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2022 Fantasy Baseball: Using K%+IFFB%-BB% To Target Starting Pitchers
Welcome back to another year of fantasy baseball preparation. Some enthusiasts have been grinding since the 2021 regular season ended and some are just about to set sail on their 2022 journey. This is an article I publish just about every year to share how I typically start my research
TheFantasyFix.com’s Fantasy Baseball Podcast, Episode 22: Pitcher Injuries, Pick-Ups and Rankings
Alan Harrison (@TheFantasyFix) and co-host Todd Clark (@lunchmade) start episode 22 discussing some baseball news and notes that may impact your fake baseball teams – including, but not limited to, Chris Paddack. It’s mostly about Chris Paddack. Then, a discussion about how injuries to starting pitchers like David Price, Carlos
Using ERA-FIP To Identify Starting Pitchers to Target or Trade: Mid-April Update
In this piece, I’ll be updating one of my favorite strategies to identify starting pitchers to target via trade for fantasy baseball players in 2019. Each and every baseball site you visit can probably provide you with a strategy to identify players to target via trade. One of my favorite
2017 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Chronicles–Chicago White Sox
Anyone writing commentary sometimes has to try hard to avoid the overuse of snark. This usually happens when covering a team like the White Sox. The industry has discovered a link between fielding and pitching and the fantasy player would do well to pick up on that link. So, while
2017 Fantasy Baseball: PECOTA Projections AL Starters O-Z
Evaluating pitchers is the hardest part of fantasy baseball because of what I like to call the three P’s. The three P’s in this case are performance, predictability, and portibility. In terms of performance we have what we would call performance data and what we would call process data. For
Fantasy Baseball Final: April 28, 2016
Most of the sports world is focusing on the first round of the NFL draft tonight. No one can doubt that football is king in America. If anyone doubts that, they should take a look at the television ratings tomorrow morning. The NFL will undoubtedly trounce real live baseball games
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Chicago White Sox Team Preview
2015 Quick Overview The Chicago White Sox have perpetually been in the middle of the pack since they won the World Series in 2005. Last year, they finished with a lackluster 76-86 record despite some aggressive moves made in the offseason. They remain a franchise that isn’t sure whether it’s
2016 Fantasy Baseball: AL Starting Pitchers Projections
Rating the other positions was relatively easy. Runs above replacement tends to work pretty well and you only needed 20 players at each position. Grading out pitchers is considerably more difficult. Additionally, most teams carry at least five starters, and when you add in the standard 12- team league you
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Generation Next — Starting Pitchers
We’ve reached the end of the generation next series and easily the most difficult position to choose from. We could easily do two of these with starting pitchers and barely scratch the surface of who is destined to become the next big thing. This is the nature of pitching in
Fantasy Baseball Final: September 25th, 2015
Dr. Heimlich, paging Dr. Heimlich. I’m not sure if this is unique to baseball, but baseball fans are obsessed with failure. I suppose when someone can do something 30 percent of the time and be considered a success that’s a part of the equation. The Texas Rangers might have just