Author : Larry Schechter
Publisher : Emerald
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fantasy baseball (Game)
ISBN : 9781937110574
Play smart. Play to win. Play like a champion.
Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101476087
The Wizard of Oz meets America's favorite pastime! Alex Metcalf must be dreaming. What else would explain why he's playing baseball for the Oz Cyclones, with Dorothy as his captain, in the Ever After Baseball Tournament? But Alex isn't dreaming; he's just from the real world. And winning the tournament might be his only chance to get back there, because the champions get a wish granted by the Wizard. Too bad Ever After's most notorious criminal, the Big Bad Wolf, is also after the wishes. And anyone who gets in his way gets eaten! From beloved baseball author Alan Gratz comes a novel in which classic literary characters are baseball crazy, and one real-world boy must face his fears and discover the surprising truth about himself.
Author : Sam Walker
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fantasy baseball (Game).
ISBN :
Recounts the author's experiences with playing a season of fantasy baseball against a host of armchair contenders, during which he researched the activity's popularity as well as the factors that contribute to winning fantasy teams.
Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345517652
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.
Author : Nick Martell
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1534437789
In this brilliant debut fantasy, a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth. Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family. In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. So when the opportunity arrives to get folded back into court, via the most politically dangerous member of the kingdom’s royal council, Michael takes it, desperate to find a way back to his past. He discovers a royal family that is spiraling into a self-serving dictatorship as gun-wielding rebels clash against magically trained militia. What the truth holds is a set of shocking revelations that will completely change the Hollows, if Michael and his friends and family can survive long enough to see it.
Author : Tanner Bell
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2019-11-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781710114188
The Process - 2020 Edition The Process - Integrating Valuations and Biases into a Winning Fantasy Baseball Formula (thefantasybaseballprocess.com) is written by Jeff Zimmerman (Rotographs, Sportsline, two-time Tout Wars champion) and Tanner Bell (SmartFantasyBaseball.com, author of Using Standing Gain Points to Rank and Value Fantasy Baseball Players). The Process contains over 300 detailed pages on how to run a fantasy baseball team, including over 50 new pages of groundbreaking studies and research, over 50 additional pages of stats, projections, and useful information for the 2020 season. Some of the highlights are: Detailed analysis of how to use industry projections and when they should be modified. How to use valuation procedures to turn projections into rankings and dollar values. Take advantage of industry biases and norms to pull as much value out of a draft and auction. A groundbreaking study on when breakouts happen and how owners should take advantage of this information. Pages of hints and secrets to accumulate extra stats during the season. Basic Steamer hitter, starter, and reliever projections Standings gain points equations for various league sizes (12- and 15-team) and formats (average and OBP leagues, AL- or NL-only) from major industry leagues (NFBC, Tout Wars). Average league standings for the same leagues to help owners know what statistics are required to win a league and to help plan category targets for 2020. What Are Others Saying About the Book? What lies in these pages is the most thorough tackling of the larger questions of rotisserie baseball that you'll find anywhere in this world (physical or digital). Jeff and Tanner examine concepts such as cognitive biases and measurement of intrinsic value, they dig into the trick, inexact science of FAAB, and they also introduce new ideas and theories. ~ Clay Link, Rotowire, 2018 TGFBI Champion After reading 'The Process', I realize I will never write a book about fantasy baseball because Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell wrote the book I would have written, only way better. ~ Rob Silver, NFBC Main Event Overall Champion Most books just tell you how the author won his leagues. What makes Tanner Bell and Jeff Zimmerman's effort so epic is that it not only shows their work in every step of their own methods, it gives the reader a great sense of how they could innovate further, and how they could build their own league-winning process. This is a must-read for any fantasy baseball lover. ~ Eno Sarris, The Athletic This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive fantasy baseball guide I have ever come across. Jeff and Tanner are two of the smartest minds in the industry and are part of the few I make sure to read everything from. 'The Process' will provide you with long-term value and make you a better fantasy baseball player not just for the upcoming season, but for many seasons to come. ~ Mike Podhorzer, Fangraphs, Projecting X 2.0, Former Tout Wars Champion 'The Process' is one of the smartest, most comprehensive fantasy baseball books to hit the market in years. If you're a valuation fanatic like I am, you'll enjoy and devour every page of this book. 'The Process' is an essential part of any fantasy player's bookshelf. ~ Mike Gianella, Baseball Prospectus, Former Tout Wars and LABR Champion
Author : Mario Mergola
Publisher : Mario Mergola
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2017-03-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780998793108
Why not collect dividends on the investments we make in the world of sports? This was the question FantasyPros expert Mario Mergola asked when starting Sporfolio, and it was the driving force behind the words in Diamond Dividends: Creative Strategies to Profit Through Fantasy Baseball. Sprinkled with anecdotes, unique strategies, and baseball players who can be targeted today in a fantasy draft, Diamond Dividends approaches baseball as a market ready for investment opportunities. The methodologies explained by Mergola will help fantasy owners gain a competitive edge in any league, both today and for years to come.
