Lucas Kelly
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Past articles by Lucas:
Ottoneu: These Pitchers Are More Valuable In Points Leagues
Find pitchers who fit your scoring system better than others and capitalize. → Read More
An Exercise in Injury Impact
An example of how risk aversion compares to going double back-flip through the fire ring. → Read More
Ottoneu: Where Auction Price Is Just a Concept
Let's argue about price like grandparents in a supermarket. → Read More
Launch Angles, Release Points and Hit Predictability
Is the question of who gets a hit tomorrow as simple as who has the most hit-friendly average launch angle? → Read More
Projected Category Distributions by Position
Where should you look for category outliers? → Read More
Ottoneu: Get Your Money Right! Pitcher Edition
Last week I detailed how I am preparing for an upcoming Ottoneu re-draft and how I set my hitter targets. In this post, I finish the job and detail my approach to targeting pitchers. → Read More
Using ATC’s Inter and Intra Measures to Evaluate Hitters
How can these simple statistical measures help you identify draft targets? → Read More
Ottoneu: Get Your Money Right! Hitter Edition
Create a pre-draft budget with these easy steps. → Read More
Ottoneu: Mock Draft Experimental
How does paying for the top three closers work out in the end? → Read More
Recipe: Thinning The Herd With K/9, SwStr%, and pVals
Let's take a look at the bottom six pitchers in the "Thinning the Herd" recipe. → Read More
Recipe: Thinning The Herd With K/9, SwStr%, and pVals
Three pitching statistic ingredients to help you narrow down your draft targets with one tasty recipe. → Read More
Ottoneu: The Value In Keeping Minor Leaguers
They're not worth what you're paying them and you know it. But, could they be in the future, future, future? → Read More
Somedays You Have It And Somedays You Don’t: Robbie Ray’s Slider
A good slider and a bad slider are just a few data points apart. → Read More
Treating Hitter Auction Values Like Model Scores
Join me in the conference room for an overview of our fiscal year. Coffee will be provided. → Read More
HR/FB Increases to Believe In
These five hitters have statistical profiles that support home runs to be hit. → Read More
To Be Twenty-Four: Taking Advantage of More Opportunities and Striking Out Less
These players all saw positive improvements to their K% in 2022, what does it mean for 2023? → Read More
One Hitter, Two Hitter, Red Hitter, Blue Hitter
Which combination of Statcast and plate discipline metrics generated the most fantasy value in 2022? → Read More
Luis Arraez Needs To Swing and Miss More Often – RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The 2022 American League batting title was won with .316. It was the lowest batting average to earn the award in the American League since Carl Yastrzemski hit .301 in 1968. Rod Carew earned the best AL batting average in 1972 with .318 and Tony Gwynn hit .313 in 1988 to earn the NL award. But typically, the batting title is awarded for a higher average. The… → Read More
The Possibilities and Limitations of wRC+ for Fantasy Managers
How can a player have a higher roto dollar value than another but a lower wRC+? → Read More
Ottoneu Offseason Checklist
Analyze your team from these three perspectives to prepare for next season! → Read More