I wanted to provide a rundown of all possible aids to the draft. No one I know uses all of these tools, but everyone should at least be aware of them and can pick and choose at their own discretion.
If you interested in seasons past, everything you wanted to know about previous seasons of ATB can be found at the History main page. There is some real fluff there, such as the leaderboards and the Hall of Fame, but two sections can quickly allow you to become an expert.
The Compiled Raw Data of Each ATB Season is a zipped file that houses each season's pitching and batting registers in recorded history. Every final batting and pitching line has been dumped into excel for your enjoyment.
Secondly, this History page also houses the 100 Re-sim Compilation. The 100 re-sims were an off-season study, performed between ATB XII and ATB III, that attempted to baseline the results of the common players selected in drafts up to that time. Simply, I created a dummy league with a few hundred players and compiled the results. Each "team" played in fictitious park and the schedule was 100% balanced. On this 100 Re-sim page you can find the Min, Max, and Average stat line for each player in the study, a quick summary of everything for the impatient, and the full raw detail of each of the 100 seasons for each player for the nerds. These are particularly invaluable as it can point out some of the follies and gems that are otherwise unpredictable.
There is also a section of useful tools under the Draft Day main page. Some of the more useful:
- default player ratings information
- eligible player sets
- Real life era's (Average real life Batting and Pitching Stats by year)
- Ballpark data
We have a Rules main page, that also links to DMB help files should you need to know something specific about the software.
Finally, over the years I've penned a few Analysis articles on the blog that might interest you. Some of the more popular articles outlined the impact of draft order, an analysis of how critical defense is, and a small book on how the draft seems to shape up year in and year out.
Oh, one more thing to note. Nothing is certain. Not in MLB and certainly not in DMB. Between 1921 and 1926 Babe Ruth batted: .378, .315, .393, .378, .290, and .372. That is a wild ride and the same thing can happen in ATB.
Sticking with Ruth, in the 100 re-sims he was an animal, easily rating the best batter in the game with an average line of .282 / .481 / .630. Just as in real life, he won't repeat that line every single year and in one of the sims he batted .333 / .506 / .723 (!) and another just .221 / .419 / .528.
Good luck!
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