In time for the new year, Rotoprofessor has just come out with their 2010 MLB rankings by position.
I believe I directed you their rankings last year. When it comes to trading and drafting within our leagues, I find rankings helpful. and I think they do as good of a job as any. As I [...]
Yesterday, when cleaning out my office I found a treasure. After being lost for at least 10 years, I found my George Brett autographed APBA card. And there’s a pretty cool story that goes with it, too.
In the early 90’s, after I graduated from college and before I could find a job in my [...]
For those who will be entering draft time sometime soon, here is a list (in pdf form) of the 2009 rookies that our commissioner put together.
For the players, it includes playing time including games at secondary positions. For pitchers, it includes playing time as well as W-L record and ERA.
One warning: the list [...]
For those interested, I convinced six writers to guest blog for The Baseball Zealot writing an article a day for one week. The topic was predicting the MLB end-of-year awards and postseason predictions.
Guest bloggers ranged from our own Teddy Ballgame to Baseball Musings’ David Pinto.
Organizing the project was a lot of work but [...]
APBA to the masses sometimes gets rolled in with the fantasy leagues ala rotisserie leagues. One difference among many, I think, is the connection to the players. The connection (at least for us board game players), comes from handling and viewing the individual player cards. Corny as that may seem.
Which leads me to this [...]
Thanks again to our fantastic commish at the IAL, we have the MLB stats in Excel format (zipped).
The spreadsheet includes:
pretty much all hitting and pitching stats
games played at position
pitchers’ hitting
a plus for APBA fans, certain offensive stats/36 PA so you can approximate hitter’s APBA cards.
plus a lot more!
Plus [...]