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As we continue to look beyond the surface data, it is time to pull the Statcast train up to the hard-hit baseball stop. The harder you hit it, the more consistently you do it, the more likely it is that you will have success with a bat in your hands. Facts, right? Let’s take a 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.
We know what guys hit last season, or we should, but what should they have batted when it comes to batting average? We will take a look at Expected Batting Average (xBA) from a variety of angles to answer that question WHAT IS xBA? From MLB.com… Expected Batting Average (xBA) is a Statcast metric 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.
Akil Baddoo came out of nowhere last season to become a fantasy performer of note, a difficult thing to do for a rookie. Just how much growth can we expect in year two – is a 20/20 season for the Tigers’ outfielder? 23 years old Bats/Throws: Left/Left Height/Weight: 6’1”, 215 lbs. Position: Outfield THE NUMBERS 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.
No one in the game is better at inducing grounder than the Astros’ Framber Valdez. Can his game make the leap in 2022 or will be merely continue to be an impressive innings eater? 28 years old Bats/Throws: Left/Left Height/Weight: 5’11”, 235 lbs. Position: Starting Pitcher THE NUMBERS *Stats from Baseball Reference. NFBC ADP (since 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.
There is a running debate about how much influence pitchers have when it comes to the home run. We will discuss the issues surround these thoughts in this piece before detailing some of the 2021 number from the men on the hill. SOME RULES ABOUT PITCHERS Let’s go. 1 – Home run rates are not 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.
Let’s run it all back to Covid. Two years ago, we had to play the game of – how many games will we play this season and how will that effect the players? Covid isn’t as big a deal at this point, though it is still lurking, but it has been replaced by a potentially…
In our continued look at batters who own the traits that we like to see as we try to predict 2022 success, we will pull the train over at the chase rate station. Let’s dive right in before the train leaves the station. WHAT IS CHASE RATE? Chase rate relates to the percentage of swings 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.
Elite Fantasy Network · Ray’s Rundown 2/20: Rookies and the Path to Success Ray Flowers talks his, and your, favorite subject – rookies (you know it is true). What should you be expecting from rookies? What does age/production/level played mean when evaluating players? How do you evaluate rookies? What is the history of the rookie and how 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.
You could convincingly argue that at no point in the history of the game has there been more outright speed on the diamond, so we’re all just sitting around counting up the steals and laughing at the station-to-station game of years past. Alas, that talent is no longer translating into stolen bases, and that’s an 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.
Elite Fantasy Network · Ray’s Rundown 2/19: Dynasty/Keeper Leagues Let’s begin this podcast by defining what a keeper/dynasty leagues is. Then, let’s ask a series of pertinent questions. What is your setup? What is your goal? What age of player should you build around? What skills to build around? Does your league have a Constitution? 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.
Adding velocity is something we had to kinda guess at, even in the recent past. Now, with all the data we have at our disposal, it is fairly each for us to record which hurlers saw an uptick in velocity (another piece will discuss those who lost mph in 2021). A velocity increase certainly does 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.
When a guy adds velocity, we all take notice. We do tend to get excited about that, but I would offer that we get more concerned when velocity is lost. Whichever pops more to you is irrelevant really, as both instances should grab your attention. We’ve previously written I Added Velocity Last Year, and here 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.
Elite Fantasy Network · Ray’s Rundown 2/18: Drafting By Projections is Wrong Ray Flowers discusses projection models and how they are used in fantasy baseball (he also touched on this topic in Fantasy Baseball Projections Models). Should you be leaning on projections? How are the projections created? What is an accurate projection? Is there a 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.
We’ve used K/BB ratio for pitchers, and BB/K for hitters, for years. They are still usable, but there is actually a better way to understand what we are trying to get to with that measure. Prepare yourself for the revolutionary (not really), K% – BB%. WHY K% and BB%? You will see this breakdown 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.
We’ve used K/BB ratio for pitchers, and BB/K for hitters, for years. They are still usable, but there is actually a better way to understand what we are trying to get to with that measure. Prepare yourself for the revolutionary (not really), K% – BB%. WHY K% and BB%? You will see this breakdown 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.
Elite Fantasy Network · Ray’s Rundown 2/17: What is Tiering & Why Does it Matter? How do you put your team together on draft day? Do you just take a rankings list? Do you lean on ADP? Are you heavily influenced by computer projections? Ray Flowers discusses what the Tiering Model is, and why it’s 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.
Mike Trout is a superstar, and the greatest player in baseball the last decade. However, he’s no longer in consideration to be the top pick in the fantasy draft. The question at this point is – just how much of a star is he? HIS HEALTH Let’s start out with the biggest knock against him 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.
Elite Fantasy Network · Ray’s Rundown 2/16: How to Rank Players Properly Ray Flowers talks about the process of ranking players and why context is so important. Where do you start the process? How does your league type play into the decision? Roster construction matters, so the context of the rankings could be altered slightly if need 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.
In Part III of the home run, we will take a look at how many homers were hit, how far they went, how many of them were earned and how many of them were rather fortunate outcomes for the men with the bat in their hands. The following data is from Baseball Savant and it 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.
In our continued look at the home run, we will explore the fly ball, the ever-discussed launch angle and their relation to the homers, and which players gained or lost some oomph last year. Note that the truncated 2020 season causes issues with analysis. We can’t just ignore that the season happened, but we also 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.
Big flies are everywhere and they are a major component of offensive production league wide. Just as I we provided last year, we will be taking a three-part dive into the home run. In this piece we will explore the growth in the home run category from a league perspective before going a bit smaller 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.
First there was Babe Ruth and now there is Shohei Ohtani. There is no debate as to who the best overall player in baseball is in 2022, but the question remains, how do we value Mr. Ohtani in the game of fantasy baseball? THE 2021 SEASON As an offensive player Ohtani went .257-43-100-103-26.He was four 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.
You can have success in the big leagues even if you swing and miss a lot. That said, players that do air condition fans at a high rate are more likely to slump than someone who makes consistent contact. Further, a higher contact rate obviously greatly enhances a player’s outlook in the batting average category. 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.
Simple. We are looking for power, and we don’t want to pay for it. If that is our goal, who should we target? This piece will take a look at players listed outside the top-250 overall in NFBC ADP that might be able to give your team a power boost in 2022. Jesus Aguilar is 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.