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I went to the store today and it looks like pretty much all the mags are out now, even the newly rebranded Sporting Edge (Rotoworld). But my favorite is FBG, and I cannot find it or find any word of it. Anyone know when it is coming out?
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It's not. Peter Kreutzer is putting together a bit of an e-book instead this year.Originally posted by Sour Masher View Post
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Oh wow, that really sucks. It was a great mag. I continue to not comprehend how much more popular fantasy football is than fantasy baseball. It is a shame our hobby cannot properly support more great baseball folks. #baseballisbetter.Originally posted by Todd Zola View Post
ETA: the link's wording suggest it might come back post pandemic. I hope so. In the mean time, I'm thankful Peter is offering the e-mag option.Comment
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It wasn't Peter's choice. Magazine's run on thin, if any margins and his publisher was wary of declining sales if the season was in jeopardy. Keep in mind these things get written before Thanksgiving and stuff was still up in the air. It's my understanding it's just a one year hiatus.Originally posted by Sour Masher View PostFollow me on Twitter @ToddZolaComment
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That is great to hear. I'm thankful he put the content up online for purchase.Originally posted by Todd Zola View PostComment
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I used to count the days until Street & Smith’s Baseball Annual was on newsstands. I was talking to a friend today who still buys a mag, I told him last time for me was probably 20 years ago. Sad!Comment
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It'd been over 30 years for me, I'm sure. amazing they are still aroundOriginally posted by revo View Post---------------------------------------------
Champagne for breakfast and a Sherman in my hand !
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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984
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One of fantasy baseball's best kept secrets is that this magazine now has a top 20 prospects ranking/blurb for all 30 teams. So, that's a total of 600 prospect write ups. This has been my favorite feature the last several years. This "non-fantasy" Street & Smith baseball issue actually has better prospect coverage than their "fantasy" baseball issue, which is a rebranding of the former Sporting News fantasy baseball magazine.Originally posted by The Feral Slasher View Post“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert EinsteinComment
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Thanks for letting us know. Link to site?Originally posted by Sour Masher View Post
Is Todd one of the experts again this year? (Todd, always enjoyed your sometimes contrarian take on things there)Comment
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Peter solicited picks and pans, but I have not yet sent him my list. If it's not too late, I'll try to do it this week. P&P is the only thing I did for The Guide over the past several years. I have a piece (with Jeff Erickson) in the Rotowire mag and did some work for Lindy's (catchers and relievers).Originally posted by Sharky View PostFollow me on Twitter @ToddZolaComment
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Seeing this reference to Alex Patton reminded me of something. A few weeks ago I got a chance to go in to my office (only the third time in 11 months now), and I did some cleaning out. Being away from your office for an extended period reminds you of how much crap you have in there that you don't really need, but you got used to it just being there so you left it.
One shelf I cleaned off had all my old hard-copy roto stuff on it, because I used to go in to my office for our auctions (better internet!).
I found these, along with a number of old Baseball Weekly pre-season issues.
Man, those were the days...
"Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert HofmannComment
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I did a couple of retro drafts with Alex over the summer. He's still as sharp as ever.Follow me on Twitter @ToddZolaComment
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I still use his valuation system (from those books) when I do my own value calculations - it's mostly VORP, but a bit more detailed..."Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert HofmannComment
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You use your specific league players and totals in categories. Maybe I should have kept those books, with all the details, but they're now in recyclingOriginally posted by Ken View Post
. But the algorithm generally is:
1. Calculate average stats for players at each position
2. For each player, for each team, subtract the average stats for that position, then add that specific player's stats, then recalculate standings, and see how many points were gained (or lost)
3. The points gained (or lost) for that player is then the average across the teams
4. The player's value is then the number of $ per standings point multiplied by the points gained (from 3)
That's an "average league value" if you want to think about it that way. Specific team values come by using specific team points from item (2) instead of average team points from item (3) when you do the calculation in item(4).
There are wrinkles, like making sure there aren't too many batters with positive dollar value at a specific position (if they can't be absorbed into CI, MI, or U), and things like that, but the above gives the general gist of it.
The thing I really liked was that it was tuned to each league, because it takes into account how your particular league spreads category totals. What I used to do was take the past three years from my league, and use those as category totals."Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert HofmannComment
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