HEAD-TO-HEAD: The idea of usable weeks
Feb 20 2020
Introduction
Fantasy baseball in its traditional rotisserie form is a season-long game. That’s trained us to study player’s season-long stats in assessing their contributions to our team. Even as different scoring formats have emerged—those that utilize weekly scoring as opposed to season-long, for instance—our thought process for player valuation hasn’t changed. This article seeks to start the process of giving managers in head-to-head leagues a different way to think about player valuation.
Method
Given that framework, I sought to measure how many “usable weeks” players recorded in 2019 in each of the traditional five hitting categories. To set the baseline for a usable week, I used data from head-to-head category leagues that I...
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