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2010 Adjusted ESPN Shortstop Rankings
Shortstop isn’t exactly shallow this year, but one thing stands out more than anything else: At-Bats. It’s all about ABs. In fantasy baseball, plate appearances and walks aren’t counted as primary statistics. The importance of a players batting average has everything to do with his at-bats. After that, we’re dealing with some speedsters that deal with hammy and quad... [Read more]
2010 Adjusted ESPN Second Base Rankings
Second base has long been a black-hole for fantasy owners, but the position’s grown deeper in recent years. Unfortunately, I have very little faith in the hands-down top second baseman, Chase Utley. One number sticks out in my mind more than anything else about Utley: 1978, Utley’s birth year. Utley will be 31 years old for the entire 2010 season, but the steroid-era has fooled us... [Read more]
2010 Adjusted ESPN First Base Rankings
First base always seems to be deep and this year is no different. There’s a handful of elite first-basemen with very few questions and the position’s about 14 players deep before questions start popping up. The only problems you’ll run into with first basemen is getting enough of them before they start falling off the board into UTIL spots across your league. The Box-Plot to the... [Read more]
ESPN Player Universe: Depth, Averages and Visualization
The staff at ESPN generally puts together a solid ratings set, but because they only give us batting average rather than hits and at-bats; it’s hard to gauge the actual batting average value. I ended up using the ESPN rankings along with the AB that CHONE projects to come up with a value for each batting average category. Ie. ESPN-HITS = CHONE-AB x ESPN-Batting-Average. Same thing went... [Read more]
The Fantasy Baseball Perfect Point System: Making It Work.
So, we’ve established the point system for batters and pitchers. Now, we’ll put it together. SB = 1.75 HR = 2.23 RBI = 0.75 R = 0.84 AB = -0.16 H = 0.962 W = 5.21 K = 0.43 SV = 2.23 IP = 1.85 BB or H = -0.5 ER = -1.5 Which presents us with these statistics for 2009 (100 pitchers / 100 hitters): NAME Points Albert Pujols 425.03 Zack Greinke 406.19 Felix Hernandez 399.33 Tim Lincecum 396.25 Justin... [Read more]
The Fantasy Baseball Perfect Point System: Pitchers
Yesterday, we cycled through the hitters on our way to creating the perfect point system. Everything worked out dandy, so it’s onto the pitchers today. A Quick Note: these rankings do not take into account scarcity, which we’ll get into when I rank the players. Simply applying the formula by itself to rank players will give you the best players, but you’ll end up with 10 SP and... [Read more]
The Fantasy Baseball Perfect Point System
Pitching System Available Here Personally, I love playing fantasy baseball with a point system. It allows you to tailor your fantasy game to just about any taste. Head-to-Head and Rotisserie leagues bind you to a static value on any category that’s added, which isn’t optimal in most cases. If you want to place a negative value on a strike-out, but don’t want to make it equal to... [Read more]
Batting Average Assumptions For 2010
When it comes to hitters, the only standard rate-statistic is batting average. Pitchers, well, they get their ERA and WHIP, so I’ll deal with those in an upcoming article. Today, I’ll try to primarily focus on quite possibly the most difficult to quantify of all the statistics in your standard roto-league. First, we’ll have to suspend disbelief, unless you’re a Twins fan, I... [Read more]
Welcome Back!
Mase, everyone’s favourite Diddy side-kick, set forth an epic career path that I decided to follow. At the top of my game, with bills-o-plenty in my wallet, I stepped aside to become a preacher-man. Now, I’m back with my kick-ass musings on the game, the fantasy baseball game. Unfortunately, this career path ends with everyone ignoring me because the game’s gone-done changed. You... [Read more]
Chad Jenkins: Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects
BDPP85, Chad Jenkins of the Toronto Blue Jays, Bowman Chrome Autograph Buy or Sell: Probably Sitting on It Projected Value: Medium- As someone who attends most of the Blue Jays’ games, I didn’t mind this selection. All things considered, this was probably a great pick for the Blue Jays. Jenkins appears to have put it together through dedication and a bulldog mentality. Jenkins is built... [Read more]
