As I sit here thinking about the last article I read about the upcoming fantasy season, I wondered two things: 1. When did K/9, BABIP, K:BB, and the all important fWAR or RAR become statistics that drove rotisserie baseball? and 2. Who is the crackhead that thought focusing on all the measures of a player you are not counting (HR, RBI, SB, AVG, R) was a great idea? The point of my article, and you can feel free to disagree with me all you want, is that people are forgetting that none of those single categories will get you a championship. Keep your thoughts simple. Weigh actual statistics your league uses instead of dancing around the periphery with all that noise from the ratios and the newfangled statistics. WAR is great, but realistically, fantasy doesn't count WAR. It doesn't factor in defense. And if you spend all sorts of time looking for the magic eight ball in those advanced metrics, you may just miss the simplicity of baseball, the simplicity of fantasy, and the simplicity of a voodoo woman who can distract you with her new statistics. the 50/33/17 rule is an amazing formula that weighs a player's past history and uses it within whatever categories your league employs. So in closing, one thought: Don't smoke the crack, don't listen to the voodoo woman, and don't get so caught up in statistics that don't count directly in your league, because you might just miss something.....