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Given the lack of updates on the website since the MLB season started, as I’ve focussed my attention on getting the fantasy football version of Draft Buddy ready, here is a feed to keep us updated on the latest news, fantasy notes and upcoming games with projected starting pitchers.

Baseball News from MLB.com

Fantasy Baseball News From RotoWorld

Upcoming Games

  • Orioles (C Tillman, -1.5 +130) at Blue Jays (S Nolin)
  • Twins (S Deduno) at Tigers (A Sanchez, -1.5 -115)
  • Indians (Masterson) at Red Sox (J Lackey, -1.5 +170)
  • Angels (J Vargas, -1.5 +140) at Royals (L Mendoza)
  • Athletics (T Milone, -1.5 -110) at Astros (E Bedard)
  • Rangers (J Grimm, -1.5 +130) at Mariners (J Saunders)
  • Braves (K Medlen, -1.5 -105) at Mets (J Hefner)
  • Cubs (S Feldman) at Reds (B Arroyo, -1.5 +135)

 
Baseball betting lines are courtesy of SportsInteraction.

 

Fantasy Baseball Update, Fantasy Football Work In-progress

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Two and a half weeks into the Major League Baseball season, and the Toronto Blue Jays are not where fans like myself hoped they’d be so far, sitting two games below .500 after a win tonight at home to the Chicago White Sox. It is still very early. I held my expectations in check even while the Jays skyrocketed up the Vegas odds list to win the World Series, but it is still a little disappointing thanks to some ugly pitching performances, lack of consistent hitting and a mostly absentee Jose Bautista through almost 10% of the season (16 games played / 162).

Losing Jose Reyes for three months with a twisted ankle is an extra tough pill to swallow. He looked absolutely awesome, especially as many of the other new Jays and old Jays alike struggled. I feel like the value of my Jays tickets over the next three months dropped somewhat knowing we won’t see him out there manning short. Come back healthy, Jose.

Okay, so as you can see from the sudden decline in updates since the season started, not much is going on here for fantasy baseball for the time being. Our main annual contribution to fantasy baseball is the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy, but once the season starts, it did its job and we essentially pack it away until next season. Thanks once again to everyone who used it this year.

I thought about adding regularly updated player stats, but given the cost to purchase the stats and time parsing and inserting them into the database, that hasn’t happened. It may still, but other projects are taking higher priority currently. I updated the team rosters and depth charts today, and will continue to try to keep them updated on roughly a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

The projects that are taking all of my time are all about, fantasy football. The NFL just announced its 2013 schedule tonight. The NFL Draft is one week away. My dynasty leagues are starting to buzz with a little more action. Yep, time to get ready for fantasy football draft season. June will be here faster than I want to think about it.

Most of the work I’m doing is all behind the scenes right now, updating my football database, getting Draft Buddy ready and thinking about my own rankings. As I have updates to give, I’ll give them, but I wanted to write this now because the site was getting a bit stale since our previous baseball update as the season started.

Here is hoping your fantasy baseball season is looking up the way the Blue Jays season was expected to go, and even if its not, there is still a long season ahead, and not to mention, fantasy football to look forward to.

Final Fantasy Baseball Projections Update for Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy

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I am away for some rest and relaxation right now, but constantly connected and still updating ye ole website as possible and as needed. Today we were due for an update. I received a final fantasy baseball projections update from Steamer Projections Blog for the Steamer-Razzball projections. FantasyPros also updated their Zeile Consensus projections, and with Opening Day now officially in the books yesterday, I’m putting a cap on that and calling those the final projections as well.

The update is now available for the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy. Each set of projections are updated, plus Average Draft Position (ADP) data from each of FantasyPros, Mock Draft Central and National Fantasy Baseball Championship.

The depth charts are taking a little more time than I’d like with all the final week changes, and my desire to not mess up the available players we already have in the Compiler & Draft Buddy. I updated the AL East so far, plus the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim so I could get Vernon Wells on the New York Yankees, and I’ll work away at the rest as time allows (and to not annoy the wife while on vacation).

Thanks once again to all the guys at FantasyPros, Steamer, MDC and NFBC for their contributions to the Compiler & Draft Buddy this fantasy baseball season. It is very much appreciated.

