One of the more difficult processes to go through when going full contrarian is determining how to go about choosing which stacks and pitchers to select for your rosters. Some people like to choose a mix of chalk players and contrarian players, and have success to back that strategy up with. In my personal opinion, I think the optimal strategy (especially for a very large, top heavy GPP) is to go almost all contrarian. The main difference between NBA GPPs and MLB is that players (especially hitters) are tremendously volatile, and even some of the better pitchers are capable of scoring negative points. Furthermore, the total pool of reasonably good available players is gigantic compared to NBA, where there are plenty who simply never play. When you go chalk, you’re basically banking on the “field” (low owned players that you don’t have) performing poorly, which is a tough fade, since there are so many of them, and again, volatility is a problem. If you take the presumed “best” catcher of the day at 15-20% ownership, there is a strong possibility that one of the other 20 or so catchers will get lucky and outperform him, in which case the field has a
