Cl A collective presentation of: FANTASYDRAFT HELP.COM, THE FDH LOUNGE & SPORTSOLOGY under the banner of THE 21ST CENTURY MEDIA ALLIANCE March 10, 2021 RICK MORRIS/JASON JONES/RUSS COHEN FANTASY BASEBALL – AND SO MUCH MORE Draft Board Decoder Top 72 Regardless of Position The FantasyDrafthelp.com draft board contains all the relevant 1 Mike Trout 37 Alex Bregman information you need right at your fingertips. * Players are color-coded by their value by round in a 12-team draft. 1st 2 Ronald Acuna 38 Whit Merrifield nd round is gold, 2 round silver, 3rd round bronze, 4th round orange, 5th 3 Juan Soto 39 Max Scherzer round light blue and 6th round green. 4 Mookie Betts 40 Christian Yelich * The “EXP” column shows how players ranked on an “Experts Draft Evaluating Production Board” compilation of other leading industry sources. The “UQB” 5 Freddie Freeman 41 Jack Flaherty Across a Spectrum: Lessons column shows how each player performed on our standard deviation 6 Fernando Tatis 42 Brandon Lowe of our Proprietary Ultimate from the mean statistic in 2020 (stat details on Page 2). If a league is considered stronger than the other one at this position, it will have its 7 Manny Machado 43 Liam Hendriks Quantitative Baseline Stat initials listed (capital letters means much stronger, lower case means 8 Ozzie Albies 44 Eloy Jimenez Our “UQB” category (Ultimate not so much). Quantitative Baseline) on our draft 9 Trea Turner 45 Keston Hiura * Relevant 2020 statistical categories are listed, along with rankings for board calculates the standard 10 Cody Bellinger 46 Josh Hader each, the number of games played and rankings in the aforementioned deviation from the mean in all “UQB” category (UQB numbers in bold indicate that the player was 11 Anthony Rendon 47 Luis Castillo higher than the statistical mean in every one of the measured relevant hockey categories. In categories). $$ provides the dollar value for a mixed-value auction, 12 Nolan Arenado 48 Aroldis Chapman simple English, imagine a spectrum while $ provides the dollar value for a single-league auction. 13 Marcell Ozuna 49 Bryce Harper going across from left to right, with negative numbers on the left side, a 14 DJ LEMAHIEU 50 CAVAN BIGGIO Table of Contents “zero” in the middle and positive 15 Francisco Lindor 51 Nick Anderson Page 1: Draft Philosophy Overview, Draft Board Decoder, Top numbers on the right. 16 Jacob deGrom 72 Overall, Lessons of “The Stat” 52 Edwin Diaz We utilize this statistic for football, Page 2: Starting Pitcher Rankings 17 Gerrit Cole 53 Ketel Marte hockey, basketball, hoops and Page 3: Starting Pitcher Rankings Cont’, 2021 Don’t Be That 18 Jose Ramirez 54 Jonathan Villar NASCAR as well as baseball. For Guy, 2021 Sleepers Pages 3-5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-18, 23-30: Dollar Bin Players 19 Lucas Giolito 55 Rafael Devers baseball, we use all of the standard fantasy categories