The BABS Project
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UPDATED for 2025!
The complete philosophy and landmark study that created Ron Shander's Broad Assessment Balance Sheet (BABS).
These PDF eBooks are FREE! It's your chance to immerse yourself in the system so you can get the most out of the draft prep materials that will appear at BaseballHQ.com in 2025.
Part 1 - Why we need a new system
Part 2 - The Broad Assessment Balance Sheet (BABS)
Part 3 - BABS in practice
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Ron Shandler
is considered one of the pioneers in the baseball analysis and fantasy baseball industry. Ron was the first to develop sabermetric applications for fantasy play. He is the founder of his eponymous Baseball Forecaster annual (1986-), BaseballHQ.com (1996-), and First Pitch national conference series (1996-). He was also a columnist for TheAthletic.com (2019-), ESPN.com (2007, 2015-2018) and USA Today (2008-2014), and advisor for the StL Cardinals (2004).
Ron owns dozens of Top Three finishes in national experts leagues since 1994, has won the FSTA Lifetime Achievement Award and is in the FSWA Hall of Fame.
The Experts
DOUG GRUBER has been playing Rotisserie and CDM for nearly 30 years. He has won overall contests in baseball, golf and football.
CURT BROOKS has been playing fantasy baseball since 2004 and was an early BABS adopter. He has used BABS to win two titles in the past three years.
Recent Articles
The 2025 BABS reports are now at Baseball HQ. If you have not already subscribed, you can review the BHQ subscription plans here. This is BABS Week at HQ! Here is what’s planned for this week and beyond, from HQ’s BABS home page: “The BABS Project” PDF ebook has been updated for 2025 with a…
As much as we were in awe of Ronald Acuna, Jr.’s performance in 2023, Shohei Ohtani took it up a notch in 2024. Registering baseball’s first ever 50-50 season is one thing, but he also accomplished something else of BABSian proportions — he became the first player to post a perfect (P+,S+,A+) BABS rating. Amazing.…
Our content is complete for the 2024 season. We’ll post final season statistics and BABS ratings in October. The BABS Draft Game Plan has a new look for the 2024 season. Our offerings have been restructured to target your needs better and deliver the content in a more concise, more accessible, and more useful manner…
BABS is MOVING
The BABS system will begin moving to BaseballHQ.com for the 2025 season. (NOTE: The BABS Database is undergoing maintenance and will be inaccessible for a few weeks.) It makes too much sense. The Broad Assessment Balance Sheet (BABS) was derived from a system called the Mayberry Method, which I developed when I ran BaseballHQ.com. It…