Thanks to all of you, our members, for continuing to use the CC/DB, or trying it for the first time this season. I hope you liked it, and will remember us again next year. Or, even better, if you play fantasy football make sure to try out the fantasy football version of the CC/DB.

Have a great season. Go Blue Jays!

One Day to Opening Day, Projections Update

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It is nearing 1:30 am in the morning where I’m sitting, and I have a family vacation planned to start tomorrow. Er… later today. Not too late in the day though. Our flight leaves at a ridiculous 6:30 am, so just 5 more hours to boarding and departure.

Why then am I up right now instead of getting some much needed rest? We have another projections update! To start with, I had to stay up until the final of the Florida Gulf Coast-Florida game so I could appropriately update my March Madness Survivor Pool.

As I was waiting for the game to finish, I flipped over to FantasyPros and saw they updated their Zeile Consensus projections. Then I zoomed over to Steamer Projections Blog to find out they updated their Steamer-Razzball projections. Everyone is keen for a last final tweak to their projections before we hit Opening Day on Sunday night and Monday.

I guess it is time for an update for the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy, and our online fantasy baseball cheatsheet rankings. Those are now updated as of this post, so open your copy of the Compiler, select the projections you want to update, and hit Update Projections.

Thanks again for all of the support this year. The response to the baseball Compiler & Draft Buddy continues to be very strong. If you are still drafting this final weekend before real baseball starts, good luck! Have a great season!

Projections, ADP and Depth Charts Update

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The Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy update is now available! That was quite a chore, starting yesterday and finally finishing today, but we have updated projections from each of FantasyPros and Steamer-Razzball, Average Draft Position (ADP) data from each of Pros, Mock Draft Central and NFBC, plus updated depth charts. These updates also helped create updated fantasy baseball cheatsheets, for those who want to quickly print and run to their draft instead of downloading and setting up the CC/DB.

If I could mention the depth charts (and accompanying rosters) for a moment, I’m still not entirely happy with how they are presented on the website. The 25-man rosters are in good shape, as that is what I’m concentrating on mostly because those are most relevant for fantasy purposes, and they feed into the Cheatsheet Compiler (well, it all does). It is the remaining 40-man roster players and non-roster players that are tougher to keep straight.

As time allows, I can see I’m still going to continue to fuss around with the depth chart and roster pages to provide as much information, in a clean and organized format, as possible. What isn’t helping entirely is the roster data purchased from our stats provider. It gives me all the players, but in terms of identifying what roster a player is currently on, and whether he is injured or not, the data falls short in places.

Anyway, something for me to continue to work at and improve. If you are still drafting this week and Easter weekend leading to Opening Day, grab the update and good luck!

Baseball Coming Soon! Projections Update Coming Sooner

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It is getting a bit late in the day here Monday (when I take into account hustling kids home from school, some other chaos going on in this household (don’t get me started), and the fact I play hockey tonight), so I don’t want to guarantee the next projections update will be done today. However, it looks like Steamer updated their projections and FantasyPros updated their Zeile consensus projections, so we are definitely due for an update heading into the final week before the start of the season. I wanted to post a quick Monday update saying that is what I’m working on, and for you guys to expect it shortly.

I’ll also hit the ADP which should be updated to reflect drafts from this past weekend, and whatever depth charts changes are needed, like Vernon Wells to the New York Yankees, assuming it gets approved. What a contract he got from the Toronto Blue Jays. Even after an unbelievable offseason of player acquisitions, shipping Wells off to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim may still rank as Jays GM Alex Anthopolous’ greatest magic trick.

If you have a minute, and you’ve had a good experience using the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy this season, please add a testimonial. I’d really appreciate it.

Also like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter, if you haven’t already. I’m not the most rah-rah social media butterfly around, but each of those sites do prove to be very good ways for us to communicate if you have thoughts or questions about the CC/DB or other features at the website. Okay, on to the update. I’ll be back as soon as possible.

