Fantasy Sports Empires.com
Fantasy Baseball and Fantasy Football Podcasts
Fantasy Sports Empires.com

Fantasy baseball draft plan, news you can use, listener email, player ADP trends, sleepers, and a review of the top 12 players.

Played: 345 | Download | Duration: 01:20:05

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy baseball auction draft recap and snake draft pre-ranks vs. average draft pick analysis.

Played: 760 | Download | Duration: 00:55:33

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

“Battle of the Fantasy Gods” Auction Draft Recap

Last week I had the honor to draft in the 2010 “Battle of the fantasy gods” league.  Last season I drafted and managed my team to a 2nd place finish.  What was different this season was the draft was an auction draft instead of a snake draft.  I am a diehard snake draft person, but knew that to be taken seriously in this business, you have to master all types of drafts and league format, so I was up for the challenge.  This was my first serious auction draft and my strategy was simple, but I needed confirmation from Lenny “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Melnick.  I called Lenny and he was gracious enough to spend over an hour on the phone with me, discussing his “controlling the auction draft” methodologies.  The Cliff Notes version is that there are 12 teams in a draft and each team has $260 as a salary cap, so the total amount of money available to spend in the draft is 12 x $260 = $3,120.  If you look at most magazines, they have the auction value totals based more in the neighborhood of $8,000 than $3,120, and the early drafting reflected this.  Simple math tells you that if you have to draft 23 players and you have $260 to accomplish this, the average amount per player equals $11.30.  In a brief survey of the mixed league dollar value for Albert Pujols, here is recap:

Yahoo Sports / RotoWire - $45

Lenny Melnick - $42

CBS Sports - $40

Baseball HQ - $37

ESPN - $35

So which bid is the correct one?  The answer is all or none of the above.  Before you can even put a dollar value to Pujols, you must build your team to have at least 300 home runs and 175 stolen bases.  You can to come up with the combinations and positional scarcity to accomplish this task.  In the 2010 battle of the fantasy gods auction draft, Albert Pujols went to Ryan Hallam of Fighting Chance Fantasy for………$54!  Ryan was also able to land potential first round snake players such as Chase Utley for $40 and Evan Longoria for $37.  When you take the “stars and scrubs” approach, as long as you can make your projections work to 300 HRs and 175 SBs, then you use whatever approach you feel can get you to these projected statistics. 

My approach was to only jump in if the bidding was up to or at my projected auction values for any given player.  When Pujols went for $54 and $43, I knew that there would be opportunities later in the draft as managers can’t continue to overpay for players.  The most that I paid for a player in the entire draft was $29 for Ryan Zimmerman as 3rd base was getting scare at the most scare position this season.  I spent a total of $168 on hitting, $84 on pitching, and ate $8 at the end of the draft.  I spent $28 on closers which is a big mistake in the book according to Lenny Melnick.  Lenny’s philosophy is that you should never pay for saves as it is a single category and that money should be used on either hitting or starting pitching.  In hindsight, I wish I had gone another dollar here and there on players.  I walked away each time, thinking that I would have the most money at the end of the draft and have the ability to purchase players at an incredible value.  The one obstacle in my way was Tim McLeod.  Tim also had a lot of money towards the end of the draft and I felt that I would be outbid on most of the players that I still wanted to acquire.  So I went ahead and burned through my money to ensure that I at least purchased the players that I wanted.  For the most part, I ended up with most of the players that I was targeting.  On paper, I have a team that should finish pretty good, but not in contention.  I have some high-risk, high-reward starting pitchers that if everything goes right, I have a chance.  This worked for me last season with Zack Greinke and Justin Verlander in this league.  But that was a snake draft and this was an auction draft.  The draft was fun, but exhausting.  I felt like I had just got done taking an SAT or ACT entrance exam, but did not really know how I did.  The next night, I decided to take CBS Sports’ projections for each team to see how I would stack up on paper.  The results are at the end of this article.  I have played in a FOX Sports Radio league and this will be the 4th season in this league.  I have convinced the other league managers that we should give an auction draft a try this season, so I will attempt to execute on what I have learned from our auction draft in my next auction draft in the near future.

I would like to thank once again Mike “The Fantasy Man” Kuchera who has always been there for me when I was first starting out and turned my hobby into a passion.  I would also like to thank Lenny Melnick for taking time out of his schedule to not only host the live draft on blog talk radio, but to also take time out of his schedule to share with me his valuable experience and philosophy on auction drafting.  I wish that I was able to record the conversation, but I took good notes Lenny!  Last but not least, it is an honor to play against all of the talented league managers in this league.  We all share in the same passion and I have a respect for all of your talents. 

