Today's Fantasy Rx

Click here for discussion of our initial rosters for Fantasy and Budget Baseball. As veteran readers will remember, we ran the same roster in both leagues all year as each game employs essentially identical rules. Go here for discussion of our initial roster for Mid-Season Fantasy Baseball.

We registered the following finishes in the various CDM Points-Based games this season:

Fantasy Baseball & Budget Baseball(same players on both teams)
The Umpire Chronicles(9th lg; 663rd overall)
Umpire with a Soul(8th lg; 663rd overall)

Mid-Season Fantasy Baseball
Umpire in Brooklyn(1st lg; 57th overall)

Super Challenge
World Vampires Association(74th overall)

To evaluate our effectiveness in roster selection, I will discuss each position to determine if we selected the best players. Our CDM history suggests that a team of the "best" 28 players easily would win the championship, so I won't worry about reserves in great detail. Along with discussing the top players available, I'll list who we owned, as well as their respective salaries, designating the different leagues as FBB(Fantasy and Budget Baseball) and MS(Mid-Season Fantasy Baseball). Players marked with a P are those we purchased during the season.

Today's Fantasy Rx: My predictions for today's games(all times CDT):

12:00 on ESPN: Atlanta@Houston
6:30 on Fox: St. Louis@Los Angeles

While Houston already should be in the NLCS, Roger Clemens, even pitching on three days' rest, should extend Houston's winning streak at home to twenty games, giving the Astros their first victory in a playoff series. The Dodgers own sufficient talent to force one more game, but Odalis Perez appears unable to pitch effectively right now, particularly against the loaded St. Louis offense.