Sloppy Potatoes

How to build a fantasy baseball cheatsheet

How do you determine your fantasy baseball rankings? There are a number of ways.

What’s the best way, well I’ve created a checklist over at www.chinstrapninjas.com. Here’s an excerpt:

The formula works well, too. I play in a 10×10 league, I dislike the 5×5s in case you didn’t hear, so I have to factor in other categories. My formula adjusted the typical 5×5 rankings to include the stats like total bases, OPS and holds. /stats geek pats himself on back/

After a few hours, I realized that all I had done was take someone else’s opinions (again) and tweak them to fit another format. While this will be more helpful in my draft, it didn’t really do what was intended. I was still going to have to weed out the players I’ve pegged as overrated and dig for the players I think will be sleepers.

The cheatsheets are not getting dumped yet, but I am going to make a new list. My own list. Here are the steps that need to be taken to pull this off, feel free to steal this for your own draft prep:

1. Toss the projections. Projections are merely someone’s opinion about how a player is going to perform. To calculate formulas, etc. based on fake statistics is ridiculous. Instead I’ll determine a tiering system for each position.

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