You're listening to Wins Above Fantasy, part of the Pitcherless podcast network with Van Burnett and Steve Giswelly.

Welcome back, everybody. It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 187. I'm Van Burnett, joined, as always, by Steve Gisweli.

Got a fun show, a traditional show, probably five years in the running.

Talking strength of schedule, second half analysis, looking for advantages down the home stretch of the regular season, in through the playoffs.

Or if you're playing roto, where you can try to make up some ground

always kind of an underrated topic we've said over the years because we spent so much time

looking at the players the underlying metrics and that's still important for this exercise

but it's a little bit more on the high level baseball side of things things, Steve, where we're looking at who's

playing who and where there's advantages to be had on the pitching side and on the hitting

side.

So can't wait to get into it.

It's a little bit different of a rundown where we're not quite going player by player

and doing the deep dive.

This one is trying to boil the ocean a little bit

when you look at all of these lineup or matchup advantages. And then we've selected about five or

six teams in particular who have really cushy matchups the rest of the way. And we'll talk

about some hitters and pitchers, but can't wait to get into it.

It's always a fun show, kind of a messy one, but we have fun trying to navigate the waters.

Steve, I know we were talking offline about just this time of year.

It is a mixture of fantasy fatigue of the dog days of summer, although we are coming off of the All-Star

break, which was a much-needed rest. And it's also the grind when you have to really lock in

because this is where championships are won, really, when you're down the home stretch and a couple

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