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Brad Peacock

Current EventsDynasty Baseball

One month of baseball is in the book; enough for walks and strikeouts to become 50% reliable for pitchers, or at least 50% reliable indicator of past talent. As Eno Sarris highlighted in his recent starting pitcher rankings update, velocity, and strikeout minus walk rate are two indicators fantasy baseballers

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Bold PredictionsDigging for DiamondsDynasty BaseballDynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty DynamicsWhat To Do About...

Despite a scorching hot stove (I can’t believe the player you’re thinking of did or did not sign with the team you thought they would!), January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively and literally). But fear not, restless readers. The Dynasty Guru is

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Bold PredictionsDynasty Baseball

It’s Bold Predictions season all around baseball, where experts get to make crazy, out-there claims about what they think players could do this year. Be them busts, break outs or baffling, everyone’s doing them, and so are we. However, we’re not stopping there. We’re taking it to the most Xtreme

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Current EventsDynasty Baseball

Last year was the year of the home run, causing ripples through the entire fantasy landscape. Unsurprisingly, this had quite the effect on pitchers, although it’s been less talked about than the hitter side of things. What should fantasy owners do, if anything, about this trend?

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Nicky Delmonico is one of The Dynasty Guru's Guilty Pleasures for 2018
Dynasty Baseball

While all of us here at The Dynasty Guru participate actively in the Consensus Ranking process and believe our fearless leader Bret knows what he’s talking about, we don’t always agree with our rankings. We each of us have guilty pleasures we love and own across multiple leagues despite what

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2018 Dynasty Baseball Rankings

One of the best pieces of advice my dad gave me growing up was to buy off-brand. He would always say, “they cost less money, and if you look at the ingredients, they are exactly the same”. This advice can be applied to fantasy baseball too. Who are some underrated

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2018 Dynasty Baseball Rankings2018 Dynasty Basketball Rankings

It’s been a slow off-season. Like, a really slow off-season. With the hot stove frigid, fantasy baseball players haven’t had many ways to quench their thirst, unless they’ve thrown themselves head-first into football, basketball, or hockey. January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively

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GeneralUncategorized

Back at the outset of the season our Great Leader Bret had all of us here at Dynasty Guru jot down some bold predictions for the season. You can find my original list with context and argument here. Then I checked in on how things were progressing in June, and

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GeneralUncategorized

Last week I put together a snapshot of where my team stands in TDGX at the two-month point, and this week we’ll turn the page from past performance to future performance. Since that post my team has gained some tenuous ground from 127.0 points and a seventh place standing to

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General

Disaster struck my squad in Week One. I sat in 17th place out of 20 in the TDGX league, with some significant warning lights flashing already. My first round draft pick, Ryan Braun, can’t feel the thumb on his throwing hand. More importantly for our purposes, that thumb happens to

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