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Fantasy Baseball: Midseason Outfielder Rankings

Whew.

For those of you who have never done rankings, let me just tell you: It's much harder than it looks. For the outfielders we ranked our personal top 50. As always I'll remind you that these rankings are strictly our predictions for performance from this point on in the season. 

I find that rankings are particularly helpful for figuring out waiver wire options, as well as looking at possible trades you might not have thought of otherwise. Because this pool is so large, even more of those observations are available to you, I encourage you to look over the chart and see how individuals ranked players in addition to our group average. 

Because we ranked 50, the chart is quite large and I decided it would be too much to put on the front page--you will find it right after the jump

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Rank Player Ray Jason Brian Seth Average
1 Ryan Braun 1 1 2 1 1.25
T-2 Carl Crawford 8 2 1 2 3.25
T-2 Matt Holliday 3 7 4 3 3.25
T-2 Matt Kemp 2 4 3 4 3.25
T-5 Josh Hamilton 6 3 9 5 5.75
T-5 Vladimir Guerrero 4 5 7 7 5.75
7 Justin Upton 7 8 5 8 7
8 Alex Rios 10 6 6 13 8.75
9 Andre Ethier 9 10 8 9 9
T-10 Andrew McCutchen 5 17 15 12 12.25
T-10 Carlos Gonzalez 11 11 12 15 12.25
12 Torii Hunter 13 9 10 19 12.75
13 Adam Dunn 18 14 11 11 13.5
14 Jayson Werth 15 22 14 14 16.25
15 Ichiro Suzuki 26 18 17 6 16.75
16 Shane Victorino 17 16 18 17 17
17 Nelson Cruz 19 24 19 10 18
18 Chris Young 21 13 29 16 19.75
19 Bobby Abreu 25 19 23 22 22.25
20 Shin-Soo Choo 12 12 21 47 23
21 Brett Gardner 29 15 30 20 23.5
22 Vernon Wells 31 21 25 25 25.5
23 Nick Swisher 22 29 31 21 25.75
T-24 Jason Heyward 20 37 20 28 26.25
T-24 Colby Rasmus 16 26 13 29 26.25
26 Corey Hart 30 20 27 33 27.5
27 Jason Bay 35 30 24 23 28
28 Adam Jones 36 25 22 32 28.75
29 Magglio Ordonez 14 35 44 24 29.25
30 Ben Zobrist 41 28 28 26 30.75
31 Carlos Lee 39 23 26 39 31.75
32 Jay Bruce 23 45 16 45 32.25
33 Manny Ramirez 33 38 NR 18 35
34 Alfonso Soriano 24 33 NR 34 35.5
35 Juan Pierre 28 NR 32 36 36.75
36 Nick Markakis NR 35 34 30 37.5
37 Brennan Boesch NR 27 NR 27 39
38 Carlos Quentin 34 41 42 42 39.75
39 Curtis Granderson NR 40 35 35 40.25
40 Drew Stubbs 44 37 33 NR 41.25
41 Michael Bourn 27 NR 37 NR 41.5
T-42 Aubrey Huff NR 32 43 41 41.75
T-42 Garrett Jones 37 46 41 43 41.75
T-44 Jose Bautista 42 42 36 49 42.25
T-44 Josh Willingham NR 34 46 38 42.25
46 B.J. Upton 47 31 50 46 43.5
T-47 Delmon Young 49 43 38 48 44.5
T-47 Hunter Pence 32 44 NR NR 44.5
49 Denard Span 50 47 40 44 45.25
50 Marlon Byrd 43 NR 49 40 45.75
51 Scott Podsednik NR NR NR 31 46
T-52 Chris Coghlan NR 48 39 NR 47.25
T-52 Carlos Beltran NR 50 NR 37 47.25
54 J.D. Drew 38 NR NR NR 47.75
55 Ryan Ludwick 40 NR NR 50 48
56 Cody Ross 46 49 47 NR 48.25
T-57 Angel Pagan NR NR 45 NR 49.5
T-57 David Dejesus 45 NR NR NR 49.5
T-59 Michael Stanton 48 NR NR NR 50.25
T-59 Andres Torres NR NR 48 NR 50.25

In terms of players we disagreed on, I would suggest not reading too much into the injured players: Shin-Soo Choo and Manny Ramirez. Clearly our personal rankings reflect a difference in when we think those players will return to action. 

But there were some other players that we were fairly polarized on. A quick overview of ones that I noticed included: Ichiro Suzuki, Chris B. Young, Jason Heyward, Colby Rasmus, Magglio Ordonez, Jay Bruce, Alfonso Soriano, Brennan Boesch and Aubrey Huff. 

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I think your rankings would be easier to understand if you based them on a particular scoring format. I think there’s little doubt that rankings would be quite different based on a 4×4 roto, 5×5 roto or points/categories head to head scoring format. Some formats are homercentric while other formats really weigh steals heavily. It would even if you guys had a single format that you based all your ratings on. But just stating that outfielder A is better than outfielder B based on some unknown ranking system is really not that helpful.

Don’t get me wrong, I like reading the rankings. But there needs to be a scoring format these rankings are based on.

by acr on Jul 10, 2010 9:54 PM EDT reply actions  

same here

5×5 roto.
question-as i haven’t played a head to head league….what would be the difference in the rankings for any of the leagues? I know 4×4 vs 5×5 is runs scored….but runs are tough to predict.

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Jul 10, 2010 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

H2H

The only thing that really changes for me in a H2H roto league is that I weigh consistency more. Players who are streaky can kill you from week to week in a H2H roto league.

For points, you take ratios out of the equation (AVG, OBP, WHIP, ERA) so players who generally kill in those categories but do well in the rest will end up higher. At least that’s been what I’ve noticed so far.

by Jason Hunt on Jul 10, 2010 10:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

H2H points vs H2H categories

I think there is little difference between H2H categories vs 5×5 roto…only difference is consistency or a guy like Dan Haren might be less effective because of the playoffs.

H2H points is certainly entirely different (and I firmly believe it’s a stupid format).

I would base our rankings on a 5×5 roto format.

by Seth Walder on Jul 11, 2010 1:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Rasmus

Averages to 21, not 26.25.

by Xavier. on Jul 11, 2010 4:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Correct

I knew at some point I’d make a math error. My bad.

by Seth Walder on Jul 11, 2010 6:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

8th Ray??

You would really take Upton over Crawford for the rest of the year?

"You think our war drill is something now. Next year is going to be fist fighting."- Tom Izzo
Go Spartans

by msufan23 on Jul 11, 2010 7:38 PM EDT reply actions  

yes

I think Upton will turn it on in the 2nd half….and Crawford fell off last year in the 2nd half if I recall correctly.

raygu
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by Ray Guilfoyle on Jul 12, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

seriously?

I just don’t see that happening, but you never know. What we need to to have posters make a few fearless 2nd half predictions so we can pin them in a post somewhere. That way we can check back later. Upton having a better 2nd half than Crawford would be a pretty gutsy prediction. IF they both stay healthy I would guess Crawford keeps on keeping on while Upton tries to put together his normal one month fling, then turn back into Mr. Potential.

Let’s start a fearless 2nd half prediction thread tonight- let’s all contribute. Raygu yours would be a good one to kick things off with.

by acr on Jul 12, 2010 7:32 PM EDT reply actions  

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