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Category Archives: Data
LOOKING BACK: Other 2013 Measures of Pitchers
PLEASE NOTE: The original posting didn’t include Jose Fernandez in the Biggest Earners and Biggest Profits charts because of a join issue. He is included now. How about if we compare the return from the Top Starters to the return from the Top Relievers. That is, the starters and relievers (more…)
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Looking Back: 2013 Profit Margins in Pitchers
So, we learned that the draft day hitters fell short of their draft day prices by 12 percent last year. How about the pitchers? The pitchers that cost $20 or more, the blue chip starters and a few relievers, had an average price of $25 and ended up earning an (more…)
Looking Back: 2013 Most Profitable and Most Overpriced
Yesterday we looked at what hitters cost last year and how they performed, which told us something about what we can expect from our drafts. An average team in 2013 lost 12 percent of its hitting value from auction day to the end of the year. That’s money that had (more…)
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Looking Back: Some Hitter Profit and Loss Charts for 2013
In recent years Mike Gianella has done exhaustive reviews of the previous year’s fantasy prices and compared them to what actually happened on his site Roto Think Thank. One of the features I liked was that he included my bid prices in the review, so I could see how I (more…)
2013 Earnings By Position
The spreadsheet that follows shows the amount of earnings by players at each position last year. The idea is to give some idea about the depth of talent that’s out there, so I also show the number and percentage of players who earned more than $15 in 2013. The dollar (more…)
Comparing OBP and BA Earnings for 2013
Using On Base Percentage instead of Batting Average, as Tout Wars is going to do in the AL and NL leagues this year, changes hitter values. As you might expect, hitters who walk a lot or get hit by a lot of pitchers, go up in value, as we see (more…)
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A new project this year: Month by Month Roto Prices
Since April, at the end of each month I’ve been posting roto prices for all players. You can find the end of June prices here. Prices through the end of the year in a spreadsheet are here. These prices are scaled so that the Top 216 pitchers and the top (more…)
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Can’t Anyone Here Play This Game?
Since we started Tout Wars in 1998, three leagues involving 470 participant seasons have vied for 36 titles. That’s 36 winners, for those scoring at home, and 434 losers. Consider the number of multiple winners and the situation is further distilled: Larry Schechter: Five Mike Lombardo: Three Ron Shandler: Three (more…)
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