[FREE] Most fantasy players realize that hitters are more reliable than pitchers. But depending on your needs and options, being able to identify good young pitching prospects can be a rebuilder's fast track back to competitiveness.

It's human nature. By mid-season, owners that are clearly out of contention start to lapse in their attention to their teams. Here, we'll cover some potential rules changes you can make that might help keep them interested for the entire season, making your league (hopefully) more competitive.

As we move towards spring training, owners in Roto keeper leagues are starting to look at their rosters, weighing which players to keep and which to throw back...

[free] The NFBC's Average Draft Position list could be the road map to your success in 2012. Check out the NFBC's Top 100 here:

If you are reading this column, chances are you already know all the players that will go in the first few rounds or the guys that go for $20-$40 in your fantasy auctions, but seldom do they win fanalytic championships. Who does? "Sleepers." "Black Swans." "Under the Radar" players. Whatever you call them, all fantasy baseball owners are looking for players that are going to contribute to their fanalytic teams at a rate higher than their purchase price. Here are 40 names to keep on your cheat sheet.

Houston, the AL has landed! Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you are aware that the Houston Astros will be playing in the American League in 2013. But fantasy leaguers the world over want to know how this will impact their team in 2012. This article will detail fantasy impacts and strategies to consider in 2012 under various scenarios.

[FREE] One of the hardest chores of putting together a winning fantasy baseball team is finding two serviceable—not good, but serviceable—catchers. Every year we all curse the Founding Fathers of Rotisserie Baseball for creating a game that requires you to not only carry, but start two catchers for the entire season. Damn you Daniel Okrent! Damn you Glenn Waggoner! Why, oh why, did you have to add that wrinkle to this challenging pastime of ours?

Should you deviate from your ADP or dollar values? Is it better to drain money at the beginning of your auction? When setting your draft slots, should you prefer the earlier slots or the wraparound pick? All of these questions have general rules, but when do you break them? Read on and find out.

[FREE] Let’s concentrate on some of the top stars who failed to meet expectations last year because of injuries and are now major question marks heading into this year’s drafts. Let’s see where they are going right now in NFBC pay leagues and slice the crap from the player notes.

While many of us sports fans were enjoying the NFL playoffs these last few weeks, the MLB Hot Stove League turned up the heat recently with a couple signings, a big trade and an international free-agent. All of this is well and good for Major League Baseball, but more importantly, how do these moves impact fantasy baseball (and NFBC) owners?

Most managers in auction-format leagues can name a time in which they had either spent too much on a player during an auction, or conversely, didn't spend enough on that player who was coveted pre-auction. In today's column, we explore the concept of "auction fever," or the tendency to over-bid in auctions, and how it may affect the auction-format fantasy baseball manager.