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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.

Scouting the Statline – Top 100 Prospects for Dynasty
For those new to this series, Scouting the Statline focuses on statistical analysis using using curves and major league equivalencies to generate peak projections. Peak projections put all minor and major leaguers on equal statistical footing for comparative purposes.

TDG Roundtable: The Players We’re Rostering The Most
Every week on Fridays, our writers here at The Dynasty Guru will be bringing you some quick hit musings about a particular topic so you, the reader, can get a blast of info from a bunch of different writers with some passionate opinions. This week, our staff gives a little

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

TDG – Top 200 Prospects for 2022
As we begin to close out #RankingSZN here at The Dynasty Guru, we’re pleased to share our top 200 prospects in advance of the 2022 season. Dig in, and enjoy!

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings – February 2022
During the offseason, our staff has worked tirelessly to rank, debate, re-rank, and write up more than 600 players to help dynasty leaguers on their road to glory. As is typical, we put a bow on this offseason process with the following dynasty top 500. If you’re interested and able,

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2022 TOP 20 CATCHER PROSPECTS, #1-10
Hello and welcome to the PROSPECTS ONLY portion of our ranking SZN, beginning with (love ’em or hate ’em) catching prospects! While not the safest position to invest your prospect capital in, it is a position in fantasy baseball, nobody gravitates to catcher. Meaning the guys on this list, are

TDG 2022 PLAYERS TO AVOID: CATCHERS
This is a companion piece to our annual Top 40 Dynasty League Catchers series, which you can find here and here and here. The opinions below are my own and do not reflect the TDG consensus. Each of these players has plenty of fans among my colleagues. The first draft

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2022 TOP 40 DYNASTY LEAGUE CATCHERS, #1-10
WELCOME BACK!!! These long winter months can be some of the darkest of the year (figuratively and literally) and even more so this year, with that thing that shall not be named halting a boondoggle of an offseason. But fear not, restless readers. The Dynasty Guru is here to the

Scouting the Stat Line: Projected Peak Dynasty Performance for the Top 1,000 Prospects
This article continues an annual series providing peak projections for prospects. The projections are derived from peak major league equivalencies that use my (Jordan’s) aging curves and league translations to convert every player’s statistics to the same peak MLB (American League) baseline, making it easier to compare players at different