Hammer in Center

Fantrax MLB best ball enthusiast. Math nerd.

[Fantasy ⚾️ Commish @DynastyOneStop]

Best Ball Bonanza is back!

Rules and more information here: https://t.co/bxhVheNtx9

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Another year of Fantrax Best Ball in the books. 1st in 16/51 top heavy, top 5 in 13/14 double up, and likely #1 overall in Best Ball Bonanza 10 (pending final standings). That'll do!

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Fantrax best ball all-value team at the All-Star break. Criteria: 1) at least 10% drafted; 2) listed here no earlier than their average draft round.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@dohyoungpark With Mike Redmond sitting in the opposing dugout

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@sportz_nutt51 I did 65 12-team Fantrax best balls. 14% of all Elly teams are in 1st place. For as good as he's been, that is solidly "good, not great"

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@Mags_S20 @Smada_PLive You can add 30-60 minutes to that easy for traffic, especially on Fridays and Sundays. That corridor gets nuts with everyone going to Tahoe and back

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

No one asked, but my highest share players across 65 Fantrax best ball leagues. Note the lack of early-round players, which I actively tried to keep below 20%. Limiting player concentration risk probably lowers my ceiling but should also raise the floor.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@Smada_PLive Drafting 65 best balls this year and I'm confident I'll win 20-25% of them. I try to win EACH one, but I don't try to win ALL of them; that would be too much player concentration risk.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@PeepMySlashLine @RotoClegg Not to throw @Mags_S20 under the bus, but he's a good manager so I know he can laugh at it. He had the misfortune of drafting this gem of a staff in a 2023 Fantrax best ball. This team finished dead last out of 948 teams I have data for.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

🎶One of these things, is not like the other things... 🎶

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@PeepMySlashLine

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

A big thank you to @DynastyOneStop and @Mags_S20 for having me on their excellent pod!

[Fantasy ⚾️ Commish @DynastyOneStop]

📣 New Podcast! "Best Ball Strategy and Deep Dive with Hammer" on @Spreaker https://t.co/5o45JRfzOU

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

I know I'm not the target demographic, but I don't understand the writing for Paw Patrol. Ostensibly emergency responder dogs, somehow back-to-back episodes have involved finding missing pigs.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@nut_history My two favorite facts: 1) Tom Kelly carrying 9(!) pitchers and 16 hitters on the roster and still running out of sticks, forcing him to pinch hit with his closer in the 12th; and 2) Zubaz! In the dugout!

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

2023 All-Value Team. Constraints: players selected at or 1 round before ADR. Standard 9OF/17P build. My takeaway? The huge 3,400+ point gap between the theoretical best team and the average league-winner (~11,250 points) means there are practically infinite viable strategies.

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

@nut_history Thanks for making my hair famous again

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Pretty happy with this for my first year. Best ball offseason over, on to 2024 draft season!

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Unofficial Best Ball Bonanza final top 10. Thanks to Luzardo's suspended game QS finally getting recorded in the system, I snuck into 2nd!

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Updated BBB top 10 with one week left. Unfortunately, I found a formula error causing many of the top scores to be mapped to the wrong teams. Fixed now; fortunately it did not impact the two teams in the lead. Apologies for any confusion!

[Hammer in Center @HammerCF4]

Best Ball Bonanza top 10 thru Sunday's action. The Decision Desk has been ready to call the top spot in the $10 for a few weeks now, but there is still plenty of drama, especially for 2nd.