Three Strikes: Rays of Sunshine
When a major league team is doing well, that means that the players on that team are producing. Tampa has been the hottest team of the last week, winning nine …
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A Trio of Young Arms
We are starting to see the season develop enough now that contenders are emerging, and the becomes not whether you can start hot out of the gate, but instead if …
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Leading Off
It’s hard not to overreact to outlier performances in small sample sizes and highlights from spring training. It’s the human condition- we’ve been starved of this game we hold so …
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Forecasting Games Played
This past week the NBA released the second-half schedule for the 2021 season. It was the first time the league released its annual calendar in two parts, and most GMs …
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High Usage Hoopsters
At the beginning of the season, I wrote about the importance of balancing volume and efficiency in fantasy through the advanced stats usage rate and true shooting percentage. Earlier this …
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Just like fantasy baseball, digging deeper into advanced statistics proves revealing for fantasy basketball purposes. This is especially true for volume and efficiency, two metrics of particular importance as success …
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Fantasy in the Arena
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The …
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Throwing in the Towel
I have to admit that by my selecting a generic title like this, some of you are going to be disappointed. No, this is not the next in a long …
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No Time To Wait
The long wait is over, and the Major League baseball season is finally underway. Because it’s a short season, you are going to have to move quickly with your roster …
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Fishing International Waters
Last week I talked about the importance of taking calculated risks in your fantasy baseball prospect drafts. I also focused on trying to uncover players with superstar upside before your …
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Missing Bats
Continuing our theme of alternating hitters and pitchers, this week we’ll investigate pitchers’ BB% and K% as we did last week with batters. There are a few different approaches to …
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Statcast Picks and Pans (Pitchers) 1.0
Previously, I introduced the concept of using Statcast to generate expected stats. To quickly revisit, by taking the Exit Velocity (EV), Launch Angle (LA), handedness of the batter, and whether …
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