MLB Seasonal Articles
Expected Weighted On-Base Average
In Weighted On Base Average, we broke down what the measure records and who did, or didn’t, perform admirably last season. In the current piece, we will take things even further by moving along to Expected Weighted On-Base Average (or xwOBA). xwOBA DEFINED This measure takes into account wOBA and then add in exit velocity 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: Weighted Runs Created
At Fantasy Guru, we try to hit on as many types of analysis as possible. We also try to do so in a simple manner. By that I mean, we try to show our work. It’s not always easy, some of the measures we review are damn difficult to figure out if you’re trying to 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.
Where Did the Speed Go?
Last season there wasn’t a single player who stole 50 bases. There wasn’t a single player who got there in 2018 either. We had two in 2017. So in three years we’ve had 50 steals occur twice. So, where have the steals gone, and how should you be handling the current landscape of speed in 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.
How to Approach 12 and 15 Team Leagues
Ask any experienced or high-stakes fantasy baseball player their thoughts about 12 and 15 team leagues and you are very likely to get polarized opinions with a strong preference of one over the other. Sure, there are players out there who dominate both types, yet the majority do have a preference and comfort level in 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 Speed – Basepath Effectiveness
There are many ways to judge a player’s speed, and with each passing year we’re getting more and more Statcast data talking about all aspects of the running game That’s great info indeed, and something that we haven’t ever really had access to as fans and analysts, so we can certainly find interest in 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: Looking Back at DRA
There is always some new measure to digest when it comes to trying to understanding how pitchers performed. One of the newer iterations is Deserved Run Average, or DRA. Let’s dig into what it is and why you should be aware of it, as well as it can help you with your analysis of those 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 Importance of the Walk and Contact
People ask me, frequently, if there is one thing I should be looking at with a player, what should it be? I always respond in a manner that certainly must frustrate many – there is no one thing. I don’t do this to be obnoxious but merely because there’s really no one trait that brings 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: Rankings, Rankings, Rankings
Everyone loves rankings, so much so that we’ve even considered not even putting out articles for you all to read because rankings is where everyone gravitates all preseason. Of course, we haven’t gone that far, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t gone further in the rankings than most. In what follows, you will see 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.
Positional Qualifications in 2020
Who qualifies at what positions defensively in 2020? Well, the answer really boils down to the type of league you plan on entering in the coming season. PRE-SEASON In traditional setups, you need 20-games played at a position to qualify in the coming season. This is the benchmark that has been used for decades in 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: Expected Batting Average
As the years pass, our understanding of the game of baseball improves. Whereas it was the results that garnered all our attention in the past – homers, RBI, runs scored etc. – we are now in an era where we are continually digging deeper. We’re also in an era where we have more data than 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.
xwOBA: Starting Pitchers
I often hear folks using wOBA (weighted on base average), and that’s a good thing. However, I nearly always, like 95 percent of the time, see folks use wOBA in relation to offensive performers. We can use it for the other side of the game as well, and that’s what we are going to be 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.
xwOBA: Relief Pitchers
I often hear folks using wOBA (weighted on base average), and that’s a good thing. However, I nearly always, like 95 percent of the time, see folks use wOBA in relation to offensive performers. We can use it for the other side of the game as well, and that’s what we are going to be 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.
A Guide to NFBC
What is the NFBC? For me and a few thousand fellow fanatics, it’s more than just a hobby. It’s a lifestyle. NFBC (the National Fantasy Baseball Championship) is the preeminent place to play season-long fantasy baseball. Entering its 17th season of operation, NFBC hosts online and in-person drafts & auction leagues and has set 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: Triple ERA, or TERA
There are plenty of fancy measures out there that play off ERA. Many of those measures are discussed at length in the Guide. This piece is meant to be a bit of a short-hand, simple look at some of the major measures, three in fact, that when combined together give a somewhat clearer picture – 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.
Combining ABA & SWIP
In our preseason product you will find articles about Average Bases Allowed (ABA), a replacement for WHIP, as well as SWIP (pitching dominance). They deal with different aspects of the pitching game, other than the fact that they both rely, at least in part, on walk totals (more on that later). In what follows I’m 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.
SWIP: Strikeouts & Walks
Everyone knows, uses and believes in WHIP. It works for what it is. As I’ve been saying for years though, there is a better way to do this, and it’s time that the fantasy universe catches on to the simple, yet vitally important change, that SWIP offers. WHAT IS SWIP AND HOW DO YOU FIGURE 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.
ABA: It Is Better Than Whip
Everyone knows, uses and believes in WHIP. It works for what it is. As I’ve been saying for years though, there is a better way to do this, and it’s time that the fantasy universe catches on to the simple, yet vitally important change, that ABA offers. WHAT IS ABA? Created through discussions with Brandon 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.
How to Analyze a Hitter 3.0
I wish I could, but I can’t. I cannot sit there and help guide you on draft day. All I can do is present you the information and hope that enough of the data is accessible to aid you to put together the best squad possible on draft day. There are rankings, charts, tables, opinions, 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.
How to Analyze a Pitcher 3.0
I wish I could, but I can’t. I cannot sit there and help guide you on draft day. All I can do is present you the information and hope that enough of the data is accessible to aid you to put together the best squad possible on draft day. There are rankings, charts, tables, opinions, 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.
Properly Utilizing ADP
In this entry to our 2020 MLB Draft Guide, Vlad Sedler reviews Average Draft Position (ADP): What it is, how you can find it, and how you can use it to your advantage in your upcoming season-long MLB fantasy drafts. 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: Hitting Averages to Know
This article is going to be all about league averages, from the batter’s perspective. What did first basemen hit last year? What did 6th place hitters do with the bat in their hands? Did offense increase or decrease as the season wore on. Were young hitters, or older ones, more effective? This, and other questions 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: Pitching Averages to Know
This article is going to be all about league averages, from the pitcher’s perspective. Did they perform better at home or on the road? What happened as the pitches piled up? Where they worse off as the year progressed? What about in-game? Did age seem to have any effect? All this and more as we 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.
How to Spend Late-Round Picks
We’ve all been there. It’s the 26th round of your draft and the list of available hitters and pitchers begin to blend together. You were confident going into the draft with months of prep under your belt and a vast knowledge of the player pool, but these last couple of rounds have been grueling. Players 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.
Welcome to Fantasy Baseball Domination
The 2020 baseball season is nearly upon us, and it’s time to make some decisions as to how you will best be able to compete in the coming season in fantasy baseball. Was that magazine you grabbed at the airport enough? Are you just going to ask questions of folks on social media and hope you get answers? Are you going…