RESEARCH: Rebooting LIMA
Aug 23 2012
There is a lesson in the success of this summer's blockbuster move, "The Dark Knight Rises", that can be extrapolated to our games: periodically, you need to reboot even highly successful franchises. For BaseballHQ.com, our hallmark franchise is the LIMA Plan, which happens to be overdue for the reboot treatment.
A quick refresher
Back in 1998, Ron Shandler first introduced the LIMA Plan with the seminal essay "The secret of my crappy pitching staff." From there, what was eventually labeled as LIMA became a dominant roto strategy for the early part of the 2000s, before Ron eventually pushed the bar higher with a number of plans that could be described as evolutionary descendants of LIMA. (For details, see this 2009 article "Is...
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