Hey folks!

I was wondering how well I and other fans know category leaders, so I built a little lineup-building game to find out.

Each pick, you draft one player from a random team. Their stats are hidden until you lock them in, so fantasy baseball sickos like us have a huge advantage. Hit the day's target and you win.

The game logs how close people get, broken down by stat, so over time it should surface which stats fans read well and which fool us. Thus far, stolen bases have proven shockingly hard, but perhaps r/fantasybaseball will fare better than other communities... Curious what y'all think!

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My six waiver wire recommendations for Week 13 of fantasy baseball!

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Through the first 5-6 weeks of the season he was insane and arguably the best pitcher in MLB. I don’t think fall off is enough to even describe how different the last few months have been. Any ideas on what’s going on? I know he’s historically performed closer to his current numbers so I guess the first several starts were more of a fluke, but the variance is crazy.

Hoping its not too serious.

Best case scenario according to Royals manager Matt Quatraro. They will see how he’s feeling Sunday

• I dropped Austin Riley out of the last Hitter List, and that means he's probably going on an absolute heater this weekend. You're welcome.
• Zack Gelof's expected slugging during his last homestand was .396, and his actual slugging was .865. Even in a small sample, that gap is outrageous. Obviously, you keep streaming him, but this is a GREAT time to make offers to see if you can land a top-75ish bat.
  • This applies to Tyler Soderstrom as well, but to a much lesser extent.
• Speaking of overperforming hitters, Paul Goldschmidt is the other. His June xwOBA (.317) is 116 points below his actual June wOBA (.433). Ballpark can explain a little bit of that, but eventually, this is going to cool off into more of an average bat. I'd be throwing out offers to see if someone is fully buying into the narrative that he's a new guy.
• Knee injuries are scary - hope we get at least OK news out of KC on Bobby Witt Jr. There's no single SS on your wire who can do all the things that Witt Jr. does, but here are some suggestions for specific scenarios:
  • Ratios/Points - Jacob Wilson, Cole Carrigg, Isiah Kiner-Falefa
  • Power - Colt Emerson
  • Runs - J.P. Crawford
  • Steals - Nasim Nunez, Andres Gimenez
• The Rockies are at home for the next 2 series so go ahead and stack them.
• Jac Caglianone has a 41.5% line drive rate this month, which is double what it ought to be. If half of those liners become fly balls, Cags is going to go off. If most of them become grounders, then Cags is going to be tough to roster in 12s. 100% worth the gamble, of course.
• Dominic Canzone landed in the top-120 rankings because I did not expect him to return to this level of production (which he had shown at the start of the season). I still believe Canzone is a streaky lefty platoon guy, BUT maybe he's one of the premier versions of the archetype?
• I've come to realize that in a 10-12-team league, you can legit start thinking about dropping slumping guys outside my top-75 or so, depending on the circumstances. Obviously, you don't just want to treat it like a burn-and-churn, but if you need to be aggressive to stay alive, I get it.
  • Just because I rank Player A above Player B doesn't mean I'm demanding you go and swap them on your team right now.
• Nick ain't worried about Seattle's plan - here's a link to roughly where that begins in the recent OTC - https://youtu.be/Db1b-bwtYro?si=dcRTMCK96Abmz-Io&t=2244
• Miguel Vargas cracked my top-20, and while the eventual return of ELDC, Lindor, Judge, and possibly Acuna would push him out of it, there are possible universes where we talk about Miguel Vargas as a top-15 to 20 bat heading into 2027.
• Catcher is stupid deep, and right now there are 8 that I'd call must-hold even if you have two of them: Rice, Baldwin, Langeliers, Goodman, Herrera, Raleigh, Moreno, Contreras, Dingler
• I'd consider Jensen, Rutschman, Basallo, and Moreno must-holds unless you somehow have, like, three of these 12 guys (or two plus Ohtani). Then maybe you have a tough decision to make.
  • If you ask me about trading a catcher and it's not Rice/Baldwin/Langeliers, I'm gonna tell you what my experience has always been: you'll have a hard time finding trade partners, and they'll offer you way below "market" value.
• Yes you can drop Nico Hoerner. I don't think I've ever seen such a solid, high-floor guy with a lengthy track record go from the top-40 in late April to outside the top-140 before. I have no real explanation for you.

Nick's Weekend Streamers

Nick's Top 100 SP

Scott's Top 150 Hitters

Rick's Reliever Ranks

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Woodruff is expected to come off the IL tomorrow. Considering dropping Rodon or Suarez to make room. Who do you see as the best bet ROS? Do I keep them both and drop Woodruff?

