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RSOB Chapter 5: BABS Draft Planning
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 to devote two days per week to a dinner…
Read MoreThe Best Seed to Draft From
I thought I had it figured out. When given a choice as to what seed to draft from, there was never a decision to make. It was always crystal clear. Here is the standard advice I have been giving those who’ve asked the question (from the Baseball Forecaster): “Most drafters like mid-round so they never…
Read MoreRSOB Chapter 4: The BABS Player Profiling System
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 are Pitching Effectiveness (a proxy for ERA…
Read MoreRSOB Chapter 3: The Broad Assessment Balance Sheet
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 in the Official Rotisserie Baseball League Constitution. But…
Read MoreRSOB Chapter 2: How Psychology is Out to Get You
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 garbage… um, flawed. Still, our brain plays its…
Read MoreAbreu, Pierre named to Rotisserie Hall of Fame
While the the baseball universe waits impatiently for Wednesday’s always-controversial Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) Hall of Fame announcement, the fantasy industry has named its 2016 picks for the Rotisserie Hall of Fame: Bobby Abreu and Juan Pierre. Eligibility for the Roto Hall is based on lifetime and peak Rotisserie dollar earnings, and number…
Read More2016 Rotisserie Hall of Fame Candidates Announced
Every year, we continue to debate the merits and flaws of the BBWAA Hall of Fame voting process. So in 2013, I launched the first Rotisserie Baseball Hall of Fame. For fantasy leaguers, it is all about the stats. We don’t care whether a player exhibited sportsmanship or integrity. We don’t care whether he refused…
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