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Stock Up on Speedy Shortstops
In this speed-starved world, shortstop is the position where you can plant a flag in the scarce SB category, even late. This position has gotten stronger in recent years, but the current upper tier is composed of players with lesser experience and a few health issues, and thus, wider error bars. Power sources dominate the…
Read More2B Talent is Shallow, Concentrated
Despite some assertions to the contrary, second base is not a deep position. There are only 14 dual asset full-time players, which means someone in a 15-team mixed league is going to have to go with a lesser commodity. Of those 14, only nine are power contributors, and only two of those have more than…
Read MoreInteresting 3B profit options, even at the top
Third base is another position with sufficient power and batting average sources. It runs about 20 deep in multi-asset players, which means most mixed leaguers should have no problem finding a solid contributor. What is most noteworthy is that there are several high-end asset groups with interesting profit opportunities. That makes 3B a position where…
Read MoreStockpile power at 1B/DH in 2017
As always, this is a position loaded with power and potential batting average, top to bottom. There are 10 extreme power options, depending upon how much BA advantage or disadvantage you want to build into your roster. There are 13 full-timers with significant or better power, which is down from 21 last year. This is…
Read MoreHow bad is the 2017 catcher pool?
Catchers are the most frustrating offensive position in fantasy baseball. Yes, they offer the shallowest depth of skills, but just how bad is it? Should we really be pushing Buster Posey into the early rounds? How much damage do the end-gamers really cause? Here is a chart of the Broad Assessment Balance Sheet (BABS) skills…
Read MoreBABS comes to Music City
The industry’s annual “first pitch” of the fantasy baseball season is the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s (FSTA) experts league draft. This year it was held at their winter conference in Nashville. This was the second time that I’ve taken BABS with me to this league’s draft. Last year, a yet-to-be-fully-realized BABS took me to a…
Read MoreBABS 2017: What’s new, early charts, more
While we all know the inherent beauty that BABS possesses, she readily recognizes that there is always room for improvement. The challenge, though, is to improve while maintaining simplicity. I didn’t want to add complexity to her natural beauty. In the end, the only changes I made were to provide a bit more consistency and…
Read MoreHow BABS Optimizes the First Round
Sections of this article appear in The BABS Project. As we start inching our way into the 2017 draft season, one of the hottest topics will be the handling of the first round in snake drafts. Intuitively, you would think that first round players are the most projectable. We obsess over our draft slot positioning.…
Read MoreThe BABS Project – Introduction
This is a free preview of the Introduction to The BABS Project. ME: Hey, welcome. YOU: Hi Ron. I see you’ve written another book. Oh, this thing? Yeah, a writer’s gotta write. What is it this time? BABS? Mayberry? LIMA? Some other arcane acronym? Sort of. Way back in 2016, I wrote “Ron Shandler’s Other…
Read MoreAn early look at 2017
During these apparently quiet off-season periods, it’s easy to lose sight of how much work is being done behind the scenes at baseball information sites. I’ve been busy working on The BABS Project ebook and laying the foundation for 2017 content here on this site. So, to keep you engaged, here is a preliminary look…
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