(*) KEEPERS: Playing For Next Year

If your keeper league team is dead in the water, now—not the offseason—is the time to re-tool for 2013. And now less than two weeks before the MLB trade deadline—and not many days afterward before fantasy deadlines become a factor—the landscape offers you ample opportunity to improve your roster. Here are some strategy tips and initial player ideas for the next month:

Take advantage of your less attentive competitors

As Ron Shandler noted in his Fanalytics column last week, our season is six months long, but fantasy football is already beginning to divert some of your fellow owners' attention.  Not only is there always less competition for some of the better FA finds beginning in mid-summer, but some fantasy footballers are less...

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