February 27, 2015

TTO Scoresheet Podcast

The Average Keeper Rankings for 2015

by Ian Lefkowitz, Ben Murphy and Jared Weiss

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Our update this week is short and sweet, but may be helpful as you prepare for your Scoresheet league draft. While we’ve shared our keeper preferences over the past few months, we recognize that we are but three lone voices shouting Braff-style into the abyss. However, now that the public keeper deadline has passed, we have some quantifiable information that tells us more about the true nature of keepers.

One of our own, Ben Murphy, developed a tool that measures whether players are currently rostered in Scoresheet leagues, and then aggregates these findings together into an average ownership percentage. So here, for the first time, are the Scoresheet average keeper rankings for 2015.

Now that we’ve introduced the tool, let’s back away from the conclusions for a bit. Are we sure that we’re measuring 2015 keepers? Almost certainly not. There are enough private leagues, root leagues, and leagues with strange formats that keepers come in all sorts of forms and are kept at all times in the year. Think of this sheet as more of a best guess as to the relative percentage that a player was kept. You can find that number on the spreadsheet in the “% Owned” column, which measures how often each player was kept on an American or National League Scoresheet roster.

So, now that you have this information, what can you do with it? Try it out as an additional crowdsourcing tool. If you have a player who you’ve kept who hasn’t been kept in most other leagues, you can assume that you’ve overvalued him compared to the average. Conversely, players who have been kept in a number of leagues may generally be more desirable in trade. These rankings may also be worth perusing during the draft. More generally highly regarded players may be more likely to be taken early in your draft, while players who are kept in fewer leagues may be more likely to be available as a potential sleeper in later rounds. Try it out, and see if there’s anything you can glean from it! We’d be interested in hearing from you.

This Week’s Podcast

This week, the Outcomes show off their newfound superpower of developing a system-wide keeper list, and use it to kick off what is likely to be the first Round 14 mock draft in fantasy baseball history. Curiously, they do not use it to wish for better superpowers.

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