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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Another Great Edition of the Forecaster,
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This review is from: 2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster) (Paperback)
This 2010 book continues Shandler's string of hits with his annual Forecaster. The essays in the front of the book are fresher than past years. Also, Shandler unveils a new method of evaluating players: the Mayberry Method. Don't worry, it's in addition to all the other ratings systems, sabremetrics, and pithy player descriptions I've come to love.
Though he is a leader of the statistics-based prediction rather than skills-based analysis, I think Shandler is actually doing a good job of combining skills-based scouting with sabremetric evaluation. His obsession with the accuracy of his forecasts pushes him to optimize the world of data from which he can make predictions. The statistics he uses and the ratios he's developed are all clearly aimed at explaining why it happened on the field. His reliance on skills analyses for younger players gradually gives way to the use of the results data as their carreers progress. Shandler is also keen on interpreting the effect of injury, both looking back and looking forward. Few other Roto forecasters will go out on a limb predicting both down years and improvements for various players. If you only buy one baseball annual for your fantasy league, this is the one to buy.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Only buy this if you're not in my league,
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This review is from: 2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster) (Paperback)
I buy the Shandler Forecaster every January, and every October for the last four years I've celebrated a fantasy baseball championship. Put simply: Shandler's forecasts are eerily close to what will happen in the course of a season. Does he miss from time-to-time? Absolutely. But I trust him absolutely. In a world of bloggers acting like experts, it's good to have a real expert to look to in preparation for my (five) roto drafts.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Tool, Very Technical,
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This review is from: 2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster) (Paperback)
every year i await this annual which is my main guide for all my fantasy leagues ...its great and there is no doubt ron shandler is an innovator but sometimes even a person like me who has been reading this for years can get lost with all the technical terms. the blurbs for each player also could be more decisive in my opinion for example for players it will say UPSIDE 2007 DOWNSIDE 2009, which really does not tell me his opinion at all and that is what im looking.
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