Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players

Tyrone, it seems like your site's main marketability strategy is to allow fantasy owners big and small to customize their own comparisons and data visualization based on the stats they want to see. So with the above concern raised in mind, what if you allowed users to input their own 5x5 categories for their league and boiled that down into one number?

For example if someone was playing in a league that counted just Hits, Runs, Stolen Bases, Home Runs and OPS, and they wanted to know how Alexi Ramirez was doing in this format, they could just input these five stats and create a "Custom BE Rating".

This way, the hardcore data crunching aspect is still there, but the user will still be able to get a full amount of value from the site because it offers them the ability to tailor the data to their own league.

1) I would love for the site to integrate with my Yahoo/CBS/ESPN leagues and adjust the stat displays to account for my league settings

2) These stats are great for during research, but are also available at baseball-reference.com, fangraphs.com and several other sites. What would be great is for this to use the CBS/Yahoo API (scrape ESPN until they open their fantasy leagues API), and pull in my league info, teams, settings, positions and give me customized advice.

3) One this I found 2 years ago was that these stats were great for hard core stat nerds, but for more casual games, I've found that these numbers didn't make sense to them. We had to provide a simpler dashboard, with easily digestible recommendations/graphs and allow them to drill into more detail for each point.

4) Historical data is nice to have, but the real value would be to use the historical data to try and project the future. I don't really care that in 35 career ABs that Aaron Hill hit 4 HR (too small a sample size). What I'd like to know, is given his age, his ball park, and the profiles of the opposing starting pitchers, what range of stats can I expect from him?

5) In addition to historical stats, it would be nice to use your particular league context to define what a "good" trade is. For instance, trading Miguel Cabrera for Michael Bourn late in the season may seem crazy, but if you need SB and trading Cabrera to an opponent might prevent your nearest opponents from gaining on you in HR/RBI, this trade might make all the sense and actually improve your odds of winning.

These are just some of my quick thoughts and I hope they help.

I think the first thing I'll add is the projections, because that seems to be meaningful to a lot of people.