What is Scout the Statline?
Scout the Statline is designed to be the only fantasy baseball or card hobby subscription site you will ever need to make informed decisions in less time, while spending the least amount of money. We provide fast, actionable, up-to-date rankings and projections, updated daily on all professional baseball players, both MLB and prospects, based on objective information proven to be meaningful. No more biased opinions or vibes, just straight data-based actionable intel.
Scout the Statline’s projections (more below) are now featured on every Fangraphs player page (“OOPSY”) for redraft (note: these are not long-term peak projections) and in Eno Sarris’ pitching ranks at The Athletic.
What problems does StS solve?
1. Daily updates
As fast as opinions and values can change, especially unproven ones such as volatile prospects, how valuable are ranks from three weeks ago? From six weeks ago? StS projections update daily so you can find that prospect who has “popped” before everyone else.
2. Convenience
Researching is fun, but it can also be time consuming. Let us do the work for you and take one minute per day to peek at the latest peak projection movers!
3. Comparing MLB and MiLB players
Once a prospect graduates it is harder to find information about the future of that player. (Imagine trying to compare the upside of Nolan Gorman to a 19-year-old) Our peak projections don’t stop… in fact, our peak projections sharpen with access to more MLB data such as bat speed. So Scout the Statline can provide updated ranks of the relative upside of a prospect compared to a major leaguer at any time.
4. Accuracy
Getting prospects right is hard. No one can “hit” on a teenager four years before they reach the majors all the time… including Scout the Statline. But StS can help identify overrated and underrated prospects to avoid and buy to improve your hit rate.
5. Bias
We all have them and sometimes they are useful! Some people love tools, like raw power and speed. But we all deserve an objective perspective as the foundation for our decision making. Especially since increasingly, those “tools” are incorporated into our model’s peak projections.
6. Cost
StS costs only $5 per month. So for the cost of one coffee at Starbucks, you can have the best farm system efficiency in your league while spending the least amount of time actually researching prospects. Our goal is to generate ROI for you!
“It’s about getting things down to one number. Using the stats the way we read them, we’ll find value in players that no one else can see. People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality…mathematics cut straight through that…of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team of twenty-five people that we can afford, because everyone else in baseball undervalues them.
Like an island of misfit toys.”
-Peter Brand, the Moneyball movie
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Peak Projections Explained
We leverage decades of research, combining Major League equivalencies (how MiLB production translates historically based on inputs such as park and level) and aging curves (the developmental trajectory that an average professional player follow) to form a player’s predicted peak production (we call them peak projections).
Our predictive data models analyze players and prospects at different ages and across levels… even when they are still in the Majors. We also benefit from new access to data that older models lacked such as bat speed, barrel rate, velocity, and Stuff+, which capture the traits and tools referenced by scouts but have previously been difficult to quantify.
The end result is we can project future statistical output based on current performances and instantly rank thousands of players without bias. No more waiting for the next top prospect list release. No more getting fooled by tools that don’t convert to production, or chasing MiLB heroes who do not project to hit in the Majors.
At Scout the Statline you will find lists updated daily, adapting every day to new information from the previous day’s results.
Who is Scout the Statline for?
- Keeper league and dynasty-style fantasy baseball players
- Card hobbyists looking for an edge with their buy and sell decisions
- General baseball fans who care about their team’s unproven Big Leaguers and prospects or other team’s prospects, especially around the trade deadline
What does membership get me?
Exclusive Access!
–Peak Projections: the tool that put us on the map! All prospects, scaled up to peak!
–The Hobby Advantage: the ultimate tool designed to help you beat the card market
–Consensus Rankings: formulated consensus rankings (featuring PARSlist)
–The StS Aggregator: a combined view of all StS leaderboards in one spot
–Tilt Value: Prospect Tilt’s pitcher value rankings
–Discord Access: join a great community and receive on-demand advice and recommendations!
Daily Updates!
Unrestricted access to daily updates of the following leaderboards
-Scout the Statline Peak Projections
-BaGS/DIGS
-Prospect Larceny’s Formulated Rankings
-The Hobby Advantage
-The Formulated Consensus
-The StS Aggregator
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