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TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for AVG Leagues
For your post-trade deadline reading pleasure, the Dynasty Guru proudly presents the Consensus Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for AVG Leagues! For this mid-season update, we have three guru’s combining their opinions to create this list – Ken Balderston (@KenInToronto), Brett Cook (@beautyofgrace32), and Chris Knock (@notnotcknock). They assumed a 15-team,

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for OBP Leagues – July 2022
Hey everybody, your friendly neighborhood dynasty dad here. Thank you as always for tuning in for some more Top-500 OBP list action! A few notes and various housekeeping items before we dive right in this time, in list form, as is my right: The list is now a Saves +

Join The Ranks Episode 32: Hot, Cold, and “Would You Rather”
Brian Shanks (@brian59044) joins the pod to talk hot and cold starts, play a little “Would You Rather”, and finish it off with listener questions. As always, be nice to yourself, be good to each other, and go get some cake. See you next week. Intro and Outro: One

Scouting the Statline – The Top 300 Projected Hitters
Scouting the Statline focuses on using aging curves and major league equivalencies to generate peak projections. Peak projections put all minor and major leaguers on equal footing for comparative purposes, allowing us to easily build data-based rankings and leaderboards.

Join The Ranks Episode 31: 2022 Points League Sleeper Draft!
Chris Knock (@notnotcknock) joins the pod today for the annual Points League Sleeper Draft! The guys lay it all out on the line to defeat Taylor this year, so let us know what you think! As always, be nice to yourself, be good to each other, and go get

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for OBP Leagues – February 2022
…picture a man, 32, hunched over a laptop, tired fingers flying as he ranks an abnormally long list of other grown baseball persons, pitting them against each other with make-believe furor…he takes a deep breath and… Hey everybody, your friendly neighborhood dynasty dad here. I’m glad you’re back for some

Join The Ranks Episode 24: 2022 First Base Dyno Ranks
Taylor (@TCasesLoaded) and Joe (@joegarino) invite another new TDG writer, Sam Wirsching (@SamFBB1) on to the pod to discuss TDG’s consensus first basemen rankings heading into 2022. As always, be nice to yourself, be good to each other, and go get some cake. See you next week. Intro and

Join The Ranks Episode 19: Stretch Run Philosophy and Some Listener Q’s
Joe (@JoeGarino) and Taylor (@TCasesLoaded) join up to talk about things we loved seeing in baseball last week, some dudes to consider for the stretch run, and answer some listener questions. Okay fine….it was mostly listener questions. Thanks to everyone who sent in a Q! Like I mentioned at

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