What are some popular advanced stats in fantasy baseball?
The stats that are used in fantasy baseball scoring are typically pretty basic (HR, R, RBI, etc..) but the stats that can be used for fantasy baseball research are many and ever-evolving. For pitchers, K-BB% is widely regarded as a great indicator of who the best pitchers are. For hitters, wRC+ (weighted runs created) tells us who the best real-life hitters are (100 is average, so a 145 wRC+ means that hitter was 45 percent better than league average). Baseball Savant is an MLB site dedicated to creating stats out of Statcast data, and while this information is the next frontier of baseball stats, in many cases it is descriptive, rather than predictive.
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