Archive for June 2019

by Doug Gruber Two weeks ago, we looked at several pre-season hitter asset groups to measure how well BABS was doing for 2019. That evaluation identified numerous examples of hitters who have been very profitable. This week we will do the same assessment for the pitcher rankings. We think you will like these results too!…

by Patrick Cloghessy No one wants to admit the sunk cost of an expensive draft choice. But positive regression is still possible. It’s not too late for these frustrating few to be useful, even great fantasy players provided they at least approach historical skill levels. Is Mookie Betts (p,s,a) nursing a World Series hangover? He’s…

by Doug Gruber One of the fundamentals of BABS is that players with similar skills are assembled into asset groups and are pretty much interchangeable. Further, BABS has taught us that our draft strategy is to sort the players within each asset group by the marketplace rankings (ADPs, AAVs) and look for the largest discrepancies.…

by Doug Gruber Which pitcher doesn’t belong in this threesome…Jacob deGrom, Stephen Strasburg or Matthew Boyd? If we were talking 2019 player salaries, Boyd at only $2.4 million would be the poor boy in the this group. In the June 2019 update, BABS says that all three arms belong in the same asset group, possessing…