Ron Shandler
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RON SHANDLER is the publisher of BaseballHQ.com and the author of the Baseball Forecaster annual. He was the first baseball analyst to develop sabermetric applications for fantasy league play, his ground-breaking concepts making him a perennial contender in national experts competitions. Ron's "Fanalytics" column appears each Wednesday during the baseball season in USA Today. Previously, he was a columnist for ESPN Magazine and ESPN.com, and an advisor to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Blog Entries by Ron Shandler

Isolated

Posted April 16, 2010 | 13:22:28 (EST)

On the third anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting, I thought I'd re-post the BaseballHQ.com column I wrote shortly after the incident. Sadly, in the three years since, nothing has changed.

April 19, 2007

There have been three times that my wife, Sue, and I have sat glued...

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Condemning Fantasy

Posted March 19, 2010 | 21:49:59 (EST)

There is a segment in the new documentary film, Fantasyland, when several esteemed baseball media veterans rail against fantasy baseball. I have to shake my head.

Mike Francesa of WFAN, Phil Mushnick of the New York Post and Hall of Fame writer Murray Chass are classified as "The...

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Fantasy Sports is Gambling? You Have No Idea.

Posted December 18, 2009 | 15:07:52 (EST)

It seems that nobody sees the true irony in this story: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that four employees of Fidelity Investments were fired for playing fantasy football. Why? Because Fidelity has a policy against gambling in the workplace.

The fantasy sports industry has come out in full...

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Here's a Secret: Baseball is Not Over Yet

Posted November 12, 2009 | 00:28:07 (EST)

Let's call it a statistical aberration.

Last Saturday night, more than 4,500 baseball fans crammed into a small stadium in Surprise, Arizona. Hmm. The World Series is over. The local Diamondbacks have been back with their families for well over a month. Most of the players on the field had...

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