High Stakes Heat - Fantasy Baseball

Dave and Jake work to carry you to the finish line in today's episode, both helping you to set that final weekend offensive lineup in NFBC and looking ahead to a number of topics that will dominate our thoughts heading into 2021.  Best of luck to all our listeners as they close out their championships! *Injuries and players returning that could affect your weekend *Reevaluate your standings *...

The boys are again joined by their close friend and another member of The Consortium, Tony DiVincenzo ( @Spectre14 ), and together they tackle what everyone should be looking at heading into the final week of baseball.  There's a ton of great strategy points in here, and they also have an opportunity at the end to give some advice on targets for your final Sunday of FAAB.  What's inside:...

Dave and Jake are excited to welcome another incredible NFBC stalwart to the pod in RotoWire's Scott Jenstad ( @ScottJenstad )!  The gentlemen hit on tons of ever-in-flux closer situations, some injury and promotion news, plenty of in-season management strategy topics, and a number of great listener questions.  Scott is an exemplary guest, and it was an absolute blast having him on the p...

Episode 9 of the pod features the incredibly successful high stakes redraft and DFS player Vlad Sedler ( @RotoGut ) of Guru Elite fame!  This is an absolutely jam-packed show, full of insights into who Vlad is and what makes him a winner, plenty of player analysis and news, and short season adjustments.  More specifically, we will cover: *Vlad's beginnings playing and analyzing fantasy *...

The boys return with special guest Justin Mason ( @JustinMasonFWFB ), the busiest analyst in fantasy baseball and an all-around great guy.  He is nothing but candid with us about his process, experience, and life in general; plenty to take out of this episode!  Among the topics covered: *Justin and his career *FWFB, TGFBI, and the Mason Face *Cleveland's discipline breakdown *Pitchers ga...

Dave and Jake are joined by the Robot himself, Phil Dussault ( @PhilDussault27 )!  Phil has only played in the NFBC for four seasons, but he brings a wealth of successful experience and heavy analysis to the pod.  Together they cover a plethora of topics: -The wackiest NFBC Sunday FAAB we've ever seen -Tons and tons of closing situations in flux -A retrospective on Phil's heavily automat...

The boys are back after their long drafting hiatus, and they brought in their long-time friend and Dave's Main Event partner, Tony DiVincenzo ( @Spectre14 )!  The three review their strategies for drafting their four total $1200 NFBC Sprint Main Event leagues, as they highlight their primary points of focus in building their teams facing the Covid nightmare season.  They then turn to the...

The summer rolls on, and your intrepid NFBCers fill you in on the news, some of which can be found at the Covid Watch .   The Main Event drafts started on Sunday, but there's not enough ADP data yet for solid analysis; however, there is more than enough July Online Championship data to get a good feel for where we are.  Dave and Jake also take a look at pitcher schedules through wee...

Dave and Jake return to bring you some summer updates and direct you to RotoSaurus's Covid Watch .  The boys touch on setting your KDS (Kentucky Derby Style) order for your drafts, some rarer resources to be targeting, and many of their DOs and DON'Ts for drafting in roto leagues.  They may even debut a new segment!  They then close by evaluating how the 60 game season affects 15 di...

Dave and Jake wrangle all of the news from the beginning of the 'Summer Training' period (You like that, Jon Heyman?) for you: Covid diagnoses, opt-outs, new births, managerial comments...all to help you organize everything as you prep for more drafts.  Dave warns you again about drafting Josh Hader as your first closer, when you should be drafting your first or second SP.  Then the boys...

In round 2 of High Stakes Heat , the boys touch on the news of the day, with players opting out and even *gasp* a trade!  Dave breaks down spring training stats for starters that could be indicators of future performance, and then he highlights specific performances of pitchers from Spring 2020 whose 'summer training' we should be keeping an eye on.  Lastly, the guys express their new op...

Welcome to the highly-anticipated RotoSaurus High Stakes Heat podcast!  The boys banter about their childhoods, origins in fantasy baseball, NFBC experience, and... oh yea!  Baseball is coming!  They give a flyover of things to expect in a 60-game, travel-reduced season.  We'll keep pumping out the episodes; thanks so much for listening! Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are cons...