Over at Chinstrap Ninjas, I beat down — cut up, if you will — the standard 5×5 that sits on the counter of fantasy baseball like a stale loaf of bread.
Time for a change and I’ve got some suggestions. Here’s an excerpt:
While innovation in baseball moves along at the pace of a dead snail — the designated hitter was a good idea. Shut up — fantasy players don’t need to fall into the same pattern. In fact, I think the standard 5×5 should be assassinated. That’s right. Get rid of it. We don’t need homers and runs and RBIs and stolen bases or average. They are old numbers from ancient times.
Yes, these are the numbers the Baseball Writer’s Association looks at when they are thinking of electing people to the Hall of Fame. Then again, this is the same group of jackasses that haven’t allowed Pete Rose or Mark McGwire into the Hall. (Steroids were not illegal during McGwire’s career, and apparently everybody including Mickey Morandini used them. And Rose racked up all his best-in-MLB-history hits before getting caught betting on baseball).
To read the whole column, click here.
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Yes, we’re a full month-and-a-half into 2009, so this list is a little late. Luckily, there hasn’t been any game of any worth released yet this year, so you’ll have time to catch these games, and I recommend you do.
I’m no professional game reviewer, companies do not shower me with free games, nor do I complete every game purchased or rented. However, I can guarantee without a doubt, that you will find games you will love on this list. As soon as I spend my money on an overpriced PS3 or an overhyped Wii, I’ll post lists on them. For now, I stick to the less-than-reliable, but Halo-3-giving Xbox 360.
Continue reading ‘10 of 2008’s most playworthy games [Xbox360]‘
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If you came here looking for fantasy baseball news — and judging by my site stats, you’ probably did not — you are in luck. I just posted a big ol’ hunk of value at www.chinstrapninjas.com. Want to know five fantasy baseball players to avoid in your 2009 draft/auction? Of course you do.
Here’s an excerpt:
David Ortiz, DH, Red Sox
Key ‘08 stats
109 games
.264 AVG
.507 SLG
.876 OPS
Like Derek Jeter and Atkins above, when you pay for Ortiz you’re paying for what he did in the past. Ortiz is 33 and his numbers have declined incrementally in each of the last two years. The one sure thing with Ortiz in recent season were his sterling percentages, but his batting average and OPS numbers were both 3-year lows last year. He hit just .264 with a .507 slugging. From 2004 to 2007 he had a .600+ Slugging percentage and hit over .300 in three of the four years. You could blame some of his other numbers on missing 50 games, but not the percentages. I look for his numbers to be solid — 20+ homers, 100+ RBIs, .290 average — but because of his name and team you’ll have to overpay. And don’t forget, he is only a DH, so in most leagues he can only play at the UTIL spot.
Click this link to read the whole list.
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Over at Chinstrap Ninjas I’ve posted my response to an email I received from DraftSharks, my old favorite fantasy football site. The correspondence was a year late and a couple drafts short.
I talked about such craziness before the season started at Sloppy Potatoes and made that play this year, picking Moss and Wayne in one of my leagues. While I started slow out of the gate with the duo, they picked it up in enough time for me to back into the playoffs and make the final with a less-than-intiimidating rotation of Jonathan Stewart, Mewelde Moore and Kevin Smith as my starting running backs (I had Chris Perry and Rashard Mendenhall, but they didn’t pan out, obviously).
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Another post in a series about the impact of Electronic Gaming Monthly’s closing and the fate of the newspaper and magazine business in general. The first post was about EGM’s closing.
If evolution was an easy process, we’d all have mutant powers by now, or some other creature would have kicked us off the top of the food chain. Fact is, it takes a long time and several small steps to evolve. Members of the media should take note.
Here we are in the middle of a financial crisis and the print media industry is getting hit particularly hard. It’s more difficult now to do what we do, but these are those difficult times. We are taking those small steps that proceed our great evolution. I’m certain of it.
What we used to do as journalists will make us extinct. Nobody has figured out what we need to do to survive. But we will survive, and we will be able to remember the good old days, just like the employees at Electronic Gaming Monthly remembered their days recently.
Continue reading ‘Evolution (of media) is not supposed to be easy’
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Over at Chinstrap Ninjas I just posted a look at a couple fantasy football players that improved their standing greatly from 2008 to 2009.
Here’s an excerpt:
Wide Receiver
Lance Moore, New Orleans Saints
Quick, who was the leading fantasy receiver for the high-octane Saints? Yep, Moore. Moore was a top-14 receiver. Point to his 10 TDs and say he’s going to be overvalued all you want. He had 3 100-yard games and 3 two TD games.
Yes a lot of those numbers point to him being a potentially overvalued player next year. But i like his level of opportunity in the offense. Moore had 5 or more catches in 10 of his team’s 16 games. He was a late-round sleeper last year. He won’t be available so cheap in 2009.
To read the whole post, follow this link.
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