Jan
Anyone on Wall Street will tell you that a major key to making money is diversifying their investments - putting money into different industries, different sized companies and different markets. By purchasing stock in all of these different types of companies, the risk of each individual stock is drowned out by the collective strength of the portfolio.
The same principle applies in fantasy baseball. Every, single player comes with some kind of inherent risk, some obviously more so than others. Age, inexperience, injuries, run support issues, lineup protection, etc., etc., are all unique risks to individual players. The goal of diversifying is to eliminate all of these individual risks, which can be done by building collective strength through complementary pieces. Read more »

