As most of you have seen on Twitter, we released the 2013 FantasyTrade411 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guideright before Valentine’s day. The positive response has been absolutely overwhelming (and humbling), but I’ve also had some folks understandably ask for a preview of the guide before they spend their well-earned $9.99. Don’t worry…I don’t blame you. I waffle before I make a purchase all the time.
To help you make your decision (and hopefully sway you to the dark side), I’m going to start releasing a quick preview of each piece that we have in the draft guide over the next few weeks. We have a full list of what’s in the guide over on the site, but today’s preview is an awesome piece by our managing editor Tony Mauriello called, “How To Out-Wit and Out-Think in 2013″.
We get a lot of questions on Twitter about the differences between roto leagues vs. head-to-head leagues vs. points leagues and how to change strategies for those types of leagues. To help try and answer those types of questions in our draft guide, Tony put together a great piece that breaks down the differences between those types of leagues and how you should approach your draft in each. Here’s a quick screenshot of Tony’s ‘How To Out-Wit and Out-Think in 2013′ article (and there are three and a half more pages of this article to go along with the preview below):
I hope you enjoyed that quick preview, and again…there are three and a half more pages of that article in the draft guide, along with 137 more pages that you can read about here. And if you’ve ever wanted to try daily gaming, we’re also offering a special deal for first-time FanDuel customers that gives you $10 free on FanDuel along with the purchase of the draft guide!
As most of you have seen on Twitter, we released the 2013 FantasyTrade411 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guideright before Valentine’s day. The positive response has been absolutely overwhelming (and humbling), but I’ve also had some folks understandably ask for a preview of the guide before they spend their well-earned $9.99. Don’t worry…I don’t blame you. I waffle before I make a purchase all the time.
To help you make your decision(and hopefully sway you to the dark side), I’m going to start releasing a quick preview of each piece that we have in the draft guide over the next few weeks. We have a full list of what’s in the guide over on the site, but today’s preview is an awesome piece by our own Joe Costello called, “10 Things We Can Learn From 2012″.
It can be a painful, but looking back at my previous fantasy baseball season can be an extremely helpful exercise. I can always learn a few key lesson by looking back at the previous year’s trends as well as my successes and errors. To this end, Joe Costello was tasked with taking a look back at the fantasy baseball year that was 2012 and give us 10 lessons that we can use to inform our 2013. I’m obviously biased, but I think you’ll agree that Joe didn’t a fantastic job. Here’s a quick screenshot of ‘What We Can Learn From 2012′ piece (and there are two and a half more pages of this article to go along with the preview below):
I hope you enjoyed that quick preview, and again…there are two and a half more pages of that article in the draft guide, along with 137 more pages that you can read about here. And if you’ve ever wanted to try daily gaming, we’re also offering a special deal for first-time FanDuel customers that gives you $10 free on FanDuel along with the purchase of the draft guide!
As most of you have seen on Twitter, we released the 2013 FantasyTrade411 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guideright before Valentine’s day. The positive response has been absolutely overwhelming (and humbling), but I’ve also had some folks understandably ask for a preview of the guide before they spend their well-earned $9.99. Don’t worry…I don’t blame you. I waffle before I make a purchase all the time.
To help you make your decision(and hopefully sway you to the dark side), I’m going to start releasing a quick preview of each piece that we have in the draft guide over the next few weeks. We have a full list of what’s in the guide over on the site, but today’s preview is an awesome piece by our own Travis Rowe (also of GoProFantasySports) called, “Freshman Orientation”.
I’ve had a lot of folks on Twitter tell me that they’re really interested in trying out fantasy baseball, but they feel like the learning curve is too steep. I don’t blame them for feeling like that (since fantasy baseball is a lot more daunting than fantasy football), but Travis Rowe had put together a GREAT article to get any fantasy baseball newbie into the game. Travis did a great job of outlining all the basics for you in a very engaging (and humorous) way and even gives you some great external sources for extra “suggested reading”. If you’ve ever wanted to try fantasy baseball but felt in over your head, this article is just for you! Here’s a quick screenshot of Travis’ Freshman Orientation piece and there is another page and a half more pages of this article that go along with the preview below:
I hope you enjoyed that quick preview, and again…there are four and a half more pages of that article in the draft guide, along with 134 more pages that you can read about here. And if you’ve ever wanted to try daily gaming, we’re also offering a special deal for first-time FanDuel customers that gives you $10 free on FanDuel along with the purchase of the draft guide!
