Effectively Wild Episode 1526: The Season of Uncertainty

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about new options for supporting FanGraphs and a potential plan to play the 2020 season with a radically realigned league structure, then talk to FanGraphs writer and ZiPS projection system proprietor Dan Szymborski about how a shortened or canceled season would affect projections for 2021, whether players would exceed or fall short of their projections after a long layoff, how a canceled season could impair player development, how returns from injuries, strength of schedule, and fewer games could help or hurt certain teams in 2020, tactics and roster strategies that could be beneficial in a shortened season, whether Statcast has improved projections, doing away with divisions, the appeal of streaming/esports in the absence of traditional sports, the MLB The Show players tournament, and how projecting baseball is different from projecting pandemics. Audio intro : The Mountain Goats, " This Year " Audio outro : The Strokes, " Ode to the Mets " Link to FanGraphs financial update Link to FanGraphs membership page Link to FanGraphs gift membership page Link to FanGraphs donation page Link to realignment report Link to Rob Arthur on uncertainty Like to Matt Trueblood on shortened-season tactics Link to Dan on playoff odds changes Link to Dan on healing teams Link to Dan on embracing weirdness Link to Ben on esports Link to Hannah on simulated seasons Link to MLB The Show league Link to Mets broadcasters calling MLB The Show Link to FiveThirtyEight on modeling COVID-19 Link to Dan’s COVID-19 Twitter thread Link to order The MVP Machine iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source