought after fantasy baseball sleepers for 2010. Another Key thing Kendrick is where he will be batting in Angels lineup considering they lost the Chone Figgins and Vladimir Guerrero.
These are some of the key things I look for when I am doing my research on the most wanted fantasy baseball sleepers . Beyond these key indicators I have noted in this article, I do look at a number of other things as well, which I will be going into much better detail on my membership site.

Good morning fantasy baseball nation today will be part 1 of my advice for fantasy baseball sleepers. I will be talking about my favorite 2010 fantasy baseball sleepers that are pitchers. The key way that I determine what a fantasy sleeper is, is by looking at their BAA which is Batting Average Against. First let me explain why I feel that this is one of the most important statistics took watch when you are searching for Fantasy Baseball Sleepers. When a pitcher has a low BAA this means that it is very hard for batters to get hits off of them. Now, this statistic does not take into consideration the walks or pasted balls and things like this. This is the very reason why the small amount of pitchers with a low Batting Average Against are not being talked about in the top fantasy baseball rankings anywhere.

However, this brings me to what I can say is one of my specialties, that is, finding fantasy baseball sleepers which I determine using this strategy of looking at the BAA. One of my top sleeper pitchers is Clayton Kershaw. Clayton had a Batting Average Against of .200 in 2009. If you are saying okay what does that mean, let us compare this number to the number one ranked fantasy pitcher in baseball for 2010, Tim Lincecum, he had a BAA of .206 last year. So this proves batters had a much harder time hitting pitches thrown from Kershaw then from Lincecum. The problem here is that Kershaw does have a high tendency to walk a lot of batters. However, if he can cut down on the amount of free passes he gives up during his season I believe he has a great opportunity to become one of the elite pitchers in baseball, hence one of my top fantasy baseball sleepers for this up coming 2010 baseball season.

This concludes part one of my fantasy baseball sleepers on the pitching side. Tomorrow I will be talking about the offensive side of baseball. Like what is all the hype about Carlos Gonzalez? Why is he on all the top sleeper boards across the internet and plastered all over the fantasy baseball magazines? I will explain some of my reasons why I think Gonzalez is exploding into the fantasy baseball sleepers scene. You may be surprised by some of things I have to say about him and some of the other top sleepers that are being talked about this early in the 2010 fantasy baseball season! Don’t hesitate to read some of my other posts to see where I am coming from.

Today I am going to give you my 3 easy steps that I take before I start my fantasy baseball mock draft. These are my very personal secret steps that I have been doing for years and years to help me be successful in what really counts, draft day.

To find out what the strategy is that I use to prepare for a fantasy baseball Mock Draft then you need to keep reading. Be very careful when reading and take notes on what I am about to tell you because this could change your fortune in fantasy baseball. Using this strategy I can almost guarantee that you will stop being that guy that everybody laughs at around the water cooler!
Are you ready? Here we go.

Step #1 – Rankings
Setup all your fantasy baseball rankings before entering your fantasy baseball mock draft however don’t be like those enormous websites that pump out over hundreds and hundreds of rankings for each position. You need narrow your rankings for you Mock Draft to just the top 15 players at each infield position and then the top 50 pitchers and outfielders. THAT IS IT!!! There is no need to go beyond this because for goodness sakes there are usually only around 10 to 12 teams in any given fantasy baseball league. Therefore if you only rank the number of players I have suggested for each position then you will automatically be ahead of the curve.

Step #2 – Research
This may be the most important part to success not only in your fantasy baseball mock draft but to victory on the real draft day as well.

After you come to grips with only ranking the amount I have suggested in step #1. You will now need to compile all the information that you have TIME to analyze. This may be hard for some of you to handle because I do understand that Fantasy Baseball can become very addictive. Nonetheless, fight this urge and only gather as much information has you candle because too much information is not necessarily helpful. You can have all information in the world but if you can’t view it all and pull what things are important then it is all worthless to you.

What I do to help me out with this BEAST of a problem is that I break it down into segments. First, I look at the infield minus pitchers, then I move to outfielders and finally I look pitchers including starters and relievers. This brings me to another major problem people generally mess up on, statistics. What are you supposed to look for when examining each player’s statistics? Well, I could talk about this for another 3 or 4 articles, so lets stay away from this for purpose of this article and move on to step three.

Step #3 – Organization
This is key to having a good draft. First let me tell you what you don’t want to do. Please do not show up to your fantasy baseball mock draft with 20 different magazines and a notebook full of handwritten mumbo jumbo. This will only make you confused and discombobulated. Fumbling around for players to draft when it comes to your turn is not a good thing and in all the confusion you could screw up and pick someone that you may not even have in your personal rankings.

My solution to this is dilemma is to TYPE UP and print out your rankings. YES, I said TYPE, you will be surprised when draft day comes most people can’t even read their own handwriting! When you type up your rankings be sure to have bold headings for each position and make it simple keep one position on a page. This will keep you organized and calm. Also pay close attention to who is being drafted and cross them off of your rankings because, duh, they are no longer available to you.

So to sum up this step, type up and print out your rankings, this is all you need on the day of your fantasy baseball mock draft day. Stay away from all those tantalizing fantasy baseball magazines and stick to your plain old typed pages. My motto is KISS… KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.

I hope that you took notes and really took to heart some of the thing I have talked about here. If you follow these three steps you will definitely have success in your Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft and ultimately on in your real Fantasy Baseball Draft, which will carry over to success in your Fantasy League.

I am going to be providing you with a great strategy to ensure you are taking the right players during your fantasy baseball draft. I will give you some suggestions on what I think the best way is to go about drafting your first 5 picks. Your first few rounds you should only be looking to draft proven players who have had a great 3 year statistical trend. This should be the best available player available from your own player rankings. Definitely stay away from even tempting on drafting one of your sleepers or prospects. Once you get to your 4th or 5th round you want to start looking at position scarcity. These rounds you could pass over a guy who is more proven and has a high player ranking. An example would be if Derek Jeter is available and all your ranked shorts stops that are ranked higher then him are gone you might want to take Derek Jeter because of the drop off at the Short Stop position. Meaning the next available player after Derek Jeter has an extremely lower output. Therefore, if you don’t take Jeter now your fantasy baseball team will be crippled at the Short Stop position. This is the whole concept of being aware of position scarcity.
A key strategy that I use with my first 5 round picks is that I look to build up a great infield. The reason why that is, is because there is an abundance of Outfielders to choose from. I look at it like this, the numbers are so close between lets say my 14th ranked outfielder and my 5th ranked outfielder it really pays off if you can sustain from drafting a outfielder to later on in the draft. So don’t worry about if you are passing up on great outfielders in the first few rounds of your fantasy draft you can easily make that up in later rounds.
Based on my projections I am able to come with a list of players that will allow me to make these decisions much easier than if I was drafting of the top of my head. Basically, if you can set up your player rankings by position you will be able to see what your player scarcity is and what round you should start taking certain players. I have come up with a special system which helps me to produce a list very quickly and is also simple to follow during my fantasy draft day.
I hope this advice has helped you with your fantasy baseball draft strategy. I thought I would give you some of my ideas which have helped me have a number of great fantasy drafts in the past.

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