You made the excellent decision to become more involved in your boring life and join a fun family base fantasy baseball league. You get an email from the “commissioner” telling you the format and the draft time. You then decide to do a little research. You get to a great ranking site, but you don’t understand what all the numbers or little 3-letter words mean. These acronyms are essential to understanding Fantasy baseball, in and out.
Bellow is a list of general baseball acronyms that are commonly used in fantasy baseball.
RBI: Runs Batted In
AVG: a batters batting average.
HR: Home Runs
SB: Stolen Bases
R: Runs a player scores
W: Wins that a pitcher accumulates throughout the season
K: Strikeouts
ERA: Earned Run Average
WHIP: Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched
S: Saves
This is a short list of common baseball terms that are consistently seen during a fantasy baseball season. Sometimes however you will see a few more with are only associated with Fantasy baseball.
ADP: Average Draft Position
FPA: Fantasy Point Average
These two acronyms are used quite often when talking about a player’s value to fantasy baseball team. They are used more often during than draft than any other time, but the draft is where fantasy baseball leagues are won and lost.
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