Fantasy New Year's Resolutions only the Fantasy guru can deliver: Everything you need to know about fantasy teams this year (specific things YOU can do to improve yourself):
1. BE READY for all your fantasy drafts. This is what most owners do when they sign up for a fantasy league: 1. get the email from the commissioner, 2. look at what date and time the draft is. 3. show up to the draft. That's not enough. The draft dictates about 50% of how your fantasy season turns out. You gotta do some research. You gotta look at last year's stats. You gotta check out this website. DUE DILIGENCE. I've been guilty of it, but vow never to do it again.
2. Draft a Boston Red Sock in your fantasy baseball draft. Loaded lineup. Preferably one of the "old" Red Sox.... I'm not sure how Adrian Gonzalez adjusts to AL pitching, he and Carl Crawford both have incentive issues with the fat contracts they just signed. Prefer: (in this order): Pedroia, Youkilis, Ellsbury.
3. win your NCAA tournament bracket. No real way to do this.....early rounds are more luck of the draw; FOCUS on your Final 4 picks (though they can also be VERY random). Pick 4 teams you like and stick with them; usually the best teams get there, and if not, usually the people in your bracket also picked them.
4. STOP drafting parasite hoops players: one of the nuances about fantasy hoops I love: guys help you, but also HURT you in multiple categories. Anyone who hurts you in more than 2 categories, AVOID!!!! (FT borderline = 75-76%, FG borderline = 45-46%). Turnovers, anything more than 2.5 is getting hurtful.
Examples: (Baron Davis: FG, FT, TO). Degree of hurtfulness also must be in consideration: can knock it down to 2 categories: (Dwight Howard: FT% AND TO, STephen Jackson- I've NEVER owned that guy).
5. Covet young, up-and-coming skill players (RB and WR's, especially WR's).
5a. Don't draft WR's with BAD QB's (see Larry Fitzgerald). However, even servicable QB's (Shaun Hill) are OK.
6. Keep drafting pitchers late in fantasy baseball drafts........one thing I've never had to resolve, I've never been burnt by this rule and stick by it steadfastly. If 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher, just wait til 2011.
7. Get in shape.
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
1. BE READY for all your fantasy drafts. This is what most owners do when they sign up for a fantasy league: 1. get the email from the commissioner, 2. look at what date and time the draft is. 3. show up to the draft. That's not enough. The draft dictates about 50% of how your fantasy season turns out. You gotta do some research. You gotta look at last year's stats. You gotta check out this website. DUE DILIGENCE. I've been guilty of it, but vow never to do it again.
2. Draft a Boston Red Sock in your fantasy baseball draft. Loaded lineup. Preferably one of the "old" Red Sox.... I'm not sure how Adrian Gonzalez adjusts to AL pitching, he and Carl Crawford both have incentive issues with the fat contracts they just signed. Prefer: (in this order): Pedroia, Youkilis, Ellsbury.
3. win your NCAA tournament bracket. No real way to do this.....early rounds are more luck of the draw; FOCUS on your Final 4 picks (though they can also be VERY random). Pick 4 teams you like and stick with them; usually the best teams get there, and if not, usually the people in your bracket also picked them.
4. STOP drafting parasite hoops players: one of the nuances about fantasy hoops I love: guys help you, but also HURT you in multiple categories. Anyone who hurts you in more than 2 categories, AVOID!!!! (FT borderline = 75-76%, FG borderline = 45-46%). Turnovers, anything more than 2.5 is getting hurtful.
Examples: (Baron Davis: FG, FT, TO). Degree of hurtfulness also must be in consideration: can knock it down to 2 categories: (Dwight Howard: FT% AND TO, STephen Jackson- I've NEVER owned that guy).
5. Covet young, up-and-coming skill players (RB and WR's, especially WR's).
5a. Don't draft WR's with BAD QB's (see Larry Fitzgerald). However, even servicable QB's (Shaun Hill) are OK.
6. Keep drafting pitchers late in fantasy baseball drafts........one thing I've never had to resolve, I've never been burnt by this rule and stick by it steadfastly. If 2010 was the Year of the Pitcher, just wait til 2011.
7. Get in shape.
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
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