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Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Advanced Methods for Winning Your League |  | Author: Henry Lee
Publisher: Squeaky Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1034779
Media: Paperback
Pages: 244
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0974844500
EAN: 9780974844503
ASIN: 0974844500
Publication Date: January 15, 2004
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Product Description
THE AVERAGE READER IMPROVED 3 PLACES IN THE STANDINGS! Nothing validates the value of this book more than actual results. We surveyed people who purchased the book directly from the publisher's website and the average reader did improve significantly. On the site is a screenshot of a reader's three teams that came in first place in each of his different leagues. Does this book offer magical tricks that will befuddle your opponents and lift you to victory every time? No, but having a strategy will improve your odds within your league - that is for sure. Fantasy Baseball Strategy is a practical guide to putting together a strategy that works best for you. If you think you know it all already, this book probably is not for you. If you could use some good ideas and a book that gives you a framework for creating advantages for your team, this book will help. Winning your 2005 fantasy baseball league is much more than just uncovering bargains at your draft or auction. You have to do more than just sign up for a league, buy a magazine and show up. You need a clear strategy to guide your every move throughout the season, allowing you to create advantages over your competition at each step of the way. This book is for you if you want those advantages in your league. You will discover how easy it is to create: - Draft and Auction Strategies - Trading Strategies - Free Agent Strategies - Keeper Strategies - Valuation Strategies - Management Strategies - Competitive Strategies No cookie cutter "strategy" that can be conveniently summed up in an acronym will help you consistently dominate your league. You need to devise a customized, comprehensive strategy that fits your style, your league, and your competition. Fantasy Baseball Strategy is your guide to easily forming that strategy. If only your favorite Major League Baseball team had this kind of advantage!
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| Customer Reviews:
 If you know nothing about fantasy baseball May 12, 2007
I love a mystery (Florida, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book may be of help to a raw beginner, but even then be warned that it's mostly about auction leagues.
 Not for Head to Head and only for Auction July 8, 2006
Ian Mccullough (Nashville, TN United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This might be useful in going up against newbies, or the moronic. However, if you are in a long term savvy league (like me) there is nothing here to gain. I'll save you money - trade for marginal value. Ta da! All the valuations are geared towards a roto auction draft. It is useless for snake drafts and his psychological tricks theory applies poorly to online leagues where communication is strictly by email. Also, the system does not account for Head to Head leagues where those ten homers in the first month mean nothing at the end of the season. To be fair, he does dedicate about five sentences to Head to Head in the book - all to say his theories apply just as well. I'll just read the Baseball Prospectus next year and end up first in both my leagues (again) without this tripe.
 Great for first time auction drafts March 9, 2006
E.J. Matkowski (philly)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Read this in prep for my first auction draft to get a handle on the differences between that and the regular snake drafts I always played. Offered great insight on objective ways to evaluate and rank everybody. Also good chapters on strategy as well to help avoid pitfalls during auction. Recommended as a good read for anyone venturing into (or are already in) auction drafts.
THE BEST BOOK EVER FOR WINNING YOUR LEAGUE! February 5, 2005
Carl A. Sanger
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can't tell you how valuable I found Henry Lee's book! After mainly floundering in our 12-team league for 12 years, I followed Henry's strategies for our draft and was in the top three all year, only to drop to fourth on the last day of the season. If you want a strategy that will catapult you to the top, look no further. Henry is the REAL DEAL! I highly recommend this book and Henry's spreadsheet to anyone who wants to win it not just be in it. Thank you, Henry!
Not particularly advanced or new December 10, 2004
M. Mason (St. Louis, MO)
11 out of 17 found this review helpful
If the author truly has a PhD in astrophysics, as suggested by one reviewer, he must have a Bush speechwriter as a ghostwriter since most of the book is at about an 8th grade level.
This book will help you only if you are a fantasy baseball novice, and you play in the same type of shallow mixed type league as the author. Or if you are an 8th grader.
Otherwise the strategies presented within have all been done before, and often written about more clearly and in greater detail by earlier authors.
If you are desperate to spend 20 bucks on this book, send it to me, and I'll send you the book and 10 bucks change. Otherwise you would be better served to read older books by John Benson, Alex Patton, Art McGee, Ron Shandler, and Pete Golenbock. Many of the editions are old or out of print but can be picked up for a few bucks either on Amazon or Alibris.
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