As most of you have seen on Twitter, we released the 2013 FantasyTrade411 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guideright before Valentine’s day. The positive response has been absolutely overwhelming (and humbling), but I’ve also had some folks understandably ask for a preview of the guide before they spend their well-earned $9.99. Don’t worry…I don’t blame you. I waffle before I make a purchase all the time.
To help you make your decision(and hopefully sway you to the dark side), I’m going to start releasing a quick preview of each piece that we have in the draft guide over the next few weeks. We have a full list of what’s in the guide over on the site, but today’s preview is an awesome piece by Moe Koltun of RotoAnalysis called, “What the F#@K Are Sabermtrics?!”.
If you’ve ever found yourself listening to a fantasy baseball podcasting wondering what xFIP was or what BABIP stood for, this article is right up your alley. Moe does a great job of explaining some of the typical sabermetrics stats you’ll hear (BABIP, FIP, xFIP, ISO and HR/FB ratio) and what they mean for your fantasy team. I always hate when analysts just throw out sabermetrics and don’t actually apply them to a fantasy context, but Moe goes the extra step and identifies some players who may be affected by some of the stats he throws out. If you’ve always felt like sabermetrics sounded like a different language, there are four and a half more pages of this article that go along with the preview below:
I hope you enjoyed that quick preview, and again…there are four and a half more pages of that article in the draft guide, along with 134 more pages that you can read about here. And if you’ve ever wanted to try daily gaming, we’re also offering a special deal for first-time FanDuel customers that gives you $10 free on FanDuel along with the purchase of the draft guide!
All you need to do now is click the TinyPass link below and enter your payment information. You’ll then be pushed behind the paywall where you can click the link provided to download the PDF of the Draft Guide using your credit card or PayPal ($9.99).
We’ve reached epic Jessie Spano-style levels of excitement, here!
A couple weeks ago, I tweeted out that we’d have a big post-Super Bowl Announcement.
Well, last I checked it is now “post-Super Bowl” and if nothing else…I’m a man of my word (sort of).
I’m not going to spill the beans entirely just yet, but our 2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide will be published early next week and we’ve partnered up with FanDuel to distribute the guide!
I’ll provide more details on the FanDuel partnership (and what it means to you) over the next few days, but in the meantime, I wanted to give you all a sneak-peak of what’s to come in the draft guide later this week.
You’ve seen our full list of (amazing) contributors for the team-by-team preview section of the draft guide, but here’s a list of what else we’ll have in the draft guide:
My Fantasy Baseball Commandments (by Nick Raducanu, aka “TraderX”)
Top 300 Rankings and Draft Cheatsheet (by Nick Raducanu)
Positional Tiers and Breakdowns (by Nick Raducanu)
300 Player Projections (by Mike Gianella of Baseball Prospectus)
Draft Strategies for Snake, Auction, H2H, Roto, and Points Leagues (by our managing editor, Tony M)
Auction Values (by Tony M)
Expert Mock Draft (features Andy Behrens of Yahoo, Nando di Fino of CBS, Davis Gonos of Sports Illustrated, Dr. Roto of RotoExperts, Matt Deutsch of SiriusXM Fantasy, Jason Collette of Baseball Prospectus, Dalton Del Don of Yahoo and Rotowire, Jake Ciely of RotoExperts, Drew Dinkmeyer of Fantistics, Paul Sporer of Baseball Prospectus, Reggie Yinger of Baseball Press)
Is the Term “Injury Prone” a Myth? (by Will Carroll of Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Report)
Daily Gaming 101 (by Ethan Haskell of RotoGrinders)
Sabermetrics 101 (by Moe Koltun of RotoAnalysis)
Fantasy Baseball Freshman Orientation (by Travis Rowe of FT411 and GoProFantasySports)
Trade Strategies and Etiquette (by Kyle Soppe of FT411)
Closer Report (by Nick Raducanu)
Sleepers and Busts (by Michael Clifford of FT411)
Who is the next Mike Trout? A Minor League Analysis (by Davis Mattek of SportsWunderkind)
What We Can Learn From 2012 (by Joe Costello of FT411)
Why Fantasy Footballers Should Play Fantasy Baseball (by Rob Pallazola of FT411)
30 Team-by-Team Previews
If you’re interested in a sneak-peek at on of the team previews that will give you a good idea of what the guide is going to look like, please take a moment to fill-out the form below and I’ll be happy to send it your way:
We have all the content submitted to the guide (and I’m neck-deep in formatting it all right now), so we’ll have this available for purchase early next week! In the meantime…I hope you enjoy the sneak-peek!
