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March 20, 2013 Fantasy Tier RankingsSecond BasemenToday we continue our positional tier rankings. Last offseason, Derek Carty tackled the tiers by himself; this spring, we've decided to attack them as a team. Players at each position will be divided into five tiers, represented by the number of stars. Five-star players are the studs at their respective position. In general, they are the players that will be nabbed in the first couple of rounds of the draft, and they'll fetch auction bids in excess of $30. Four-star players are a cut below the studs at the position. They will also be earl- round selections, and they're projected to be worth more than $20 in most cases. Three-star players are the last tier in which players are projected to provide double-digit dollar value in auctions, and two-star players are projected to earn single digits in dollar value in auctions. One-star players are late round sleepers and roster placeholders. As was the case with our positional rankings series, the positional tiers aren't simply a regurgitation of the projected PECOTA values. We retained last year's roster requirements for the positional tier series. Dollar values come from our PFM using a 12-team, standard 5x5 scoring format, with 23-man rosters and the following positions: C (2) 1B (1) 2B (1) 3B (1) SS (1) CI (1) MI (1) OF (5) UT (1) P (9). The minimum bid for players is $1, and, as we did last year, we'll allocate $180 of a $260 budget to hitters. Players needed to play in 20 games at a position to qualify there. The PFM is customizable, so if your league uses a different format, you can adjust it to match your league settings and see how it impacts players’ dollar values. You can find Josh Shepardson’s catcher tiers here. Now, here are our second-base tiers… Five Stars
Cano is truly in a class by himself at the position, and although PECOTA doesn’t project there to be much of a difference between him and Dustin Pedroia in 2013, I don’t agree with that. While he’s not likely to repeat his power output from last season, Cano is still a consistent four-category stud, and the difference between Cano and the next-best player at the position is as large of a gap as any one-two margin in fantasy.
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Joe- I know you received a lot of feedback yesterday, but I'm sorry, you still seem to be missing the main point being made- the tier rankings are important to a great many of us and are coming out too late. I realize that you "don't know everyone's draft dates" as you told a reader in yesterday's comments, but, with the season set to open next weekend, it's reasonable to assume that most drafts happen by this weekend. No? I'm not trying to beat a dead horse, but the top 15 lists are not enough. The PFM, while very interesting, does not jibe at all with my rankings (much less BP's). I understand you want to put out interesting content on a daily basis, but you'd avoid a lot of headaches for the both of us if you just swallowed your pride and decided to put out the rest of the tiers in the next day or 2. I think this is realistic as it doesn't fall to one person and the content is probably already done. If you decide not to do that, I love the suggestion of a reader survey for next year.
Swallow my pride? Who do you think is going to do the work to get these out in the next day or two? That's a serious question. I'm not sure you realize, but people aren't just sitting around here doing nothing. And no, the content is not already done.
We will address the possibility of putting these out early next year. That's the best I can do. I spelled out all the details in various comments yesterday. I'm not going to go through it again today. We'd just be rehashing the same information and wasting everyone's time.
I appreciate everyone's input, and as I said, we take that seriously. Just realize that there is a lot of off-line input too that people provide, and we count that too.
Actually Joe, when I tried contacting several writers via the website to get a few different opinions, I was contacted by your customer service and told that your staff was working on getting content together "so they have such limited availability right now" and that I should submit questions via the twitter (which I find too limiting) or via a chat (which I had but there not always picked). So excuse me if I seem a little annoyed by the overall quality of the product this year.
We do our absolute best to try to respond to everyone we can. But we're not available 24/7 for everyone. We just can't physically be able to do that. If we didn't get to you, I'm very sorry. We publish tons of material and keep trying to improve. I've laid it all out the past two days. I don't know what else to really say anymore. If you're really that unhappy and want to cancel your subscription, please contact customer service. I will instruct them to give you a pro-rated refund of your subscription fee.