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Late Season Darlings turn into Late Round Sleepers, the October Edition

For some of us, the end of the fantasy baseball season was welcomed with a warm embrace.  The fatigue of setting lineups, identifying waiver wire pickups, and making daily -- if not hourly -- decisions about your team can spoil what most of us consider a hobby.  The end of the fantasy baseball season allows us to pivot entirely over to fantasy football, mostly so that we can retain any semblance of bragging rights we have among our friends and family.   However, for others, we use this time to understand and dissect what proved to be a very interesting fantasy baseball season.  If you won a championship, this is the time you should seek to understand how you developed that team, what key decisions you made along the way, and maybe which lucky breaks fell your way.  If you lost, you should be doing the same exact thing -- break down where the failures occurred.  Was it just a bad draft?  Which rankings did you use to get there?  Was it several injuries that weighed down your team?  Or w