Title: Fantasy Football – Final Full-Season Rankings
Date: September 7, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: This was hardly an article, but I wanted to post my 2012 full season fantasy football rankings, hoping that a strong track record could help me with finding future writing opportunities in the fantasy realm.
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Title: The Annual Baseball Road Trip
Date: August 31, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Taking a look back at an annual baseball road trip that has taken me to 21 different MLB ballparks.
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Title: Is Colby Rasmus’ Break Out For Real?
Date: July 13, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: This article looked at Colby Rasmus’ offensive breakout over the past two months, attempting to identify underlying trends in his statistical profile to forecast regression or further improvement.
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Title: Live Blog – Trev and Blake on the NBA Draft
Date: June 29, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Like we did in 2008, my friend Trev and I Live-Chatted during the NBA Draft. It’s a bit ugly to read through because of the lazy formatting, but there is some good discussion in there.
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Title: E-Mail Exchange: Trev and Blake on NBA Conference Finals
Date: June 8, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Good friend Trev and I exchanged e-mails on the NBA Conference Finals, the battle of Durant and LeBron, and potential Finals match-ups.
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Title: AL East and NL East Set to Battle for Divisional Supremacy
Date: June 8, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: This article compared the dominance of both the AL East and NL East ahead of Interleague Play, with the divisions set to play 66 games against each other over the next two weeks.
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Title: Regression Police – Blue Jays’ Starting Pitchers
Date: June 5, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: This article took a look at the Blue Jays’ starting rotation, comparing their performance thus far to what Defense Independent Pitching Statistics would predict based on their underlying profiles.
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Title: Looking at the Blue Jays’ Rest of Season ZIPS Projections
Date: May 29, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After a 25-24 start, I took a look at the Blue Jays’ ZIPS projections for the rest of the season to see which players were due for positive or negative regression, trying to get a gauge on what to expect from the offense moving forward.
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Title: Henderson Alvarez’ Smoke and Mirrors
Date: May 14, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With Henderson Alvarez mowing down lineups in the early going, I looked under the hood at some scary signs the peripheral stats show.
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Title: An Early Look a the 2012 Blue Jays Offense – ZIPS Projections
Date: February 7, 2012
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With ZIPS releasing their individual projections recently, I took a look at the projections for Blue Jays’ hitters, tried my best to adjust for playing time, and deemed the outlook to be mildly favorable compared to 2011.
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