A blog analyzing Major League Baseball through the lens of Astrology
Welcome to Astrology Baseball, a project where I arrange MLB players into teams based on their astrological signs, and then pit those teams against each other in mock fantasy seasons.
Fantasy Astrology Football
I haven’t watched a single NFL game this season, regular season or playoffs. But based on my quick analysis of fantasy football points and astrological signs, I have a pretty confident pick of who will win the Super Bowl: the Philadelphia Eagles!
WNBA 2022 Leaders
A little-known fact about me: I was so happy about the news of Brittany Griner coming home, that I got really into the WNBA. Not so much watching games, because the season ended in September. But rather digging deep into the 2022 stats of each player the only way I know how: astrologically. What I found was a similarity between the WNBA and MLB at the very top of the fantasy astrology ladder.
2022 World Series Teams
The first ever baseball project I embarked on was back in the summer of 2001. It was a simple Word document, listing the fantasy points for the starting lineup of each team in the league. I’ve enhanced my lists in various ways over the years, including color-coding the lines of players who “started” for their Fantasy Astrology lineups.
2022 Fantasy Astrology Leaders
Having just spent the better part of the last month posting in-depth looks for all 12 Fantasy Astrology signs in 2022, I won’t recap a projected playoff bracket. Instead, since all MLB’s major award winners were announced as of yesterday, I’ll compare those real-life winners to the players who would take home the FABL versions of that hardware.
2022 Gemini In-Depth Look
With the 2022 World Series now complete, let’s continue our in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Gemini had some of the best pitchers in the league, but their offensive attack was so inept, that they ended up at the very bottom of the FABL standings.
2022 Scorpio In-Depth Look
With the 2022 World Series now complete, let’s continue our in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. When counting all the rosters of each of the signs, going back to 1959, Scorpio players have scored the most collective fantasy points. And yet here in 2022, they’re in the bottom two.
2022 Aquarius In-Depth Look
With the 2022 World Series now complete, let’s continue our in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. After leading the league in fantasy points in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Aquarius is back in familiar territory: the bottom quarter of the standings.
2022 Capricorn In-Depth Look
With the 2022 World Series now complete, let’s continue our in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Call this a coincidence if you must, but the last time Capricorn won the FABL points crown was exactly 30 years ago in 1992!
2022 Leo In-Depth Look
With the 2022 World Series now complete, let’s continue our in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Those of you following my reverse-chronological trip through FABL history - where I’ve reached the Leo-dominated 1960s - might be surprised to see the Lions mired in the middle of the pack this year.
2022 Sagittarius In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Strict followers of positional eligibility rules would recognize Sagittarius as the true winner of the 2022 Fire Division, since Aries relied on several questionable positional shenanigans.
2022 Taurus In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Taurus entered the history books as the sign of the new American League single season home run record holder, Aaron Judge, who broke Roger Maris’s mark of 61 from 1961… which was set 61 years ago!
2022 Libra In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Libra has had a stranglehold on the Air Division in the recent past, and now just because of the weakness of their competition.
2022 Cancer In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! No sign had a more potent offensive attack in 2022 than the Cancer Crabs, although they unfortunately paired that with the weakest pitching staff in the league.
2022 Aries In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! Depending on your take on positional eligibility rules, Aries either finished third in the league, or seventh.
2022 Pisces In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! Going by fantasy points accrued by each sign’s “starting roster,” Pisces was the number two sign, and tops in the Water Division.
2022 Virgo In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. I’m starting with the Virgo Flowers, the top scoring sign by any method of measurement.
2022 Expanded Points Totals
Since this is the current MLB season, I decided to take a deeper look at the numbers of the players on each sign beyond just the top 17 on the starting roster. I spent this last week calculating fantasy points for every player with at least 100 plate appearances or 20 innings pitched in 2022, and came up with some expanded totals.
2022 Wild Card Round Recap
It’s a little ironic, isn’t it? It’s the start of the postseason, when excitement for baseball has reached a fever pitch… and I can’t even be bothered to blog about it, because I’m too busy plugging the season-ending numbers into my patented astrology database! But now, I’m taking a break to recap the first ever Wild Card round matchups!
2022 Head-to-Head Finals
In a surprise to no one, Virgo has defeated Scorpio in the first round of the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League postseason. In the Positive Polarity, Libra winning the Air Division has always been a foregone conclusion. But Sagittarius had the lowest aggregate point total in the Fire Division, but still made the playoffs by a one game margin!
2022 Head-to-Head Playoffs
This week marked the beginning of the 2022 Astrology Fantasy Baseball League playoffs! This is the weekly matchup league I run on the ESPN fantasy baseball client, NOT the hypothetical postseason affair, where participants are decided by calculating total fantasy points over the course of the season. And trust me, there is a difference.