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Universal Pitcher Values: What is pitching worth?

By AJ Mass
ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I've always found the best starting point for creating my annual draft lists is to determine exactly how much value a player actually contributed to a fantasy team in a standard 5x5 rotisserie league in the previous season, and then adjust from there based upon how likely each individual player was to equal, or even improve upon, those totals in the upcoming year. However, while this method had always worked quite nicely in the analysis of hitters, when it came to evaluating pitchers, the number ...

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