Bloomberg Sports' Front Office 2011

Bloomberg Sports’ Front Office 2011 is the must-have tool for fantasy baseball players. After attending the product’s launch event, I am entirely convinced that this tool will take as much of the guess work as possible out of the fantasy equation.

They have developed a very intricate individual player projection system which is really the basis of the entire operation. Building upon that though, is the ability to sync with Yahoo, ESPN and CBS Sports leagues, and therefore have the entire player ranking system made specifically to the categories used in your league. Why would you want to follow Yahoo’s ranking system when they have a broad system which only focuses on 5x5 leagues, when your league uses OBP, or OPS, or an entirely different set of statistics? The specificity is absolutely invaluable, and is a huge game-changer for fantasy players. However, as great as that feature is, it is only made better by what Bloomberg Sports has built on top of that.

A free agent pick up analyzer will take a look at all of the available free agents, determine who will help you the most in the categories you need the most help in, and recommend players for you to add. Working from that same wavelength is the trade analyzer, which will take a look at your team, the other teams in your league and tell you what trades will be the most beneficial for you to propose, so as long as they are fair for both parties. Anyone can tell you to offer Melky Cabrera for Albert Pujols, but the trade analyzer will tell you who you would need to give up for Albert Pujols, so that the trade works out for you, and is feasible for the other team as well. Additionally, if you have an idea for a specific trade, you can enter that into the system, and it will tell you whether or not it works for you and the other team. As if that was not enough, it explains to you exactly why the trade works for both parties. Finally, the program will make recommendations on who you should start and who you should sit in your lineup on a daily basis.

In summary, the tool helps you draft with the ranking system, improve your team externally with the free agent and trade analyzers and help your team internally with the lineup recommendation system. This tool looks to change the face of fantasy baseball, one championship at a time.