2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Really Small Sample Size Edition
We have exactly two weeks of data to go on right now. It’s far too early in the season to be able to draw any conclusions from any of the…
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2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Spring Training Pitchers’ K:BB ratio Edition
We’ve discussed how useless spring training numbers are and that’s true for most cases. They don’t count for anything in the grand scheme of things. Teams don’t hang banners for…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards Spring Training OPS Edition
Spring training stats are utterly meaningless…for the most part. They do actually matter for some people. Fantasy GMs should want their guys to come through the spring healthy. What they…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: xFIP Edition
Expected fielding independent pitching(A.K.A. xFIP) is quite possibly the best stat available to evaluate exactly how effective a pitcher is and has some ability to project which way a…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Pitchers’ HR:FB Ratio Edition
HR:FB ratio is one of the two stats we have to help figure out how lucky or unlucky a pitcher was. BABIP is one that most have heard about and…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Contact % Edition
Contact rates tend to correspond with strike outs and home runs. The more contact a batter makes, the fewer times he will strike out. Common sense. However, guys with higher…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Swinging Strike % Edition
Pitchers need to miss bats to strike batters out at the rates that fantasy GMs need to compete for titles. Swinging strike percentage shows exactly how well pitchers do that….
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: LOB % Edition
LOB % can work hand in hand with BABIP when evaluating luck. Lower-than-average BABIPs tend to hang out with higher than average LOB percentages and higher than average BABIPs tend…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Hitters’ HR/FB Ratio Edition
HR:FB ratio is to power what BABIP is to batting average and the two stats can often work together to give an overall picture of a hitters’ luck. Take Adam…
2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Hitters’ BABIP Edition
The whole “compare a hitters’ BABIP to league average” thing was a farce. League average really doesn’t mean anything. The way a fantasy GM should look at Emilio Bonifacio is…
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