MLB Seasonal Articles
2020 Player Profile: Max Scherzer
For years, Max Scherzer has been a star. In point of fact, Scherzer has been a top-5 vote getter in the NL Cy Young voting in 7-straight seasons, a simply remarkable record of excellence. For the first time since 2013, there has started to leak into his profile some concerns about whether or not the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/10/20- Dynasty & Keeper Leagues
Dynasty and Keeper Leagues (1) What is your goal? Three years from now? Now? Will you even be in this league in two years? (2) What is your setup? There are so many different – points/roto, 10/15 team, 2/4/6 keepers – that it’s extremely difficult to come up with overarching rules/advice. (3) Define keeper/dynasty leagues. Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
MLB ADP Market Report 2
Over the next few weeks, expect to see this weekly summary of recent ADP (average draft position) risers and fallers, per NFBC data. NFBC will be our go-to marketplace since there have been over 100 paid drafts that we can gather information from and because it has become the industry standard. Each week, leading up Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/9/20 – Ranking Players Properly
HOW TO RATE PLAYERS PROPERLY 1 – It is wrong to draft off an ADP list and much better to use the Tiering model. 2 – It is wrong to draft off last year’s numbers. 3 – It is wrong to draft players merely because they are young. 4 It is wrong to draft Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/8/20 – Two Catcher Leagues
2 CATCHER LGS 1 – Should you draft one guy early? Should you draft none early? When should you grab your second catcher? Do you draft a third catcher? 2 – What is the role of playing time in reference to your league type? What about batting order and overall team offensive expectation? 3 Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Players to Target in 2020
There are rankings and tiering at Fantasy Guru to go by when trying to decide who you should be rostering this season. Those tools make this article a bit unnecessary as it’s clear what I think about players. At the same time, there should be an explanation given as to why I’m high on some Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Players to Avoid in 2020
There are rankings and tiering at Fantasy Guru to go by when trying to decide who you should be rostering this season. Those tools make this article a bit unnecessary as it’s clear what I think about players. Same time, there should be an explanation given as to why I’m down on some guys, so Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Building the Perfect Pitcher
How to you build the perfect pitcher? If you were in a lab you would create someone using Justin Verlander as the template. However, there is only one Justin Verlander to be taken on draft day so the better question for our use is – how to we distill all the data in our preseason Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Position Tiers Overview: Catchers
Welcome to my preseason series on position tiers. The plan is to break up the positions over the next several weeks and provide you with a deep overview and thoughts on each. Here is when you expect to see them: February 5 – Catchers (below)February 12 – Corner Infielders (1B, 3B) + DHFebruary 19 – Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2020 LABR Mixed League
The LABR event is one of the highlights of the baseball season each year (special thanks to Steve Gardner). For years, I would read about the event in the USA Today newspaper, enthralled at the analysis of how the drafts unfolded. For years, I’ve been part of the auction events, but this season I pivoted…
2019 Review: Isolated Power
Baseball is a simple game that has gotten a wee bit complicated of late. With the turn of the 21st century, copious amounts of statistical data has started to flow for the game we love, and at times it can be overwhelming. I mean, have you seen the formula for WAR? I can save you Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Building The Perfect Hitter
How to you build the perfect hitter? If you were in a lab you would create someone using Mike Trout as the template. However, there is only one Mike Trout to be taken on draft day so the better question for our use is – how to we distill all the data in our preseason Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/3/20 – Draft vs. In-Season
THE DRAFT VERSUS IN-SEASON MANAGEMENT 1 – Everything in here about players in preseason: Rookies, PT, health, skills etc. 2 – IN SEASON: * Understand how free agency works (FAAB, priority, can you add minor leagues etc.). * How does the trade marker work? Buy low, sell high plans – how to do that? Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
MLB ADP Market Report 1
Over the next few weeks, expect to see this weekly summary of recent ADP (average draft position) risers and fallers, per NFBC data. NFBC will be our go-to marketplace since there have been over 100 paid drafts that we can gather information from and because it has become the industry standard. Each week, leading up Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Is Punting a Good Idea?
In the majority of instances punting seems inherently wrong to me. However, there are a couple instances in which punting might not just work, it might be a viable strategy. WHAT IS PUNTING? In baseball, to “punt” a category in fantasy baseball means you just give up on it. You simply ignore the category and Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Optimizing KDS
For those not familiar, KDS (Kentucky Derby Style) is a feature for fantasy baseball leagues where owners can set their draft day preferences. It allows fantasy managers to rank their order of preference for a draft prior to a league’s draft order being randomly selected. Whereas traditional leagues may pre-set their draft order or allow Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/2/20 – What Is Tiering?
WHAT IS TIERING? Ray Flowers discusses what the Tiering Model is, and why it’s a vitally important tool on draft day. 1 – How to use ADP Properly. 2 – You can tier players in a multitude of ways: (A) By position, (B), By skills, (C) By health, (D) By playing time. 3 – Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Relievers to Avoid in 2020
In 2019, relievers threw 18,265.2 innings which means that relievers threw forty-two percent of all the innings last season. Think about that folks – 42 percent. Starters don’t go deep into games anymore, that’s discussed elsewhere in our preseason product, and the result is that relievers are soaking up an astounding number of innings each Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Relievers to Target in 2020
In 2019, relievers threw 18,265.2 innings which means that relievers threw forty-two percent of all the innings last season. Think about that folks – 42 percent. Starters don’t go deep into games anymore, that’s discussed elsewhere in our preseason product, and the result is that relievers are soaking up an astounding number of innings each Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Rundown – 2/1/20 – How To Uncover Hidden Gems
HOW TO UNCOVER HIDDEN GEMS? Ray Flowers gives some tips of the trade to aid you to find those hidden gems on draft day, the players no one is talking about but should be, and please, don’t use the term sleeper. 1 – What is situation of team? Strength/weaknesses. 2 – What type of Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Home Run: Part III
Part III of the homer study will look into the distance of the home run. We will also look at one of the leading indicators of homer prowess, that being the opposite field homer. Part I deals with the history of the homer, the growth in the long ball of late and the 3-year results Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Home Run: Part II
In Part II of our homer study we will look directly at the 2019 campaign. Which players exploded last season, and why? Which players slumped, and is there an explanation for the downturn in this era of power bosting? Part I deals with the history of the homer, the growth in the long ball of Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The Home Run: Part I
We will be looking at the home run with a three-part series starting off with this article that puts the leagues 2019 effort into the context of homer hitting the last decade. This piece will also list the big-league leaders in homers and HR/FB ratio the past three seasons. THE LAST DECADE Here are the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2019 Review: wOBA – Overall Performance
wOBA or Weighted On-Base Average, is something that you can’t help but come across when you do any level of fantasy baseball analysis. What is wOBA and why should you care about it? Here’s a quick primer on the measure before we look at how player performed in 2019. wOBA DEFINED Created by Tom Tango, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.