Showing posts with label fantasy sports. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Daily Fantasy Hockey - The Right Tips to Help You Win



Just like you, I am a big daily fantasy hockey fan. I love how I can enjoy the sport and make it a hobby that will allow me to interact with other sports fans. Daily fantasy hockey has now been a great part of my life. Daily fantasy hockey is something that I have enjoyed for a long time, which has been happening for year. So today, I have made a list of tips that will give you some advantage in your daily fantasy hockey teams. I hope you find this list of tips useful, and may it be successful in helping you play better.

Here are tips I keep in mind when drafting ice hockey forwards.

1. When you discover that the player is not part of the power play then that player does not have any place to be in your team. The exception to the rule is if your league has more than 12 teams (this is usually not the case). When it comes to drafting, you should be able to stock your team with just the right players, the kind that sees the ice when it comes to man advantage. The concept is pretty simple actually. If your player is not playing on the power play, then that player is not part of the top portion of offensive threats on his team. So, the million dollar fantasy money question is: Why is he part of your team?

2. If your fantasy hockey league prefers short-handed goals and puts it in a different category, adjust your draft list and make sure you give priority to the stars that score your league’s preference. You see, it is very difficult to have shorties in the event, and it is tougher to place in your league if you cannot get anything out of the category.

3. Generally, what you should do is veer away from a very low or extremely high assist-to-goal ratio. A good ice jockey passer suffers compared to goal scorers. In most fantasy worlds, the goalie tends to rack up points in several categories and this happens in one bulk.

4. Beware of youth. For the young and young at heart, it is unfortunate that teenagers rarely have the NHL effect, so the rookies aren’t really trending when it comes to the # 1 spot in the power playing roles. However, there will be many team owners who will bank on rookies. These team owners are satisfying their ego and the ability to say, “Oh, I booked him when he was just a rookie.” Young folks in the ice do have to go through growing pains.

Daily Fantasy Basketball - Tips on Handicapping and Betting



Oh sports fanatics, time has come faster than we expected. And soon enough, the baseball season will be commencing (if you’re reading this just now it probably has begun). So, people like me who love Major League Baseball cannot wait for the games to start, and there are many people who are just as excited as I am. So, as what happens every time baseball season approaches, daily fantasy basketball transforms into a crapshoot in the last two weeks of its regular NBA season. This is the time when NBA players of superstar status get some rest. So, most of the games will be seen as lottery picks, including your daily fantasy basketball game picks. But we still want you to enjoy the game, so here is some handicapping and daily fantasy basketball betting picks for you!

NBA Point Guards

1. You should check out Jrue Holiday. This player maintains near minimum wages, but impressively, he still continues to produce and is a consistent player. Get Holiday as he may be part of a great line up when he goes to the Chicago team with Derrick Rose. Even if Rose plays or he chooses another team, Holiday is a solid pick.

2. You should check out Mike Conley. Conley does not have superstar stature or a huge income, yet he is a great mid-priced competitor and his matchup versus Golden State is a good one. He is worth the money he is paid for.

3. You should check out Darren Collision. He is something that you want to have in your team, but you have to be careful with him for he is not entirely a sure shot.

4. You should check out CJ Watson. He will play well if baller Mr. Stephen Curry will not be making it on Saturday.

5. You should avoid Devin Harris and Keyon Dooling in the latest game.

6. Jason Kidd will have a rough match up playing against the Celtics’ Rajon Rondo.

7. Chauncey Billups may be a great player, but lately his performance seems to dwindle with inconsistencies. You have to pay too much for his high salary so he is not worth the gamble.

8. The most expensive NBA power guard is Deron Williams. He is a bit exhausted and a little rusty as of late. I deem him as not worth his salary, but that’s just me.

9. Injured players should be avoided and the list starts with Chris Paul’s injury, Derrick Rose’s troubled wrist, Devin Harris’ illness and all this time Jason Terry is injured.

Daily Fantasy Baseball League - An Introduction



If you are looking for a basic introduction to the world of daily fantasy baseball leagues, you have come to the right place.

First, let us begin by giving you an overview of daily fantasy baseball leagues and where it began. You see, daily fantasy baseball leagues are based on Major League Baseball which is popularly known as the MLB. The MLB is one of the many professional baseball organizations in the United States of America and Canada. It is distinct because it is the most popular and it is the highest baseball league level. When we mention MLB, it is the organization which is responsible for operating the National League and the American League. The two are actually a joint organization which has existed since 1901. So, you can say that the MLB is a representation of American culture. It was in 2000 when the two organizations became separate entities in a legal aspect. Now, the commissioner's office takes the responsibility of running the MLB.

Fantasy baseball, on the other hand, is a game where players called fantasy team owners do some sort of role playing. This role playing involves managing a roster of Major League baseball athletes. The team owners will be playing under one league and they will be competing against other fantasy teams. The basis of the winning team and the team performance are the stats and points on real-life and real-time MLB games. This is one of the founding fantasy sports varieties and it remains one of the most popular fantasy sports. It is said and argued that fantasy baseball is one of the hardest fantasy sports to play. It would take you great time and effort to manage a fantasy team. The game is time-consuming and this is because there are 162 games in a season (by far the longest in mainstream pro sports). Plus, players in the MLB can be quite inconsistent.

