6.  Maybe It's This Week:  This rule is the polar opposite to Rule #3. While rule 3 dealt with the right time to gamble on an unproven player, rule #6 deals with how long to stick with an underperformer and at what point you pull the switch and say enough. It is easy, and human nature, to look at a player that is underperforming and look forward to their "Big" break-out week that is just around the corner. Part of how you play this must rely on how deep your reserves are and what other alternatives you have. If you have a suitable back-up, play him until your starter comes around. But as to when to feel confident that your starter has turned the corner, remember you can't time the exact instant of a players turnaround. Don't keep throwing one of your players out there thinking 'Maybe its this week' until they have proved that they have turned things around.

7.  Be Interactive With Your Team:  A successful fantasy team isn't built at the end of March. You can't expect to ignore your team after your draft and hope that come September, you'll have beaten your opponents with your strategic March lineup. Baseball, like any sport, is constantly changing as players get hurt, fade into obscurity, while other newcomers rise from obscurity. Follow the game, make moves with your team as needed, and interact with other owners in your league to find ways to better your team through trades. Not only is all of this essential to being competitive, it can also be one of the most enjoyable aspects of fantasy baseball.

8. Remember your roots:   While it pays to stay on top of your game and be interactive with your team, don't spend too much time trying to catch players in their "hot" streaks or removing them in their "cold" streaks.  How many times have you taken out a slumping hitter or pitcher and his first week on your bench, he hits .500 with 4 HRs or pitches a nine-strikeout shutout?  If you spend too much time juggling your lineup by who's hot or cold you'll likely miss out on a bundle of stats.  Basically, it is important to stick with your projections until it becomes evident that something is wrong (or the pain becomes too unbearable). Ask yourself 'Why?'. Is one of your starters trying to play through an injury? Will this tweaked hamstring cut his stolen bases in half? If you have no answer for the "Why", then stick with your numbers and ride out both the ineveitable hot, and cold, streaks.

9.  Don't bench your superstars:  These final two rules are relevant only in salary based leagues. If you have a draft, and end up as the lucky recipient of an ARod or Albert Pujols, you'd never pull them from your lineup, right? But in a salary league, where you are constantly trying to balance where you spend your precious salaries, the temptation crops up of sitting one of your high salary stars when they are slumping so you can switch that salary elsewhere to help other areas of your team. If you have found a way to fit their salaries into your team to start the year, stick with them. The thing about the few fantasy superstuds is that in any given week, any one could have a monster week that you would never get with any of your other players.

10. Know when to say when:  This deals with the poison pill, the final euthanasia of your fantasy team before the final pitch crosses the plate in October. Of course, this rule is useful only in salary based leagues where you are paying a fee for each transaction you make. Though you don't want to get down on your team too early since the season is so long and many things can happen, there may eventaully come a point, say in late August or September, where you realize there is no heavenly chance you will be able to make up enough ground to win anything. This is the point you pull the plug and focus your attention on your other leagues (or, if you are in no other leagues, you begin looking for information on the upcoming football season...).