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The TDG Top 500 for OBP Leagues- 2026 Mid-Season Updates!
And the Grand Finales of our Mid-Season Updates, the Top 500 Lists! Today, we present the Top 500 for OBP points leagues with daily lineups (hence the Ohtani ranking), compiled by Chris Knock, Joe Juliette, and Drew Klein. Enjoy, and as always, tell us what you think!
Episode 100: Celebrating a Century of Podcasts with Ten Lists of Ten!
Taylor Case and Joe Garino got this whole thing started; Drew Klein and Chris Knock took the wheel three years ago, and together we’ve made 100 episodes! Chris and Drew decided to honor the occasion by coming up with Ten Lists of Ten. Namesakes and Reverse Dopplegangers, Prospects on the
TDG Mid-Season Positional Ranking Adjustments – Outfield
Don’t you love the flow of the baseball year? The dreams in the off-season, the rising hopes of Spring Training, the constancy of the season, and the thrill of pennant races and postseason? On the dynasty calendar, we overlay that with the ranking seasons, FYPD, pre-season, and the oft-overlooked mid-season
TDG Mid-Season Positional Ranking Adjustments – First Base
Don’t you love the flow of the baseball year? The dreams in the off-season, the rising hopes of Spring Training, the constancy of the season, and the thrill of pennant races and postseason? On the dynasty calendar, we overlay that with the ranking seasons, FYPD, pre-season, and the oft-overlooked mid-season
Dynasty’s Child Episode 143: News, Notes, and Early Awards
In today’s loaded episode of Dynasty’s Child, Keaton, Shelly, and Jordan cover a ton of news and notes from around the league, pick their way-too-early award winners for 2021, and answer a few listener questions as well!! Outro: Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier WRITERS’ PLUGS! Follow us on
Scouting the Stat Line: Top 1000+ Hitters Under 30 by Peak Projected Dynasty Performance
Note: data update 3/8/2021. Peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score are unchanged. Other metrics updated, but they remain consistent with peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score. See ‘Table note’ for more detail.
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 – The Best Minor League Hitters of the Past Decade
The Dynasty Guru updates its peak performance leaderboards weekly. View the latest update here, updated as of 8/23/2019. As a reminder, the wOBA metric is designed to be a single variable that can inform how good a player’s overall hitting/plate approach quality is. Our wOBA calculations are meant to help
Melicharting The First Basemen
I’ll be debuting a series of articles during our ranking season to discuss some of the more interesting batted ball profiles for young (mostly) offensive players, position by position. These will include players who have made substantial changes as well as notable players who have not – we’re looking at