Comments on: How to Dominate a Yahoo Auction

By: Chops

Chops — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:24:40 +0000

Does The Price Guide account for bench spots when it shoots out dollar values? Having an extra five roster spots (or not) accounted for in, for instance, a Yahoo! league would effect the dollar values by around 20%.

By: DSMok1

DSMok1 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:33:25 +0000

I am in an auction league that uses h-t-h points rather than roto… any chance you can set up your site to handle that anytime soon?

By: Molson

Molson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:29:07 +0000

>Does the price guide take in effect the innings pitched for ERA and WHIP?

Yes, it does. What it doesn’t take into account is the fact that most owners will sacrifice ERA and WHIP to improve their counting stats.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:34:07 +0000

Great article that I find very helpful. My question is why just use a starting lineup with the Price guide? Why not use the Util and P positions to fill the BN players yahoo has. For example I normally use an extra 3 util and 2 P to represent the 5 BN spots yahoo has. This way the Money and players drafted according to the price guide match the money and number of players drafted in the league.

My other question is about why relief pitchers are so valuable with the price guide, which might be rightfully so. Does the price guide take in effect the innings pitched for ERA and WHIP? Obviously a typical starter will effect a fantasy team’s ERA and WHIP almost 3 times as much as a relief pitcher. Assuming about 200 innings vs 70 innings.
Thanks

By: Mays

Mays — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:40:21 +0000

@Shareef: My intention was to cover CBS next, but their auto-pickers were a disaster. Mocks are a huge time commitment, but I’ll see if I can get around to ESPN’s.

@John K: I participate in three main leagues and an occasional public league or two. I don’t see myself as any kind of expert, so no tout leagues for me. Three is probably the most I could handle, anyway.

By: John K

John K — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:31 +0000

Right, definitely agree that 13 is too low, thanks.

In how many leagues do you participate and are you a member of any expert leagues?

By: Shareef

Shareef — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:02:59 +0000

So what about ESPN, since that is where I and my trash taking friends play!

By: Mays

Mays — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:46:58 +0000

@John K: I think the Manny composite projection may be a little optimistic ($21 for Yahoo settings), but I think Yahoo’s ranking ($13) is way too low.

I’ve heard the problem last year wasn’t the steroids; it was a HBP on his hand shortly after he returned from his suspension. Assuming he is recovered, I think a bounceback is realistic. And despite a possible injury, he was on pace for 30 HR. Even with age decline, I don’t see why homeruns in the upper 20′s wouldn’t be probable this year.

RBI and runs should be plentiful with Kemp and Ethier. If I can get Manny for $15 in a Yahoo league, I’m all over it.

By: Mays

Mays — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:25:18 +0000

@Rick: The rankings between here and Yahoo are pretty close. The main difference appears to be that Yahoo puts more weight on 2009, and the projections here look deeper into a player’s history. So guys that had a down 2009 (Guerrero, Quentin, Ludwick, etc.), Yahoo tends to (IMO) underrate. I also think they overrate good 2009′s from guys like Aaron Hill and Kendry Morales.

Yahoo is also higher (too high, IMO) on some young players — Andrus, Porcello, and Garrett Jones above. The projections — incorporating their minor league stats — are much more cautious.

For a snake draft, the strategy would be simpler. I would find Yahoo’s rank for each player and put it beside the Price Guide’s rankings. If the Yahoo rank is much lower, I can probably hold off a round or two to draft a certain player, knowing that other drafters may be hesitant to stray too far from Yahoo’s order.

By: John K

John K — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:12 +0000

so you trust the Manny projections? As far as I know, most of the systems have autoregressive terms in them and so I’m always scared about players on the decline like Manny. I know they should control for age (I even think Marcel does this) but he has been a player I’ve had the toughest time figuring out what to expect from him this year. This is a guy who put up his first sub-400 wOBA since 1994! And he hopefully no longer uses steroids.

Very striking when a player says he is done with baseball (until presumably his agent called him to talk some sense into him)