Archive for March, 2011
Building A Solid Fantasy Football Or Baseball Team
March 26th, 2011
Every fantasy football and baseball player knows the importance of the draft. Leagues have been won and lost during the draft, often held a week or so before the season starts. How a fantasy owner approaches a draft will naturally determine the makeup of their team, so one question should be addressed before anyone is selected. The first thing an owner needs to decide is whether they want to employ a sit-tight strategy, or a wheel-and-deal approach.
If your preference is to not make very many trades and transactions during the season, then you need to be sure to pay attention to the bye weeks in a fantasy football league. In fantasy baseball, a sit-tight owner should avoid drafting more than two players from any one team, because their fantasy squad will be ruined if that team under-performs as a whole, or makes a lot of lineup changes. It also helps if you watch the highlights online or on TV. In college, my roommates and I split a subscription to MLB Extra Innings online but now I have the service through
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