Strategy Library
Over the 15 years that Baseball HQ has been in existence, and going back another decade to the Baseball Forecaster newsletter, we have accumulated hundreds of articles on fantasy strategy. For the past eight years, these have resided on a site called RotoHQ.com. Beginning in 2007, we started to migrate some of the best of Roto HQ back to Baseball HQ. As 2013 progresses, we will migrate this content back into BaseballHQ. First will be Off-Season, followed by Draft Season, Early Season, Mid-Season and Late Season.
Draft Day
Philosophies
- The question of value
- Advice for the auction rookie
- The concept of draft day burden
- Draft worksheets*
Auction strategy
- Taking control of your draft
- High target drafting
- How to make positional scarcity work for you
- How free access to free agents alters draft strategy
- How to draft prospects
- Drafting now for next year
- Building your reserve roster
- Tracking draft trends
- Stars and Scrubs or Spread the Risk: which is better?
Budgeting
- How to Build a Budget: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
- In-Draft Money Management
- Overpaying: Does It Ever Work?
Small Leagues
Straight Drafts
- Position Scarcity
- Position Scarcity, LIMA, and Sweeney
- Position Scarcity theory: Part 1 | Part 2
Unorthodox strategies
- Introduction
- Draft day experimentation
- Punting a category
- The Sweeney plan | revisited
- Rockie Arms plan
- Labadini Plan
- The Bernhard strategy
- DL draft plan
- Over 30 plan
- All lefties plan
- Unorthodox strategies in 5x5 leagues
The LIMA plan
- The LIMA Plan (Low Investment Mound Aces)
- Reader Q&A on LIMA
- Eight myths of the LIMA Plan
- How to beat the LIMA Plan
- Troubleshooting LIMA
- LIMA in 5x5 leagues
- LIMA in straight draft leagues
- LIMA in keeper leagues: Part 1 | Part 2
- The LIMA plan in daily leagues
Off-Season
Philosophies
- Cleansing the soul with a clean slate
- Rotisserie and reality
- How well do roto categories match real baseball? (Part 1) (Part 2)
- The concept of the metagame
- The rotisserie paradox
- Rotisserie category reliability
- 40+ statistical evaluation tactics
Your team
- On being the new guy
- Learning from your last-place team
- Artificial challenges for non-competitive leagues
- The two-year plan
Trading
Keeper leagues: Roster Protection and Inflation
- How to gain competitive intelligence at roster cutdown time
- Four steps to creating optimal freeze lists (Excel worksheet included)
- Keeper league strategies
- How to calculate draft inflation (Excel worksheet included)
- Keeping an eye on inflation
- Inflation and perception (Part 1) (Part 2)
- A lesson from John Hart
Small leagues
- What's different about shallow mixed leagues?
- Small leagues: pros and cons
- The $1 player
- In defense of risk
League management
- Starting a new league
- Constitution builder
- How to revive a dying league
- How to get newbie owners up to speed
- How to educate your league's doormat owner
- Winning a winter auction
- Curing the winter blues
- Expanding your league: tips for existing owners | tips for new owners
Rules
- The impact of rules changes (Part 1) (Part 2)
- Five rule changes to make your league better
- Considering Holds as a category
- The impact of a free-drop league
- More on free-drop leagues
- The interleague dilemma
- Category changes to consider
- Ranking system razzle dazzle
Selections from Art McGee, author of How to Value Players for Rotisserie Baseball
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