The Can of Corn

Mid-Season Ruminations - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Oh snap, I blinked and it’s almost mid-season. Apologies for the radio silence, but life keeps happening. As a catch up, let’s take a look at some strategies I’ve applied as we enter the first...

20 Jun 2019

Daily Lineup Management - An Ottoneu How-to

And we’re back! I realize it’s been a minute, our apologies. We’ve had things to be and places to do, but it’s time, once again, to talk Ottoneu. If you’ve been following along you know...

20 May 2019

Dr. Neu Part 1 - Scooping Up Value

Dr. Neu is a semi-regular series that all the writers of The Can of Corn will be contributing to. Think of these pieces as a peek inside the counselling room, where we try to tackle...

19 Apr 2019

I <3 Dereck Rodriguez

Welcome to the Dereck Rodriguez Fan Club As the resident Ottonoob here at The Can of Corn my goal is to continue writing updates about my fledgling Ottoneu team and to provide some general notes...

18 Apr 2019

UFO Spotting (Unidentified Fantasy Options)

As we approach the end the first full week of baseball, let’s take a look at some guys who are having hot starts and are still widely available (less than 50% owned). I’m writing this...

07 Apr 2019

Assessing your Points Draft - an Ottoneu How-to

If you’ve been following this series, you picked your team the right way and were properly prepared for your draft. You’ve since drafted your team and have been shuffling players in and out of your...

07 Apr 2019

Assessing your Roto Draft - an Ottoneu How-to

05 Apr 2019

Roster Rodeo - Multi-Positional Shufflings

Welcome to a new installment of Roster Rodeo, an occasional series where I discuss roster construction and manipulation ideas that I have experimented with. I’m not a deeply mathematically inclined fantasy player and I often...

26 Mar 2019

Real Baseball - Tokyo Opening Series

Meeting “Minivish” (that’s what the jersey read) and “Mininaka” was an unexpected highlight. Watching baseball in different cities, countries, stadiums, seasons, and degrees of competitiveness has become something of a hobby of mine, so imagine...

23 Mar 2019

Friday Night Fish Fry - 3 Ottoneu Post-Auction Adds

Peoplepeoplepeoplepeople! It’s the freakin’ weekend, baby I’m about to… work 21 hours over the next two days because I graduated in 2009 and all of the jobs created since the Great Recession are contract work....

22 Mar 2019