Beat the Shift Podcast – Hot Episode w/ Sky Dombrokse

The Hot episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Sky Dombroske

Introduction

  • Tout Wars H2H
  • Head to Head format
  • Not having an injured list
  • Mike Trout injury

Strategy Section

  • Hot Starts
    • What metrics should you look at to determine if hot starts are for real?
    • Using pre-season players projections based partially on prior injured seasons
    • Which do you believe more – hot pitcher starts or hot hitter starts?
    • How quickly to act on picking up hot players off of the waiver wire?
      • How much should you pay in FAAB?
    • Trading
      • Trading for a hot player
      • Trading away a hot player
    • How long do you keep rolling with hot players in your active lineup?
      • Hitters vs. pitchers
    • How to know when a player has “cooled off”

Hot Start Hitters – How to handle?

Hot Start Pitchers – How to handle?

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

 

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Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Ariel is also the winner of the 2020 FSWA Baseball Article of the Year award. He is the creator of the ATC (Average Total Cost) Projection System. Ariel was ranked by FantasyPros as the #1 fantasy baseball expert in 2019. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Ariel is a member of the inaugural Tout Wars Draft & Hold league, a member of the inaugural Mixed LABR Auction league and plays high stakes contests in the NFBC. Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Ariel Cohen is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He is a Vice President of Risk Management for a large international insurance and reinsurance company. Follow Ariel on Twitter at @ATCNY.

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