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[Help Desk] Fantasy Baseball Draft Buddy Tech Support Q&A, Part II

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Here are two more recent tech support emails (one email, one tweet) received for fantasy baseball version of Draft Buddy. Part I questions and answers was posted yesterday.

More Players on Overall Cheatsheet

Question:

I’m usually asking questions about the fantasy football Draft Buddy, but this year I’m trying out baseball, too. Is there any way to have a longer list of players? For example, in one of my leagues (mixed 5×5 with 24 roster spots), the cheatsheets never got to Joc Pederson, and he got drafted by a competitor. So is there a way to see more players on the cheatsheet, or physically add on a player who’s not on the lists? Thanks for the time.

Answer:

The overall list does stop at a point, and baseball drafts do tend to be longer/deeper than football on average, but similar to the football Draft Buddy, the positional cheatsheets have more players listed at each position. I see Pederson in my OF rankings on the hitters cheatsheet at #60. I found him quickly by using CTRL-F (Command-F on Mac) which brings up a find box, typing in part of his name and hitting OK.

If you truly can’t find a player you can always type his name next to the relevant pick on the draft report tab. That player’s team might not come up, but the name should still flow through to the roster and update Buddy for the next pick in the draft.

One thing I find with baseball drafts is the players being drafted can vary a lot more than football. Lots of different players to choose from, lots of different opinions on his current year fantasy contributions. The young guys are interesting too. Players may start in the minors and are expected to come up to the majors later in the season and contribute. The big question is when. Some owners are pretty savvy about drafting these guys, or are just excited about drafting and rostering prospects, depending on the size of the league and available roster spots of course. We don’t really see that in football. Young guys are more or less expected they are going to produce right away or not, unless injury strikes a veteran opening the door for a rookie.

Tiering

Question and Answer:

Let me expand on this about the tier difference to say that depending on whether your cheatsheets have dollar values or fantasy points, and how big those values are, will influence how appropriate the tiering difference value is set at on the options tab. For dollar values on a $260 salary cap, a small difference of $5 (the default) is probably good to get nice size tiers. For fantasy points, where the points are in hundreds, then you will need a much large number to show suitable tiers.

[Help Desk] Fantasy Baseball Draft Buddy Tech Support Q&A

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I received some tech support emails yesterday and today after sending out the latest member newsletter announcing Draft Buddy 3.0, and as more and more fantasy baseball drafts are ramping up. These questions and answers may be of value to other members, so I decided to post them.

ZiPS and Carlos Gomez

Question:

Hey Mike, where in the new Draft Buddy are ZiPS projections located? Also, Why is Carlos Gomez so low compared to other sites? Thanks for the hard work as usual!

– Loyal fan of yours in football and baseball

Answer:

Thanks! You have version 3.0? Go to the action tab and there is a drop-down where you can select what projections you want to update. Select ZiPS – should be third on the list – and then hit Update Projections. That will put ZiPS into the Site A section. Then you can use the buttons on that tab to move them to Site B or C if you like, and select another set of projections and update those (to A).

Once you have all 3 updated sets in there, then you can use the allocation keys on the options tab to decide which one to use for the cheatsheets.

Hey… this just came to me, but if you downloaded v.3.0, it already has the updated projections including ZiPS. They are in the third yellow section of projections on the hitters data and pitchers data tabs.

We do have Gomez OF #5 and top 13 overall, in my default settings using Steamer projections. Remember the cheatsheets are based on projections, so if a guy is more risky (too young, unproven, too old, injury risk) or less risky (high floor, consistent, etc.) then you may want to adjust for that in the rankings after the pure projections based rankings. That is probably what is happening here… or Steamer is just a little lower on him.

Rankings Adjustments

Question:

I really appreciate this software. Is there a way to adjust player rankings without changing the projections? Thanks.

Answer:

Thanks! Yes, there is. What I suggest is running Draft Buddy for your league rules and scoring, so the cheatsheets are based off the projections and based on the settings you want to use to get them relatively close to what you would like. Then, go to the hitters, pitchers and overall tabs. Notice the yellow highlighted cells for the Rank and Tier columns? You can change those numbers and then hit the appropriate “Re-Rank” buttons on the cheatsheets and it should re-sort the players the way you want them.

Did you get version 3.0? There was a small problem with this feature on the overall rankings at some point but I can’t remember when I fixed it.