Fantasy Baseball 2013 Consensus Top Prospects

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One of my favorite tasks prepping for the upcoming fantasy baseball season is compiling my consensus top prospects list, a ranking of the next best players in baseball. This is the fourth year publishing the list. Feel free to go back and check the top prospects from 2010, 2011 and 2012, and you’ll quickly see what a major impact these players have on the fantasy baseball landscape today. The top of this list are the guys you want to build your deep keeper and dynasty league fantasy baseball teams around for years to come.

This year I used 14 publicly available “top 100″ prospect lists to form the basis of my list, although there were changes to the lists included in the consensus from last year. Players had to be named on at least seven of the lists to make the final cut. Players were given 100 points for a 1st place listing, 99 points for second, 98 for third and on and on down to 1 point for a selection as number 100.

Each list that formed the consensus is identified in the key below. Each player’s score for that list is indicated and their average is listed last. Scores are based on the number of lists they appear. I realize this simple system has the potential to skew the results of those picked on fewer lists, but overall it provides a good snapshot of the guys you should target for your rosters.

 

Player
 BA BP CBS DL KL MLB PP 361 SC SB S2S TBH TDG TPA AVG
1. SS Jurickson Profar, TEX
 100 100 99 100 100 100 100 100 99 100 100 100 100 100 99.9
2. RHP Dylan Bundy, BAL
 99 97 96 97 98 99 99 98 100 98 99 99 97 99 98.2
3. OF Oscar Taveras, STL
 98 99 95 99 99 98 98 99 98 97 93 97 99 97 97.6
4. OF Wil Myers, TB
 97 94 100 98 97 97 96 97 95 99 97 98 96 98 97.1
5. RHP Gerrit Cole, PIT
 94 98 92 95 93 92 97 96 97 96 92 94 93 95 94.6
6. RHP Taijuan Walker, SEA
 83 92 81 91 92 96 88 91 96 95 94 93 90 87 90.6
7. SS Xander Bogaerts, BOS
 93 89 89 96 96 81 95 90 74 89 91 96 95 86 90
8. RHP Zack Wheeler, NYM
 90 96 91 87 88 93 89 93 84 84 96 79 94 91 89.6
9. RHP Jose Fernandez, MIA
 96 95 84 93 85 94 93 92 80 87 95 80 87 94 89.6
10. RHP Shelby Miller, STL
 95 85 98 94 80 76 90 95 83 86 84 89 92 96 88.8
11. 3B Miguel Sano, MIN
 92 80 90 86 90 89 92 85 85 90 98 84 83 92 88.3
12. C Travis d’Arnaud, NYM
 78 86 97 85 87 95 80 88 93 92 86 85 91 76 87.1
13. RHP Jameson Taillon, PIT
 82 90 80 88 81 86 87 89 94 93 79 91 86 85 86.5
14. RHP Trevor Bauer, CLE
 87 77 85 90 76 84 94 78 86 91 88 95 80 84 85.4
15. LHP Tyler Skaggs, ARI
 89 84 77 83 89 91 86 84 88 83 85 86 78 90 85.2
16. SS Billy Hamilton, CIN
 81 87 94 81 71 90 75 94 75 94 77 90 98 80 84.8
17. OF Christian Yelich, MIA
 86 78 82 82 95 88 83 83 87 85 82 82 76 73 83
18. SS Javier Baez, CHC
 85 81 88 89 70 85 81 79 79 73 90 81 84 77 81.6
19. C Mike Zunino, SEA
 84 68 93 92 86 78 85 80 71 74 81 67 75 74 79.1
20. 3B Nick Castellanos, DET
 80 64 72 79 63 80 79 87 92 80 87 78 88 75 78.9
21. RHP Archie Bradley, ARI
 76 70 63 73 72 77 77 82 91 76 89 72 72 83 76.6
