Over at www.chinstrapninjas.com I posted a few things you should do to get ready for your draft and a few things to remember while drafting.
Here’s an excerpt from each, followed by a link to each. We’ll start with 7 great steps to prep for your fantasy draft:
2. You research, you research your butt off
Just read. You don’t have to spend hours a day, but go to a respected Web site, like www.chinstrapninjas.com — our team previews are a couple quick hits about the more mention-worthy layers on major league rosters — or any of the other more well-known sports outlets out there. Read up, see what people are saying. Has someone busted onto the spring training scene and earned a roster spot. Maybe that talented young player hasn’t won his spot yet and was banished to the minors (Wieters!) for a little while. You need to know as much as you possibly can before moving on to the next step.
Read the full article by clicking here.
And, today 10 ways to kill like a Ninja at your fantasy baseball draft:
5. Don’t pick a catcher until you can’t stand not having one… then wait a little longer
Seriously, there’s no need to take a catcher early. Brian McCann and Russell Martin are going to go too early. Joe Mauer might be the most overrated hitter in baseball. Will Geovany Soto grind to a sophomore slump? Meanwhile the end of deep drafts will leave you with guys like Jeff Clement, Chris Snyder, Kelly Shoppach and Ramon Hernandez. Check their projections. Not bad for the end of the draft.
Read the full article by clicking here.
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Yes, I am a Halo fanboy. But the greatest first person shooter on the planet is getting another map pack and it’ll be here on April 9.
Few games drew as much fanfare as Halo 3 did, and few have as many loyal followers as the epic masterpiece. Those fellows over at www.bungie.net are nice enough to keep a running log of players and matches played.
Now, remember, this game released on Sept. 25, 2007 — yes, going on two years ago — and there are still 34,000 people playing online right now, and it’s noon on a Tuesday. Bungie numbers show 696,898 unique players logged 1,430,596 matches in the last 24 hours. That’s a year-and-a-half later folks. Oh, and the UNSC campaign kill count — baddies killed by Xbox Live-enabled Halo 3 players in the single player game — is 9,777,665,269. Yep, 9.7 billion.
So, I’m not the only one rocking the Halo Underoos, and I won’t be the only one downloading these maps for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) either. The pack includes new killing venues Orbital, Assembly and Sandbox, along with skulls to collect and achievements to gain.
Continue reading ‘Send the family away, order some pizza, Halo 3’s Mythic Map Pack available for all on April 9′
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It’s been too long since I last posted and tons of things have happened since then.
First off, I’ve been posting like mad at www.chinstrapninas.com, in particular I’ve dumped a bunch of 2009 fantasy baseball team previews and have nearly completed my 2009 rankings.
If you haven’t been checking them out regularly, why not go check them out now. You can click the links above, or click here to go to the fantasy baseball navigation page at Chinstrap Ninjas.
As for posting here, I’ve got some Halo Wars for you. Yes, it’s completely Halo, and completely awesome. I also purchased MLB2K9, which rocks, and finally plugged in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
I also pulled DiRT out of the I’ve-really-gotta-play-that pile and basked in the glow of mud, dirt and fast metal on my new flat screen TV. It’s not your 50-inch 1080p plasma, it’s not quite that hi-def, but it’s hi-def enough to make 360 games look amazing, and that’s without an HDMI cable.
DVDs look amazing, too.
Maybe I’ll throw in a little Gamerscore Update. I haven’t done one of those in a while, so that could be interesting.
Oh, and that whole line of posts on media — in particular the newspaper world, which I love, and how it’s going to survive this economic apocalypse.
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How do you determine your fantasy baseball rankings? There are a number of ways.
What’s the best way, well I’ve created a checklist over at www.chinstrapninjas.com. Here’s an excerpt:
The formula works well, too. I play in a 10×10 league, I dislike the 5×5s in case you didn’t hear, so I have to factor in other categories. My formula adjusted the typical 5×5 rankings to include the stats like total bases, OPS and holds. /stats geek pats himself on back/
After a few hours, I realized that all I had done was take someone else’s opinions (again) and tweak them to fit another format. While this will be more helpful in my draft, it didn’t really do what was intended. I was still going to have to weed out the players I’ve pegged as overrated and dig for the players I think will be sleepers.
The cheatsheets are not getting dumped yet, but I am going to make a new list. My own list. Here are the steps that need to be taken to pull this off, feel free to steal this for your own draft prep:
- Toss the projections. Projections are merely someone’s opinion about how a player is going to perform. To calculate formulas, etc. based on fake statistics is ridiculous. Instead I’ll determine a tiering system for each position.
To read the whole post click here.
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