Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host James Anderson, and I've got the great Mark Winoker back with me.

And Mark, you know, I mentioned to Rob last week.

I haven't been that in tune with the overalls, but I know that you've got a good team or two in both of the auction

contests right now. And we're going to be looking back on some of the best and worst buys,

looking at the final like seven days before the season started what the average auction values

were by position,

see what we can learn from that, maybe looking ahead to next year.

Then we're going to close looking at which guys on the injured list are worth stashing

and holding right now currently in 15-team high-stakes leagues.

But I just want to throw it to you first.

We're about three months removed from those high-stakes drafts.

I don't know if you have any kind of overall thoughts before we go kind of more granular by position.

Yeah, thanks for having me again, James.

Really appreciate it.

That was a great pod with Rob.

I had to switch off from a Met Jersey to the Colorado College Tiger jersey here in the middle of the summer because

can't have two met jerseys on back-to-back pods but yeah this has been a good exercise to look back

we're about halfway home and look at what we we and that's the collective, thought before the season and what has actually

happened. And we'll get into this at each position. But one thing I've noted is we are not

nearly as good at picking players as we might think we are, given all the advanced analytics

and all of the time and attention, we put all of the content,

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