22. OF Jonathan Singleton, HOU
 74 76 66 80 69 74 72 74 73 72 75 70 85 78 74.1
23. OF Byron Buxton, MIN
 91 93 58 76 79 82 91 81 48 53 60 52 81 88 73.8
24. 3B Anthony Rendon, WAS
 71 66 62 65 84 73 82 86 64 77 73 68 89 70 73.6
25. 3B Mike Olt, TEX
 79 71 71 72 30 79 67 75 89 81 78 83 79 69 73.1
26. LHP Danny Hultzen, SEA
 72 51 74 71 35 83 69 64 90 88 83 92 71 79 73
27. SS Carlos Correa, HOU
 88 75 0 78 77 71 84 77 77 79 62 74 82 93 72.6
28. SS Francisco Lindor, CLE
 73 91 0 61 94 87 78 57 82 78 80 76 41 81 69.9
29. RHP Kevin Gausman, BAL
 75 88 61 77 75 64 74 55 59 71 47 69 50 82 67.6
30. RHP Carlos Martinez, STL
 63 58 64 62 62 68 68 70 63 75 57 87 69 60 66.1
31. OF Jorge Soler, CHC
 67 65 68 69 59 59 62 45 34 69 67 56 74 62 61.1
32. OF Jackie Bradley, BOS
 70 74 83 57 61 69 60 72 53 58 59 28 37 66 60.5
33. RHP Julio Teheran, ATL
 57 49 76 38 73 70 66 43 69 82 31 88 38 65 60.4
34. OF George Springer, HOU
 64 46 69 60 58 44 58 52 76 52 74 49 66 61 59.2
35. RHP Matt Barnes, BOS
 61 63 60 56 22 63 70 40 70 55 71 55 65 64 58.2
36. 3B Addison Russell, OAK
 53 79 0 70 91 53 71 62 61 56 55 41 67 56 58.2
37. OF Bubba Starling, KC
 66 52 0 44 56 75 52 36 66 68 76 75 55 68 56.4
38. OF Albert Almora, CHC
 68 83 0 54 68 62 65 65 65 57 56 33 30 67 55.2
39. RHP Kyle Zimmer, KC
 77 60 0 34 74 67 73 53 68 64 18 37 54 89 54.9
40. C Gary Sanchez, NYY
 44 54 0 68 83 65 54 67 72 34 68 66 46 41 54.4
41. OF Mason Williams, NYY
 69 50 0 40 66 60 56 76 58 62 50 51 49 71 54.1
42. RHP Aaron Sanchez, TOR
 36 69 0 66 82 66 76 38 52 49 70 0 62 55 51.5
43. RHP Noah Syndergaard, NYM
 47 73 0 74 4 72 40 46 55 54 63 59 45 57 49.2
44. SS Alen Hanson, PIT
 40 35 65 63 67 47 32 73 47 31 36 25 63 31 46.8
45. 3B Jedd Gyorko, SD
 30 17 86 49 31 51 50 42 50 65 26 57 60 33 46.2
46. RHP Trevor Rosenthal, STL
 62 56 70 75 43 58 64 26 32 29 33 0 47 43 45.6
47. 3B Nolan Arenado, COL
 49 44 67 10 0 39 55 7 67 70 46 64 58 58 45.3
48. RHP Chris Archer, TB
 65 72 59 43 48 55 47 0 42 66 21 20 59 36 45.2
49. OF David Dahl, COL
 48 61 0 59 64 43 42 71 41 42 23 18 53 52 44.1
50. RHP Taylor Guerrieri, TB
 39 53 0 67 54 57 49 63 30 7 72 19 43 17 40.7
51. OF Oswaldo Arcia, MIN
 60 41 56 51 42 8 46 49 9 51 8 39 64 46 40.7
52. RHP Robert Stephenson, CIN
 45 23 0 84 53 50 48 37 60 38 42 0 28 59 40.5
53. RHP Jake Odorizzi, TB
 9 18 0 36 33 56 53 60 56 59 69 71 27 18 40.4
54. OF Jake Marisnick, MIA
 37 30 0 0 19 31 30 66 81 60 45 54 42 42 38.4
55. 3B Kaleb Cowart, LAA
 41 59 0 0 78 34 35 56 45 50 51 4 51 14 37
56. LHP Max Fried, SD
 55 40 0 64 50 48 45 30 33 26 11 0 61 49 36.6
57. OF Brian Goodwin, WAS
 31 27 0 27 57 49 41 59 27 20 61 0 68 40 36.2
58. RHP Alex Meyer, MIN
 42 13 0 35 40 61 43 35 40 40 53 40 29 13 34.6
59. OF Gregory Polanco, PIT
 50 57 0 55 46 36 23 69 0 0 17 23 56 53 33.5
60. RHP Casey Kelly, SD
 56 24 0 48 41 32 39 0 26 61 34 0 70 37 33.4
61. 2B Kolten Wong, STL
 17 11 73 29 5 22 61 41 44 43 35 42 33 3 32.8
62. OF Rymer Liriano, SD
 0 62 0 0 47 46 0 68 57 0 65 35 73 0 32.4
63. SS Nick Franklin, SEA
