My Fantasy Baseball 2009 Teams……………..Over Performing Team From No Where

This team is currently in second place with 84.5 points. The team in first place has 100.5 points so there is no way I can win this late in the season. I didn’t think this team would do that well. Except for Pujols, Martinez, and Nelson Cruz I didn’t think like my offense that much. I currently have 8 points in runs and average. I have 9 points for RBI, SB, and HR. I also didn’t think my pitching staff was that good. They somehow have 11 points for wins, 9 points for saves, and 8 points for K’s and ERA. I have teams that I thought was built much better than this one, and somehow this one did much better than I ever expected.

League: Yahoo Public 284986
Catcher: Víctor Martínez
First Basemen: Albert Pujols
Second Basemen: Clint Barmes
Third Basemen: Marco Scutaro
Shortstop: Jason Bartlett
Outfielder: Carlos Lee
Outfielder: Michael Cuddyer
Outfielder: Franklin Gutiérrez
Utillity Player: Nelson Cruz
Pitching Staff:
J.A. Happ
Randy Wolf
Randy Wells
Bobby Jenks
Francisco Cordero
José Valverde
Kevin Millwood
Edwin Jackson
Tommy Hanson
Wandy Rodríguez
Ted Lilly
Zach Duke

The Best Fantasy Teams Series- Fantasy Football

I have several Fantasy Football teams that are starting this week. I decided to post the teams that I think will do well and finish within the top three. They all happen to have the same quarterback in Kurt Warner. All of them also have a wide receiver from Arizona. Here are the teams:

League: Yahoo Public 925359
QB: Kurt Warner
WR: Anquan Boldin
WR: Marques Colston
WR: Roy Williams
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson
RB: Brandon Jacobs
TE: Greg Olsen
K: Ryan Longwell
Defense: Dallas
Bench: Bernard Berrian, Jeremy Maclin, Rashard Mendenhall, Cedric Benson, David Garrard
Summary: This team has a steady quarterback in Kurt Warner and an explosive running game in LaDainian Tomlinson and Brandon Jacobs. The wide receivers are anchored by Anquan Boldin and Marques Colston is steady. I am hoping that Roy Williams has a rebound year. In case any of my wide receivers get injured or if Williams can’t rebound I have Bernard Berrian who I would feel comfortable starting if needed. I think he will have a good year with Brett Favre now. I also think that my tight end Olsen will have his break out year with Jay Cutler throwing to him.

League: Yahoo Public 708033
QB: Kurt Warner
WR: Anquan Boldin
WR: Bernard Berrian
WR: Santana Moss
RB: DeAngelo Williams
RB: Chris Johnson
TE: Jeremy Shockey
K: Robbie Gould
Defense: Tennessee
Bench Players: Jay Cutler, Reggie Bush, Lance Moore, Muhsin Muhammad, Jamal Lewis
Summary: This team has a steady quarterback in Kurt Warner and a very good running game in DeAngelo Williams and Chris Johnson. After Boldin my receivers aren’t as strong as I would like as the previous team, but my depth at that position will hopefully pay off. I am hoping to make a trade to upgrade at wide receivers. I think Shockey will rebound and Tennessee has a good defense.

League: Game Of Inches
QB: Kurt Warner
WR: Anquan Boldin
WR: Larry Fitzgerald
RB: Chris Johnson
RB: Marion Barber
TE: Heath Miller
K: John Carney
Defense: Pittsburgh
WR/RB: Cedric Benson
Bench: Santana Moss, Hines Ward, Eli Manning
Summary: I am in two private leagues and this is one of them. I have two top notch receivers and a steady quarterback in Warner whom I seem to take in most of my leagues. My running game could be better, but I think my running backs will be solid.

What do you think?

My Fantasy Baseball 2009 Teams……………..Good Drafts pay off

This is probably my best fantasy baseball team for the 2009 season. I am currently in second place with 95.5 points. There is no way I will catch first place which is “David "MVP" Eckstein” who has a controlling lead of first place. I had a great draft which made my team really good. Before this draft I had another draft in Fantasyland 2 which went really bad. My pitching was terrible in that league so I made it a priority in this league. I had an abundance of pitching so I was able to trade Brandon Inge, Roy Oswalt, and Ryan Dempster for Víctor Martínez and Bobby Abreu to improve my offense. I was also was able to get some steals from the waiver wire in Scott Feldman, Barry Zito, Anibal Sánchez, Tommy Hunter, J.A. Happ, Rick Porcello, Jason Marquis, Clint Barmes, and Scott Rolen. Between my abundance of pitching and good waiver moves the team I thought would be good turned out to be a good team.

