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THTF fantasy glory: Championships and top finishes

by Derek Carty
October 05, 2009



Derek Carty is a 22-year old fantasy baseball analyst residing in New Jersey. In addition to writing for THTF, his work has appeared at Rotoworld (NBC), Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, and Heater Magazine. In his two years competing in expert leagues, he has won 2 titles with 4 four top three finishes, including a LABR NL title in 2009, making him the youngest person to ever win a major expert league title. Derek is a proud graduate of the MLB Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program and is a firm believer in the importance of combining stats and scouting. He welcomes questions via e-mail.


jake said...

so basically you have my dream job(s.)  Congrats.

Posted 10/05  at  10:27 PM
Andrew said...

Congrats, Derek. Any chance we could get a list of end-of-season LIPS ERA leaders? I understand if that’s not possible since that stat appears in Heater, though.

Posted 10/06  at  01:16 AM
Boss Hogg said...

Doused in Gatorade?  I’m still using Yoo-Hoo!

Posted 10/06  at  09:00 AM
patrick dicaprio said...

how did you do in the FP911 Experts League?? grin

Posted 10/06  at  09:18 AM
Derek Ambrosino said...

Congrats to Derek and the rest of the THT Fantasy staff.

Glad to be amongst you guys!

Posted 10/06  at  12:36 PM
Derek Carty said...

Yoo-Hoo works pretty well too smile

Yeah, Pat, the FP911 League wasn’t quite as good.  I finished 6th - not bad, but not great.  You can’t win them all, although admittedly, I didn’t have a good feeling about things even before the draft was over.  Some personal issues that week (which were unavoidable, but thankfully everything turned out okay) got in the way of properly strategizing, which spiraled even further by causing a couple of mistakes in the draft.  I didn’t get a lot of the guys I wanted as a result (Branyan, Hill, Cruz, and Morales were the big ones, and also some guys who didn’t pan out like Iwamura and Crisp - though their ‘replacements’ Aybar and Gomez weren’t much better anyway) and ended up with some I really didn’t want.  I’m man enough to admit my mistakes, and I think it’s important to be honest with ourselves at the end of every season, evaluate what went right, what went wrong, and how we can improve next year.  Don’t sugar coat anything and don’t make excuses that don’t exist - simply evaluate your process honestly and thoroughly.  I’ll be going through this process myself with each league I was in over the coming couple weeks.

... and taking Alex Rios and Big Papi hurt too.

Posted 10/07  at  01:12 AM
Austin McAdams said...

So how old are you Derek and who was the youngest before you to win LABR?

Posted 10/07  at  04:04 PM
Derek Carty said...

Austin,
I’m 22, although I’m not sure of the exact age of the previous youngest.  I’ve been assured by a few people, however, that whoever it was was older than that.  I may even be the youngest to compete, though that hasn’t been confirmed.

Posted 10/07  at  11:13 PM
JohnZaleski said...

Derek, congrats on your NL LABR win!!! You had a great draft!

Posted 10/13  at  03:07 PM
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