Lineup Construction
Big Idea: Maximize Opportunities
Playing fantasy baseball is a whole lot like being the manager of a real baseball team. You want to put your team and players in the best position to win. You want to stay out of the way as much as possible. When it comes to roster construction in MLB cash games, there is one primary thing that you need to keep at the forefront of your mind: maximize opportunities.
I have taught you how to identify the players with the best matchups and in the best individual situations to succeed. We are now going to learn how to blend individual matchups with team factors that will help us put together the very best cash-game roster possible.
Baseball is a funny game in that on a player level they are going to fail way more than they are going to succeed. Baseball is a game based upon failure. You need to have this ingrained into your memory, because it is important to consider when playing fantasy baseball and more importantly DFS.
Where else can you make millions of dollars and be considered great because you can perform your job 30% (.300 Avg.) of the time? Now don’t get me wrong, baseball is fairly predictive year to year, but from day to day there is so much variance or unpredictability. We need to take this into consideration when constructing our lineups.
In NBA, you know if this guy gets X minutes, he is likely to score X fantasy points. In MLB, the best players (Mike Trout or Bryce Harper) can go 0-4 on any given night. This is why it is extremely important to chase power even in cash games. Some people might think that it is too risky and that you need to chase guys that get on base a ton, but I truly believe the best way to approach it is to emphasize power first if all possible.
Obviously you will not be able to get power at every position in your lineup, so speed and the ability to get on base will come into play, but emphasizing power needs to be at the forefront of your mind.
With all that being said, I am going to walk you through a step by step process of building a MLB cash lineup. It is not the end-all-be-all, but it will provide you a structure that you can work within.
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