With the 2011 Arizona Fall League coming to a close, we take a look back at the 10 Best and 10 Worst AFL performances.

This is the sixth of a 10-column series designed to help owners playing in keeper league (KL) and dynasty formats look ahead over the next few years to address their weak spots. From now through December, we'll be putting forth by-position lists of our favorite low-dollar players and prospects. All could be relatively available in your leagues--and could earn double-digit dollars sometime over the next three seasons, between 2012 and 2014. Our criterion includes the following:

Accurately evaluating a player's future performance is essential for building a successful franchise. But, how do we arrive at these judgments?

This is the fifth of a 10-column series designed to help owners playing in keeper league (KL) and dynasty formats look ahead over the next few years to address their weak spots. From now through December, we'll be putting forth by-position lists of our favorite low-dollar players and prospects. All could be relatively available in your leagues--and could earn double-digit dollars sometime over the next three seasons, between 2012 and 2014. Our criterion includes the following:

First, do players get "hot" (defined by a hitting streak) more often than we would expect by chance? And second, do players who have hitting streaks of at least 10 games, show improved performance over the next 10 games? If so, we should target these players.

This is the fourth of a 10-column series designed to help owners playing in keeper league (KL) and dynasty formats look ahead over the next few years to address their weak spots. From now through December, we'll be putting forth by-position lists of our favorite low-dollar players and prospects. All could be relatively available in your leagues -- and could earn double-digit dollars sometime over the next three seasons, between 2012 and 2014. Our criterion includes the following:

This has the potential to be a very solid rookie class and fantasy owners would be wise to put these 8 players on their Cheat Sheets:

The question, then, is whether we can estimate the "correct" hr/f for a given player. An even more important question is whether we can use that information to predict regression from one season to the next. In two words: yes and yes.

This is the third of a 10-column series designed to help owners playing in keeper league (KL) and dynasty formats look ahead over the next few years to address their weak spots. From now through December, we'll be putting forth by-position lists of our favorite low-dollar players and prospects. All could be relatively available in your leagues -- and could earn double-digit dollars sometime over the next three seasons, between 2012 and 2014. Our criterion includes the following:

Did you ever consider that WHERE you draft from plays a big factor in how you handle that draft plan? Do your player evaluations allow you to win from any spot? I hope so.

A statistic frequently used to fuel speculation is the number of doubles a player hits - there is often conjecture that a player with a lot of doubles in one year might turn them some of them into HR the next. But does this actually happen with reliable frequency?