Archive for March,2018

BABS evaluates the young crop

By Justin Cary

Predicting a full year of a player can be a risky endeavor when you only have one year of historical data. BABS' Experience liability tells you that the performance of these players is not set in stone and that their skill sets could look different a year...

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BABS Baseball Leagues are open now

BABS-inspired fantasy leagues are now taking entries. These are 10-team, 50-round 4×4 Draft & Hold leagues (HR, SB, Batting average, Plate Appearances, ERA, K, Saves+Holds, IP). Details below. Deadline March 16. For RonShandler.com members only,

https://babsbaseball.com/downloads/babs-baseball-league-2018/

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Using BABS in deeper leagues

BABS is great, but she's not perfect. She works best with players who generate statistically significant performance samples. BABS likes playing time. As such, she works like a charm in most standard mixed league formats.

But once we start dipping into those batters likely to see just a few hundred...

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Identifying first round fails

This is my weekly article from ESPN Insider.

It is possible to lose your draft in the first round, so you would expect that we'd be experts in identifying those elite players. We're not.

Over the past 14 years, our success rate at projecting which players will earn Top 15...

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