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TDG’s Top 500 Consensus Rankings for Points Leagues – March 2023
What’s up Dynastopians. We’re back! And if you’re anything like me, you’re kinda tired. I get it, and I see you. The world is moving very fast. So let’s slow it down and get to the obnoxiously long list of grown people who hit balls with sticks. Or throw balls

The Dynasty Guru 2023 Top 500 Dynasty Players for OBP Leagues
Whew. I can’t express how excited I am to share my Top 500 List for OBP dynasty leagues. It’s my first publicly available personal endeavor, so I’d be lying if I didn’t say there was a little apprehension. But only a little, and this won’t be my last Top 500

The Dynasty Guru 2023 Top 500 Dynasty Players for Batting Average Leagues
Hi and glad you clicked to see our top 500 dynasty players for the 2023 season. The list is designed for a daily 15-team league, a traditional 5×5 roto starting 2 catchers with Wins and Saves (no holds), and of course Batting Average. Enjoy!

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2023 TOP 125 DYNASTY LEAGUE OUTFIELDERS, #21-60
The rankings continue! The Dynasty Gurus trudge forward with the next best group of outfielders today – those ranked from #21-#60. Let’s get right to it! 21. Seiya Suzuki, Chicago Cubs (Age: 28, Previous Rank: 47) Seiya Suzuki’s career stat line in 9 years of the Nippon Professional Baseball league

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 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