After a brief ~15 month disappearance from the internet, my old blog has a new home and look. For now, this site serves as an archive of previous work done on the Harper Wallbanger blog. In the future, it could be the home of the Big Board fantasy baseball tools yet again, assuming I find […]
Harper Wallbanger has a new home Read Post »
Hi all, A different style of post today, and one I’ve been procrastinating for a while now. I want to let you all know that there won’t be a 2023 Big Board. This isn’t a full goodbye for now, but at least for this year, I just won’t have the bandwidth to maintain the tool
The Big Board Takes a Break Read Post »
For many years running now, I’ve run a yearly evaluation of the projection systems for fantasy baseball purposes, including most recently the evaluation of the 2019 results and my three-year study of projection performance. I took 2020 off – 60 game projections are too noisy to put the same stock in. The goals, as always, are to evaluate the best projection systems on a per-category basis for the purposes of fantasy baseball, and to determine the best possible mix of projections (separated into rate stats and playing time) as we look ahead to ‘20. The correlation (R squared) numbers are most useful in my opinion, as they show what would happen when you create rank-ordered lists of players based on these stats. Two updates in approach this year:
I’ve added a projection system called “All”. It literally just evenly mixes all of the systems included in this study, and it’s actually quite good. This was also used as the base system to select the player pool from, which is more fair than previous approaches.
My recommended “Big Board Mix” this year is an average of the new ‘best’ mix (determined from 2021) and the previous weightings from my 3-year study. In this way, I am now basically taking a projection-system-style approach to projecting the projection systems. This was introduced in part due to the extremely good performance of The Bat X in ‘21.
You can find details of the player pool, definitions of stats, and the breakdown of weights for my Big Board mix down in the ‘Fine Print’ below! Note that I’m including both the “BB Mix ‘20” (uses weights defined before 2020) and the new “BB Mix ‘22” (the ‘best’ weighting of 2021 systems, defined during this study).
Evaluating the 2021 Projection Systems Read Post »
Alternate headline: You need to be using The Bat X and Razzball. A larger piece writing up these results is yet to come, but in the interest of helping you all out for any coming weekend drafts, here is what I would recommend setting your aggregators to for 2022 drafts… The Big Board Mix 2022:
The Big Board Projections Mix for 2022 Read Post »
It’s launch day! This is the definitive program for creating fully customizable player ranks/values and managing a draft board. Whether you like z-scores, standings gained points, regular points, or you don’t even know what those things are, this tool will save you a ton of work and help you to win your fantasy baseball league. Stop relying
The 2022 Big Board is here! Read Post »
We are officially in rest-of-season mode! As of today, all copies of the Big Board will pull in updated ‘rest of season’ projections to help you plan your FAAB and trades every week throughout the season. If you used the Custom Projections tool with your board in the preseason, now would be a good time
The Big Board: Rest-of-Season Mode Read Post »
One common request I get every year is for an automated way to pull in rosters from various fantasy platforms. It can sometimes be a pain in the neck to manually enter your team rosters into your Big Board or other fantasy baseball spreadsheets, I get it! So, I’ve finally gotten around to making a
Free: HWB Fantasy Baseball Roster Import Tool Read Post »
It may come off as odd to say this, as a purveyor of the best draft tool around, but draft tools can’t do everything. One of the great subtleties to drafting in fantasy baseball is seeing and exploiting tiers within each position. While the Big Board will help you see them, it’s another thing to plan for them and make sure you avoid the biggest drop-offs in each position on draft day.
Scroll on down to the bottom if you just want to see the tiers! Tiers should have similar $ values, across all positions. They can be extremely subjective, but I’ve done my best to draw lines between players primarily based on values as-calculated by the Big Board, while also accounting for potential upside/downside. They ignore ADP completely (note that combining your site ADP with your tiers can help you find draft targets, though). At the bottom of each position, I’ll list an ‘Upside’ tier, low value players that I see value in, and a ‘What’s left’ tier, the guys that I don’t want, but you might be stuck with in late rounds/deep leagues.
Harper Wallbanger’s 2021 Tiers Read Post »
Welcome to the Big Board video tutorials! It’s about an hour in total of in-depth detail on how to use the Big Board. If you want to know about a specific part of the sheet, it’s broken up into a few sections, based on the different tabs within the Big Board.
The Big Board Video Tutorials Read Post »
If you have the Big Board by now, and you’ve tried clicking any of the script buttons, you’ve probably seen this screen below. Here’s a quick, simple guide for the initial ‘Authorization’ you need to do with Google.
Google Authorizations in Big Board 2021 Read Post »
