NL East: Cartesian butterfly nets

Washington Nationals

We should all be so lucky to find a lover who looks at us the way fantasy managers look at graphs. Face it, we’re obsessed—and why shouldn’t we be? They contain all the secrets of our universe. Graphs are nets that snatch fluttering concepts out of the ether, helping us to pin and mount the truth like a shimmering butterfly. Who do we have to thank for elucidating every 100 PAs of Rolling xwOBA and the relationship between bat speed and HR/PA? Why, René Descartes, of course.

In addition to this very obvious contribution, our overlooked great-to-the-nth-power-grandfather of fantasy baseball analysis also gave us something arguably more fundamental. As if being a goateed mathematician wasn’t enough, in true...

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