Even if you don’t want to spend a first- or second-rounder on a starter, you have to have a plan for making up ground because the high-end pitching talent thins out quicker than it ever has. It’s made even more difficult by the way MLB teams are using their pitchers nowadays, not to mention how fantasy drafters are pushing starters up draft boards higher than ever. Assembling an elite enough staff to win the overall across 29 fifteen-team leagues is an entirely different story. It’s somewhat easy to find bargain hurlers in 12-team leagues, both in the draft and off the waiver wire. Fading pitchers has long been my M.O., but I’ve come to realize it won’t necessarily work in every format. I also decided to invest more in pitching this time around. But I wanted to be mindful of other opportunities for differentiation as well, even if they didn’t jive with my baseline approach. Thankfully, when you’re trying to pounce on players dipping below their ADPs, some amount of differentiation comes naturally. One thing I wanted to do differently this year was embrace differentiation with more authority. A balanced roster is still crucial, leaning into some amount of risk is still necessary, and seizing values relative to ADP when they present themselves remains important. I say “parts” because a lot of what I want to do hasn’t changed. After three tries, it turns out I can’t even win my own damn leagues, so I had to reevaluate parts of my strategy for 2021. In TGFBI seasons past, I’ve been content to swing for solid contact, try to win my league, and hope the good kind of variance pushes me into contention for the overall. Sure it’s cool to win your league, but once you’re in fantasy baseball’s VIP room, don’t you want to be the one who ends up on the table hosing everyone else down with champagne or Yoohoo or whatever? (Seriously, no drinks in here, huh? We need to sort this out for next year…) Only 435 managers have the opportunity to test their mettle in this contest, and in the end, we’ll all forget about everything that happened except for who won the overall. The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational is pretty exclusive too. Blame Justin Mason for that one, I guess. No velvet ropes, but I must admit it’s impossible to get a drink in here.
You’re reading the one fantasy baseball article I write each year. It is a pretty amazing sheet that Smada has run for the last four seasons.Welcome to a very exclusive club. Thanks to the genius of Smada and my guys at FWFB there is a live ADP running, along with live projections and historical standings. They are 30-round slow drafts with 4-hour clocks. These are 15-team 5×5 leagues run on NFBC with an overall.
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