Welcome to BFN, Sean Guest… It’s easy to forget just how good Jake Arrieta was in 2015. In 33 starts, he won a career-best 22 games, with an ERA of 1.77 en route to the National League Cy Young. He
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Category: Analytics
Can We Play You Every Week
“Can we play you, can we play you, can we play you every week. Can we play you every week.” Those of you more familiar with British football will recognise this chant. It is one that the fans will sing
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Best Of British – AJ Pollock: 2019’s Best Free Agent Signing
Joel is one half of Four Bases, a British Baseball website that has recently produced a fantastic (and FREE) guide for the 2019 MLB season. The Landscape With the benefit of a couple of years of hindsight, the winter of
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A four-man outfield: last positioning gambit or the new norm?
With the 2019 MLB season about to start, a whirlwind of uncertainty surrounds the game. Firstly, the second year of cold ‘hot stove season’ with limited free agency signings happening has lead to open discussion of action by the players’
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Fantasy Value Options – Part 2
Mark Blakemore returns! Rounding off the good value options that I can see in the middle and back end of drafts. As in the previous article these are aimed at typical 5×5 roto leagues. We did most of the infield
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Chasing Wins – A Fantasy Endeavor
We have moved into the month February, the Super Bowl is over and like a large number people I have switched my main attention over to baseball. But as Spring Training hasn’t even started yet so my attention is more
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The Shift – What Is Causing The LHH v RHH Difference
This previous analysis I have done (here & here), I have shown that shift is working against LHH but not against RHH. Also, I have shown that what is going on with the shift, for both RHH and LHH, is
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Trading Away Your Best
The ‘Hot Stove’ that is free agency has been rather cold this year, with neither of the top 2 players (Harper & Machado) having signed at the time of writing. But there have been numerous trades and plenty of trade
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How well is your team using the shift?
In a previous article, where I looked at the impact of the shift in 2018, there was some evidence to suggest that shifting was working against left handers and not against right handers. But there are additional variables which we
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All home runs are equal, but some are more equal than others.
When looking at a baseball players stats, you will see a home runs column. Be that for batters or pitcher. When you see those columns, those homers are treated as equals. Even for the more advance stats like FIP, wOBA
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