Author : Tanner Bell
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category :
ISBN :
The Process - 2021 Full Edition The Process - Integrating Valuations and Biases into a Winning Fantasy Baseball Formula (thefantasybaseballprocess.com) is written by Jeff Zimmerman (Rotographs, two-time Tout Wars champion) and Tanner Bell (SmartFantasyBaseball.com, author of Using Standing Gain Points to Rank and Value Fantasy Baseball Players). Please read carefully. This offering is for the full edition of the book. Please read further to understand both offerings that are available. We are sorry to announce that there will not be major updates to The Process for the 2021 edition. It's not for a lack of ideas. Simply put, it has been a strange year. The shutdown and restarting of the season, the rule changes, the odd schedules, and the seven-inning games have us questioning the validity of any innovative research. Layer in the compressed season, new working conditions, remote schooling our kids, and the general stress of dealing with all of this, and 2020 has beaten us into submission. With that in mind, we've decided to offer two editions this year, so our readers can choose the version that's right for them. Information on the Full 2021 Edition and the 2021 Appendix Edition is below. We want to be very transparent about what you can expect from these options. The Process - 2021 Full Edition The body of this book is the same as the 2020 edition, but with an updated appendix to prepare you for the 2021 season. The appendix is updated for various leagues' standings gain points (SGP), 2021 Steamer projections with the SGP, projected handedness splits, and more. Additionally, we provide our own analysis of how to weight SGP with the shortened season. If you have not previously bought the book, this is the edition for you.. The Process - 2021 Appendix Edition This offering is the slimmed-down version containing just the appendix and SGP analysis. This is the edition for owners that have previously read the 2020 edition and are now looking for updated projections, SGP, and other data in the appendix. The Appendix Edition includes over 65 pages of information to help prepare for the 2021 season. Don't want to spend hours calculating SGP for your league? Save the time and purchase the Appendix Edition. The Appendix Edition of the book is not available for sale on Amazon.com. What Are Others Saying About the Book? What lies in these pages is the most thorough tackling of the larger questions of rotisserie baseball that you'll find anywhere in this world (physical or digital). Jeff and Tanner examine concepts such as cognitive biases and measurement of intrinsic value, they dig into the trick, inexact science of FAAB, and they also introduce new ideas and theories. Clay Link, Rotowire, 2018 TGFBI Champion After reading 'The Process', I realize I will never write a book about fantasy baseball because Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell wrote the book I would have written, only way better. Rob Silver, NFBC Main Event Overall Champion Most books just tell you how the author won his leagues. What makes Tanner Bell and Jeff Zimmerman's effort so epic is that it not only shows their work in every step of their own methods, it gives the reader a great sense of how they could innovate further, and how they could build their own league-winning process. This is a must-read for any fantasy baseball lover. Eno Sarris, The Athletic 'The Process' is one of the smartest, most comprehensive fantasy baseball books to hit the market in years. If you're a valuation fanatic like I am, you'll enjoy and devour every page of this book. 'The Process' is an essential part of any fantasy player's bookshelf. Mike Gianella, Baseball Prospectus, Former Tout Wars and LABR Champion
Author : Art McGee
Publisher : Shandler Enterprises, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Rotisserie League Baseball (Game)
ISBN : 9781891566905
How to Value Players for Rotisserie Baseball will teach readers how to calculate the best player values for their draft or auction. Art McGee applies concepts from economics, finance, and statistics to develop a pricing method that far surpasses any other published. His method is highly sophisticated, yet McGee explains it in terms that any fantasy baseball owner can understand and apply. In this new Second Edition readers will learn how to adjust values for position scarcity, injury risk and future potential, set up their own pricing spreadsheet, and make better decisions on trades, free agents, and long-term contracts.
Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : Accountants
ISBN : 9780749398200
