Rudy Gamble

Author: Rudy Gamble

Rudy is the co-founder of Razzball and the wizard behind the Player Rater, Streamonator, HitterTron, DFSBot and most other statty things on the site.

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2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit (Projections, Rankings, Auction Values, etc!)

| 2013 Fantasy Baseball, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Auction Values, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Dollar Values, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Projections, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Values | 74 Comments

Looking for a great fantasy baseball draft kit to help you draft your fantasy baseball team in 2013? Good, because otherwise you are the worst web surfer in the world. (Did I search for fantasy baseball rankings? Damn, I meant chicken cordon bleu recipe.)

The Razzball 2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit is free for the first 999,999 visitors. The millionth visitor will receive an oversized check for $100,000 with their name in big letters (it won’t have our names or signatures on it though). Everyone after that will also get a free fantasy baseball draft kit.

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2013 Fantasy Baseball Projections and Point Shares/$ Values Now Available!

| 2013 Fantasy Baseball Auction Values, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Dollar Values, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Draft, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Projections, 2013 Fantasy Baseball Values | 104 Comments

There are three things I look for in baseball projections – cheap, early, and accurate.

So I’m excited to announce that Steamer Projections are now available on Razzball for free before both the groundhog and other projection systems have popped their heads above ground. They moved up their number crunching a couple weeks from last year and we helped by providing playing time estimates (up to and including the Justin Upton trade).

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2013 Razzball Reader Survey

| 2013 Fantasy Baseball, RazzPoll | 37 Comments

Welcome to the 2nd annual Razzball Reader survey! These results help us immensely in tailoring our posts and statistics to reflect our readers’ needs.

The survey should only take a couple minutes. I’ll share the results once we get enough responses.

Thanks in advance!
Rudy

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Fantasy Baseball Projections Review – 2012

| 2012 Fantasy Baseball, Rudy Gamble, Testing Projections + Player Raters | 18 Comments

This is part of a two-part series designed to help Fantasy Baseball fans determine on what fantasy rankings and projections to rely.  The first part covered Rankings.  The second part will cover Projections.  The methodology for the test relies on comparing Razzball Commenter League team drafts (576 teams in 2012 across 48 12-Team MLB leagues using ESPN’s default 5×5 format) and their end of season point totals. 

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Fantasy Baseball Rankings Review – 2012

| 2012 Fantasy Baseball, Rudy Gamble, Testing Projections + Player Raters | 7 Comments

This is part of a two-part series designed to help Fantasy Baseball fans determine on what fantasy rankings and projections to rely.  The first part will cover Rankings.  The second part will cover Projections.  The methodology for the test relies on comparing Razzball Commenter League team drafts (576 teams in 2012 across 48 12-Team MLB leagues using ESPN’s default 5×5 format) and their end of season point totals. 

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Grey and Rudy Expert League – 2012 End of Year

| 2012 Fantasy Baseball, Our Leagues | 32 Comments

Another season in the books.  The season couldn’t end soon enough for our mixed league and NL-only teams as our success seemed to be limited to AL-only where – as late as September 15th – we had a shot at winning all 3 of our leagues.

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Sorry There Ol’ Chapman

| Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 39 Comments

Aroldis Chapman is being shut down ‘for a couple of days’ with shoulder fatigue.  Dusty actually admitted  “We’re lucky we got to this point” which made every Cub fan both nod and shake their heads.  To be fair to Dusty, his usage of Chapman seems reasonable.  

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Mad Max Finally Providing Something Beyond Thunderdome

| 2012 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Notes | 153 Comments

Max Scherzer is finally starting to post some non-apocalyptic ERA/WHIP results to go along with his thunderous league-leading K totals.  A 7 inning / 1 ER / 9 K win against the Pujoless Angels marks his 4th straight start with a Win, 6+ IP, 2 ER or less, and 8+ Ks (this was actually his 8th straight start with 8+ Ks!).  

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Launch of Stream-o-Nator, The Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Streaming Tool

| Player Raters, Rudy Gamble | 62 Comments

There has been a lot of interest on the site and in the forums involving streaming pitchers.  As many of you know, I value SP more than the average drafter but I am not completely averse to streaming – particularly on teams in shallower league formats (10-12 MLB) with small benches and when I have lost SPs to injury (like RCL where Beachy and Colby are toast).  

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Grey and Rudy Expert League Update – All-Star Break 2012

| 2012 Fantasy Baseball, Our Leagues | 67 Comments

It’s halfway through the season so it’s time to share how well (or poorly) we’re doing in our various fantasy baseball expert leagues.  Rather than rehash good/bad draft picks (you can see that in our last update), I’ve just noted what place we’re in, who’s in 1st/last, a twittersque summary of how each team is doing, and then, to show we’re good sports, some praise (and unintentional jinxing) to the current 1st place teams.

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