Now that you know the basic information, let us introduce you to rotisserie league baseball. Rotisserie is also known in the fantasy baseball world as roto. Roto is a scoring system in fantasy baseball and remains to be the most popular one. When roto was introduced, fantasy baseball underwent a landmark development. The roto scoring system allows owners in the league to draft teams from active MLB player rosters, wherein live drafting and live data is the basis of the game. Whereas before, it used to be any player at any point in MLB history can be drafted in a fantasy team. When the Internet made information research easy to acquire, it further revolutionized the game of fantasy baseball. And with today’s system, there are software that can compute the numbers automatically.

Daily Fantasy Baseball - What You Need to Know About Base Percentage (OBP)



If you are a lover of daily fantasy baseball then you might find this article useful. As you would have noticed in the past twenty years, America has become all about customization. In fact, the fast food chains of good old Uncle Sam say you can have it your way. Automobiles are customized, phones are customized, and even LA starlets have their faces customized. This need for customization has reached the fantasy sports industry, more so in daily fantasy baseball. Now, daily fantasy baseball sites and big sports news sources offer thousands of custom daily fantasy baseball set ups aside from the traditional roto and head-to-head formats that the daily fantasy baseball has been known for. One change brought about by this need for customization in daily fantasy baseball is the new base percentage system.

There are about two actions that the leagues can utilize so they can use the base percentage system as a category. The first thing is to eliminate or cancel the batting average as a category. It will then obviously be replaced by the base percentage. Another method in incorporating base percentage is by making the batting average as the sole category which usually works as well. On any case, the base percentage is responsible for a significant change in the values of particular players and their value in correlation to the fantasy baseball world.

So, who are the five most valuable players in the base percentage fantasy league?

First, there is David Ortiz of DH Boston. He gets an average draft position of around the value of 17.8. Then, there is Mr. Adam Dunn of OF Cincinnati and he has an average draft position of 43.11. He should be going in the 30th mark and is just right before players Aramis Ramirez and Alex Rios. Fantasy baseball pundits tell me that the Dunn game play is a batting average killer, and it places as a steal of a pick in the OBP count.

Baseball player Brad Hawpe hails from Colorado. He has the draft position of 79.55 and he is heading towards the 61st overall, which is ahead of co-players Gary Sheffield and Cory Hard. He is a left hander and though this statistically may be a con, Hawpe is a mash pitcher in the league with an impressive .387 base percentage. He is a good man to have when the scoring is OBP.

There is also Nick Swisher of the OF Chicago White Sox. His position is 103 but he is climbing up to 86th place. Swisher has fully recovered and his performance is getting better at least on a base percentage scoring stand point.

An Overview of Daily Fantasy Basketball Leagues



So, you are new to fantasy basketball and you want to learn more about daily fantasy basketball leagues. You are reading the right article. We will give you an overview of the daily fantasy basketball leagues.

First, let us start with where daily fantasy basketball leagues come from. The basis of fantasy basketball sports is the data collected from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The people who enjoy fantasy basketball the most are the people who love the NBA and basketball as a sport in general. Is it not amazing that you can extend the entertainment value of a basketball game in the NBA and apply it to your life while sharing it with your pals? That is made possible with fantasy basketball.

Fantasy basketball got its inspiration from the much older fantasy sport of fantasy baseball. What used to happen was people would get stats off the NBA and they would manually take that into account. Fantasy basketball hit its popularity during the 1990s, and it has even become more popular with the use of the Internet. The game reached more homes and more basketball fans all over the world, and not just North America. Fantasy basketball became even more popular when major media networks promoted the game and gave it more legitimacy and mainstream recognition.

Players of fantasy basketball are usually called the general manager or GM. The responsibility of the general manager is to build his team based on real-time NBA stats.

As for the daily fantasy basketball leagues, well, there are many league settings. There are many leagues and these leagues have their own customized rules and settings. There are, of course, common rules among all the leagues, meaning they follow a certain standard.

The most common daily fantasy basketball leagues track as much as eleven categories, or it can only be tracking as few as three. When you say three categories, it normally covers points, rebounds and player assists. When there are five categories that are adapted by your daily fantasy basketball leagues, the categories usually list blocks, steals in addition to cover points, rebounds and player assists. When there are eight categories then it becomes cover points, rebounds, player assists, blocks, steals, plus free throw percentage and field goal percentage. Nine categories in daily fantasy basketball leagues will be tracking the mentioned categories and include turnovers. There can be some daily fantasy basketball leagues which also track the fouls of the players in the NBA. It is preferred by some leagues that the rebounds will be broken and split into two categories, specifically the offensive rebounds and the defensive rebounds.