February 27, 2015

Fantasy Infographic

Starting Pitchers

by Mauricio Rubio

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Notes

• There’s a lot of homogeneity in the starting pitcher categories. It’s something that I picked up on while compiling the list of players, and it shines through especially in the three-star tier. The 3-3-3-3-3 is a very popular PECOTA projection.
• I added Quality Starts in here since using Saves would be useless and some leagues are moving toward Quality Starts as a stat. It’s the most common alternative to Wins I’ve seen out there.
• Jose Fernadez has a pretty extreme graph, as his solid peripherals will be produced in limited time. PECOTA thinks the counting stats will be less than stellar, and it’s a pretty wise prediction.
• PECOTA still isn’t in on Corey Kluber, and the reasons for that are worth their own column.
• Without further ado here is the graph:

And here is the stat breakdown:

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