Trying my best

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:43 am

Wife and kids are away this weekend. First time in a while. It's been a tough, tough offseason for me. Anyways, this allows me to focus on fantasy baseball for 2 days!

I'm going through my team-by-team analysis and projections. Started at 1pm today and only through 3 teams so far. I forgot how much time this takes.

BALT; BOS; CHW in da books! Hopefully I can get the rest of the American League down tonight. IT'S DAMN GOOD TO BE THINKING BASEBALL AGAIN!!!

Greg - I may soon be ready to make a more substantial commitment...

[ February 19, 2011, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Gekko ]

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:56 am

Forgot to mention...I'm only looking at hitters. Pitchers will be next week or two.

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:12 am

CLE; DET done

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:23 pm

Hate researching crappy teams like the Royals. Always makes for a long night with all of the position battles needing research. Ugh. Anyways...DUN!

Money · Post by **Money** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:06 pm

Originally posted by Gekko:

Hate researching crappy teams like the Royals. Always makes for a long night with all of the position battles needing research. Ugh. Anyways...DUN!

Mark, everyone hopes that you have gotten through your personal stuff, you're a well know and well liked player. I mean that sincerely,

Now this may be tounge in cheek, please keep these posts coming, they are riveting, most can't wait for the next one.

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:01 pm

Originally posted by Fast Money:

Mark, everyone hopes that you have gotten through your personal stuff, you're a well know and well liked player. I mean that sincerely,

Now this may be tounge in cheek, please keep these posts coming, they are riveting, most can't wait for the next one. Joe - I aim to please! While I'm spending time doing my own research, I wonder what other owners are doing. I guess we'll find out, won't we?

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:59 am

LAA in the books last night and then I took a break...TILL MORNING!!!

Time for Sunday service and then back to the "library".

If anyone hasn't spent at least 30 minutes thinking about a specific team, I highly recommend it. Assuming you are researching about 12 hitters per team, that is less than 3 minutes per player.

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:12 am

NYY; OAK; SEA ddddddun!

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:14 am

PS - SEA sucks!!!

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:26 am

TEX & TAM finished. 1 left. Anyone have another 24 hours left so i can get the NL hitters done?

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:48 am

AL hitters complete. Man that was long.

Just fueled up with dinner (omelet) and ready to start NL hitters. Wife and kids won't be back until noon tomorrow so I have an outside chance of getting all hitters done. Already found some nice sleepers for this year!

bustouts · Post by **bustouts** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:51 am

you must be on facebook.........since you think we need to know everything you are doing

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:53 am

Originally posted by bustouts:

you must be on facebook.........since you think we need to know everything you are doing that reminds me, i went on a 45 minute fast walk this afternoon. felt good!

imported_clodbuster · Post by **imported_clodbuster** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:59 am

Which sources do you use when researching depth charts?

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:35 am

usually i find out the depth charts by researching the teams/players. when you spend 5 minutes researching each player, you kinda find out the depth charts in the process.

as for finding depth chart summaries, i tend to look at MLB, but even those aren't kept up to date. there's no substitute to researching players/teams.

lschechter · Post by **lschechter** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:22 pm

Yeah, depth charts aren't usually very accurate, especially when it comes to players who may platoon; and pitchers who are competing for the rotation spots.

Having said that, the best I've seen is Sandlot Shrink. It's a pay website for most content, but the depth charts are free.

LONG GONE · Post by **LONG GONE** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:32 am

What website predicts the best batting order?

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:35 am

I'm putting the finishing touches on my projections and draft plan. Wish I spent as much prep time on this as I did last year. Oh well, I hope I've done enough. Good luck everyone.