Ive added an extra stat on the Pitcher vs. Batter report. ISO (Isolated Power) now appears in the far right column. It is calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging average. The final result measures how many extra bases a player averages per at bat. A player who hits only singles would thus have an ISO of 0....
This is the eighth of a series of articles about the impact of air density on baseball performance. When teams travel to Coors Field, they hit the four-seam fastball on the first day at a clip of 12.13% of strikes thrown when their VMI is identified as a high plus rating; by the third game it is down to the 9% range. This rating is due to the larger movement on the four-seam fastball the team has recently experienced prior to arriving at Coors Field. Mechanically, this means that when hitters fi...
Best Bets There are EIGHT starting pitchers who, coming into tonights slate, have an ERA at or below 2.70. Now, not all of them are true Aces, but it does speak to the relative strength of tonights pitching options. The best of the 8, Max Scherzer, who is also the best right-handed starter (and probably the best pitcher in the game overall), gets an under-performing Dodger team in DC, who are exactly 17th in baseball in K%, ISO, and wOBA against RHP. Thats not scary enough to keep me awa...
Tonights featured slate starts at 7pm eastern, with nine games to choose from. Weve also got two later slates, but those games are covered within the featured slate. Since it doesnt fit into any slate, the Dodgers-Marlins matchup at noon will not be included here. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for DraftKings on 5/17/18. The lineup picks will range from some of the elite players to mid-priced options and value plays. DraftKings Starting Pitc...
Pretty interesting schedule we have on our hands on this Wednesday in the middle of May. Fourteen major league games are set to take place, but only 11 of them are in the larger contests. There are six games in the Early slate and five on the Main. Ill be focusing on those as thats where the majority of money is in prize pools (and there are far more contest options in those as well). The Early slate locks at 12:05 and the Main at 7:05. Ill update this Vegas section as the day goes along with a...
To this point, this series has focused exclusively on trying to predict and validate home runs and batting average. There is a reason for this--modern sabermetrics tend to reject the idea of a clutch RBI guy and therefore do not bother inventing predictive metrics for it. Runs and RBI are team-dependent stats, and are unhelpful in ascertaining a given players real value. That might work for stat heads, but fantasy owners frequently see 40% or more of a players value tied to his RBI and run tota...
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Ive added an extra stat on the Pitcher vs. Batter report. ISO (Isolated Power) now appears in the far right column. It is calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging average. The final result measures how many extra bases a player averages per at bat. A player who hits only singles would thus have an ISO of 0....
This is the eighth of a series of articles about the impact of air density on baseball performance. When teams travel to Coors Field, they hit the four-seam fastball on the first day at a clip of 12.13% of strikes thrown when their VMI is identified as a high plus rating; by the third game it is down to the 9% range. This rating is due to the larger movement on the four-seam fastball the team has recently experienced prior to arriving at Coors Field. Mechanically, this means that when hitters fi...
Best Bets There are EIGHT starting pitchers who, coming into tonights slate, have an ERA at or below 2.70. Now, not all of them are true Aces, but it does speak to the relative strength of tonights pitching options. The best of the 8, Max Scherzer, who is also the best right-handed starter (and probably the best pitcher in the game overall), gets an under-performing Dodger team in DC, who are exactly 17th in baseball in K%, ISO, and wOBA against RHP. Thats not scary enough to keep me awa...
Tonights featured slate starts at 7pm eastern, with nine games to choose from. Weve also got two later slates, but those games are covered within the featured slate. Since it doesnt fit into any slate, the Dodgers-Marlins matchup at noon will not be included here. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for DraftKings on 5/17/18. The lineup picks will range from some of the elite players to mid-priced options and value plays. DraftKings Starting Pitc...
Pretty interesting schedule we have on our hands on this Wednesday in the middle of May. Fourteen major league games are set to take place, but only 11 of them are in the larger contests. There are six games in the Early slate and five on the Main. Ill be focusing on those as thats where the majority of money is in prize pools (and there are far more contest options in those as well). The Early slate locks at 12:05 and the Main at 7:05. Ill update this Vegas section as the day goes along with a...
To this point, this series has focused exclusively on trying to predict and validate home runs and batting average. There is a reason for this--modern sabermetrics tend to reject the idea of a clutch RBI guy and therefore do not bother inventing predictive metrics for it. Runs and RBI are team-dependent stats, and are unhelpful in ascertaining a given players real value. That might work for stat heads, but fantasy owners frequently see 40% or more of a players value tied to his RBI and run tota...