Choosing & Building the Right Fantasy Baseball Leagues in 2024
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
There is an infinite number of ways to play fantasy baseball, so what factors should you consider when joining or creating a league?
Eno and DVR discuss some of the basic elements of building or finding a league to play in, as well as a few 2024-specific strategy considerations to keep in mind in the face of MLB's 2023 rule changes and the resulting impact on the run environment.
Rundown
1:40 How Do You Want to Play? - and - Key Questions to Consider
14:17 Where Do You Want to Play? - and - League Formats/Entry Fee Options
23:05 Yes, Free Leagues Still Exist!
39:03 Why We Like the FanGraphs Auction Calculator (https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy-tools/auction-calculator)
46:43 What Are You Adjusting for 2024?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, February 8th, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:20.3 | We are going to talk about some structural and strategy-based things for 2024 fantasy baseball leagues. |
| 0:26.3 | So this is a great episode, whether you are playing for the first time or you're a season player. |
| 0:30.9 | We're going to get into some kind of unique 2024 things. |
| 0:34.1 | We're going to pull all the way back and explain some of the things we say that might |
| 0:37.9 | be a little bit jargony or insiderish as we go through the draft season, hopefully making |
| 0:43.9 | it a little easier, a little more accessible for anybody and everybody out there who wants |
| 0:47.9 | to play more fantasy baseball or just play some fantasy baseball for the very first time. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, we've had some requests |
| 0:55.2 | to go through the different types of games that are out there. We've had some listeners that |
| 1:00.1 | were listening for baseball reasons who were intrigued by fantasy and jumping in for the first time. |
| 1:04.9 | And then for anybody who does play these, we should be able to add some idea of strategies and maybe even some advanced |
| 1:12.4 | strategies. So hopefully it'll be appealing to all different kinds of people. So this was actually |
| 1:19.7 | inspired, I think, by listener Fred, who kind of made this initial request, not the only person |
| 1:24.5 | who's ever made the request, but suggested it could be put together as one episode. |
| 1:28.5 | So we're giving it a shot. |
| 1:29.4 | We'll see what we get at the end of this. |
| 1:31.5 | We'll call it the 101 laying the groundwork, preparing for a great 2024 fantasy baseball season. |
| 1:37.3 | I think the entry point is just how do you want to play? |
| 1:41.6 | How deep do you want to go? |
| 1:43.2 | If you haven't played before, maybe you've |
| 1:44.9 | played in a casual league with friends, what's that next sort of step? And obviously we talk |
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