March 02, 2007
Updated Projections
The Bill James Handbook: Projections Update 2007 are now available. Lots of things change between October and March, and these projections incorporate trades and free agent signings. From the press release:
The Bill James Handbook: Projections Update 2007 is an Excel spreadsheet and includes the player's league and 2006 MLB position(s) for your sorting convenience. The spreadsheet allows you to manipulate the data in a dynamic way and tailor it to suit your own interests!
We provide the hitter projections on multiple tabs; in alphabetical order and by positions (including DH). The hitter projections by positions show hitters on a position list if they played at that position 20 or more 2006 MLB games. If that qualifies them for multiple positions, we show them on multiple tabs (without limit) with an asterisk by their name. For those players who did not appear in 20 games at any one position, we pick the list where they played most.
Enjoy!
Baseball Musings is holding a pledge drive in March.
David - why don't you try your hand at a projection system? I see James has a link to purchase his for $10. That would certainly be something I'd be interested in buying from you, if you priced them around the same level. You've certainly got the hitting data, and if you came up with a way to make solid projections with the fielding PMR data, I think you'd have both a valuable fantasy tool, and even a valuable scouting tool for fans and office personnel...