MARKET PULSE: 2020 All-Value and All-Avoid teams, restart
Jul 17 2020
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley [often go awry].” – Robert Burns
Oh, such a lovely plan we laid out in the pre-viral All-Value Team; it was one of our best teams yet. But fate had different ideas, so a reset is needed. We'll take a look at both the All-Value Team and the All-Avoid Team given the new landscape.
There are some slight differences in how we compiled these teams versus the originals back n March. The biggest is injuries; in the original All-Value team, we avoided players with "D" or "F" health. We felt that such players were too risky, and that their market values probably incorporated their risk. In this version, we embrace risk (to a point). In a couple of cases, we also chose an established player...
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