Fantasy Baseball – Bat Flips and Nerds

Fantasy Baseball Invitational : Brutal Week One

April 12, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

Wow, that was a pretty horrific start to the Bat Flips & Nerds Fantasy Baseball Invitational #BFNFBI. An 11-day scoring period to start the season in which you cannot make lineup changes. Injured players clogging up lineup slots and bench

Fantasy Baseball Friday: Week Two Waiver Wire Adds

April 9, 2021 Adam Gruttadaro Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

Apologies to those who play in a league where the first matchup period was 1 April through 4 April and next week is technically your week three. But we’re calling the upcoming scoring period week two to fit the more

Fantasy baseball Friday: Hitters who tend to start Hot

April 2, 2021 Guest Contributor Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

With Opening Day getting underway, I wanted to have some fun and look back at the last four full seasons (2016-2019) to see who are some guys that historically get out to hot starts. To define hot starts, I looked at

Our Epic Fantasy Baseball Draft: The Hits and the Misses

March 31, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

I am a runner. I am an addict. Five kilometre Park Runs made way for 10K races which in turn were replaced by half marathons. And then came the full 42-kilometre marathon distance. I have now completed 30-40 of them,

Fantasy Baseball Friday: Most drafted Players

March 26, 2021 Guest Contributor Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

I am personally in six leagues for the upcoming 2021 fantasy baseball season, and also did two mock drafts for a total of eight. As of the writing of this, I’ve completed six of the eight drafts, but feel confident

Fantasy Baseball Friday: Breakouts

March 19, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

Gav wrote about sleepers last week at each position. Guys going outside the top 200, per FantasyPros ADP, that are being undervalued. This week we’re looking at breakouts. Breakouts are a bit different from sleepers in that, yes they are

Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Points Leagues

March 12, 2021 Guest Contributor Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

Points leagues can be an easy way to get into fantasy baseball, being thatthey’re the most similar to the most popular fantasy league, fantasyfootball. We touched on it briefly in our last blog, but points leaguesinvolve weekly head to head

Fantasy Baseball: Bat Flips and Nerds’ Sleepers

March 5, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Opinion

We are in draft prep mode for the forthcoming fantasy baseball season. Now is the time to decide upon which players you want to target late in the draft. Using the consensus ADP (average draft position) calculated over at FantasyPros,

Is this the Real Life? Is this just Fantasy Baseball 101?

February 26, 2021 Guest Contributor Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

Intro to Fantasy Baseball 101 Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you have officially come to the conclusion that you are more than just the casual fantasy baseball fan, and that you’re ready to prove that you are the second coming

Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode Three: April

April 19, 2020 Ben Carter Baseball, Bat Flips Does OOTP

After the excitement of the pre-season roster selection and a rollercoaster Opening Day, reality has set in for our two British-based expansion teams as they quickly settled into the grind of everyday baseball. Let’s see where things stand on May