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Contact and oomph. In this piece we are focusing on which batters hit the ball really hard, and also make a lot of contact. Seems like combining those two factors should lead to a lot of success in fantasy baseball, no? Let’s start out by defining this. WHAT IS A BARREL? Let’s take this right 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.
Batters want to lift the ball because chicks dig the long ball (we also love this trait in fantasy baseball). It’s also how you do the most damage with a bat in your hand and it also just so happens to be how you get paid. This article will focus directly on launch angle talking 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 has long been a line of thought in fantasy baseball, and it goes something like this… Look at a players second half numbers as a window into what will happen in the following year. If the player struggled in the second half you should have some concern. But more often than not, it’s been 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.
Making contact matters. Being patient matters. When you put both traits together, more often than not, you end up with a batter who can help you in the batting average and OBP percentage categories. In theory at least, these type of players also should remain more consistent from week-to-week than those that hack away or 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.
This one is simple. I’m going to randomly highlight one player from all 30-teams with some factoid that you need to know heading into fantasy baseball 2024. TEAMPLAYER NOTEArizona DiamondbacksJake McCarthy has 49 steals in 198 games the last two years, 17th most in baseball.Atlanta BravesMichael Harris went .293 with 18 HR & 20 SB… 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.
Sometimes there are simply ideas that are easy to implement that get to the core of the question. Sometimes, the idea is simple but the implementation is dastardly difficult. In the case of Called Strike Plus Whiff Rate (CSW), the idea is simple as is the way we arrive at the number. This piece explores 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 all know the workload is down for starting pitchers, but how much are the overall workloads down across the landscape of baseball? We will begin by reviewing overall workloads the last few years. Then, we will look at the batters faced per outing for hurlers to get a sense of where things stand, before 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.
WHIP was innovative when it was created at the dawn of the game of fantasy baseball. It’s the old standby that is used in nearly every roto league in the land? As much as it is part of the fabric of the fantasy game, it no longer should be. What is this heresy that I 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 virtually every fantasy baseball league ever played the last couple of decades, virtually since the start of the roto game actually, teams have used WHIP (walks + hits divided by innings pitched). It’s a solid way to look at pitching performance. Another way to look at how pitchers performed is to pay direct attention 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 all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the pitchers 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.
We all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the pitchers 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.
This isn’t going to be a piece that says – don’t draft that guy in fantasy baseball this year with an ADP of 326. There’s no use for that. Instead, this article will focus on hitters who I deem to be too costly on draft day (for a variety of reasons). *NOTE… ADP numbers for 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 all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the players 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.
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to pitchers in 2024? We will answer that question by looking back at the completed 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click on 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.
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to batters in the coming season? We will answer that question by looking back at the 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click 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.
It only seems like every third article I write for pitchers is about strikeouts, but I do comment on them a lot. Here’s another article that focuses directly on the strikeout and the walk. This is about as basic as we can get with our analysis, but the fact is that strikeout and walk rates 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.
It’s triangle of pitching time. What the heck am I talking about? If you are looking for a shorthand way to view pitchers, a down and dirty way to say thumbs up or thumbs down, this is what you should be looking at. You want strikeouts.You want to avoid walksYou want ground balls. First off, 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.
Tiering is a fairly standard procedure in fantasy sports, or at least it should be. Here’s a quick refresher on what it is and why you should be employing it at the draft. As I noted in a previous article, having a top-overall list isn’t useful on draft day. The simple reason is that 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.
The strikeout is a thing of beauty. It’s clean and often speaks to the dominance of the hurler, so let’s wrap up our look at that result by taking a gander at this thing from a myriad of angles by putting it all together. We will review a myriad of categories that deal with 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.
There are two camps in fantasy baseball. Well, there are obviously more, but there are two main groups as I see it. Group 1: The traditionalists. Some folks have been in a fantasy league with their best friends, their coworkers, their spouses for 27 years and they simply aren’t going to change a thing 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.
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. He tackles batting average in this piece – and old, outdated and pretty meaningless number in 21st century baseball. Give me a shot to explain why 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 Flowers poses the question – should we remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball? He tackles the stolen base in this piece and asks, even with the huge uptick in thefts last season, should we adjust how we record player value in the stolen base category in fantasy 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 this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. In this piece he takes aim at the venerable win category and asks – should we remove it from fantasy baseball? The short answer 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.
