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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 an apples-to-apples comparison — better known as the MOTY#, the default criterion for the MOTY projection lists.
But that’s just the beginning. Using the MOTY Scope™ advanced filters, you can customize the rankings to your liking — including or excluding players based on league, position and stats to fit your strategy. For example, NL outfielders with more than 20+ hr, .280+ avg and .900+ ops.
What you wind up with are draft rankings customized by you for your draft. Not the same old 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 2008 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. To qualify, a player has to be projected to post a whip of 1.25 or lower AND an era of 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.