Fantasy Baseball: Midseason Outfielder Rankings

by Seth Walder on Jul 10, 2010 8:32 PM EDT

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

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

I can't speak for everyone else

But mine have been based on 5×5 roto.

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by Jason Hunt on Jul 10, 2010 10:33 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.

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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?

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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.

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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