New to "Ron Shandler's Other Book"? Read the Introduction.
Third base is another position deep in power and batting average, though not quite as deep as 1B/DH. That means you will most likely be filling your corner infield slot with a firstbaseman. One thing does stand out at the...
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New to "Ron Shandler's Other Book"? Read the Introduction.
This is a position loaded with power and batting average, top to bottom. There are over a dozen extreme power options, depending upon how long you want to wait and how far down into the pool you want to go....
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New to "Ron Shandler's Other Book"? Read the Introduction.
Most of us will take a look at the player pool and see a massive collection of hundreds – even thousands – of players. The prospect of having to analyze, project, value and rank these players is incredibly daunting.
It's...
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New to "Ron Shandler's Other Book"? Read the Introduction.
There is a podcast on Freakonomics Radio called "The Cheeseburger Diet." This is the story of a Louisville, Kentucky housewife who embarked on a year-long project to rate over 100 local burger joints in her city. She decided...
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New to "Ron Shandler's Other Book"? Read the Introduction.
The foundation of BABS is a basic accounting concept – the balance sheet. On the left side are your Assets; on the right are your Liabilities.
For batters, your Assets are Power, Speed and Batting Average. For pitchers, your assets...
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New to Ron Shandler's Other Book? Read the Introduction.
For decades, we have been told that the goal in fantasy baseball is to assemble a group of players whose aggregate statistics exceed those of all the other teams in the league. In fact, that is the actual verbiage...
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New to Ron Shandler's Other Book? Read the Introduction.
For the sake of argument, let's say that you buy into everything I wrote in the last chapter. (I won't delude myself into thinking that everyone is drinking my Kool-Aid.) Let's say that you agree that player projections are...
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From Ron Shandler’s Other Book 2016: The Manual of Baseball Roster Construction.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." -- Nuke Laloosh, Bull Durham
The structure of the game of baseball lends...
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From Ron Shandler’s Other Book 2016: The Manual of Baseball Roster Construction.
ME: Hey, welcome.
YOU: C’mon Ron, do we really need another fantasy baseball annual?
What? Already with the questions? How about a little “Hi Ron, how ya been? We’ve missed you at Baseball HQ but it’s nice to see...
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