Domonic Brown entered the season as a one-time can’t miss prospect who looked like he just might wind up missing. In parts of 3 seasons for the Phillies, Brown never even reached 200 AB, nor did his batting line warrant a starting job, with a wOBA in the low .300s, and a career best slugging percentage… Continue reading Dominating Week 9: Brown Does it All
Category: AL
Players of the Week: May 20-26 2013
RotoValue makes it easy to see player statistics for any date range, so today I’m going to link to recaps of the week for three different league configurations. First, 5×5 Mixed: http://www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Search?year=2013&league=4&start_date=20130520&end_date=20130526 MVP: Mike Trout. Trout hit .462 with 2 HR, 10 runs scored, 7 RBI, and 4 SB. Trout had a relatively slow start (.261… Continue reading Players of the Week: May 20-26 2013
Early Season AL Surprsises
Last week I looked at some NL players having particularly good or poor seasons relative to expectations. This week it’s time to do a similar scan at American League players. Mark Reynolds has been off to a hot start splitting time between 1B and DH, with a .302 average, 19 runs, 25 RBI, and league-leading 9… Continue reading Early Season AL Surprsises
Auction Weekend Recap
This past weekend we had the auctions for my two long-time leagues, the Park Slope Rotisserie League, a traditional 4×4 AL-only league, and the Ezra Stiles Rotisserie Association, a 4×4 NL league. This is the 25th season of the ESRA NL, of which I was a founding member, and the 26th year of the Park… Continue reading Auction Weekend Recap
Going 9 AL Recap
So I did a draft for an AL league sponsored by Going 9 Baseball, with 12 teams, so it’s a deep league. We drafted 25 players each, and it took a little over 3 hours to complete online. After doing a mock draft in a shallow mixed league a few weeks earlier, I had hoped to… Continue reading Going 9 AL Recap
Projected Playing Time Comparison
My last post effectively compared projection systems by how well they predicted player skill level: I scaled each projection to match 2012 actual ab/ip, but used the rates each system projected to generate stats. Tango asked if I could run the reverse, a comparison where I used prorated actual 2012 stats but kept only the playing… Continue reading Projected Playing Time Comparison
Playing-time Neutral Projection Comparison
In response to Jared Cross’s suggestion, I’ve done one more set of RotoValue comparisons of projection systems. This time, I’m taking players’ actual 2012 AB or IP, and scaling the projections from each system to match that level of playing time. Also, since commenters Rudy Gamble and mcbrown were asking for ZiPS data, I’ve included that… Continue reading Playing-time Neutral Projection Comparison
Revised Projected RotoValue Comparison
Tom Tango highlighted my previous post on comparing computed RotoValue prices from projection systems, and he and others in the comments had some good suggestions for improving the player pool. So I’ve run some more data with slightly different sets of players. First, for each league configuration, I’m simply using the top 230/240 players in the… Continue reading Revised Projected RotoValue Comparison
Astros to the American League – Revisiting the Impact
The Houston Astros are moving to the American league for 2013. This is hardly news – it was announced after the 2011 season, and I did a post about the impact it might have back then. I’ve now updated the RotoValue engine so that the Astros are indeed considered an AL team for 2013 and into… Continue reading Astros to the American League – Revisiting the Impact
2012 AL Most Valuable Pitcher
On Saturday I posted the RotoValue top AL batters for both a 4×4 and 5×5 league, and noted that no pitchers ranked in the top 10. Today’s post lists the top prices for pitchers. As before, this is a 10 team 4×4 league with a $30 salary cap for 28 players (10 active pitchers, plus a… Continue reading 2012 AL Most Valuable Pitcher