Fantasy Baseball My Playbook

I have been a long supporter of this app and I appreciate how easy it is to use and they help it offers during the draft an early part of the season but it’s a shame how they ignore the customer during the second half of the season and especially the playoffs. At the mid point of every season, the rankings are never updated. The projections are never updated and for those of us who are still playing and lucky enough to be in the playoffs this app offers nothing. The VBR are still set on early season projections. There is never any player news or updates. and September when players are called up they are never added to the player pool for an analysis. This may be my final year using their services. I’m sure there’s an other app or website that doesn’t fumble the ball (football pun intentionally added) late in the season when it matters the most.

The app functions fine on a technical level and information provided is useful as long as it’s retrospective. Player projections (daily or longer term) seem to be best case scenarios that almost never pan out. Of they were close to true my squad would be hitting about .320 for the season and leading the league in counting categories. As someone else wrote, projection heuristics seem not to update during the season. Example: a former stud who’s hovered below the Mendoza through Late summer is still projected to kill it for rest of season when it’s obvious his season is a total, irreversible bust. The League Analyzer function is a joke. My .220 BA team that is near last in HR is rated almost every week as the best offense in my league. No idea how they arrive at that. My theory: people like being given hope, so the app is rigged to overestimate your prospects. Conclusion: If you want the app to let you know what has already happened, it’s useful. If you’re looking for even a loose correlation between projections and future outcomes, the app is pretty useless.

I had used for the final month of my season as I was given a discount to try it out. The waiver wire advice was awful. Kept telling me to drop Luis Castillo (who was solid) and add Hunter Pence who at the time was averaging 4 AB a week. All the recommendations would have made my team worse. The line up suggestions were just as bad. Please note this in points leagues I am referring too. The app it self works fine but the playbook in baseball simply needs some fine tuning. However no syncing issues, rosters up to date, player news up to date, for tracking purposes this app is great. Especially those in multiple leagues. Worth it if you plan in more than one league.