Jeff Boggis

“The Sultan of Stats”

Fantasy Sports Empires

http://fantasysportsempires.com/

Manager - Website

Rank

Scott White - CBS Sports.com

1

Scott Swanay - Fantasy Baseball Sherpa

2

Chris McDonnell - FantasyBaseball.com

3

Grey & Rudy - Razzball

4

Tony Cincotta - Fantasy Pros 911

5

Jeff Boggis - Fantasy Sports Empires.com

6

Paul Greco - Fantasy Pros 911

7

Ray Flowers - Fanball.com

8

Mike Kuchera - The Fantasy Man

9

Ryan Hallam - Fighting Chance Fantasy

10

RC, Rhett, and Todd - FB Tonight

11

Tim McLeod - RotoRob

12

 

Manager

R

HR

RBI

SB

AVG

W

Sv

K

ERA

WHIP

Scott Swanay

1120

259

1118

158

0.2854

81

125

1219

3.46

1.22

Jeff Boggis

1083

314

1115

172

0.2702

76

114

1184

3.52

1.25

Paul Greco

1064

267

1038

196

0.2745

83

111

1056

3.60

1.24

Ray Flowers

1110

243

1004

190

0.2883

82

108

1141

3.70

1.22

RC, Rhett, and Todd

1039

284

1033

157

0.2784

84

97

1345

3.63

1.27

Tim McLeod

1118

253

1063

147

0.2805

81

88

1357

3.77

1.30

Tony Cincotta

1077

257

976

181

0.2713

98

84

1332

3.51

1.20

Grey & Rudy

1099

298

1085

158

0.2754

86

74

1315

3.43

1.25

Ryan Hallam

1090

284

1037

164

0.2812

95

73

1269

3.65

1.28

Mike Kuchera

1018

275

1007

187

0.2743

103

65

1325

3.62

1.25

Scott White

1258

316

1223

180

0.2906

98

50

1270

3.94

1.31

Chris McDonnell

1193

315

1200

156

0.2904

114

2

1422

4.24

1.30

 

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

2010 Battle of the Fantasy Gods Fantasy Baseball Expert's Auction Draft with Lenny Melnick and Jeff Boggis as a show guest

Played: 740 | Download | Duration: 03:03:29

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Listen LIVE to the 2010 Battle of the fantasy gods auction draft on Wednesday, Feb. 17th, 2010 at 8 PM ET

The great Lenny Melnick of http://www.fantasypros911.com/ will be podcasting live the play-by-play of the 2010 Battle of the Fantasy Gods Expert league auction draft. Click the link below to be a part of the action. You can call in and comment on the chatboards as we draft! The draft starts at 8PM on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010. Check it out!

This link will get you to Lenny Melnick's page where you should be able to get to the live podcast!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkingbaseballlive

2010 Participants
Mike Kuchera - The Fantasy Man
Scott White - CBS Sports
Tim McLeod - RotoRob
Todd Farino - Fantasy Baseball Search
Jeff Boggis "The Sultan of Stats" - Fantasy Sports Empires
Chris McDonnell - Fantasy Baseball
Tony Cincotta - Fantasy Pros 911
Paul Greco - Fantasy Pros 911
Grey Albright - Razzball
Ryan Hallam - Fighting Chance Fantasy
Scott Swanay - Fantasy Baseball Sherpa
Ray Flowers - FanBall


 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Listen LIVE to the 2010 Battle of the fantasy gods auction draft on Wednesday, Feb. 16th, 2010 at 8 PM ET

<:od>
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2010 BotFG Expert League Podcasting LIVE Wednesday, Feb. 16th, 2010
The great Lenny Melnick of http://www.fantasypros911.com/ will be podcasting live the play-by-play of the 2010 Battle of the Fantasy Gods Expert league auction draft. Click the link below to be a part of the action. You can call in and comment on the chatboards as we draft! The draft starts at 8PM on Wednesday, February 16th, 2010. Check it out!

