FANALYTICS: My short-term attention span

It's no secret that I've been pimping the one-month games I run at my other site, ShandlerPark.com. Admittedly, much of what I write is unabashed hype, but there is a three-pronged truth: a) it's a fun game, b) many people seem to like playing it as an ancillary pursuit to their full-season leagues, and c) there are actually things we can learn from it.

Yes, I've spent the better part of three decades proclaiming that the only analysis of any value is one done over long time horizons. My promotion of a one-month game seems antithetic.

But the Major League game is changing. Players and roles are micro-managed in the majors more than ever before. In part, this is because teams have been using the disabled list as an extended taxi squad to...

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