RESEARCH: Learning from Elite Stolen Base Performers
Feb 16 2012
Many fantasy owners target elite performers in scarce statistics like SBs. If you can draft one or two top base stealers, you can focus on the other categories as you draft your remaining hitters. In 2011, eight of the top ten base stealers in the AL had appeared in the top ten at least one time before, and six of the top ten in the NL had a previous top-ten performance. Can we increase our chances of drafting one of these elite stolen base performers?
Published research has shown that stolen base performance peaks at age 27. Previous research at BaseballHQ.com by Ed DeCaria has shown that "raw speed" (a skills based speed assessment that does not rely on stolen bases) peaks at age 23, and that Stolen Base Opportunity (SBO) also...
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