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  • Saber Sim was developed by Hardball Times and FanGraphs author Matt Hunter, SaberSim (originally titled Baseball Sim) to run simulated baseball games.  You can customize it and add in the players you want, use current projected stats or use past season stats . For more info Developer’s article
  • Baseball Heat Maps has:
    •  Injury databases
    • Batted ball distance
    • PITCHf/x database
    • Rich data sets and tools

Developed by Hardball Times & FanGraphs author Jeff Zimmerman & his brother Darrell, this is a site on which you could spend hours and not even scratch the surface of what is housed there. As if the wealth of data on the site wasn’t great enough, many of the tools have leaderboards for easier consumption.

  • Bill Pettis Spray Chart Tool Developed by Hardball Times and FanGraphs author Bill Petti. Hitter, pitcher and ballpark comparisons. For more info, read Bill’s Article
  • MLB Payrolls Interactive payroll tool by Phil Roth It puts salary info into a larger context and allows users to see how teams stack up on a macro level and also examine the finer detail of each team’s payroll going all the way back to 1998
  • Markov Calculator by Tom Tango

Compute run expectancy tables and linear weights with Markov Chains. Input at-bats, hits, doubles, etc. and then press a button. The program will do the rest. You can also find lots of related and insightful commentary at Tango’s blog.

FantasyPros has great tools during the season, but their free pre-season tools are top notch!

 

Expert Consensus Rankings –

Choose which experts you want to use and watch the magic happen as Fantasy Pros will combine the rankings of your favorite experts and spit out the data.

Mine are there (Andrea) as well as many others in the Fantasy Baseball Industry. They do other sports as well but I can only account for Baseball.

Draft Simulator

Tired of waiting forever to finish a mock draft? The Draft simulator takes less than five minutes!

Draft Analyzer

The Draft Analyzer provides an instant analysis of your mock and real drafts. It gives you a quick idea of how your team stacks up

Cheat Sheet Creator

You can instantly import any rankings from the web or from a spreadsheet on your computer. You can also combine multiple expert cheat sheets into one consensus cheat sheet. You’ll be able to customize the rankings through a simple drag-and-drop interface, create player tiers with a click of a button, and edit player notes.
Custom rankings and dollar values based on Zeile™ consensus projections

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