2024 Content

[RAY@HQ]

Your computer is correct. There were no new articles on Friday.

[Snider]

I just want to make sure my computer is correct. The last content for 2024 was on Thursday January 25 with Facts and Flukes. I cannot remember ever a time in January where there was nothing new for a day or two especially during the week which was yesterday. Thank you very much.

[RAY@HQ]

We always start a bit slow. It will be at 4x/week by the time spring camps open.

[Snider]

What is going to be the schedule for the Facts and Flukes column? Last year it seemed to run 4-5 times per week but it hasn’t been as frequent this year. Thank you.

[RAY@HQ]

Soler's PT% is only at 25% for some reason. We'll get that bumped back up.

[Howie M]

my 2024 Custom Draft Guide looks impressively accurate. only projection that left me confused was Jorge Soler.

he had an $18 season per the Forecaster, and repeats as $18 next year in the Forecaster.

but in NL-only 11-team classic 5x5, CDG drops him from his 36 HR, 75 RBI output in 2023 to 10 HR, 22 RBI in 2024 and values him at minus 1 dollar.

did he lose a limb in a wood chipper, perhaps, or is he projected to sign with a MLB team that is moving its fences out by 200 feet to all fields?


I do see that he announced he would opt out of his Marlins contract.

otherwise, great job as usual !

[RAY@HQ]

I see projections.

Yup, they're up! And on a quick review, everything looks pretty good. Still a ton of work to do... low PT players (especially backup catchers and relievers who were in the majors last year, but weren't included in the Forecaster) need projections. There's QS cleanup as always, and other odds and ends... I'll be pecking away at that stuff between now and the New Year. But for today, I don't see any glaring problems; these seem pretty usable for those who have been banging on the 'refresh' button. Enjoy, and thanks for your patience!

[Tom_T]

I see projections.

[RAY@HQ]

Getting there... Friday before noon for sure.

Update: OK, I've done everything I can offline. I'll push the button to upload first thing on Friday. That always exposes a bunch of issues that I can't see in my spreadsheets, so I'll spend a bunch of time tomorrow re-running updates and clearing up the most glaring issues. But you'll all be able to look at them, use the CDG etc, while I'm doing that on the site.

[RAY@HQ]

Getting there... Friday before noon for sure.

[JackPack]

Just in time I have a slow draft beginning on Sat 12/23 Go Ray Go! Thanks for all you do!

[RAY@HQ]

Sorry, running a little behind from what I projected above. Batters are in good shape, I've got some work to do on the pitchers. I'd say we're looking at later tomorrow, worst case first thing Friday morning to get first set up on the site. Sorry for the delay. (It's for a good reason... spending a decent amount of time working with the developers on the "new HQ", which is going to be, as the kids say, amaze-balls. That's not coming this week, though...)

That said, I know you need projections, so... give me one more good day's work on them, and we'll be there. Thanks for your patience, gang.

[anb]

I have decided that refreshing every 10 minutes won't make the projections get loaded any faster! And might be frowned upon by my employer....

[bowi8son]

what is latest on first set of projections?

[Howie M]

fyi, for the other poor bastards whose Forecasters were stuck in Fond Du Lac, WI - my book escaped that warehouse yesterday and is expected to be in my hands on Mon, Dec 18