Drafted spine
Nine drafted players cleared 800 captured points. Yordan Alvarez led the roster with 1,532.3.
2026 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball · League 203711
League champion
Corey’s
Double Play
A title built on a powerful drafted core, relentless replacement work, and a championship pitching plan that landed on the right side of variance.
Championship · Final
0 games remaining
#2
Corey’s Double Play
863.3
#1
Sane Moderate Person’s Gems
701.0
- Regular season
- 16–6
- Finish
- 2nd of 10
- Season points
- 17,513.5
- All-play
- 161–37
Executive assessment
The team was excellent.
The final was also fortunate.
Those statements belong together. Corey finished second in regular-season points, posted an .813 all-play percentage, survived failed early investments at shortstop and third base, and beat a 21–1 opponent. The championship plan was coherent; its biggest Tuesday arms also beat their projections by 111.3 points.
Overall manager grade
A−
Top-tier repeatable process, meaningful playoff variance.
DraftA−
In-seasonB+
StreamingB+
LineupsB
PlayoffsA
Replacement depth
Non-drafted players supplied 7,972.7 points—40.4% of all captured production.
Playoff pressure
All six championship acquisitions scored positively and added 88.9 points.
Season pulse
High scoring.
Not always rewarded.
Corey’s weekly output translated to 17.89 expected wins against the whole league, but the actual record was 16–6. The schedule cost roughly 1.89 wins—not the story of a lucky regular season.
Win
Loss
League average
Weekly average796.07
Median793.35
Ceiling1,026.0
Floor590.7
Close games1–3
19,746.9all captured points
Where the points came from
Drafted talent set the floor.
Waivers raised the ceiling.
Includes regular season, bye-week accumulation, semifinal, and championship production preserved in Yahoo’s team log.
Draft audit
Enough surplus
to absorb the misses.
The draft was not perfectly balanced. It was productive enough to survive Perdomo, Bregman, Altuve, and a redundant second catcher. Process and result are graded separately.
1,169.8 captured points from pick 204.
Selected three spots ahead of ADP; became the roster’s top scorer.
A second catcher after a Round 2 catcher produced no captured points.
Position map
The infield problem was real.
It just wasn’t fatal.
CStrong
1BElite
2BStrength
SSWeak
3BWeak
OFElite
SPStrength
RPElite
Comparative strength is an evidence-based qualitative estimate because Yahoo does not preserve exact historical production by lineup slot.
Transaction audit
117 moves.
Not all churn is equal.
Activity created real value: 71 of 81 distinct added players finished positive across all their stints. That is not the same as an 87.7% move success rate—Yahoo aggregates repeat acquisitions.
Non-drafted production
7,972.7
68.1 points per recorded move
Five best acquisitions
- Drew Rasmussen571.1
- Bryan Baker519.9
- Taj Bradley462.5
- Riley O’Brien422.1
- Logan Henderson379.5
Five worst pitching outcomes
- Gage Jump−21.1
- Jackson Jobe−10.6
- Cade Cavalli−10.1
- Paul Sewald−7.5
- Sean Manaea−5.0
Pitcher Foundry
A useful edge.
Not an oracle.
The model’s season rank correlation was 0.27. It beat simple xFIP and opponent-quality sorts, but most start-level variance remained unexplained. The correct use is ranking—not blind automation.
Championship streams
88.9
six adds · all positive
All active starts404.216 starts
Points / start25.26median 18.7
Positive rate93.8%15 of 16
Strikeouts1046.50 / start
Two-start arms137.4Jones + Soroka
SignalEvidence2027 rule
Recent formPersuasive, weak out-of-sample edgeUse only as a tiebreaker
Opponent OPSFoundry beat the shortcutNever use alone
K%Valuable in this scoring, incomplete aloneKeep as a core input
Home / roadNo clear incremental effectShow as context, not a reason
MotivationNarrative without demonstrated skill signalModel leash, not desire
Championship autopsy
The cushion
was the weapon.
Corey built a 168.5-point lead by Saturday. The opponent won Sunday by 6.2, but never created a meaningful threat. Early volume changed the trailing manager’s risk tolerance.
Bradley, Rasmussen, Jones and Soroka beat their combined Foundry projection by more than the six acquisitions scored all week.
The Gems had more starts, but won pitching only 76.5–74.6. Four of their starters combined for −30.7.
Adding Kade before the opponent created real expected allocation value. The realized +21.7 swing was mostly variance.
Peterson scored 12.9 more, but Bryce held a 2.9-point contemporary model edge. Hindsight does not reverse the process grade.
2027 playbook
Keep the edge.
Reduce the tax.
Specific rules replace general advice. The goal is to preserve aggressiveness while buying more flexibility and better records of each decision.
Roster two stable MI/3B-eligible bats by the end of Round 8.
Carry no more than two meaningful Opening Day health or workload bets.
Add a stream only at +5 projected points over the best alternative; +3 with playoff denial value.
Require a confirmed role, 75+ expected pitches, and no high postponement risk.
Discount every second start by 15% for schedule-change and workload risk.
Reserve two weekly acquisitions for the weekend by default.
When leading, optimize downside-adjusted win probability—not raw mean points.
Track every acquisition as a separate stint with its projection and best alternative.
Add IL and prospect stashes only inside a 21-day expected activation window.
Archive a daily lineup snapshot so bench and empty-slot losses become auditable.
Evidence & limitations
A decision audit,
not a victory lap.
Exact figures come from authenticated Yahoo league pages or calculations using the league scoring formula. Estimates and unavailable historical states remain labeled; no missing value was silently invented.
What is exact?
Settings, standings, weekly scores, draft order, transactions, championship totals, and captured player-category totals.
What is unavailable?
A season-long daily active/bench ledger, exact points by lineup position, and separate production for repeat acquisition stints.
What is estimated?
Comparative position strength, alternative-choice value, and causal attribution between skill and variance.
What would an adversary challenge?
The amount of marginal churn, early SS/3B construction, spending all six championship adds early, and relying on a self-reported model backtest.
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