Less than 24 hours after the draft and roughly three months after his fantasy football championship, Dave "Time" Noble is back on top of the 2013 The Anna Fantasy Baseball Pre-Season Power Rankings. These rankings were objectively generated by averaging each players' pitching and batting rankings (shown in parenthesis below). Unlike rankings generated strictly by ESPN's rankings, these rankings took into account factors such as potential, injuries, and overall balance of the roster. Certainly up for debate, these rankings could easily be different tomorrow. Until then, it is decided!
Some early surprises, as you'll soon see, do exist. Notably, newcomer Joel Franke sits at #4 in the Power Rankings and reigning FBB Champion Jack Milliken highlights the bottom half of the rankings at #7. Moving further down the order it shouldn't come as a shock, especially given his first-round pick of V-Mart, Alex Wietrick sits at #12 having earned last place in both pitching and hitting rankings. Greg Morman actually moves UP from his last place finish in 2012 to #9.
Without further adieu, your 2013 Pre-Season Power Rankings:
1) David Noble (Pitching: 1, Batting: 3, Total: 4)
2) Michael Leigh (4, 2, 6)
3) Dane Macdonell (2, 5, 7)
4) Joel Franke (5, 4, 9)
5) Ryan Patterson (3, 7, 10)
5) Christian Groesbeck (9, 1, 10)
7) Jack Milliken (8, 6, 14)
8) Brian Nowak (7, 8, 15)
9) Greg Morman (6, 10, 16)
10) Stephen Loesch (11, 9, 20)
11) Glover Kosch (10, 11, 21)
12) Alex Wietrick (12, 12, 24)
"These rankings were objectively generated by averaging each players' pitching and batting rankings."
ReplyDelete"Unlike rankings generated strictly by ESPN's rankings, these rankings took into account factors such as potential, injuries, and overall balance of the roster."
How do these objective rankings objectively factor in potential and injuries? Where are these rankings? Who made them? I WANT ANSWERS
The rankings themselves are objective in the sense that the numbers are averaged. Things like potential and injuries were factored in, for example, with someone like Mark Teixeira who has little potential and high injury risk (listen to the 3/14 episode of Matthew Berry's Fantasy Factor to fully understand injuries like Teixeira's or that of David Ortiz).
ReplyDeleteMost importantly, rankings were created without looking at which team owner was being ranked at any given time. Obviously one team was a little more well-known to the one determining the rankings, but that's all part of the fun!!!
I just like how Greg thoughts the "ESPN Rankings", actually choosen by "expert" Ryan Patterson, are objective.
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