Playing with playing time metrics
Feb 5 2025
Over the past couple of seasons, our own Ed DeCaria has developed and written about a set of innovative playing time metrics on the site (The Future of Playing Time Measurement Starts Now) and in the Baseball Forecaster.
Similar to how we've used component metrics to analyze player skills, Ed's approach breaks playing time down into pieces that, per Ed, "gives us a complete picture of every player's playing time situation without requiring fantasy managers to click a single link or read a single word. It's just numbers telling a story."
This week, we'll attempt to tell that story by playing with these metrics to uncover some outlier players we can speculate on this draft season. First, some re-introduction of Ed's metrics we'll use in...
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