Comments on: ESPN Fantasy Baseball Rankings Rankle

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:38:38 +0000

@Mark: Haven't read it, but I assume it's terrific.* *Sarcasm.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:25:53 +0000

Matthew Berry’s Love/Hate came out and Ryan Howard was the cover boy.

The reason: the categories you speak of. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but if you get Carlos Beltran and Nate McLouth aren’t you getting the same numbers essentially from drafting Howard and Jacoby Ellsbury? I think it’s stupid just to go by the number of categories and not include the margin a player wins a category by.

*I don’t work for ESPN, but if hired by ESPN I will retract my statement and happily go along with the .002 batting average differential quota for 2010 and do everything I can to shut down opposition to this system.

**I don’t work for ESPN, so you don’t need to be too worried.

***Yet…

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:08:35 +0000

@ap: Ok, and?

By: ap

ap — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:00:17 +0000

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=564

By: johnwhorfin

johnwhorfin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:11:33 +0000

@Freak: Totally agree. I like ESPN's fantasy system for running a league, and the rankings make my drafts so much sweeter. @Jeremy P.: I think that if you can get through all the chaff, Matthew Berry has some decent insight. Of course, I value the information I gather from Razzball much more, but that's why I don't ever tell my league mates about this site, and hype ESPN/CBS/Yahoo to them as good sources for draft prep. I don't really have the time or patience to pre-rank on both ESPN and Yahoo. Instead, I create my own cheatsheet and let the site rankings throw off the other owners at the draft. Many non-sleepers fall to me just because of the faulty ranking systems used on the main sites.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:47 +0000

@Billy: Between Rounds 6 and 8 I look at starters. I try not to look at closers until Round 10.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:11:12 +0000

thanks for the great advice, this is my second yr doing FBB, sadly last yr i followed CBS/ESPN’s rankings… lets just say i got rapped at the draft, and wondering why i kept missing out on players… What round would you start drafting pitchers?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:39:08 +0000

@YY: Yeah, at he right price these guys are fine. Actually, two of the 5 names above I like more than ESPN.

By: YY

YY — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:46:11 +0000

Ay bro thanks for da heads up on those players. I always felt that ESPN’s rankings were kinda screwed because they rank players on name recognition alone. So are you basically saying those 5 players should be avoided or get them at the right price?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:25:49 +0000

@Jeremy P.: Inconceivable!