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I’ve got a handful of Price Guide updates that I’d like to make you aware of:

• New categories: Net Steals (SB – CS) and K/AB for hitters, K – BB for pitchers. If you happen to be in a fantasy league that uses those exact three categories, Juan Pierre is the man you want. Ryan Howard comes in at a spectacular -$64.
• The league averages now show up for rate stats (BA, ERA, WHIP, etc.) In a standard league, the Price Guide projects the average hitter to bat .279; the average pitcher will post a 3.73 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP.
• I’ve been experimenting with a way to export the Price Guide’s results to a spreadsheet. For those of you who like to poke around, you can see an early version if you add “&o=CSV” to the querystring. I haven’t quite got it working for minor league players, but it’s a start.

As always, let me know if there’s a feature you would like to see.

By request, I’ve added another stat category for the Price Guide: pitcher walks.

It works as you would expect in a normal league (i.e. walking fewer batters is better).

Please let me know if there are any other categories you are interested in. If it’s a stat that is typically projected, it is usually pretty easy to add. (Holds and quality starts, unfortunately, aren’t projected by any of the systems.)

For those who aren’t familiar with it: The Fantasy Baseball Price Guide is an online tool that builds auction dollar values or draft rankings customized for you league. It handles any number of teams, any number of starting positions, and most stat categories. You can also edit the projected stats for any player to fit your own expectations.

By request, I’ve added a couple of new categories to the Price Guide: hitter strikeouts and pitcher losses.

Note that these work such that a low number is good; not like you would use in some bizarro league that rewards losing. These are the first “counting” stats in the Price Guide that work that way, so let me know if you notice anything unusual.

For those who aren’t familiar with it: The Fantasy Baseball Price Guide is an online tool that builds auction dollar values or draft rankings customized for you league. It handles any number of teams, any number of starting positions, and most stat categories. You can also edit the projected stats for any player to fit your own expectations.

Just a note to say that I’ve updated the Price Guide with some of the enhancements I had mentioned earlier:

Keepers
Now you can mark keepers in the Price Guide. Enter the prices that players are kept at and the inflation rate is automatically calculated. All of the remaining prices are adjusted to account for inflation.

Editable stats
Do you disagree with what is projected for a player? Now you can edit the projected stats for any player. When you save your changes, the dollar values are rebuilt.

Please let me know if you notice any problems.

I’ve mentioned that two of my goals for the Price Guide are to allow people to customize the projections and to let them enter keepers.

Well, those two things are getting close to happening.

Right now, I’m looking for some people to try out a beta version that includes these extra features:

UPDATE: These have now been included with the main Price Guide.

If you have some time, I’d appreciate if you try it out and post some feedback in the comments. Once I’m satisfied with these changes, I’ll update the regular Price Guide to include them.

By popular demand, hits and OPS have been added as categories for hitters in the Price Guide.

I joke that it was easy to tell when people are coming to my site from Inside the Book, because I start getting requests for OPS. Thankfully no one asked for wOBA.

Please let me know if you notice any problems with these new categories.

UPDATE: Also by request, Runs Produced (R + RBI – HR) is now an option. Let me know if you want some other category added.