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Touch ’em All — A Quick Trip ’round the Bases with the MOTY™ System
Draft War Room Tools and Analysis
Draft day is easily the most fun of the fantasy baseball season. And the most critical. Here’s everything you need to draft a championship contending team.
Draft Rankings & Player Projections
EVERYBODY offers draft rankings. Only MOTY ranks batters and pitchers combined, based on a true apples-to-apples comparison – the MOTY#. For those of you who focus on position scarcity, the MOTY rankings also include a “Relative Position Scarcity” (RPS) factor for every player. Plus, an Adjusted MOTY# (Adj. MOTY#) – overall value + position scarcity in one number. All sortable, all filterable.
Of course, MOTY#s are based on projected stats. And you get those too. A lot of them – all ten of the 5x5 categories, plus 14 additional secondary stats. A total of 14 projected stats for every batter and pitcher for the 2009 season.
But that’s just where the advantages begin. Using the MOTY Scope™ advanced filters, you can customize the rankings to your liking – narrowing them down to just the players you should focus on – based on league, position and stats to fit your strategy. For example, NL outfielders with more than 20+ hr, 20+ sb and .850+ ops.
What you wind up with are draft rankings customized by you for your draft. Not the same old, out-dated cheat sheet everyone else picked up down at the local newstand.
ComboCats
You’ve heard of the 40/40 club – Jose Canseco (’88), Barry Bonds (’96), Alex Rodriguez (’98) and Alfonso Soriano (’06). Using the 2009 projections, the MOTY System highlights similar players for the fantasy game. We call them “ComboCats,” players who put up valuable stats in two “combined categories.”
For batters, the categories are home runs and stolen bases. To qualify, a player has to be projected to hit at least 10 home runs AND steal at least 10 bases. For pitchers, the categories used are whip and era – whip projected to be 1.25 or lower AND era projected to be 3.25 or lower.
Talent Tiers
The MOTY System examines the overall player projections and breaks them down into three “tiers” of fantasy value based on their position percentiles. “Elite” players rank 90% or higher in their respective position pools, “All-Stars” between 89%–75% and “Competitive” players rank from 74%–50%.
Then, based on the number of teams in your league, MOTY tells you how many players in each tier you should target in your draft.
“Untouchables”
If you’re planning on drafting any of these players, don’t. Or risk being laughed out of your league. For one reason or another, they’re not playing this year.