Freelance Baseball

As I mentioned to start the week, Friday has consistently been a day where traffic declined, which was a bit surprising considering the larger slate, but people have things to do on Friday night. I don’t imagine the holiday weekend will improve matters much. None of this means I’m going to stop posting on Fridays (at least not yet), but I am going to try out some abbreviated articles, covering only games/pitchers of interest in depth and potentially add a daily fantasy section on Friday afternoon.

We almost had an interesting Thursday evening five game night slate. It used to be that when a rainout washed out the back end of the rotation, teams would take the opportunity to skip over lesser pitchers in order to get more out of their best pitchers.

Tuesday was an unplanned absence. I’ll spare you the uninteresting details, but suffice to say I had a Monday evening commitment that I wasn’t aware was Monday evening until Monday afternoon. I thought I could still post an abbreviated run through after a quick dinner, but after looking at listed probables and seeing TBD six times, I knew it wasn’t going to be possible.

We’re going to start with a different kind of graph today. One that will begin to inform this piece going forward. It’s perfectly understandable if you want to get right to the baseball stuff and skip ahead.

As usual, 15 games on Friday, 12 on the daily fantasy slate. They’re calling it rivalry weekend, which merely means teams are facing off against other teams that play in their state.

I believe I’ve figured out an absolutely unbeatable system. Whenever I mention an F5, you then bet that team to score in each subsequent inning (6th through 8th). Each of my last F5 plays have either pushed or lost, but gone on to score and/or take leads the following inning or two and win the game.

With a pair of rainouts on Tuesday, the Wednesday schedule includes a pair of double headers, which I’ll be skipping completely. We don’t have to worry about them from daily fantasy purposes and it’s just a headache trying to figure out lineups, umpires and even sometimes which pitchers are pitching each game. Three more afternoon games will be covered at least briefly, along with the nine game daily fantasy slate.

Thank you for the response to yesterday’s open. Due to the generous readership, the site will remain funded a bit longer. We are smack into the grind of another week, featuring 10 of 15 games on the daily fantasy main slate without any afternoon action.

Now that I’ve gotten my early season project out of the way and made some improvements (I think) to the site, it’s time to figure out how I can keep writing it. The traffic trend seems to be highest on Monday and Tuesday and then trail off through the week with Friday actually being the lowest traffic (excluding weekends), which is a bit of a surprise, considering the size of the slate. I’ll try to keep that in mind when considering off days I have control over in the future.

Clocking in on a Saturday just because. An absence of early games and an interesting pitching board does make the Saturday slate more attractive. Not going to be covering them all today. 

As usual, 15 games on Friday, all in the evening with 12 on the daily fantasy slate.

A double header in Colorado puts nine games on the Thursday docket with four of them in the evening, all taking place in positive run environments. Minor daily fantasy notes will be added for the small slate, but that won’t be our focus today.