If your current fantasy roster still even partially resembles the team you drafted, you’re likely in the minority. For the rest of us normal people, I’ll be using a data-backed, formulaic approach to discover next week’s waiver wire headliners..
. today. Going position by position, I mine my favorite obscure fantasy baseball statistics in regard to control, batted ball quality, and swing-and-miss ability.
Then I mash them all together, hopefully identifying some cheap gems to grab now before the squares figure it out next week. At the very bottom, I rank my favorite available players around the diamond, as well as two-start pitchers and speculative adds. Advertisement Here we go.
.. Starting Pitchers As far as pitching goes, the thesis couldn’t be simpler — do our best to avoid any bias attached to surface stats (outputs) by instead focusing on underlying metrics (inputs).
The most important SP skills are the ability to generate whiffs (first list below) and limit hard contact (second list below). While showing up on one of these two lists may be noise, I’m treating an appearance on both as a signal to immediately pull the trigger. By the last week of June, the daily war of attrition leaves most teams (and analysts for that matter) exhausted and limping listlessly toward the All-Star break.
Another week of fantasy means another mostly empty pitching cupboard, further stressing our lasting theme of proactivity in these articles. It’s as easy as ABC, people — Alwa.