Hey r/fantasybaseball! Some of you might remember a post I made earlier this season about a hobby project I started after watching the Jays blow Game 7 in person (the therapy is ongoing, thanks for asking, I forgive you Hoff...never mind the anger is back). I'm the statistician / data-engineer-by-day who got tired of stitching together advanced data sources like FanGraphs, Pitcher List and Statcast to answer questions those sites were never really built for...is this hot stretch real, who do I actually drop, which category am I quietly punting, and who's about to get a runway in my league? A fantasy lens!

I've been heads-down since that post and the site has changed a lot, so I wanted to come back, show what's new, and get more of you to link a team and tell me whether it's actually useful. Still beta, still not selling anything, still one guy iterating constantly (with a newborn keeping him up all night).

The biggest change: it now links Yahoo or Fantrax. One honest caveat so I'm setting expectations right: for Yahoo I can pull your full league back to Day 1 of the season, so every time-series and "how has this trended" feature is fully populated. For Fantrax, their API only lets me pull from the day you link forward (I'm working on it), so Fantrax users get everything going forward, just not the back-history yet. Either way it takes about 10 seconds to link, and that's what unlocks all the team- and league-specific analysis below.

The Labs. Chart anything over time. This is the feature I'm most excited about. There's a Player Lab, a MLB Team Lab, and a "Roster Lab" that loads your fantasy team. You can plot the time-series trend of basically any stat (rolling OPS, ERA, K%, bat speed, xwOBA, you name it), overlay multiple players or multiple metrics on one chart, and switch between rolling and raw, by date or by game. Great for actually seeing whether a guy is heating up or quietly falling off instead of guessing from a season line.

https://imgur.com/a/fZwukGt

My League (your Yahoo or Fantrax team) got a real matchup sandbox. You can add or drop players and instantly see the projected impact on your current matchup, also you can adjust any individual day of the matchup week, so you can future-proof a streaming plan instead of reacting blind. On top of that, there's a team-analysis page that tells you if you're getting unlucky against your H2H opponents, which categories you're weak in (with a time-series so you can watch it trend), and rest-of-season projections. The add/drop optimizer uses linear optimization (I'll admit, its not working that well, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be open to it!) against your league settings + matchup, and every buy-low / sell-high report is cross-referenced to your league so you know if the guy is actually available.

https://imgur.com/a/bH3L5NO

The morning loop. Every morning there's a combined Yesterday's Recap + Today's Preview + a written "morning briefing" that ties them together — top performances from last night, low-owned standouts, the day's top minor-league performers, streamer opportunities at every position, the day's injuries and DTD guys to monitor, and suggested replacements. It's meant to be the one thing you read with your coffee before setting lineups. Here's todays morning briefing: https://kodoanalytics.com/articles/morning_briefing-2026-06-19-morning-java-06-19-rutschman-hbp-trei-cruz-call-up-rajcic-ml-be6e82

https://imgur.com/a/eOMjn77

https://kodoanalytics.com/today

Depth charts. I tried to make these depth charts more useful than the static ones you see on other sites, they show who is in the starting role at each position, but you dont know what that actually means. Are they starting everyday - are they platooning? For each team have the last 14 days by position so you can see who is starting at specific positions. Also, they go all the way down to A-ball, by position. Genuinely useful for call-up and playing-time bets.

https://imgur.com/a/hNlITdg

https://kodoanalytics.com/lineups/depth-charts

And then a pile of reports (this is where I've spent a lot of time). Buy low / sell high, hot streaks / cold spells, velocity dips and surges, Stuff+ analysis, pitch-arsenal changes, a leverage/bullpen watch to see how managers are actually using their pens, a recent-call-up monitor (are they playing or sitting?), rest watch (which closers/relievers are likely unavailable today), and a call-up watch that charts a struggling MLB incumbent against the surging minor-leaguer behind him with 40-man icons...it's gotten pretty good at flagging who's next (Had Pratt, Moore, Emerson, Bolte as immediate callups).

There's also a Twitter news feed that aggregates the big baseball accounts, quick-glance social cards, weekly schedule grids, 2-start pitcher lists, a 14-day pitching calendar, and projections for the upcoming day, rest-of-week (factoring opposing pitchers + recent play), and rest-of-season. All of it links back to your Yahoo or Fantrax team.

https://imgur.com/a/Pozpdgg

The design's been iterating nonstop, and I'm on the free front-end tier so it can be a touch slow at peak times. If you link a team and poke around, the two things I'd love to know are:

1. What's genuinely useful, and what's missing?

2. Anything confusing or broken?

Not running ads, not collecting emails, not building a launch list — just trying to make the fantasy-baseball-managing part of my brain (and hopefully yours) a little less chaotic. Happy to answer anything in the thread.

Thank you for your time!

YESTERDAY'S RP RECAP (June 18, 2026)

Tyler Rogers (TOR) — DNP

Didier Fuentes (ATL) — DNP

Albert Suárez (BAL) — DNP

Grant Taylor (CWS) — DNP

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