 22 29 0 46 32 54 57 4 54 67 7 58 23 0 32.4
64. 3B Tyler Austin, NYY
 24 0 0 39 49 26 13 47 39 33 20 65 57 28 31.4
65. SS Trevor Story, COL
 5 67 0 25 16 2 44 54 18 23 41 61 48 26 30.7
66. RHP Kyle Gibson, MIN
 33 37 53 0 60 52 59 13 0 22 37 27 21 11 30.4
67. C Austin Hedges, SD
 43 82 0 58 65 28 34 14 0 0 52 13 0 27 29.7
68. OF Aaron Hicks, MIN
 29 55 75 11 52 3 28 16 24 39 27 7 31 5 28.7
69. LHP Justin Nicolino, MIA
 15 28 0 47 39 29 21 0 62 46 12 50 12 32 28.1
70. OF Yasiel Puig, LAD
 54 22 0 42 0 25 51 34 10 44 32 5 39 29 27.6
71. LHP James Paxton, SEA
 14 9 0 45 0 40 20 61 19 3 64 43 36 24 27
72. OF Adam Eaton, ARI
 28 0 87 18 10 4 27 58 0 45 0 8 34 45 26
73. RHP Allen Webster, BOS
 52 32 0 14 38 30 37 44 0 18 15 0 32 48 25.7
74. RHP Kyle Crick, SF
 35 36 0 53 25 15 24 27 43 27 10 0 13 47 25.4
75. RHP Wily Peralta, MIL
 32 33 57 0 28 37 0 0 28 47 0 53 35 0 25
76. LHP Tony Cingrani, CIN
 19 10 54 0 3 35 8 11 37 48 38 45 10 25 24.5
77. RHP Lucas Giolito, WAS
 34 31 0 31 24 27 38 5 0 24 3 0 40 72 23.5
78. 2B Delino DeShields Jr., HOU
 2 0 0 33 18 0 12 51 23 2 66 0 77 16 21.4
79. RHP Daniel Straily, OAK
 0 16 78 16 0 0 0 24 35 37 29 47 9 0 20.8
80. SS Hak-Ju Lee, TB
 11 26 0 0 23 45 5 0 78 63 9 10 0 20 20.7
81. LHP Jesse Biddle, PHI
 12 34 0 52 6 41 11 50 13 5 44 0 0 19 20.5
82. LHP Martin Perez, TEX
 20 42 0 26 8 6 19 1 46 0 22 63 1 38 19.9
83. OF Courtney Hawkins, CHW
 46 0 0 0 27 33 33 29 4 0 49 0 0 44 18.9
84. RHP Yordano Ventura, KC
 16 39 0 2 0 42 22 0 15 6 28 21 15 51 18.4
85. RHP Luis Heredia, PIT
 23 48 0 5 17 0 25 0 31 11 24 0 18 54 18.3
86. RHP Michael Wacha, STL
 25 45 0 41 0 18 63 23 7 15 0 0 0 12 17.8
87. 3B Matt Davidson, ARI
 13 12 0 13 26 24 9 20 51 10 0 26 26 7 16.9
88. OF Slade Heathcott, NYY
 38 0 0 0 44 0 31 48 21 0 0 0 0 50 16.6
89. RHP Zach Lee, LAD
 0 14 0 0 34 23 0 0 49 30 58 1 0 0 14.9
90. LHP Andrew Heaney, MIA
 58 0 0 0 0 20 29 15 0 0 0 0 0 63 13.2
91. RHP Clayton Blackburn, SF
 0 6 0 50 21 0 0 39 38 0 30 0 0 0 13.1
92. OF Michael Choice, OAK
 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 28 48 48 6 6 13.1
93. SS Jonathan Schoop, BAL
 0 21 0 0 51 0 0 17 0 0 0 60 20 0 12.1
94. RHP Bruce Rondon, DET
 6 0 79 0 0 9 4 31 5 21 0 0 0 0 11.1
95. RHP Arodys Vizcaino, CHC
 18 47 0 0 37 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 39 10.6
96. OF Avisail Garcia, DET
 27 0 0 21 0 0 15 0 2 9 0 38 0 30 10.1
97. RHP Cody Buckel, TEX
 0 0 0 30 11 14 17 0 0 0 5 62 0 0 9.9
98. RHP A.J. Cole, WAS
 0 0 0 0 12 10 0 8 1 41 6 44 3 0 8.9
99. RHP Daniel Corcino, CIN
 7 0 0 6 29 0 10 0 20 4 0 46 0 0 8.7
100. RHP J.R. Graham, ATL
 8 38 0 0 7 0 2 18 14 25 0 0 0 10 8.7
101. RHP Jarred Cosart, HOU
 0 0 0 3 15 12 16 0 16 0 43 0 7 0 8
102. SS Dorssys Paulino, CLE
 0 5 0 0 45 0 0 2 8 0 0 0 17 23 7.1
103. OF Marcell Ozuna, MIA
 26 0 0 0 0 0 14 22 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.6
104. 3B Joey Gallo, TEX
 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 6 0 13 29 0 0 4.1
105. OF Leonys Martin , TEX
 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 35 0 9 0 0 3.9