listed on the draft Page 4: Relief Pitcher Rankings, Suggested League Guidelines 20 Jose Abreu 56 Paul Goldschmidt board to factor in for this statistical Page 5: First Base Rankings, 2021 Overvalued & Undervalued 21 Corey Seager 57 Salvador Perez Page 6: Catcher Rankings, Designated Hitter Rankings compilation. A player’s performance 22 Trevor Bauer 58 Will Smith Page 7: Second Base Rankings in each category is plotted on one of Page 8: 2021 AL & NL Scarcity, 2021 Prospect Rankings, 23 Pete Alonso 59 Blake Snell these spectrums, with the most Long-Term Keeper Prospect Rankings, 2021 Legitimate 24 Trevor Story 60 Corbin Burnes valuable players putting up most of their numbers on the most of their Breakthroughs/Reclamation Cases 25 Walker Buehler 61 Eugenio Suarez Page 9: Respect Mah Eligibilitah! numbers on the positive side. Then, 26 Luke Voit 62 Zac Gallen Page 10: Shortstop Rankings, Designated Hitter Rankings we add up the totals of every 27 Xander Bogaerts Page 11: Outfield Rankings 63 Willson Contreras category, positive and negative. By Page 12: 2021 UQB Team Rankings 28 Clayton Kershaw 64 Matt Chapman using this tool, we can identify not Page 13: 2021 Mock Draft 29 Shane Bieber 65 Brandon Woodruff merely how they performed, but how Page 14: 2021 Mock Draft Analysis 30 Bo Bichette 66 Dinelson Lamet valuable their performances were in Page 17: Third Base Rankings each category. Truly, this statistic 31 Aaron Nola 67 Vladimir Guerrero Page 18: 2021 Fantasy Overview serves as the ultimate baseline for 32 Dominic Smith 68 Tyler Glasnow Page 19: 2021 Predictions/Power Rankings/Awards, FDH the previous season’s production. Minor League System Rankings 33 Adalberto Mondesi 69 Yoan Moncada Page 20: Tracing Offense In Baseball – From Before The 34 Gleyber Torres 70 Eric Hosmer Steroid Era Until Now http://www.fantasydrafthelp. 35 Yu Darvish 71 Yasmani Grandal Pages 21-22: 2012-2020 FDH Best Player In Baseball Lists com/baseball 36 J.T. Realmuto 72 Raisel Iglesias NL Starting Pitchers $$ $ Exp UQB Rk INNS W Rk K Rk ERA Rk WHIP Rk 1 Jacob deGrom 35 35 1T 383 7T 68 4 104 2 2.38 18T 0.96 14T 100 Ranger 2 Gerrit Cole 35 41 1T 283 20 73 7 3T 94 6 2.84 36 0.96 14T Greats 3 Lucas Giolito 34 40 6 240 29 72.1 4 97 4 3.48 1.04 29T 4 Trevor Bauer 32 32 4 452 6 73 5 17T 100 3 1.73 7 0.79 3 Ranking the 5 Walker Buehler 31 31 9 214 40T 36.2 1 42 3.44 0.95 12T best New York 6 Clayton Kershaw 30 30 10 351 11 58.1 6 7T 62 33T 2.16 13 0.84 5T 7 Shane Bieber 29 35 1T 530 5 77.1 8 1T 122 1 1.63 6 0.87 9 Rangers of all 8 Aaron Nola 28 28 7 237 31T 71.1 5 17T 96 5 3.28 1.08 36T time in a 9 Yu Darvish 27 33 5 325 14 76 8 1T 93 7T 2.01 10 0.96 14T stunning, full- 10 Max Scherzer 27 33 8 205 67.1 5 17T 92 9 3.74 1.38 11 Jack Flaherty 26 26 11 177 40.1 4 49 4.91 1.21 color book 12 Luis Castillo 1X 25 25 12 199 70 4 89 12T 3.21 1.23 13 Blake Snell 21 21 19T 201 50 4 63 31T 3.24 1.2 www.ranger 