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Free 2008 Fantasy Baseball Projections - Update

By Tim Dierkes [February 22, 2008 at 7:11pm CST]

Free 2008 fantasy baseball projections at RotoAuthority.com - this time with a fresh update. As always, I ask that you each bring me five new readers. Also I strongly encourage you to sign up for our RSS feed or to receive posts via email. The focus of this update was more accurate AB and IP totals. Feedback is welcome.

These dollar values apply to a 12-team, 5x5 mixed non-keeper league with 23-man active rosters and $260 budgets. Negative dollar values mean you should not draft those guys in such a league. If your league isn't of this type I can't help you with adjustments.

Use the filters in the spreadsheet to view by position. For example hit the drop-down in column J, select Custom, and then select greater than or equal to 15 to see only catchers with 15+ games played.

Note that my values place a premium on pitching and speed that you will not find elsewhere. I used methods from Art McGee's How To Value Players For Rotisserie Baseball to create the values, and the logic is quite sound. But even if you completely agree with the dollar values found here, they would never correspond directly with your draft order.

For example, I truly believe Jake Peavy can be the third-most valuable player in all of fantasy baseball in 2008. But since his average draft position is 20.20, picking him third would be dumb. Additionally, Jake has higher injury risk/volatility than a position player does. So don't build a pitching/speed team devoid of the other categories just because my system likes those types.

Download 2008_rotoauthority_projections_22208.xls here.

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Tim,
Like many I appreciate your projections and you posting them for us to drive people to the website. However, looking at the pitching I have one question: Why do you have only 100 IP for Dave Bush when he has thrown 396 IP the past two years and started 63 games? Also, will you be adjusting these projections before the start of the season?

Posted by: ProjectMayhem | February 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Rotation uncertainty in Milwaukee.

Posted by: Tim Dierkes | February 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM

OOOH NO!!!! all our beautiful comments disappeared!

love the work tim. on the note of dave bush, the guy has "pretty good ratios and numbers" but results are not on par. what other pitchers are like that? and would they be considered "sleepers"?

Posted by: Tom | February 25, 2008 at 02:08 PM

Still hoping to bring the comments back.

Bush has been like that for several years now, I think it's something about him rather than a sleeper. Then again people said there was something wrong with Javier Vazquez until last year.

Shaun Marcum and Andy Sonnanstine might be others - guys with good K/BBs but mediocre stuff.

Posted by: Tim Dierkes | February 25, 2008 at 02:18 PM

I'm sorry, I can't seem to access any of your archives right now, it says every old post is missing.

Ryan Braun is scaring me a bit. Change of position. And it's unclear where he'll bat in the order (in regards to Prince). Had a high BABIP.
Do you put his risk of of a soph slump high?

Posted by: MF | February 26, 2008 at 01:24 PM

Tim, can you update this sheet and include OBP? That would be a huge help for me. Thanks!

Posted by: AJK | March 05, 2008 at 11:45 AM