Ron Shandler

RON SHANDLER has been writing about fantasy baseball and baseball analysis since 1986, and was the first to develop sabermetric applications for fantasy league play. He is the author of the Baseball Forecaster, an annual book which has been around since the Reagan administration, and the founder of BaseballHQ.com and the First Pitch Forum national conference series. Ron spearheaded the creation of the Tout Wars national experts competition, which was the focus of the 2006 Fantasyland book and 2010 documentary film. He has finished Top 3 in national experts play dozens of times since 1994. Ron has been a regular columnist for USA Today, ESPN.com and The Athletic. He spent the 2004 season as an advisor to the St. Louis Cardinals. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fantasy Sports Trade Association in 2005 and was inducted into the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2012.