GM's OFFICE: The Mayberry Method's in-season relevance
Jun 29 2018
It caught my eye in the midst of my daily page-hopping throughout our site here at BaseballHQ.com. Prodded by Ray Murphy’s GM’s OFFICE article last week, I linked over to Ross Stripling’s PlayerLink page to further examine for myself just exactly what is going on with him. (Full disclosure: I have no Stripling shares anywhere).
It was there that this four-digit string stuck out to me:
5403
Of course, 5403 is Stripling’s Mayberry Method skills score. Given that the context of this portion of Ray’s article is musing about the relationship between shrewd late-draft and early-season acquisitions and overall fantasy team performance—at least here at mid-season—it got me thinking.
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The Mayberry Method (MM), of course, is one of the many...
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