SPECULATOR: 2020's end-of-season first round
Jul 15 2020
So much digital ink goes into dissecting every season's first round. We all see the same 15-20 names atop overall ranking lists for months—this year, mannnny months—that it's a foregone conclusion these same names will finish near the top by season's end.
Truth is, we have little to no clue how the end-of-season first round will turn out, and if history is any indication, it'll look drastically different than it does now.
Ron Shandler’s research in the Baseball Forecaster tells us that on average, just one-third of the market's Top 15 players will return first-round value at the end of the year. Here’s the total breakdown of first-round earners—defined as the Top 15 overall players in standard 5x5 mixed leagues—grouped by their...
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