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March 20, 2013 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2013 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: LOB % Edition

Left on base % has become forgotten about over the past few seasons. Fantasy pundits like to pontificate on HR:FB ratio and BABIP, but LOB % (aka, strand rate) rarely…

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February 26, 2013 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2013 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: K/9 Edition

Strikeouts are one of the easiest categories to do well in and one of the easiest categories to blow off without even realizing it. Paying attention to K/9 numbers is…

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March 26, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: Batter’s Swinging Strike % Edition

Plate discipline metrics could have prevented a lot of very smart people from saying a lot of very stupid things about a young Chris “Crush” Davis. Davis overall numbers during…

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March 19, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: wOBA Edition

What is wOBA? Well, it stands for weighted on-base average and it’s the metric used for the offensive component of WAR. It’s also one of the best metrics we have…

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March 12, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: SIERA Edition

SIERA is hard to understand and ever harder to calculate. It’s so hard to calculate that I can’t post the formula, but it doesn’t matter because no one would possibly…

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March 5, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: ISO Edition

Simply put, ISO is the measure of power; ISO measures a hitter’s ability to hit for extra bases. It’s a stat fantasy GMs should be interested in because power is…

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February 27, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: LOB % Edition

All hits are not created equal. A base hit with runners on base can do a lot more damage to a pitcher’s ERA than a double with the bases empty….

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February 21, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: K/9 and BB/9 Edition

Why are stats like K/9 and BB/9 important for fantasy baseball? Well, strikeouts are generally viewed as “good” for pitchers and walks are generally viewed as “bad.” Generally speaking, of…

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February 13, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: LOB % Edition

This isn’t the 90’s. This is 2012. Fantasy GM’s are expected to be aware of certain things. We need to be aware that some players used performance enhancing drugs. We…

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February 7, 2012 posted by Matthew Dewoskin

2012 Fantasy Baseball Stats You Should Know: FIP and xFIP Edition

  FIP and xFIP are simply a better way of analyzing what a pitcher actually controls than ERA and can actually be used as a tool to predict future success…