Mound Talk

A fantasy baseball season is hard to predict. I have gone into drafts for the last ten years with the same mentality: Piece together players one round at a time. But this year I’ve got a new strategy. I have gone through over 600, twelve team, 5×5 roto leagues and compiled the raw statistics to find the “average roto league.”

My new strategy is going to be to draft my team to fill up an expected level of each statistic based on my projections. If I’m correct in my projections, I should be able to properly build my team so I am balanced and easily identify how a player will affect my overall team stats relative to the normal league.

It’s not always about winning a category but about looking at how much it will cost you to add a few more of a stat and what the benefit will be of that addition. For the next two weeks I’ll go through the categories and list out what you need to do in a theoretical league to score points.