Lesson 1: Advanced Stats for Pitchers

Stats!!!!

Seriously. Stats deserve those four exclamation points in MLB, as stats are the fundamental basis of our MLB DFS play. Stats tell us nearly everything we need to know. Stats are gold.

Below, you will find the most important statistics I look at for pitchers – and an idea of how each of these pieces fit into the puzzle.

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K%

K% (strikeout rate) is the percentage of batters faced that a pitcher strikes out. League average fluctuates from year to year, and from era to era, but it’s always safe these days to simply peg “league average strikeout rate” at 20%. (If you want to be more specific: it was 21.1% in 2016.) This gives you an idea of how far above or below the league average a pitcher sits.

In MLB DFS, strikeouts are king in pitcher scoring. Strikeout upside = fantasy scoring upside.

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JMToWin
JM Tohline (JMToWin)

JM Tohline (Tuh-lean) – DFS alias JMToWin – is a novelist and a DFS player who specializes in high-stakes MLB and NFL tourneys, with a strategy geared toward single-entry play in multi-entry tourneys. He joined the DFS scene at the beginning of the 2014 MLB season, and has since won five DFS championship seats and two separate trips to the Bahamas. His tendency to type a lot of words leads to a corresponding tendency to divulge all his DFS thoughts, strategies, and secrets…which is exactly what he does in his RotoGrinders articles and RotoAcademy courses. You can find JM on Twitter at JMToWin.