League: Insert Creative Name Here
Catcher: Víctor Martínez
First Basemen: Adrián González
Second Basemen: Brandon Phillips
Third Basemen: Scott Rolen
Shortstop: Clint Barmes
Outfielder: Jacoby Ellsbury
Outfielder: Andre Ethier
Outfielder: Bobby Abreu
Utillity Player: Manny Ramírez
Pitching Staff:
Rick Porcello
Scott Feldman
Jonathan Broxton
Brian Wilson
Tommy Hunter
Chris Carpenter
Chad Billingsley
Jason Marquis
Edwin Jackson
Anibal Sánchez
J.A. Happ
Barry Zito

My Fantasy Baseball 2009 Teams……………Good Teams Under Perform Cntinued

This team is currently in 5th place and has a terrible offense. The pitching staff is really good and leads the league in Wins and K’s. It also has a very good ERA and whip, but it it slacking in saves with 7 points and I should have got them another save.
League: Yahoo Public 274195
Catcher: Brian McCann
First Basemen: Adrián González
Second Basemen: Brian Roberts
Third Basemen: Marco Scutaro
Shortstop: Ryan Theriot
Outfielder: Ryan Braun
Outfielder: Shin-Soo Choo
Outfielder: Michael Cuddyer
Utillity Player: Casey Blake
Pitching Staff:
Dan Haren
Adam Wainwright
Josh Johnson
Randy Wolf
Clayton Kershaw
Randy Wells
Jered Weaver
James Shields
Joe Saunders
Scott Feldman
Brian Wilson
Francisco Cordero

The Best Fantasy Teams Introduction

At the begging of a season you never know how a fantasy team will do. There are several times you think you your team is great and then it doesn’t do that well. There are also a few occasions you don’t like your team and then it does better than you think. There are a number of factors that could affect how your team performs from injuries, career down years, and just a bad combination of players. I usually have several fantasy teams in fantasy baseball, fantasy football, and fantasy basketball. Fantasy Baseball is winding down where I had several teams and Fantasy football is starting where I also had several teams. I decided I am going to analyze the teams and look at some of them. Rarely do people go back and analyze their teams and see what went right and what went wrong. I don’t plan on doing every team because that would be boring, but I will look at the Fantasy Baseball teams I thought were going to be good and they were, or the teams that I thought were going to be good and weren’t. I will also look and if there are any teams that I thought they weren’t that good and they did better than I thought then we will look at them. Maybe I will learn something for future drafts from this. I will also highlight in this series a few teams from my Fantasy Football teams just staring that I think are good teams and look forward to input on them!

My Fantasy Baseball 2009 Teams……………..Good Teams Under Perform

This team I thought was going to be better than it has performed this season. It is currently in 4th place with 78.5 points. First place has 98.5 points and the best finish I can have for this team is third place where I would need 82-83 points.

Here is a chart which shows the standings and my competition ahead of me:
Rank Team R HR RBI SB AVG W SV K ERA WHIP Total
1. Boston Red Sox 11 12 12 3 12 12 6 12 10 8.5 98.5
2. Pete_Bombers 12 8 9 10 9.5 9 4 10 11 10.5 93
3. Bruce Sutter 9.5 11 8 7 3 7 12 8 9 7 81.5
4. Cubsfan4evr1 5 1 3 12 7 11 11 11 7 10.5 78.5

As you can see my speed and stolen bases are good with Ellsbury and Crawford. My runs scored are much worse than I would have thought with two leadoff guys in Crawford and Ellsbury. In addition I thought my other players would also be good with runs scored. My pitching staff is good like I would have thought being second in wins, saves, and strikeouts.

League: Yahoo Public 339794
Catcher: Yadier Molina
First Basemen: Miguel Cabrera
Second Basemen: Clint Barmes
Third Basemen: Chipper Jones
Shortstop: Asdrubal Cabrera
Outfielder: Carl Crawford
Outfielder: Jacoby Ellsbury
Outfielder: Jason Kubel
Utillity Player: Jermaine Dye
Pitching Staff:
Yovani Gallardo
Josh Johnson
A.J. Burnett
Brian Wilson
Rafael Soriano
David Aardsma
Ted Lilly
Javier Vázquez
Tommy Hanson
Jarrod Washburn
Scott Feldman