FanGraphs

FanGraphs is a news site that focuses on baseball analysis and insights. It provides in-depth articles, player rankings, prospect lists, and fantasy rankings to its readers. The site has 13 full-time employees and a terrific group of part-time contributors. FanGraphs offers various tools such as leaderboards, projection boards, RosterResource features, and the Cy Young Award Predictor to help users better understand and analyze baseball. The site also incorporates weather splits into its splits tool. FanGraphs is funded mainly by Membership and advertising but encourages direct contact for advertising opportunities to receive 100% of advertising dollars.

62%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This news site has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on its reporting.

Bias

88%

Examples:

  • FanGraphs does not have outside investors. We are funded almost entirely by Membership and advertising.

Conflicts of Interest

25%

Examples:

  • The final prospect in the trade, teenage outfielder Samuel Zavala, has a fresh report and ranking on the White Sox list.

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Deceptions

65%

Examples:

  • I am not optimistic about him hitting.

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