This link will get you to Lenny Melnick's page where you should be able to get to the live podcast!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkingbaseballlive

2010 Participants
Mike Kuchera - The Fantasy Man
Scott White - CBS Sports
Tim McLeod - RotoRob
Todd Farino - Fantasy Baseball Search
Jeff Boggis "The Sultan of Stats" - Fantasy Sports Empires
Chris McDonnell - Fantasy Baseball
Tony Cincotta - Fantasy Pros 911
Paul Greco - Fantasy Pros 911
Grey Albright - Razzball
Ryan Hallam - Fighting Chance Fantasy
Scott Swanay - Fantasy Baseball Sherpa
Ray Flowers - FanBall


 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy baseball auction drafting along with an analysis of the first 5 rounds of your fantasy baseball snake draft

Played: 829 | Download | Duration: 01:20:08

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

2010 Fantasy Sports Empires.com Draft Kit and Spreadsheet Update

Release 3.0 went live today for the 2010 Fantasy Sports Empires.com Spreadsheet.  I have added a new tab which is titled the "Probability" tab.  It is the likelihood that a player will be available in your drafts (by percentage).  Enter in your draft pick(s) and based on your pick, average draft pick, earliest a player has been taken, standard deviation, and normal distribution, it will calculate the percentage of a player still being available at that pick.  Not a perfect science, but a good gage on when to target certain players in your draft based on your level of comfort.

The draft kit and spreadsheet remains the same price this year at $4.99 with free updates emailed to you until opening day 2010!  The draft kit and spreadsheet is new and improved from last season and it will continue to help you dominate your fantasy baseball drafts this season!  Why buy a magazine or book that is basically outdated at the time of purchase?



For more information on order and what is included in the draft kit and spreadsheet, please visit http://fantasysportsempires.com/2010_Baseball_Draft_Kit.html 

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

2010 The Fantasy Man's "Battle of the Fantasy Gods" fantasy baseball expert's league

Jeff Boggis, "The Sultan of Stats", will be participating again this season in The Fantasy Man's 2010 "Battle of the Fantasy Gods" fantasy baseball expert's league this season!  The Auction Draft will be held on Wednesday, February 17th at 8 PM ET. 

Current 2010 Participants

Mike Kuchera - The Fantasy Man
Scott White -
CBS Sports
Tim McLeod -
RotoRob
Todd Farino -
Fantasy Baseball Search
Jeff Boggis -
Fantasy Sports Empires
Chris McDonnell -
Fantasy Baseball
Tony Cincotta -
Fantasy Pros 911
Paul Greco -
Fantasy Pros 911
Ray Flowers -
FanBall


For more information, please select this link.


 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Calculating the percentage likelyhood that a player will be available in your fantasy baseball drafts.

Played: 896 | Download | Duration: 00:51:46

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

2010 Fantasy Baseball draft preparation and a look at your first round draft picks!

Played: 1111 | Download | Duration: 00:55:56

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 16 Analysis Podcast

Played: 614 | Download | Duration: 00:32:57

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

The Sultan of Stats guest spot on Friday's 411Fantasy Blog Talk Radio fantasy football week 15 show.

I was a guest last night on Friday's 411Fantasy Blog Talk Radio fantasy football show.  I discussed some picks for week 15, along with the fantasy football expert's contest in which I am currently in 2nd place among the fantasy football experts.  Here is the link to the show:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/411fantasycom/2009/12/19/411fantasycoms-big-daddy-nfl-preview--week-15 

Jeff Boggis
"The Sultan of Stats"
Fantasy Sports Empires.com

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 15 Analysis Podcast

Played: 669 | Download | Duration: 00:26:57

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 14 Recap Show

Played: 774 | Download | Duration: 00:16:00

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 14 Analysis Podcast

Played: 367 | Download | Duration: 00:13:52

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 13 Analysis Podcast

Played: 523 | Download | Duration: 00:34:45

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 12 Recap Show

Played: 726 | Download | Duration: 00:18:50

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 12 Analysis Podcast

Played: 454 | Download | Duration: 00:35:22

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 11 Analysis Podcast

Played: 435 | Download | Duration: 00:43:44

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 10 Analysis Podcast

Played: 951 | Download | Duration: 00:30:36

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 9 Recap Show

Played: 768 | Download | Duration: 00:08:04

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 9 Analysis Podcast

Played: 1499 | Download | Duration: 00:48:13

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 8 Analysis Podcast

Played: 3551 | Download | Duration: 00:33:52

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 7 Recap Show - October 26, 2009

Played: 3122 | Download | Duration: 00:05:30

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 6 Recap Show - October 19, 2009

Played: 1260 | Download | Duration: 00:03:54

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Jeff Boggis "The Sultan of Stats" on Twitter Fantasy Football Roundtable - Week 6

