BP Unfiltered

Small typo in the AL Central: one of Detroit's lists got placed under the Cleveland heading. Or was there a real whopper of a trade that I'm unaware of? :-)

Joe - I like the idea. I assume the rankings are meant to be in order for each team/source combo. If that is the case, you might want to fix Sickels on the Jays. Eric Thames is 10th, not 2nd.

I've been doing this myself for a few years, and it is interesting. I do wonder how many of the other sources are doing as much original research as KG does. The high degree of correlation between all of these lists could be because it's very clear who the top prospects are. Or, it could be because many of the compilers of the lists are talking to the same people (scouts) or using the same numbers (MLEs) to come up with their results. What do others think about this?

Thanks for this. Very useful tool.

Another small thing, the fixing of which might help Kevin, Joe and readers alike: Carlos Matias, #3 Cardinals prospect on the one Cardinals compilation in the first version of the spreadsheet (which puzzles me -- what happened to Matt Carpenter?), is now known as Carlos Martinez. He was raised by an uncle, IIRC, and used the name Matias growing up, since it was the uncle's name. However, to get the work visa for the US, he had to revert to his birth name. Because there is another pitching prospect in the Cardinals organization named Martinez (Bryan), it may get difficult to follow this guy's progress. However, he is reputed to be worth keeping an eye on, so being aware of the name change is a good idea.

Just a thought. You might want to consider import the spreadsheet to google docs. That would make it a little more portable for the user base.

If not, then I guess I'll just wait until its complete and do it for myself.

Thanks everyone for the comments and corrections. I'll get the errors corrected shortly. As for the other suggestions, let me see what I can do to accommodate everyone. Thanks again. JH

I fixed all the errors mentioned above (thanks again for bringing them to my attention) and uploaded a corrected file.

This is fantastic. Any chance you can keep this going throughout the season as sites update their rankings?

Thanks Joe, I appreciate the hard work. If I can ask for one thing though, can you mention when the rankings were posted? It would be nice to have a way to compare lists after the inevitable trades and priesthood enrollments.

How about adding Kevin Goldstein's star ratings for each? It adds more context to the list (just like the grades for John Sickels' list.

This is freakin awesome!! I have been doing something similar to this in my own format for a keeper roto league I am in. My wife thanks you for giving some hours back to work around the house.