Compiled Positional Rankings

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:47 am

This is something I've been working on for a couple months now. It combines several different sources I've gathered online. I try to do an update at least once a week.

http://ironheadsports.tripod.com/fbrankings.html

Enjoy. Thumbs Up

Manager Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 75

SWEET!
Thanks. Thumbs Up

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:01 pm

thank you... is it possible to list all your sources? interesting work, one of the better ranking files i have seen in my humble opinion

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:38 pm

Really good job.
Would also be interested in seeing the ranking sources you are using.

Cliff

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:30 pm

interesting,, very nice job it looks like alot of work went into it,,but it would be nice to you how your ranking was devised,,it has barajas 12th but he was 2nd only to varitek in homers in 450 ab's but johjima is 8th without a ml atbat,overall i agree with alot of your assesments but others are different than my projection but using your particular formula gave you your results,so mr Sanders,whats the secret recipe?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:59 pm

Love the information sharing guys, keep it up and thanks!

The sources would be helpful as mentioned. Now that the MLB.com Fantasy Preview is up maybe use that as a comparison column to the averages. I've always wanted to see positional and overall rankings for players broken down like AtThePlate.com has done for rookies (another great tool) that would be really helpful.

You didn't really ask for ideas on updates did you?! Twisted Evil

Thanks again.

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:53 am

Here's what I have right now for sources

RotoChamps
RotoSpin
RotoWorld
RotoTimes
ESPN
Yahoo
RotoWire
Eric Karabell
FantasySportsCentral
SportsFanatics
The Sporting News
Baseball Notebook

Now I know some of those sources bring some very strong opinions. For example I know a lot of people crap on Yahoo's rankings all the time, which as an overall ranking I agree, but if you look at them by position they aren't that far off from some other sources. The only problem for Yahoo is that they don't include some rookies, but some other sources are that way as well. Eric Karabell also gets crapped on a lot but when you're bringing together 12 different sources no one source can really skew things. Also when compiling the average rank I throw out the highest and lowest rank for each player, so if a guy is regularly getting ranked 7th or 8th and one source has him 1st and another has him 24th, the 1st and 24th wouldn't be counted. Makes for a more even approach.

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:21 pm

Ironhead,
Thanks for the list of sources and the explanation on how you use them.

Sure helps knowing a little more about them with using them for a baseline.
Appreciate all the hard work and the fact you are sharing.

Cliff

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:16 pm

You might want to check but I think Yahoo uses rotowire as there source for rankings

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:55 pm

ken wrote:

You might want to check but I think Yahoo uses rotowire as there source for rankings

I thought KFFL provided Yahoo with their rankings.

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:44 pm

you could be right I know in there plus leagues the draft kit is from rotowire

minor league rover Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 30

Nice work and thanks! Its interesting to note that the top ranked NL catchers are Michael Barrett at #9, followed by Mike Piazza at #14. Slim pickings if you are in an NL only league.

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:12 am

A new update has been published.

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:20 am

Thanks a lot for doing the work and putting this up. Very informative.

Roto Guru Joined: Mar 10, 2004 Posts: 553

Ironhead...

1 small problem with your rankings (I only looked at it quick and I noticed it right away)

Unfortunately David Ortiz only qualifies as a DH/UT player in most leagues for the draft having played only 10 games at 1B last year.

It looks like you did put alot of work into it and will take your rankings into consideration in my planiing for the upcoming season.