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March 22, 2013 Fantasy Tier RankingsShortstopsToday 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 the previous Fantasy Tier Rankings posts here: Here are the shortstops: Five Stars
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Paul, is Hanley droppable in a 12 team mixed with only one D.L spot? thanks.
For now, use that DL spot on Hanley. If another one of your top players goes down, that's when you'll have a tough decision to make.
The thing with Hanley is that, in a standard mixer, you can pick up, say, a 2 star option off the waiver wire pretty easily. 2-3 months of that + 3-4 of Hanley is more than a 2 star option for me.
In boatman's case the cost of Hanley occupying the DL spot is fairly large, so had he not drafted yet I would recommend most of the two-star tier over him still. If you've got two-star players in your waiver wire you can go for that strategy, but another risk is Hanley's production even when back on the field.
And just to clarify, within tiers I have no problem rearranging the order of players within a tier. That's pretty much the point of organizing players this way. So if you want to bump Hanley up to the top of Tier 2 above Rutledge, that's not a big deal and in your case is sounds justified. I'd still take all of the third tier guys before him though.
How much would you bump Hanley up in a keeper league? (Three years max in my league.)
5th or 6th rounder? Can you keep him in the round drafted or do you have a 4/5 keeper limit?
Depends on how your league handles keeping players, but top to the three-star tier seems reasonable.