Thursday, May 20, 2010

ESPN's Top-300s

As you may have noticed, ESPN recently released their Mid-May Re-Rankings for the top 300 playaz.  Seeing these sweet gooey numbers in front of me, I decided that I would see how each of the teams' power was stacking up.  Below, you will see listed the average power of each team in the league (the lower the better, like Pujols is a 1, Hanley is a 2, etc).  There are a few caveats to this analysis.  Notably, some of us have playaz on our teams who are not ranked in the top 300 by these ESPN fellows, in which case they were marked as "Weaklings" and assigned a value of 300 in the tabulation of power.  Furthermore, not all teams have the same number of playaz as some teams have DL spots occupied while others do not.  Because the power numbers were tabulated for the entire team, I figured that I should include everyone, active or not.
I was also interested in how the free agent wire figured into the teams' makeups, so I calculated how many playaz on each team was actually taken in the draft (whether for your team or for someone else's), and how many undrafted free agents populated each roster.
I find it interesting to note that, seemingly regardless of number of acquisitions, each team seems to have pretty much the same number of undrafted playaz on their teams (5-7).  I guess that this means that, once we find our good players, we stick with them and adopt a "last to come, first to go" type policy when picking up new guys.  Furthermore, each team has pretty much the same number of weaklings, showing that we, as a league, are doing pretty well in working that wire, as our commish says, "like a stripper pole."  Finally, it is interesting that these power numbers come fairly close to the standings, at least at the top and bottom.




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