SG Senior Writer Ray Flowers' work on baseball has been featured the past two years at SportsIllustrated with his weekly fantasy mailbag column (Ray also writes a weekly column for SI on hockey). The originator of SWIP and ABA (Average Bases Allowed), Ray often proposes counterintuitive ideas that are formed from in-depth statistical analysis that have helped lead to, amongst other things, a championship in the CBS Sportsline Experts Mixed League and a second place finish in the FSTA AL Only Experts League in 2006. .
When
do you take your first reliever? Should you wait one more round to see if your
“sleeper” falls? Should you draft your second catcher before you take your 4th
OF? These are some of the questions that all of us encounter each time we choose
a team.