We still have one more week of football left, but me and the guys here at FantasyTrade411.com have been champing at the bit to get started on our upcoming Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide since Rex Ryan started contemplating keeping Tim Tebow on the bench all season (so basically since August).
We’re already underway with our rankings, player previews, articles, mock draft preparations (and everything else the draft guide will entail), but I wanted to give you guys a sneak-peak at something I’m really excited about — and potentially give you a chance to participate in the draft guide.
Just like a lot of draft guides do, we’ll be putting team-by-team previews together, but we’re going to do something a little different and have those team previews written by a fan of that team (a few of these fans are some of your favorite fantasy writers and a few of these fans are going to be some of you!). We’re shooting to have our draft guide ready by the beginning of February and I’ll be releasing the writer of one team preview each day up until the release of our draft guide (see below).
I’ll let you guys know how you’ll be able to pre-order your copy soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this living-breathing list and keep back checking daily to see who’s been added to it.
Red Sox - Tony M(managing editor here at FantasyTrade411)
Again, if you’re interested in writing a preview for your favorite team (and it’s still available), shoot me an email at FantasyTrade411@gmail.com. And if you have any specific topics you want us to cover in the Draft Guide, please feel free to email me or leave a comment below.
If you don’t download our fantasy hockey draft guide, you’re bound to be cursed by Jaromir Jagr’s mullet
After way too many months of hearing about Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr, I was starting to think we’d never see the end of the NHL lockout. But thankfully, the suits in New York were able to put their differences aside and came to an agreeement that has Zambonis around North America revving up their engines.
Thankfully, our Senior Hockey Writer (Michael Clifford aka SlimCliffy) had the foresight to know there would be an end to the madness and has been working diligently on our 2013 Fantasy Hockey Draft Guide. In between hockey practice up in New Brunswick (yup, Mike is also our Head Canadian at FantasyTrade411), Mike has compiled 39 pages of unadulterated hockey excellence to help you all prepare for your upcoming fantasy hockey drafts, and I’m absolutely psyched to be able to share it with you all. We’ve published the entire guide into one handy pdf file that we’re going to send via email, but if you’re curious what’s in it, here’s a quick look at the table of contents, eh?:
Welcome to the Guide and Explanation of Fantasy Hockey
Layout of My Rankings
What to Expect in This Fantasy Guide
Draft Day Tips and Strategies
My 10 Commandments of the 2013 NHL Fantasy Season
Players That Should Improve on Last Year
Players Who Should Regress from Last Year
A List of Rookies to Watch For
A List of Sophomores to Watch for
Players You Will Find on a Lot of My Teams
Players You Will Not Find on Most of My Teams
Shallow-League Sleepers and Busts
Deep-League Sleepers and Busts
My Rankings: Preface
Rankings: Forwards
Forward Primer
Rankings: Defence
Defence Primer
Rankings: Goalies
Goalie Primer
As a thank you for your continued readership to FantasyTrade411, we’re going to be providing this season’s Fantasy Hockey Draft Guide free of charge. That said, I can personally attest to the fact that Mike and his Sports Counseling co-host Tony Mhave put a TON of work into this draft guide, so I’m going to provide a donation button below if you feel like sending Mike a small token of your appreciation. If you want to send a few bucks to Mike for his work, we’d greatly appreciate it. If you want the guide for free, that’s cool too…it’s all yours.
So now, all you need to do is email me (FantasyTrade411@gmaill.com) or Cliffy (michael.clifford36@yahoo.com) and let us know you want a copy of the draft guide and we’ll be happy to send it your way.
Thank you all again for being such a great audience and good luck in your Fantasy Hockey drafts this week!
Thanks for your interest in the draft guide!
