Received your Baseball Forecaster?

[Schwetty Balls]

24.99 on baseball HQ.
16.47 on Amazon.

Yeah, I always griped about the pumped up cost, but if you order direct from Shandler, you get the book about a month before it hits the bookstores and you get the book in electronic form -- pdfs and Excel files. It's worth the extra 8 and half bucks, in my opinion.

Bob

I got my copy on Friday and it made for a nice weekend surprise.

I could not agree more with Bob, the fact that I get all this info in a spreadsheet makes my draft prep so much easier and saves me a lot of time.

to answer a previous question, I prefer Forecaster over Prospectus, but there are many who would disagree, buy ythem both one year and see which one suits your needs/style more.

[converge241]

Think this is available in the stores now?

Every year I dont pre-order it because I prefer Prospectus myself (and pre-order that) yet every year I end up buying Forecaster too just for "offseason baseball reading".

I kow I know, should just start ordering it

[SignGuy]

Joba number one? Lincecum not in top ten? Cain not in top 45?

Odd but ballsy.

[J35J]

Joba number one? Lincecum not in top ten? Cain not in top 45?

Odd but ballsy.

Huh?

[San D]

Joba number one? Lincecum not in top ten? Cain not in top 45?

Odd but ballsy.

Huh?

Those are Shandler's rankings in the book. In my experience, you can not go by his rankings. However, his insights leading to those rankings are invaluable as far as trends in different rate type stats. Each player is layed out nicely so the important trend stats for previous years are easy to look at.

[J35J]

Joba number one? Lincecum not in top ten? Cain not in top 45?

Odd but ballsy.

Huh?

Those are Shandler's rankings in the book. In my experience, you can not go by his rankings. However, his insights leading to those rankings are invaluable as far as trends in different rate type stats. Each player is layed out nicely so the important trend stats for previous years are easy to look at.

So you pay money for his book so that you have to decipher the good information out of it?

[Pochucker]

You dont buy the book for its "rankings" . You buy it for its "skills" analysis .

[J35J]

You dont buy the book for its "rankings" . You buy it for its "skills" analysis .

Maybe I don't understand...how good is the skills analysis if he has Joba #1?

[pjalst]

Got my copy today and I immediately opened it up. My wife was pissed, I was suppose to help her wrap gifts.

[swyck]

You dont buy the book for its "rankings" . You buy it for its "skills" analysis .

Maybe I don't understand...how good is the skills analysis if he has Joba #1?

What's to understand, Joba's got skills. Do you doubt that?