R.I.P., Nick Adenhart
by: Rob Reed
| April 9, 2009, 8:48am
ESPN is reporting that hours after pitching a stellar, six inning shutout, Angel rookie Nick Adenhart was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
R.I.P., Nick. He was 22-years old.
PLAYERtrack Tutorial Video #1: The NIX Tool
by: Rob Reed
| April 7, 2009, 9:51am
The PLAYERtrack NIX tool is an invaluable method of sifting through players who have already been drafted, making your next player choice a speedier process.
My money league results....
by: Rob Reed
| April 4, 2009, 7:26pm
This was the strangest draft that we have ever had, and that says a lot being as most of us have been playing together for some 12 years or so... This was so strange, in fact, that one team took on an ALL closer strategy. No kidding.
I should have immediately caught on when one of the owners of that team asked me at the start: "do we have a minimum innings pitched requirement?"
Closers became a huge commodity, so when I finished my 8 active pitcher draft and only had a $6 Heath Bell as my lonely closer (he was a... [read more]
Another chance to beat the fantasy out of Rob...
by: Rob Reed
| April 3, 2009, 5:40pm
If you didn't get a chance to get into any of the Beat the Geek or Playertrack fantasy leagues, one lucky person still has a shot... but, of course, there's a catch.
For 16 years, I have been playing a very fun baseball sim game at baseballmanager.com. It is unlike your normal fantasy game in that the game uses real stats from the night before and simulates ENTIRE games based upon the night before stats.
If a player you have starting the night before does not play, the system uses a random stat from the player's stat bank.
Thanks to all of the PLAYERtrack subscribers...
by: Rob Reed
| April 2, 2009, 4:04pm
When I was in high school, my high school baseball team won the city championship. A member of that championship team, which also happened to include former major league closer Rod Beck, was Pat Chawki.
For years, I had heard from former classmates that Pat died of unknown causes... it turns out, he is very much alive, but he is suffering from Locked-In syndrome.
Unfortunately, insurance does not cover physical therapy treatment that could help Pat get better.
Thanks to you good folks who have bought subscriptions here, I donated $105 on your behalf to Pat's medical... [read more]
Congrats to the WBC bracket winner!
by: Rob Reed
| April 2, 2009, 3:44pm
The winner of our WBC bracket contest is Daigo Fujiwara of daigofujiwara.com!
He had the US, Japan, AND Korea in the final four... and Japan beating Korea in the final... this, as you can imagine, bested -- by a country mile -- everybody else.
Congrats to loyal playertrack user and podcast listener Tyler Mintz who selected Japan to win it all, but he couldn't match wits with the rest of Daigo's picks.
ESPN is reporting that hours after pitching a stellar, six inning shutout, Angel rookie Nick Adenhart was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
This was the strangest draft that we have ever had, and that says a lot being as most of us have been playing together for some 12 years or so... This was so strange, in fact, that one team took on an ALL closer strategy. No kidding.
When I was in high school, my high school baseball team won the city championship. A member of that championship team, which also happened to include former major league closer Rod Beck, was Pat Chawki.
