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American League Auction Dollar Values – Pitchers

Posted by Todd Lammi on March 4th, 2010

Here is a look at the 2010 American League auction dollar values for pitchers for the 2010 fantasy baseball season. These values are based on a 12 team league with 9 pitchers using the standard 5 x 5 categories and a $260 budget per team. I used a 70%-30% split for hitting and pitching so the total pitcher pool is 108 players for a total of $936.

The dollar values are a blended mix of what I think the player will earn mixed with what I think the player will go for at an actual auction. So you will notice [...] Continue Reading…

American League Auction Dollar Values – Hitters

Posted by Todd Lammi on March 3rd, 2010

Here is a look at the American League auction dollar values for hitters for the 2010 fantasy baseball season. These values are based on a 12 team league with 14 hitters (includes two catchers) using the standard 5 x 5 categories and a $260 budget per team. I used a 70%-30% split for hitting and pitching so the total hitter pool is 168 players for a total of $2,184.

The dollar values are a blended mix of what I think the player will earn mixed with what I think the player will go for at an actual auction. So you [...] Continue Reading…

Boom or Bust – First Round – David Wright

Posted by Todd Lammi on March 2nd, 2010

In each round of your fantasy baseball draft, there is one player that could possibly provide a huge amount of value or else could far under perform your expectations and kill your team.

I like to call these type of players a boom or bust pick. Today we are going to examine David Wright who has been creeping into the first round in recent mock drafts to take a closer look at his numbers.

Here are his home run numbers for the previous seasons, breaking it down by home and away and the number of home runs he pulled compared to [...] Continue Reading…

2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Leagues – Draft Position

Posted by Todd Lammi on March 1st, 2010

Now that we have been looking at fantasy baseball mock drafts, it is time to look at draft position and how that impacts your fantasy baseball team. For the purpose of this discussion, we will be using a 15 team mixed league format.

Usually there are several positions I want to grab in the early rounds of the draft based on the depth or lack of depth at a position. Some places in the draft order mean you will not have a shot at any of these positions. If you are not comfortable with having either a weak shortstop of [...] Continue Reading…

2010 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft – First Two Rounds

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 28th, 2010

Here are the results from 10 fantasy baseball mock drafts I have participated in over the last week in 15 team mixed league formats. The list below shows the order of players selected, the percent of time they were drafted in the top 30 players and their high and low number in the top 30 picks.

One player on the rise is Matt Holliday who has gone from a mid second round pick to someone that has been appearing late in the first round in my most recent drafts.

15 Team Mixed Draft

Rank
Name
% Drafted
High
Low

1
Albert Pujols
100%
1
2

2
Hanley Ramirez
100%
1
2

3
Alex Rodriguez
100%
3
4

4
Chase Utley
100%
3
7

5
Ryan [...] Continue Reading…

FBT Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide Now Available!!

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 27th, 2010

The FBT Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide is now available for purchase for just $9.99. You can view a sample here to see the template for the top 10 catchers and top 10 starting pitchers.

Order now to get the information you need to dominate the competition!!!

The Draft Guide includes the following:

Projections in Excel for 480 players using the standard 5 x 5 fantasy baseball categories
Cheat sheets already set up to be printed out
Expanded player rankings for all positions
Ages for all players as of opening day
Word / PDF document that explains how to use the projections [...] Continue Reading…

2010 Fantasy Baseball Rookies

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 27th, 2010

As I have wrote in several previous articles, when drafting rookies in fantasy baseball, I am always looking for the player that has the best chance of producing for me this season, unless it is a dynasty league.

In a one year league or a league with keepers, but not the entire roster, it does no good to roster a guy like Josh Vitters in Single-A when you could use that roster spot for a guy that is going to help you in 2010.

When evaluating rookies, I am looking at two things. One is the players skill set and the [...] Continue Reading…

Fantasy Baseball Writers Wanted!

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 26th, 2010

Here at Fantasy Baseball Tools, we are committed to providing you the reader with the highest quality fantasy baseball content on the web. To achieve that goal, we are looking for additional fantasy baseball writers for the 2010 season.

I know we have a lot of intelligent readers based on some of the questions and feedback I have gotten, so if you have had previous writing experience or are looking to get published for the first time, this is your opportunity!!

These are unpaid positions, but it will provide you with great writing experience and the chance to write on topics [...] Continue Reading…

2010 Fantasy Baseball – The First Round

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 26th, 2010

There has been much debate over where a fantasy baseball league is won; either the first half of the draft, or the middle rounds, or some combination of through the draft and then making the correct pickups in free agency.

What often gets overlooked however is the first round. While you are getting a good player in the first round, history has shown that you are not always getting the best value in the first round.

If you look at the first round average draft position of 2009, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Grady Sizemore, Jimmy Rollins, Josh Hamilton, Carlos Beltran and [...] Continue Reading…

2010 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers

Posted by Todd Lammi on February 24th, 2010

It always makes me laugh when a magazine or website reveals their list of 2010 fantasy baseball sleepers and it has names like Carlos Gonzalez, or Carlos Quentin or Billy Butler on it. Those my friends are not sleepers. Those are players that someone might expect to have a breakout season or someone that was injured last year and is expected to bounce back.

To me, a sleeper is someone that does not have a lot of value heading into the season, or is in the minor leagues and will be up in the major leagues soon, or somebody that [...] Continue Reading…