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The Monday Morning Sleeper Welcome to this weeks’ edition of the Monday Morning Sleeper, where every Monday morning I profile a different potential sleeper candidate and present you with my arguments on why I think you should reach for this late ranked talent who may help you to take down your league championship. My first 2017 sleeper candidate is Paul Perkins. He is a 22-year-old running back entering his second season with the New York Giants, and I predict that he will take a huge leap forward in his sophomore season…

Oh, Happy Day! Real-life Major League Baseball is finally upon us! Sunday is opening day of the 2017 MLB season and with it the start of the Fantasy Baseball season. One strategy fantasy players like to utilize is focusing on two-start pitchers in a week. This is particularly the case for H2H leagues out there who set rosters weekly. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, it basically maximizes those pitchers' points given they have two opportunities in a week to accumulate. In most weeks this is an essential strategy as…

With the Calder trophy coming down to a two-man race between Patrick Laine and Austin Matthews it's easy to forget about some of the other Rookies in the NHL this year that could have had a chance at winning the ROY. Without Liane and Matthews, the Calder race could have been just as exciting if not more so, only with more players involved. So here is a look at the other rookies who are having Calder worthy seasons. Matthew Tkachuk Matthew plays the game much like his dad, Keith Tkachuk did in the nineties, in your face…

Twins 2017 Preview Although it may seem foolish in retrospect, there was optimism in Minneapolis entering the 2016 season. The Twins were coming off of an 83-79 season, one in which they were in the wild-card hunt until the final weekend of the season with a surprisingly competitive young team. Most notably, top prospect Miguel Sano broke onto the scene with a fantastic 80-game debut season, in which he hit .269/.385/.530, good enough for a 150 wRC+ that made him 50% better than the average major-league hitter. Although…

One of my fellow fantasy league players once compared the process of tracking MLB prospects to playing the stock market. There is a lot of the same process involved for both as one needs to track progress, news, and other outside factors to determine when you decide to buy in or pass on the transaction. There is also the "kind of stock" that a person wants to buy into. That is why two catchers are included in this list as this position does not have a really deep pool of resources for a fantasy player. Finding good young…

The 2017 NBA Draft is one of the deepest since the famous 2003 draft that gave us LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Carmelo Anthony, among others. This year the household names are mostly guards, with fans and analysts falling in love with Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball, Malik Monk, and Josh Jackson. While these four players are top level talents and should be considered potential all-stars, many of us are missing the boat on a player who has been great all year and could turn into a star. That player is Florida…

Rookie Profile: Austin Meadows In a world where everyone is looking for the next big thing, Fantasy sports is no different. Most of us get intrigued by the new and flashy, which makes us forget about the solid, reliable options that have helped us in the past. Sometimes this works out, other times we get burned. One prospect who looks to be the real deal for years to come is Austin Meadows. Meadows has been a highly ranked prospect since the day he was drafted and has risen into the top ten of basically every prospect…

If you look up crapshoot in the dictionary, the word saves should be there right next to it. Saves are one of the most difficult statistics to predict in Fantasy baseball.  Closers are one-inning specialists who in most cases, throw as hard as they can to get three outs and as a result, often run into arm trouble. There are a grand total of five closers pitching for the 30 teams in MLB who began 2016 as their team’s undisputed closer and completed the season in that role without missing any time for injury. Inexperienced…

MLB Offseason Moves With just under a week until baseball is upon us again, draft season is in full swing. As dedicated fantasy players, we typically spend the time we should be spending with family or working, researching players and who we are going to draft. There’s a whole lot that goes into assessing and ranking players. An important factor that we have to take a look at is what the rest of the player’s team looks like. Obviously, players get sent all over the place throughout the offseason, so it’s important to take a…

Nick Senzel Rookie Profile As I see it, there are three ways how to decide whether a player is going to be good or not – statistics, watching him play on the field, and what I do. I call it scouting from a distance. I take the player stats (season/career) as my base and then if I like them, I start researching the player. I look at his build, face, position compatibility (whether he fits the profile of the position he plays and whether that position is a position of need for the organization he plays for), read articles,…