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 must have for fantasy July 23, 2010
J. Root (Mankato, MN)
This is the book you DON'T want your fellow owners to know about. Let the other guys get those outdated and innacurate $8.00 fantasy mags off the newsstand and laugh
your butt off as they finish in the bottom half of the league year after year. Those mags are pretty much worthless. They give you stats, but as the great Vin Scully once
said "Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination".. so true Vin. This book gives you data, hard core data, that will either legitimizes
or delegitimize what a player has accomplished in a given year.
And no it's not perfect, no system is, but Ron gives you a great starting point to base player evaluations from. Plain and simple.. get this book if you want to dominate your leagues. I have for the past 7 years and will continue to do so.
 Ron Shandler has been in BB forecasting a long time. June 6, 2010
Nomo Tax (Florida, USA)
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster)
I always try to use Shandler for season management of my teams. His forecast are aimed at this year: I like this point of view I get advice for now, not for sometime in the future. His forecaster show much of Ron's personal arrogance (is it arrogance if they're very good?) I am a demanding customer I want to see more perfect forecasts, but I don't expect to get them. Still they continually improve their product as imperfection is still with them.
Grumpy Gator
Gives a Method to the Madness April 18, 2010
Michael S. Flak (Herndon, VA)
The philosophy of Ron Shandler could best be summed up in the mantra: "Draft Skills, Not Stats". Essentially...
-A player's fundamental skills (contact, power, control, stuff) will determine the baseline for the STATS the player will put out. If there is a discrepancy in the skills and the expected stat output, we can identify over/undervalued players and draft accordingly.
-The emphasis on developing/declining skills gives a more dynamic picture of who a player is and who he is becoming. Stats give a recap, skills are a predictive tool.
The book goes into detail on what you should be looking for in a player and why...it has cheatsheets/projections/analysis for nearly every MLB player along with budding prospects. Highly reccommended!
Great Tool, Very Technical March 4, 2010
Heavy P (NY,NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
excellent fantasy baseball resource February 24, 2010
Jeff R. Johnson (Milwaukee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For baseball fans that like a non-conventional look at players, trends, teams and stats, the annual Baseball Forecaster is one of my must-have publications. Shandler has again assembled a talented and interesting cast of writers and analysts and gets this in our hands just in time to beat the mid-winter ("we need baseball") blues! Just as pitchers and catchers are reporting to spring training, Baseball Forecaster gives us an informative look at the upcoming season.
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