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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
TDG’s Top 500 OBP Dynasty Rankings March 2025
Welcome, welcome, welcome! Yes, it’s true, we are at the end of our ranking season. Don’t be sad because it’s ending but be happy because it happened! And be happy as it’s time for one of the crowning ranks – The Dynasty Guru’s Annual Top 500 Dynasty Players for OBP
THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2025 TOP 50 DYNASTY LEAGUE FIRST BASEMEN, #31 – 50
The calendar has turned, the baseball equinox has passed, and the Dynasty Gurus have emerged from their caves to present you with our annual positional rankings. Fortunately for all of us, the caves have internet access so we’ve been able to research, analyze, and debate these players to develop a
2024 Top 500 Dynasty Players for OBP Leagues
Welcome, welcome, welcome! Yes, it’s true, we are nearing the end of our ranking szn. Don’t be sad because it’s ending but be happy because it happened! And be happy as this means it’s time for one of the crowning ranks – The Dynasty Guru’s Annual Top 500 Dynasty Players
THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2024 TOP 125 DYNASTY LEAGUE OUTFIELDERS, #61-125
WELCOME BACK DYNASTOPIANS!!! The Gurus have been working hard on rankings for the last month or so and we’re ready to help you on your way to victory in 2024! The Dynasty Guru’s hard-working staff has spent countless hours crafting these rankings, and we hope you enjoy and continue to
TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty OBP Rankings – August 2023 Update
Welcome everyone to the August 2023 update to TDG’s Top 500 List for OBP Dynasty Leagues. This list assumes a 15-team, 5×5 Roto league with OBP for our batters and QS and SVH for pitchers. The list also assumes that rosters are the ‘keep forever’ dynasty format with one starting
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