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2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide: Starting Pitchers You Almost Have to Draft
View image | gettyimages.com I love FIP. Or at least I did until xFIP came along and improved the predictive power of defense-independent pitching statistics (DIPS). Because home run rates generally fluctuate from year to year, xFIP applies a league average home run rate to all pitchers, which makes xFIP

2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Rubber Week Five – Examining Changes in Steamer Values
Yesterday over at Rotographs I compared preseason Steamer projections to the rest-of-season Steamer projections (RoS) to identify hitters whose value has changed since the beginning of the season. To calculate fantasy value from Steamer projections I use the Zach Sanders method of turning roto category statistics into a single fantasy