 

Steamer-Razzball and Zeile Projections Updates

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Welcome to a new week, another week closer to the start of baseball season. I know a bunch of our members drafted this past weekend and I’m sure there are still plenty of fantasy baseball drafts scheduled the next couple weeks. That, coupled with March Madness* kicking off this week, and we’ve got a pretty darn exciting sports calendar ahead of us.

To start the new week, we have an update to both sets of projections available in the Cheatsheet Compiler & Draft Buddy. The Steamer-Razzball projections from Steamer Projections Blog and Razzball, plus the Zeile Consensus Projections from FantasyPros, each updated on Sunday.

Those are now updated on our side, so you need to open your copy of the Cheatsheet Compiler, go to the setup tab, select which one you want to update, and hit Update Projections. Remember, if you want to update both sets of projections, select one, click Update Projections, then click the button to move it from Site A to Site B. Once that is done, select the other set and click Update Projections again.

The Average Draft Position (ADP) data from each of Mock Draft Central, FantasyPros and National Fantasy Baseball Championship also received an update. Select the one you prefer on the ADP tab in the Compiler and it will update when you update projections.

Last but not least, in terms of update news, new projections meant the Compiler kicked out new baseball cheatsheets for us, if you simply want to print the player rankings from the website and go.

I received a note from member btscot7 this morning wondering why he was getting an error opening Draft Buddy… something to do with the TimerModule. From that he reminded me that the countdown timer does not work in 64-bit versions of Excel. This happened last year too, I just forgot exactly what the issue was.

As of this morning there is a new alternate version of Draft Buddy available from our download page for 64-bit Excel users. You won’t be able to use the countdown timer, as I simply had to remove it (sorry), but better to get 100% of the core features of Draft Buddy and lose one frill feature than not be able to use it at all.

* Are you a college basketball fan, or even March Madness bandwagon fan this time of year (like me)? Over at one of my other websites, MyOfficePool.ca, I run a unique March Madness Survivor Pool that has steadily grown in popularity. If you want to try it out, sign up over there and give it a shot. It is a lot of fun and frustration trying to pick winners each round of the tourney to move on – survivor style. And you can’t pick the same team twice, so plan ahead!

Another Zeile Consensus Projections Update

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I moseyed over to FantasyPros today and noticed they updated the Zeile Consensus Projections again, so even though we did an update yesterday, I don’t want you guys heading into the weekend with outdated projections. A new update is now ready, and it is strictly for the Zeile projections. The ADP, depth charts and Steamer-Razzball projections all stayed the same. If you are using Zeile, open the Compiler, go to the update tab and hit Update Projections and you’ll be all set.