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By Scott Youngson on January 30, 2024
This past week, we revealed 10 players whose slumps led to lower fantasy numbers in 2023 than we can expect in 2024. This week, we’ll look at the other side of the coin and lay out 10 players who aren’t … read more »
Continue Reading 10 Players Who Won’t Repeat Their 2023 Success (2024 Fantasy Baseball)
By Scott Youngson on January 22, 2024
With Spring Training and fantasy drafts just around the corner, it’s a good time to look back at 2023 to target potential bounce-back candidates. One way to do this is to identify hitters who suffered through an unusually brutal slump … read more »
Continue Reading 10 Players Better Than Their Slumps (2024 Fantasy Baseball)
By Mike Malinowski on January 18, 2024
Every year, we have players that seemingly come out of nowhere and improve drastically from the previous season. This is to be expected with younger players, but it is more difficult to understand with veterans. We can look at the … read more »
Continue Reading 3 Fantasy Baseball Overachievers: Takeaways & Outlook (2024)
By Nate Miller on June 20, 2023
Which players have had Lady Luck on their side recently? Which players has she been ignoring? Which players are riding a hot streak that is simply unsustainable? And which players are just uncharacteristically cold? Each week in this article, players … read more »
By Nate Miller on June 13, 2023
Which players have had Lady Luck on their side recently? Which players has she been ignoring? Which players are riding a hot streak that is simply unsustainable? And which players are just uncharacteristically cold? Each week in this article, players … read more »
By Scott Youngson on February 14, 2023
While looking at a player’s stats from last year is a great place to start when planning for this year’s draft, sometimes it is helpful to analyze their splits. One of the simplest splits that can still be very telling … read more »
Continue Reading Notable Second-Half Performances & 2023 Impact (Fantasy Baseball)
By Scott Youngson on August 28, 2022
Welcome to another edition of “Regression Candidates,” where we dig into some analytics each week to identify two players due to heat up and two likely to cool down. With fantasy league trade deadlines mostly passed and the final weeks … read more »
By Mario Mergola on August 25, 2022
As we move closer to the end of the fantasy baseball regular season, we will perform one final check-in on the players and view a snapshot of where they are compared to where they were. This particular exercise has become … read more »
Continue Reading Statcast Review: Austin Riley, Joe Musgrove, Albert Pujols (2022 Fantasy Baseball)
By Scott Youngson on August 22, 2022
Welcome to another edition of “Regression Candidates,” where we dig into some analytics each week to identify two players due to heat up and two likely to cool down. Last week we mentioned a few hitters worth buying or selling … read more »
Continue Reading Regression Candidates: Alex Wood, Alex Cobb, Michael Kopech (2022 Fantasy Baseball)
By Mario Mergola on August 18, 2022
For as straightforward as a home run appears — a ball either lands beyond the fence or in front of it — it still has another set of underlying metrics that can be used to best categorize it. This is … read more »