Justin Upton is a mystery to me. How do you go from 2.3 K/BB ratio to 13 K/BB in one season? The power is gone, the contact is gone, just an unmitigated disaster. And his .264 wOBA already comes with a .373 BABIP so we can't even chalk this up to bad luck. He's looking pretty fat to me. Maybe he got his contract and now he just DGAF.
That's nothing. On the radio yesterday, Jerry attempted to draw a ham-fisted correlation between teams who have shifted the most and current W-L record. I lost about 15 IQ points just listening to it.
I like the Yahoo 5/10 rule. If a player can start at least 5 games at a position IRL in a given season, I see no reason you shouldn't be able to use them there in fantasy.
Yeah Harp might be able to sneak in close to 20 SB this year, not that it really matters because he is just a hands-down better power hitter, and still about 4 years away from his power peak.
That's super irrelevant for fantasy purposes. Since the start of 2015:
Harper: .322/.451/.653, 51 HR, 134 R, 123 RBI, 11 SB, .457 wOBA
Trout: .297/.398/.580, 46 HR, 117 R, 105 RBI, 12 SB, .410 wOBA
Trout doesn't even run anymore!
Should have just stuck with the original tiers:
.600+ = elite
.550 - .599 = great
.500 - .549 = good
.450 - .499 = average/mediocre
.400 - .449 = poor
sub-.400 = dogshit
You really don't need an equal number of teams per tier or whatever dumbass suggestion that was from boxy.
Shelby Miller has pretty much single-handedly s***-tanked my pitching ratios. Just unfathomably bad. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised to find out he has a season-ending injury that he's been hiding. His peripherals reek of a shoulder problem.