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Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

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Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

#11
Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you?

One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

#12
post #11

Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you? One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

Thanks. I've made it show on the left now!

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

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post #11

Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you? One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

Thanks. I've made it show on the left now!

Perfect :) Much better.

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

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post #11

Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you? One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

What do you like about this version that you would like to see in the football one?

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

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post #11

Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you? One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

What do you like about this version that you would like to see in the football one?

Unfortunately, I have no answer for that. I'm not a fantasy anything player, so I really don't know what would be useful. I can get ahold of my friend though, a (sports) journalism major who plays a few leagues at a time, and see what he'd like :)

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

#17
post #9

This is fantastic, thank you. Any chance of adding predictions based on past performance, etc?

If you take a look at the data table, you'll see that in the BE Scorecard & statistic value columns they are either colored green or red. I'm doing a least-squares linear regression on the player's BE Score here and showing red if the player's BE Score is trending down over the last 30 days or green if the player's BE Score is trending up over the last 30 days.

Excellent. Again, this is really great!

Re: Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

#20
This is pretty cool, but some of that stat choices are a little curious. VORP instead of WAR? No park- or league-adjusted offensive stats like wRC+ or OPS+? No defensive stats at all? No BABIP or batted ball rates for pitchers? It's hard to do any in-depth pitcher analysis with only FIP.

I really like the ability to compare up to 4 players on any given stat that's available, but the choice of stats is kind of lacking and I don't see much to draw me away from Fangraphs at this point.

I know you said this is primarily for fantasy nerds, (and stats like UZR don't really matter for fantasy baseball) but you could pull in stat nerds in general if you expanded the stat selection to be competitive with FG/StatCorner/etc. Pitch f/x data could also be something to think about as a future addition to add huge utility to the site.

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