FANALYTICS: 2012 Pundits on Parade

Back in 1993, in the Baseball Forecaster monthly newsletter (with the gold front page), I ran a feature that compared our projections on a group of players to those of four other touts. I did this because I wondered how we stacked up against the more well-known prognosticators—Bill James, John Benson, Alex Patton and Steve Mann. I received so much positive feedback on it (via snail mail and phone calls—this was 1993, after all) that I ran it again in 1994. And again in 1995. And 1996...

So here we are in 2012 and this is now the 20th anniversary of us running this feature. You still like it; we still run it.

In 1993, I chose the players who I thought would generate the most differences of opinion. That list included such...

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