This is the second 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 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:

Back in March, I gave our writers the task of coming up with some out-on-a-limb projections for 2011. We run into trouble every year when we ground our future expectations in past realities, so it is an important exercise to create some possibilities that we would never have considered. Let's look back on the 20 bold projections we floated out on March 18. Remember - these were all pretty far-fetched back then.

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

The underlying concept of XRD is that year-to-year player performance does not inherently follow a smooth trend. Rather, surges are followed by declines, and declines by surges, even as overall growth may still occur. What this means for us is that we need to significantly downgrade players coming off of peak or career years, and carefully target those who are coming off of down years. In fact, we might want to build our entire draft strategy around that. So did it work?

Doug Dennis brings home the LABR-NL title.

Looking back at the Tout Wars saga and a surprise appearance in the Moneyball movie.

Previews of the final series of the season

Previewing the final series of the season

We cannot predict the future; all we can do is provide a sound process for constructing a "most likely expectation for future performance." All we can control is the process. As such, if we've captured as much information as is available, used the best methodology and analyzed the results correctly, that's about the best we can do. We simply can't control outcomes. What we can do is analyze all the misses to see why they occurred.

Callups for the week of 9/16-22

Completing the look ahead to 2012, this week the column tackles the western divisions.