Anthony Miller
The Bastard Son of xwOBA: xwOBA-lite for Minor Leaguers
How to best make sense of the recent proliferation of information on minor league hitters, specifically power metrics? This is a question I’ve been struggling with in the last few weeks/months (does anyone keep track of time anymore?) regarding minor league fly ball distance, exit velocity, and exit velocity on
Jordan’s Research Ramblings: Expected Power Leaderboards for Minor Leaguers
Last week, I generated an expected home runs per fly ball measure (xHR/FB) for minor leaguers based on their average fly ball distance and average exit velocity. The logic is this: a minor leaguer can be expected to hit a certain number of home runs per fly ball given their
Scouting the Stat Line: Top 3030 Hitting Prospects by Peak MLB wOBA Projection
Wander Franco (Left photograph: Rob Tringali / MLB Photos via Getty Images); Julio Rodriguez (Right photograph: wv_power, The Official Instagram for the West Virginia Power) Over the past year, I’ve developed translations that convert minor league statistics to their equivalent MLB statistics. I’ve also built aging curves to project when
2019 Dynasty Rankings: Wide Receiver
Continuing the process of ranking players, we come to the Wide Receiver group. You can find our QB Rankings here, our RB rankings here, both include 2019 Rookies. These rankings are based off team position, age, production and future prediction on production. Trades & injuries are unpredictable but will
2018 Rookie Mock Draft
In this mock rookie draft, Matthew Bruening and myself took alternating turns going with a best available strategy. We hope to give those of you about to participate in a real rookie draft for your dynasty leagues some idea of where we both stand on player values. The settings for
Post NFL Draft Rookie Positional Rankings
The NFL draft is over and man did we seem some shocking moves and great landing spots. Of course we also saw some players land in spots where well as a fantasy player we would have preferred they not. All in all it was an amazing draft in Dallas and
2018 NFL Pre-Draft Top 12 Wide Receivers
With the Super Bowl in the rear-view, most eyes are on the NFL Free Agency period which will kick off in March. As a dynasty owner, the FA period is all well and good, but much of that noise will already be on rosters and only available through trade. To