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The MOTY Scope™ — Advanced Filtering Player Search

Sortable MLB projections are a great place to start. And very useful. But fairly common on fantasy baseball sites.

The MOTY Scope is anything but common. After narrowing your player search to MLB, AL-only or NL-only, you can apply the “Basic Filters” — position, MLB team, or personal rosters you’ve saved. Or just type in a player’s last name and … who knew it? There he is.

Simple. But a demonstration seems in order. Here’s a table of mid-round, NL-only outfielders from the 2008 MOTY projections. Go ahead and play with the basic filters for a second. Then try an advanced filter — select “hr” in the first dropdown, “greater than” in the second, then type “15” in the value field, and click “Apply Filter.”

Basic Filters:	on
Advanced Filters:	\| More Options

	\| Fewer Options
Last Name:
	[ Apply Filter ] [ Reset Filter ]

Batter			MOTY#	RPS	Adj. MOTY#	r	hr	rbi	sb	avg	ab	hits	bb/K	obp	slg	ops	sb%
Pitcher			MOTY#	RPS	Adj. MOTY#	w	sv	K	whip	era	gs	ip	K/bb	bb	L	win%	sv%
Victorino, Shane	PHI	of	35.87	1.68	60.4	79	12	52	28	0.281	467	131	0.578	0.342	0.428	0.770	85%
Hermida, Jeremy	FLA	of	35.80	1.68	60.2	63	19	67	5	0.282	468	132	0.509	0.362	0.479	0.841	62%
Ethier, Andre	LAD	of	35.37	1.66	58.7	64	15	70	2	0.292	489	143	0.605	0.357	0.460	0.817	40%
Cameron, Mike	MIL	of	35.20	1.65	58.1	79	19	72	18	0.249	518	129	0.427	0.336	0.436	0.772	78%
Duncan, Chris	STL	of	35.11	1.65	57.9	60	23	71	2	0.266	402	107	0.474	0.356	0.495	0.851	67%
Alou, Moises	NYM	of	34.62	1.62	56.2	54	16	57	3	0.308	370	114	0.895	0.371	0.500	0.871	75%
Pierre, Juan	LAD	of	34.39	1.61	55.5	91	1	42	55	0.289	653	189	0.875	0.327	0.360	0.687	77%
Winn, Randy	SF	of	33.17	1.56	51.6	72	13	57	12	0.288	553	159	0.544	0.342	0.432	0.774	71%
Hall, Bill	MIL	of	32.77	1.54	50.4	71	18	69	7	0.261	490	128	0.338	0.327	0.457	0.784	58%
Nady, Xavier	PIT	of	32.35	1.52	49.1	57	20	71	3	0.272	452	123	0.267	0.328	0.465	0.793	75%

“More Options …” — that’s the key to really finding players. So click it, and … two more advanced filters appear. On the second line select “rbi,” “greater than” and type in “65.” On the third, try “runs greater than 60” Finally, click “Apply Filter” and the MOTY Scope will zero in on a narrowly focused sample of players.

Sort the results by “avg” and Jeremy Hermida is your man. Click “sb” and Mike Cameron gets the nod. On Base Percentage? — Hermida. “MOTY#” for overall fantasy value — the Marlin outfielder again. Definitely a pattern developing here (a little fish food for thought, perhaps).

Of course, once you’ve got your lists you’ll need to write them down for your draft. Unless … hmmm … what if you didn't have to?

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Touch ’em All — A Quick Trip ’round the Bases with the MOTY™ System

The MOTY Scope™ — Advanced Filtering Player Search