If you love playing daily fantasy baseball, this article will definitely be useful for you. In recent years, the U.S.A. has been known has been progressive in terms of customization. If you’ll notice, fast food restaurants can now let you have it your way. Cars can be customized, phones, and even D-list starlets have their faces customized. It’s not surprising that this need for customization has already reached the fantasy sports industry, especially in daily fantasy baseball. Currently, daily fantasy baseball sites offer a huge number of customizable game setups, aside from the traditional head-to-head and roto formats that they are known for. One of the reasons why the need for customization has come up is due to the new base percentage system.

There are about two things the fantasy league can use so they can utilize the base percentage system as a category. The first thing to do is to remove the batting average as a category. This will then be replaced by the base percentage. The other method involves making the batting average as the only category when incorporating the base percentage, which usually works well. As the case may be, the base percentage is responsible for critical changes in the values of certain players and their value in connection to the fantasy baseball world.

Who are the most valuable players in the base percentage fantasy baseball league? There is David Ortiz of D.H. Boston. He usually gets an average draft position of a 17.8 value. Then, there is Adam Dunn of O.F. Cincinnati with an average draft position value of 43.11. He should be going in the 30th mark and is just right behind players Aramis Ramirez and Alex Rios. Fantasy baseball pundits tell me that the Dunn game play is a batting average killer, and it places as a steal of a pick in the OBP count.

Baseball player Brad Hawpe is from Colorado. He has the draft position of 79.55 and he is heading towards the 61st overall, which is ahead of co-players Gary Sheffield and Cory Hard. He is a left hander and though this statistically may be a con, Hawpe is a mash pitcher in the league with an impressive .387 base percentage.  He is a good man to have when the scoring is OBP.

There is also Nick Swisher of the OF Chicago White Sox. His position was 103, but has since climbed to 86th place. Swisher has fully recovered and his performance is getting better at least on a base percentage scoring stand point.

If you are thinking about hard and fast rules that should be followed during draft day, think again. There are no so-called hard and fast rules needed to be followed. If you’re not planning on getting a QB early in the draft, but Michael Vick is available and you decide to pass on him, you are probably nuts and you probably deserve to lose. It is critical to use even a little bit of common sense which might spell the difference between winning and losing when playing daily fantasy football. Here are a few guidelines to follow to help you in drafting a competitive team.

• Draft a lot of RBs

Good tier 2 or tier 3 wide receivers are much easier to predict than running backs. They usually stay healthier than RBs because RBs get to hold the ball more, which translates to getting hit a lot more.

• Reach for the players you want to have

Don’t miss out on the players you want to have in your team during your daily fantasy football draft time. Don’t play it safe. Don’t worry about other league players making fun of you and just pick the guy you want.

• Do not draft a QB in the first round


This is a rule that is old and being questioned often, but any position where you only start one player needs to be waited on. There are 32 teams and if you are in a 12-team league, there are only 12 starting QBs. Michael Vick makes this rule even more questionable this season since he pretty much counts as a hybrid QB/RB, but I still stick with this rule since I don’t trust Vick to hold up enough for a first round pick. His upside is worth it, but he still scares me that early.

• Draft a backup QB

This is a known fact: quarterbacks are easily injured. It’s always a good idea to grab another upside backup because it gives you a little breathing room at the QB position plus you don’t have to spend on a high pick.

• Do not draft a tight end unless you have all your starters

Until we start seeing more 2 tight end leagues there is no reason to reach for a top tier tight end. Yes, Gates, Clark, and Finley have a ton of ability, but you will need to grab them in the 3rd through 5th rounds. There were 57 points separating the top 10 tight ends last season, whereas there were 113 points separating the top 10 running backs.