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2012 Power Outage – A Scarcity of Fantasy Sluggers

It’s no secret that power hitters are put at a premium in fantasy drafts each year. We’re all accustomed to that race of trying to get power hitters early then filling in the rest of your team later. We’ve

Lucky & Unlucky HR Totals from 2011

As fantasy baseball managers, we all try to effectively predict the future based on the past. Those who can predict the future better than others are the ones who take home the money each year. In this particular post,

How To Evaluate Pitcher Strikeout Totals

After previously talking about evaluating ERA, it’s time to turn our eyes to the always sexy strikeouts. For fantasy purposes, you’ll rarely make a huge investment in a pitcher unless he can strike people out early and often. Being

MockDraftCentral: Analyzing Rankings & ADP

For better or worse, MockDraftCentral is the fantasy baseball industry standard for average draft position data. If you read my Twitter, you may have seen me recently rant a bit about how the data is very skewed there and

How To Evaluate Pitcher ERA (FIP, xFIP, SIERA)

It all starts with a pitch. The lonely pitcher sits on his mound and throws a ball towards a hitter. That pitch could turn into any number of things and whatever happens will be pinned on the pitcher. For

How To Evaluate Home Run Totals

In the first post in this series, I explained how you can evaluate a hitter’s batting average to see whether it will be repeated or not. Being a great fantasy baseball owner is all about being able to evaluate

How To Evaluate Batting Averages (BABIP, xBABIP & xAVG)

When it comes to evaluating hitters for your fantasy baseball leagues, there are generally five statistics that are focused on as they are the basic statistics of most roto leagues (AVG, HR, RBI, R and SB). In order to

2011 Fantasy Baseball Roto Draft Primer

There are so many different types of leagues out there that it’s hard to give one set of advice for everyone.  In a league without a Corner Infield or Middle Infield position, you have a totally different mindset than