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You’ve all done this. Or at least, if you know about Statcast, ‘xStats’, and Baseball Savant, you have – pull up the xStats list, sort by under- or over-performers, and use it to draw broad and sweeping conclusions about your fantasy teams. Which of your fantasy players are poised for quick resurgence, or which of your opponents’ players are prime trade targets? Which guys should you be selling high on, before the bottom drops out? But, in the same way that you can’t really sort the FanGraphs leaderboards by ERA minus FIP and just magically find pitching diamonds in the rough (homer rates complicate things…), this is maybe not the best way to be applying our vast wealth of fancy Statcast-based metrics. I’ve found early-season Statcast data difficult to trust personally, so I decided to dive in and see what exactly we can learn from 1 month of xStats. It turns out there may be something useful here – the method I arrived at after this work would have advised you to buy-in on Jose Ramirez after his rough start to 2019! But we’ll get to that.

‘Rest of Season’ projections are now available in the 2020 Big Board. Pull up your version of the board and update the projections to pull them in. These will continue to update daily throughout the rest of the season. Hope it helps you to manage this terrible short sample size nightmare season. Happy FAAB-ing/trading!

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… And in order to prep for it, I’m bringing together a sort of ‘Draft Day Survival Guide’ for y’all. First, the Player Valuation series all in one place for easy reading: Part 1: The Hit-Pitch SplitPart 2: Draft with TiersPart 3: Value your PicksPart 4: Use the Best ProjectionsPart 5: Target Undervalued Players (IF, OF,

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 dropoffs in each position on draft day

The @fangraphs depth chart projections, combining ZIPS/Steamer with manual playing time forecasts, are now sortable. http://t.co/4xe4BNj7eE — David Cameron (@DCameronFG) March 6, 2015 Trying to figure out which playing time estimates to trust now… stay tuned. Update 1: Jared’s explanation of where Steamer IP/PA currently come from. @RyanEBrock First, we should have the same GS