Points Leagues, Projections: Charles Back In Charge

F=ck Fuller House! Seriously does anyone actually give a sh!t about that show. In the world of House of Cards, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Better Call Saul how could such a show even be considered. Uncle Jesse is a loser. Actually so is just about everyone in that show. I saw on Facebook that there were people that binge watched the entire season the day it came out. There are the real winners people. I’m not sure if the sad part is that they binged watched it on day one or that they admitted to it on social media. If Netflix is going to bring back some old school shows then I have a few suggestions. While I’d love to round up the cast of Diff’rent Strokes it seems that Willis (Todd Bridges) is the only main character still alive! Maybe they could give him his own show called What You Talking About Willis. How interesting would a Cosby Show reboot be right about now?! And what about Scott Baio. Now there’s a dude with quite the list of female bedmates. Scott Baio has more conquests than Genghis Khan. Speaking of the Khan Dynasty, Marco Polo is pretty good. Based on his recent tweets Baio ain’t got jack squat going on. Give me Charles Back In Charge!

Now if only Carlos Carrasco had been at the top of my projections the title to this post would have been butter. Instead he finds himself just inside the top 20. That sounds about right, but as I must point out, it all depends on your league’s scoring system. Charlie Morton is the next possible “Charles” in the list, but his measly projections wouldn’t get him a podcast. After Morton it’s Furbush and well there’s no beating around the bush on this one, unless your league rewards holds, this Charlie isn’t getting rostered.

It should come as no surprise to anyone to find Clayton Kershaw at the top of the list. Last year during my preseason prep talks I told everyone that he should be the number one pick over Mike Trout. Very few of you listened. Very many of your were wrong. I was right. Unless you are in some league with a scoring system drastically skewed towards hitters, then Kershaw was the number player in points leagues in 2015. I expect that might be the case again in 2016, but I will know better next week once I process my position adjusted overall rankings.

No matter how you slice and dice it, Kershaw, Max Scherzer and Chris Sale come out at the big three. But if we look at projected points per start, Jose Fernandez, Stephen Strasburg and David Price are not too far behind. For those of you laughing at Strasburg’s appearance in that sentence, here’s what I have to say. If this guy can stay healthy (yes I know) and he picks up where he left off last season, watch out. I’m sure he will throw his back out getting off the toilet, but if he manages the impossible, he can put up top shelf numbers.

I think this is the last season before Gerrit Cole becomes a top ten pitcher. It “could” happen this year, but 2017 is more likely.

Based on the following scoring system, here are your top 35 starters.

WIN (+5), LOSS (-5), IP (+3), K (+1), BB (-1), SAVE (+7), BLOWN SAVE (-3), ER (-1), HIT (-1), HBP (-1), WP (-1)

I’ve attached the full spreadsheet below. Remember to update the scoring system to reflect your league’s system because the world don’t move to beat of just one drum…

Download the spreadsheet.