2010 Projections and fPAA, Alpha Edition

Now that we have some projections to look at, we can start to look at fantasy value. I have developed our fPAA method using 2009 fantasy league data. I calculate player value in two ways: first I look at their value in terms of production rates (i.e. total playing time doesn’t matter as long as they produce). Then I recalculate everything in terms of total production and average the two numbers.

Keep in mind there are a lot of adjustments to be made with the projections, and that will change the rankings pretty drastically. Without further ado, the 50 most valuable fantasy players of 2010:

2009 Wrap: Top 30 in OF

And finally the top 30 OF according to fPAA this year.

2009 Wrap: Top 40 pitchers

Here are the top 40 pitchers, as valued by fPAA.

2009 Wrap: Top 11 at 2B, 3B and SS

I don’t want to spend too much energy on this, so without further comment, here is what fPAA says about each of these positions. Don’t hate me, hate the system.

2009 Wrap: Top 11 at C

Here are your top 11 fantasy catchers from 2009, according to fPAA.

2009 Wrap: Top 11 at 1B

We’ve updated our fPAR system in a couple of ways this year: we now look at fantasy points above average (fPAA), and we rate players based on their production to playing time ratio. That is to say, just because a guy gets injured doesn’t really hurt his fantasy value much; you want high production when you play a guy, not necessarily total stats – that’s why you have a bench and add and drop players during the year.