Using a ranking system that accounts for a players previous three season's of work and relates those efforts to those of his peers across the five fantasy baseball categories - HR, RBI, SB, R, AVG, I have come up with a ranking of 1B for 2008. Because I did not want diminish the purity of the calcuations, I instead added a "+/-" column to make some commentary on select listed players. You may agree or disagree, and I hope you do. Afterall, which ranking system will have Carlos Guillen as the 3rd best 1B going into the 2008 fantasy baseball drafts?
Does that make Guillen a sleeper or will this good performance get him taken during the run of second-tier SS at a non-sleeper time? FWIW, Guillen ranked no lower than 17th (HRs) amongst the 58 1B-eligibles I used (>130 ABs in 2007). He was 10th in RBI, 1st in SB, 9th in Runs and 7th in AVG. This system rewards those players who can do well in all five categories, and isn't that what every fantasy player tries to do when building a team?
Rank | Player | +/- | Rank | Player | +/- | Rank | Player | +/- |
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1 | Pujols Albert | 16 | Swisher Nick | 31 | Hatteberg Scott | |||
2 | Berkman Lance | 17 | Gonzalez Adrian | 32 | Gload Ross | down | ||
3 | Guillen Carlos | down | 18 | LaRoche Adam | 33 | Broussard Ben | ||
4 | Lee Derrek | 19 | Jackson Conor | 34 | Garko Ryan | |||
5 | Fielder Prince | 20 | Jacobs Mike | 35 | Kotchman Casey | |||
6 | Teixeira Mark | 21 | Pena Carlos | up | 36 | Thames Marcus | ||
7 | Howard Ryan | 22 | Huff Aubrey | 37 | Lamb Mike | |||
8 | Helton Todd | 23 | Millar Kevin | 38 | Loney James | up up | ||
9 | Morneau Justin | 24 | Sexson Richie | 39 | Boone Aaron | |||
10 | Delgado Carlos | down | 25 | Wilkerson Brad | 40 | Gordon Alex | up up | |
11 | Youkilis Kevin | 26 | Loretta Mark | 41 | Klesko Ryan | |||
12 | Konerko Paul | 27 | Stairs Matt | 42 | Conine Jeff | |||
13 | Martinez Victor | 28 | Aurilia Rich | 43 | Hinske Eric | |||
14 | Garciaparra Nomar | down down | 29 | Young Dmitri | 44 | Johnson Dan | ||
15 | Overbay Lyle | 30 | Casey Sean | 45 | Erstad Darin | down | ||