SPECULATOR: Fun with tiny samples, pt 1: Gainers
Apr 25 2013
Despite what you may be reading across the internet this week, it's still too early to start interpreting early-season performances, or projecting hot/cold starts to last all season. If you want confirmation of that, just ask the myriad of people who blew their FAAB budgets on Jose Fernandez after his strong first two outings, only to absorb PQS-DISasters in his next two starts.
Still, this early-season data is just sitting there, begging to be analyzed. And one way to mitigate the risk of over-analyzing that data is to just use it to generate some simple, broad-brush sorts of players, rather than focusing too much on individuals. That's what we have as the basis of our speculation this week: Just some lists of players who are showing...
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