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Jordan’s Research Ramblings: Predictive wOBAcon Soup for the Soul
While we still have playoff drama, the offseason has already begun for most teams. This has meant tons of mock drafts and more time for in-depth ruminative analysis–one of my favorite times of year.

Fire and Ice – Recent call-ups
The 2020 MLB season is a mess of short sample sizes and hot takes, so how you interpret and apply them to your fantasy leagues is up to you. This gets particularly difficult when you’re applying a couple of weeks’ worth of data to a player’s long-term outlook. In most

TDG Roundtable: The One Where We Analyze a Bunch of Trade Deadline Moves
This year’s trade deadline was filled with excitement, and that’s not just because it coincided with the release of Tenet. Moves were made, and these moves of course have dynasty league implications. In this collaborative article, we at The Dynasty Guru make it our business to analyze said implications. Note:

Fire and Ice – Early September
The 2020 MLB season is a mess of short sample sizes and hot takes, so how you interpret and apply them to your fantasy leagues is up to you. This gets particularly difficult when you’re applying a couple of weeks’ worth of data to a player’s long-term outlook. In most

Hot Starts and Broken Hearts – a Recent History
Incredibly, the 2020 regular season is already half over! Many fantasy owners are benefiting from incredible starts to the season, including six starting pitchers with a sub 2.00 ERA so far into the year. Normally, over 162 games we’d expect all those starters to regress back to, at best, an

2020 Hitter Stats That Matter
Fantasy baseball is hard enough in a normal, 162-game season. But my head has never been sent spinning as it has in 2020. We’ve got new stadiums, new rosters, and an extraordinary amount of information pouring in, it seems like, by the minute. There are no minor league games. No

German Marquez: Returning to Ace Potential
Think back to draft season 2019. German Marquez was being considered by some as a potential breakout starting pitcher who could make the jump into the ace tier. In 2018 he posted a record of 14-11 with a 3.77 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, and 10.6 K/9. As expected his home/road splits

5 Unwritten Rules of Fantasy Baseball to Earn the Admiration of your Leaguemates (Satire)
It can be difficult to fit in in the fantasy baseball community: it maintains all sorts of opaque norms of behavior that can be hard for an outsider to learn. Would you like to become a respected member of the fantasy community? Here are the five unwritten rules of fantasy

Fire and Ice
The 2020 MLB season is a mess of short sample sizes and hot takes, so how you interpret and apply them to your fantasy leagues is up to you. This gets particularly difficult when you’re applying a couple of weeks’ worth of data to a player’s long-term outlook. In most

Jordan’s Research Ramblings: Which Hitters are Hitting it Harder and More Often in 2020?
Which hitters have made the biggest combined power and contact improvements compared to last year? This article looks at early season changes in power and contact across baseball.