ROTISSERIE: Where do breakout players come from?

Where do star players come from?

This is a question that has plagues fantasy owners since the first fish of fantasy baseball crawled out of the sea and tried to walk on land, jump starting an evolutionary process that hasn’t stopped.  And despite the huge gains of knowledge that have evolved with the rise of scientific analysis as applied to fantasy baseball, we still have not been able to decipher what should be a very easy question: “Who are the top twelve players?”

We all know that fantasy owners are notoriously bad at predicting what players will generate first-round value. We do not even know which players will become stars. Even when it comes to players like Mike Trout (OF, LAA) fantasy owners did not know how good he would...

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