14 Corbin Burnes 21 21 21 750 1 59.2 4 88 14 2.11 12 1.02 26T greats.com 15 Zac Gallen 21 21 13 196 72 3 82 15T 2.75 31 1.11 45T 16 Brandon Woodruff 21 21 14 233 33 73.2 3 91 10T 3.05 0.99 18T 17 Dinelson Lamet 21 21 17T 370 9 69 3 93 7T 2.09 11 0.86 8 Great 18 Tyler Glasnow 2X 21 27 16 337 13 57.1 5 17T 91 10T 4.08 1.13 Sports 19 Kenta Maeda 18 22 15 383 7T 66.2 6 7T 80 17 2.7 25T 0.75 2 20 Max Fried 18 18 24T 269 22 56 7 3T 50 2.25 14 1.09 40T Name Hall 21 Stephen Strasburg 18 18 24T NA 0 0 2 10.8 1.8 22 Zach Plesac 18 22 28T 346 12 55.1 4 57 44T 2.28 15 0.8 4 of Fame 23 Sonny Gray 17 17 23 205 56 5 17T 72 21T 3.7 1.21 24 Carlos Carrasco 17 17 19T 191 68 3 82 15T 2.91 38T 1.21 Mere words 25 Zack Greinke 3X 17 21 22 162 67 3 67 28 4.03 1.13 cannot do it 26 Lance Lynn 14 16 17T 188 84 6 7T 89 12T 3.32 1.06 33T 27 Hyun-Jin Ryu 14 14 26 195 67 5 17T 72 21T 2.69 24 1.15 justice! 28 Dylan Bundy 14 16 34 207 43 65.2 6 7T 72 21T 3.29 1.04 29T http://greatsports 29 Jose Berrios 14 16 28T 159 63 5 17T 68 27 4 1.32 namehalloffame. 30 Charlie Morton 4X 14 14 37 127 38 2 42 4.74 1.39 31 Chris Paddack 12 12 33 145 59 4 58 42T 4.73 1.22 blogspot.com 32 Patrick Corbin 12 12 35 41 65.2 2 60 36T 4.66 1.57 33 Ian Anderson 12 12 40T 294 17T 32.1 3 41 1.95 8 1.08 36T The FDH 34 Zack Wheeler 12 12 27 144 71 4 53 2.92 40 1.17 35 Jesus Luzardo 12 12 28T 126 59 3 59 40T 4.12 1.27 Lounge: 36 Kyle Hendricks 5X 12 12 28T 193 81.1 6 7T 64 29T 2.88 37 1 22T 37 Tanner Houck 10 10 664 2 17 3 21 0.53 1 0.88 10 Nothing is 38 Triston McKenzie 10 10 277 21 33.1 2 42 3.24 0.9 11 39 Merrill Kelly 10 10 246 27 31.1 3 29 2.58 23 0.99 18T Off-topic. 40 Elieser Hernandez 10 10 251 25 25.2 1 34 3.16 1.01 24T Nothing. 41 Framber Valdez 10 10 36 206 44T 70.2 5 17T 76 19 3.57 1.12 42 Sandy Alcantara 10 10 39 173 42 3 39 3 42T 1.19 Sportsology 43 Lance McCullers 10 10 38 162 55 3 56 3.93 1.16 Baseball, 44 Julio Urias 10 10 42 198 55 3 45 3.27 1.15 football, hoops, 45 German Marquez 10 10 44 150 81.2 4 73 20 3.75 1.26 hockey, pro 46 Sixto Sanchez 10 10 32 152 39 3 33 3.46 1.21 47 Frankie Montas 10 10 43 46 53 3 60 36T 5.6 1.51 wrestling, music, 48 Marco Gonzales 10 10 45 244 28 69.2 7 3T 64 29T 3.1 0.95 12T it matters not: 49 Mike Soroka 10 10 20 13.2 0 8 3.95 1.32 nobody, but 50 David Price 6X 10 10 NA NA NA NA NA NA nobody, brings it 51 Cristian Javier 7 7 216 38 54.1 5 17T 54 3.48 0.99 18T stronger! 52 Brady Singer 7 7 159 64.1 4 61 35 4.06 1.17 NL Starting Pitchers $$ $ Exp UQB Rk INNS W Rk K Rk ERA Rk WHIP Rk 2021 Don’t Be 53 Michael Kopech 7 7 NA NA NA NA NA NA That Guy 54 Zach Davies 7 7 218 36T 69.1 7 3T 63 31T 2.73 28T 1.07 35 55 Jose Urquidy 7 7 117 29.2 1 17 2.73 28T 1.01 24T ^ Don’t Be That Guy who 56 Adbert Alzolay 7 7 238 30 21.1 1 29 2.95 41 1.17 sleeps on (or holds 57 Dakota Hudson 7X 7 7 200 39 3 31 2.77 32 1 22T unhealthy grudges against) 58 Mike Leake 5 5 NA NA NA NA NA NA last year’s falloffs.