ROTISSERIE: A Spring training stat that (still) matters
Mar 29 2017
When Rotisserie Baseball Founding Father Daniel Okrent was devising his new baseball game, he tested several statistical categories to determine which combination came the closest to matching real baseball. In an interview published in USA Today Baseball Weekly in 1999, Okrent said, “I agree that, in reality, stolen bases aren't all that important, but for some peculiar mathematical reason adding them improved the statistical correlation between Rotisserie and real baseball."
Despite the recent decline in stolen bases in the American League, the category is still important (arguably more so) to fantasy players, as now the smaller total is spread across the same number of teams in your league, tightening the competition for points in the...
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