Played: 668 | Download | Duration: 01:04:08

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 6 Analysis Podcast

Played: 775 | Download | Duration: 00:54:59

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Jeff Boggis talks tout wars fantasy baseball with Lenny Melnick and Brian Walton on Fantasy Pros 911

Played: 614 | Download | Duration: 00:04:07

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Controversy in The Regular Guys Fantasy Football League - October 13, 2009

Played: 1340 | Download | Duration: 00:19:33

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 5 Recap Show - October 12, 2009

Played: 1278 | Download | Duration: 00:08:58

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 4 Recap Show - October 5, 2009

Played: 921 | Download | Duration: 00:05:48

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Week 3 Recap Show - September 28, 2009

Played: 1000 | Download | Duration: 00:09:18

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Interview with Comedian Bert Kreischer - September 18, 2009

Played: 1135 | Download | Duration: 00:12:32

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Fantasy Football League (RGFFL) Theme Song Video on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA0cfpIW0A4 

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Fantasy Football League (RGFFL) Theme Song

Played: 1204 | Download | Duration: 00:02:37

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Interview with Norma Lee - September 10, 2009

Played: 884 | Download | Duration: 00:11:41

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Football - Week 1 Analysis

The Fantasy Sports Empires week 1 analysis is now posted on the website at http://fantasysportsempires.com/Fantasy_Football.html 

Good luck in week 1!

Jeff Boggis
"The Sultan of Stats"
Fantasy Sports Empires.com

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show Fantasy Football Interview with Will Turpin of Collective Soul - August 28, 2009

Played: 1392 | Download | Duration: 00:13:42

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Fantasy Football Post Draft Special 8-27-2009

Played: 1316 | Download | Duration: 00:13:36

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Fantasy Football Pre Draft Special 8-26-2009

Played: 1311 | Download | Duration: 00:18:14

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Regular Guys Fantasy Football League Update on Collective Soul

Played: 3467 | Download | Duration: 00:04:23

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

What to bring to your fantasy football drafts along with fantasy football player news and updates!

Played: 2866 | Download | Duration: 00:35:15

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Jeff Boggis discusses fantasy football and the Indianapolis Colts on RapidDraft.com's Fantasy Lunch for July 31st

Played: 2793 | Download | Duration: 01:00:34

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy football top 12 and Twitter name change

My current top 12 rankings for fantasy football: 1. AP 2. Turner 3. Forte 4. Drew 5. Jackson 6. DeAngelo 7. Fitz 8. Johnson 9. LT 10. Andre 11. Gore 12. Slaton

Made a change to my Twitter ID today to JeffBoggis.  Cyber stalk me at http://twitter.com/JeffBoggis 

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy football podcast - Draft strategies for the first 5 rounds, picking early (1-4), middle (5-8), and late (9-12) in your drafts.

Played: 2986 | Download | Duration: 00:38:33

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Follow The Sultan of Stats on Twitter!

You can now follow me on Twitter as I will use this application for player drop/add recommendations and fantasy sports related information!  http://twitter.com/SultanofStats

Jeff Boggis
The Sultan of Stats
Fantasy Sports Empires

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Fantasy Sports Empires.com fantasy football draft kit and spreadsheet update

I am currently working on updating the rankings and features for the Fantasy Sports Empires.com fantasy football draft kit and spreadsheet.  I am on vacation in Florida until August 3rd, but any downtime that I have is being dedicated to working on the updated rankings.  I am also adding some new features such as tiered rankings by position, optimal draft pick per player, and the earliest and latest that you should expect to draft each player.  It's a lot of work, but I want to provide everyone with the most information possible going into the drafts.  I should have this completed by Saturday, August 1st at the lastest.  Don't worry if you have already ordered the draft kit and spreadsheet as you will automatic receive any updated until the kickoff of the NFL season. 

Thanks and good luck this fantasy football season!

Jeff Boggis
"The Sultan of Stats"
http://FantasySportsEmpires.com

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Jeff Boggis gets an apology from Southside Steve Rickman on Rock 100.5 The Regular Guys Show

Played: 3164 | Download | Duration: 00:08:43

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg 

Welcome Podcast Alley to Fantasy Sports Empires!

<a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/"> originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://www.podcastalley.com/">" originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://www.podcastalley.com/">" My Podcast Alley feed!</a> {pca-e1845a85771cd2c35d3d59f69e803057}

 del.icio.us  Stumbleupon  Technorati  Digg