We’re Relaunching the Community Blog
If you have ever wanted your writing to appear on the pages of FanGraphs, do we have good news for you!
After a brief hiatus, we are relaunching the Community Research page, a blog that features articles from our readers. This means you, your friends, your grandma, basically anyone with a (free) FanGraphs account can submit some baseball words to be run here on the site.
There are a few rules, of course. There are always rules:
- Every article is subject to approval. While submitted works represent a range of topics and exhibit varying degrees of polish, they do need to be appropriate, and meet a baseline of readability and relevance.
- Your submission must be your original work. Please only send us pieces that you have written.
- That said, your article does not necessarily have to be exclusive to FanGraphs. Have a piece from your own blog that you think would fit well here? Send it on over for approval. Just let us know where else it has appeared.
- You may submit a maximum of one article per week. We’d love to run every worthy article we receive, but realistically, we can’t. We appreciate your understanding.
That’s about it. If you have submitted pieces in recent months while the blog was on hiatus that did not run, and you still feel they are relevant, feel free to submit them again. We are starting with a fresh slate of submissions going forward.
If you don’t have a FanGraphs account (seriously, it’s free), you can register here.
Once you have an account, you can submit a post here.
We’re looking forward to sharing your research.
Dylan assists in producingFanGraphs Audio, Effectively Wild, and the FanGraphs Live Twitch channel. He also enjoys the Waxahachie Swap (RIP), the Air Bud principle, and the Oxford comma. You can Tweet him about any of those things @dhhiggins.
Awesome news, thanks Dylan!
What kinds of articles would the Fangraphs fanbase like to see?
I think an entirely inappropriate #BringBackNotGraphs plug is in order here…
Great news! I’ve got some research I’ve been itching to publish.
Hey this is great! Frankly didn’t even realize it was shuttered.
Sounds great! If I don’t want to post, but want to read the community blog posts, where do I find them? I don’t see a link under the “Blogs” heading.
It’s a Blog. It’s listed under Blogs.
This is fantastic news! I will be submitting some very good, thoughtful pieces on why Wander Javier of the Minnesota Twins is the true top prospect in all of baseball. You’ll want to see these metrics!
Awesome news
Cool! I doubt there is anything I am capable of writing that ya’ll couldn’t do better, but I may submit some stuff that’s interesting to me.
A FG account is free, but twenty bucks for something you click to 800 times a year ain’t bad!
Are you accepting Andy Rooney-type pieces? I can certainly do those. For instance, why does everyone always want to yammer on about WAR, when we all just want some peace and quiet to watch a ballgame? (shakes head disapprovingly)
Typos continue to get through since Cistulli left. That’s not how you spell, “NotGraphs.”
Separately, I am happy to hear that the Community blog is returning.
So, probably a dumb question but, other than the link Dylan includes in his article above, where does one find the place to go to submit an article and/or research?
I don’t think I understand the question.
Other than the bolded word ‘here’ in the article above, is there a button or an item in a drop down menu that we can click on to submit articles/research? Eventually, this article will get buried in the blogosphere so I was hoping that I could get to the submission page some other way.
Good question. I was working on that just now, actually.
There will be an easier-to-find link added somewhere soon.
Sweet! Thanks! Now I just have to think up something to say.
Dylan,
Glad to learn of the relaunch of Community Blog. Some/many of the FanGraph readers are quite knowledgable regarding baseball. I look forward to reading their ideas again.
Looking forward to pieces being published soon!