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Utilizing Lineup Splits: July Update
Whether choosing to stream starting pitchers or looking for daily fantasy targets, knowing lineup splits is essential to success. The splits have similarities to the early season evaluation but there are some surging and falling teams to take note of in this July update.
The Dynasty Guru’s Designated Hitter Comments & “Rankings”
Spring (winter) baseball is underway and rankings season at The Dynasty Guru is coming to a close. For the last two-plus months of winter, our group of 20+ mostly grown men have been huddled up in the warmth of our lively Slack group ranking and arguing if and where players
Rebuilding the Topeka Tornadoes: Strategies for Dynasty League Heroes
For all of the thousands of dynasty owners who put in work endlessly searching for competitive edges on the competition, there are an equal number players who decide to join a dynasty league for about 12 minutes, only to abandon their brand new team. This is a pickle for invested
Struggling 30-Somethings: Five Quick Evaluations
Food comas. That feeling about an hour after you eat a big lunch during the work day where you get sleepy and lose focus. Reading about veteran players are akin to being affected by this plague. The lines begin to blur, head starts nodding, and suddenly you awaken twenty minutes
TDG Weekly Report, March 31-April 6, 2018
This year, The Dynasty Guru will provide a weekly report every Saturday. The weekly report will link to TDG articles for the past week, touch upon notable player developments, and preview upcoming TDG articles for the next week.
2018 Top 34 Fantasy First Base Prospects
The Dynasty Guru recently released the annual, consensus rankings of the top 50 fantasy first basemen in dynasty leagues (#1-20 and #21-50), detailing several first base prospects. The following rankings focus upon, and dive deeper into, fantasy first base prospects. With so many future first base prospects currently playing at
Building a Balanced Team: Outfield
Over the last several weeks, we have identified catchers, first basemen, second basemen, third basemen, and shortstops who have the potential to contribute to three or more hitting categories. Today we conclude our quest to build a balanced team and turn to the outfield. As a reminder on the methodology
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number
A team on the cusp of a dynasty championship doesn’t always need to make any major moves to get over the hump. Trading top prospects may bring you a significant haul in return, but once you’ve leveraged your premier talent to get to the doorstep, targeting undervalued veterans can be
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 125 Dynasty Outfielders, Nos. 21-40
It’s the time of the year where we offer congratulations to those of you brave dynasty league owners that survived the offseason. The greatness that 2016 will surely offer is upon us and that means we’ll be spending the next six weeks moving our way through the positional landscape, offering thoughts
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 125 Dynasty Outfielders, Nos. 21-40
Congratulations on surviving another off-season. Now that the new year is upon us, it’s time to spend the next month traveling across the positional landscape, labeling players with numbers that correspond to their value. It’s the very definition of freedom. A ton of hard work was put into these rankings,